{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-01", "file": "debates1950-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "674c34c7108e465a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-01a.2.1", "colnum": "2", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "ry composition of this House as a result of the recent General Election, I feel that no Speaker of the past had more need of the four qualifications I have mentioned than he who is about to be elected. I know, and the Members who have served in the late Parliament also know, that Colonel Clifton Brown has these four qualifications in abundant measure as well as others of a more personal character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-01a.2.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-01", "file": "debates1950-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "674c34c7108e465a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-01a.2.2", "colnum": "2", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir Charles MacAndrew", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir Charles MacAndrew", "preceding_text": "d be pronounced 'Scōne.' \"It may be that the Speaker was a bit unlucky because I cannot imagine that there are many one-syllable names that have three correct pronunciations. The right hon. and gallant Gentleman has now represented Hexham for more than 30 years, and I am sure that all of us in whatever part of the House we sit were delighted on Thursday to hear of his overwhelming majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-01a.2.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-06", "file": "debates1950-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "625052ac88e9b4ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " hardly be described as frustration. At the same time, I admit that the fact that our numbers are now so nearly equal does place upon us all a special responsibility. The essential machinery of Government must not be brought to a standstill. In such conditions as these there would be no excuse for indulging in factious or fractious opposition and we have no intention of doing anything of the kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-06", "file": "debates1950-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "625052ac88e9b4ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "by the Colombo Conference—but also with those of the United States and France and other closely interested countries. Progress so far has been painfully slow, and the Gracious Speech contains scarcely a hint of any further joint endeavour. In fact, its account of the international scene as a whole consist of a series of unrelated sentences with no indication of a common theme running through them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-06", "file": "debates1950-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "625052ac88e9b4ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "y is to do all that we can to prevent a further rise in prices at home. But things being as they are today, who can doubt, unfortunately, that the cost of living will go up further? There are a number of problems, about which we hope for enlightenment in this Debate, which are only too likely to affect the cost of living. There are new discussions on agricultural prices which have only just begun—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-06", "file": "debates1950-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "625052ac88e9b4ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ion of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions and others—who have put in demands for increased wages. If the cost of living continues to rise, some at least of these claims are going to be very hard to resist. If we look beyond these shores—and this I want to emphasise to the House—is it not beginning to be true that while prices are still rising here, in other coun- tries they are beginning to fall?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-06", "file": "debates1950-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "625052ac88e9b4ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "nions and others—who have put in demands for increased wages. If the cost of living continues to rise, some at least of these claims are going to be very hard to resist. If we look beyond these shores—and this I want to emphasise to the House—is it not beginning to be true that while prices are still rising here, in other coun- tries they are beginning to fall? [ Interruption. ] No, not in France.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-06", "file": "debates1950-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "625052ac88e9b4ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "es—and this I want to emphasise to the House—is it not beginning to be true that while prices are still rising here, in other coun- tries they are beginning to fall? [ Interruption. ] No, not in France. [ Interruption. ] No, not Germany; the hon. Gentleman is wrong. The most important is the United States. If the House would like to have these figures which I looked up this morning very carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-06", "file": "debates1950-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "625052ac88e9b4ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " position is this: In 1947—these are the figures of the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics of the United Nations, so they are about as respectable as we can get—the basic figure in the United States was 176. So was ours; exactly the same. Since 1947, the American figure continued to rise a little, and then dropped. The American figure for the last available month, November, was still 176. Ours is 221.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-06", "file": "debates1950-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "625052ac88e9b4ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "That is a perfectly reasonable point. It is perfectly true that a portion of these balances have helped the economy of South-East Asia, and to that extent it is an advantage. But one has to look at these things sometimes from the point of view of our own country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-06", "file": "debates1950-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "625052ac88e9b4ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "about this at all; I have no complaint about this omission. On the contrary; we welcome this evidence of electoral lessons truly learned. After all, whatever else we may dispute in the course of the next few months—or maybe years, one never knows—one thing there cannot be any argument about is that nobody can deny that there has been a pretty emphatic vote in this election against nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-06", "file": "debates1950-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "625052ac88e9b4ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " enough: the country has pronounced against nationalisation; and in our judgment that goes for iron and steel also. Members of the last House of Commons will kindly recall—I am sure they will—that the motive for the compromise decision reached with another place in the closing stages of the last Parliament was to enable the electorate to pronounce clearly upon this Bill before it became operative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-06", "file": "debates1950-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "625052ac88e9b4ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "The Minister of Supply spoke in a very similar sense. Where do we stand today? Hon. Members opposite may contend that the nationalisation of iron and steel did not figure in the General Election. We certainly did everything we could to ensure that it did. It was in the speech I made at the opening of the election; it was in the manifesto; it was in almost every single one of our wireless speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-06", "file": "debates1950-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "625052ac88e9b4ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.68.3", "colnum": "68", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " could have looked entirely apart from that consideration, and that we could have thought only of our own interests, would have been quite fatal. At the same time, it is obvious that there has had to be throughout a very careful balancing between our own position and the position of other countries. As a matter of fact, the amount of releases has been reduced, is being reduced and will be reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.68.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-06", "file": "debates1950-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "625052ac88e9b4ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.72.2", "colnum": "72", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": "n the majority of the House of Commons, however small that may be, it is essential that we should try to bring about a more scientific and less inaccurate system of representation. May I take this first opportunity of expressing my deep regret at the loss of Members who were an honour to this House? Of the 12 University Members whose seats have been abolished only four have returned to this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.72.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-06", "file": "debates1950-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "625052ac88e9b4ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.72.2", "colnum": "72", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": "a more scientific and less inaccurate system of representation. May I take this first opportunity of expressing my deep regret at the loss of Members who were an honour to this House? Of the 12 University Members whose seats have been abolished only four have returned to this House. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"] An hon. Gentleman says \"Hear, hear\" but can one help deploring the loss of such men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.72.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-06", "file": "debates1950-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "625052ac88e9b4ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.75.3", "colnum": "75", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": " was all the more necessary that transport should be provided. I must mention that noble elector in County Tyrone, 90 years of age, who walked 12 miles to the poll and 12 miles home. There was a man who was determined at all costs to record his vote. There were, however, others who would have voted had it been possible for them to do so. In Northern Ireland we scrupulously observe all regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.75.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-06", "file": "debates1950-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "625052ac88e9b4ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.75.3", "colnum": "75", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": "sible for them to do so. In Northern Ireland we scrupulously observe all regulations. [ Laughter. ] Certainly. We had that limit of 51 motor cars and we did not exceed it. Even if a motor car broke down we were not allowed to replace it, and we did not do so. I insist—I am sure that if hon. Members opposite reflect for a moment they will agree with me; I am not speaking from a party point of view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.75.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-06", "file": "debates1950-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "625052ac88e9b4ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "id would have been, \"I do not think I can trust you in this matter, because, after all, you did send forces to fight against this Republic in 1919.\" He would also have reminded the right hon. Gentleman that he led in the House of Commons a party which sold out Manchuria, Abyssinia and Czechoslovakia, and would have sold out Poland if it had not been for the Labour Opposition in this House in 1938.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-06", "file": "debates1950-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "625052ac88e9b4ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.118.3", "colnum": "118", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "an. Certainly there would not be many on the hon. Gentleman's side of the House. Now I come to what I regard as the second most important feature of the Debate so far. I confess I find an echo in my heart of the speech of the right hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Eden). I am much concerned over this problem of housing. I wish we could take housing out of the political arena altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.118.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-06", "file": "debates1950-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "625052ac88e9b4ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "GAS INDUSTRY (INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "Frankly, I do not know, and I do not want to know. I do not regard it as my task or that of the Minister to go through the business of the consultative councils and tell them what is right and what is wrong. These are responsible people, and, if they are unable to perform their task, our judgment was wrong in ever appointing them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-06a.136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.141.6", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "pposition, and the period before us will be very difficult. Moreover, it is by no means certain that another election, held in a few months under conditions which no one can foresee and arising from occasions which perhaps no one can select, would remove the conditions of deadlock which now prevail. I am one of the very few who lived in high office through the year 1910. I was Home Secretary then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.141.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I do not think I am the only one who needs to be careful. Every word we say may be pounced upon and made the peg for some monstrous misrepresentations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ultural Charter, published this morning, we have declared that the proper level of agricultural production in this country must be half as much again as pre-war. This is our aim. I see I also said at Luton Hoo: The State is entitled to give guidance and, if necessary, to see this is enforced, to ensure that farmers and landowners do not flout the rules of good husbandry and good estate management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ies. There are the four differences. There is one more. Finally, there are the 350,000 persons who are actually unemployed at the moment, many of whom no doubt are changing from one job to another. This makes a total of 2,250,000 persons altogether not now employed in productive industry, comparable with the 1,100,000 unemployed at the time of the Chamberlain Government in the year before the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "It will take more than the oscillation of the Lord President's head in this Parliament necessarily to convince us that our desires must be put aside. I ask for a full Debate. So much has been concealed from us and distorted by the speeches of the Ministers concerned during and before the Election that we really do not know where we are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.152.2", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ay whether they wanted this Measure or not. The electors, by a large' majority in votes, have pronounced against it, but it will come into action automatically, perhaps in the lifetime of this Parliament, unless parliamentary action is taken either to repeal the Measure, or, at least, to alter the date, so that the electors will certainly have a further chance of affirming their repudiation of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.152.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I think it is a very modest demand. There was an enormous vote of the people against this Measure, and with a Parliament which admittedly has no right to bring it into law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Both did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " the convert feels rather more bitter against the party he left than the man who never belonged to it. We have had some experience of that in the recent election in the case of one or two of the departed. Not only did they depart from the Labour Party, but, having joined the Tories, they have now departed from Parliament as well. It is rather curious that one of them stood for a steel constituency", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Mr. Horabin? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "onstituencies should be the people to determine whether steel should be socialised, it is curious that these two gentlemen both stood in constituencies very much associated with steel. They had the support of the Conservative Party and they lost. I must say that the way the Conservatives deal with converts does not give anybody anywhere any encouragement to be converted to Conservative principles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is sneering now? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e right of any lawful political party in this country to contest an election. I repudiate, reject and condemn the efforts of the Tory leaders to deny the Liberal Party the right to see what they can do. Having failed, the right hon. Gentleman comes here and engages in petty, cheap sneers at the expense of what is, after all, a small party in this House. It is true that there are only nine of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.170.3", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about steel?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "n which they did not believe, is in itself a condemnation of this remedy for our state of affairs. I agree with the right hon. and learned Gentleman that there is great need in the country and in Parliament for concentra- tion on our economic problems, and it is profoundly important that the country shall co-operate to the end of getting our economy as healthy and as sound and as good as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.170.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.170.3", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "operate to the end of getting our economy as healthy and as sound and as good as possible. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about steel?\"] I will say, what about something else in a minute. I thought that was a sound and public-spirited thing to say but I did think, when the Leader of the Opposition talked in such terms about devaluation—though hon. Members opposite did not oppose it and they have not made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.170.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.170.3", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "thy and as sound and as good as possible. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about steel?\"] I will say, what about something else in a minute. I thought that was a sound and public-spirited thing to say but I did think, when the Leader of the Opposition talked in such terms about devaluation—though hon. Members opposite did not oppose it and they have not made—[ Interruption .] I am sorry, but hon. Gentlemen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.170.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ole principle of compelling anybody to do anything, but some of the items in that programme were compelling people to do quite a number of things. What it really amounts to is that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is ready to compel people to do what he wants them to do, but he thinks we have no right to compel them to do what we want them to do. That is a very understandable state of affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.175.1", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "d deal of merit. It is no good suggesting, however, that they were the same proposals that were produced by this Government, because in a number of material respects they were very different. The right hon. Gentleman argues that in agriculture there is a great deal of agreement between the parties. History is on the records, and history shows that the Conservative Party, after the First World War—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about rents? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ings, has a first-class case for the support and encouragement of the nation. Then the right hon. Gentleman says that rural housing is needed. I am quite prepared, as, I am sure, are my right hon. Friends, to compare the rural housing efforts of this Government with those of the Conservative Governments between the wars. I am quite sure that we have done better, and that we shall go on doing well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.177.1", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e on full employment between the political parties. In our judgment there is. In our judgment there has been an acceptance by Conservative spokesmen, and capitalist Conservative spokesmen, either of the inevitability of unemployment or of the desirability of unemployment—up to a point. I am not saying that they say it for reasons of cruelty or of wanting to hurt people. They, no doubt, believe it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Let us have another test put upon it. I am advised by the Ministry of Labour that the number of people in civil employment in the middle of 1939 was approximately 18 million. At the end of 1948 it was 19,153,000: and at the end of 1949 it was 22,222,000—I beg pardon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.178.3", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How are the Government going to achieve it? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I quite agree that the population is greater. Nevertheless, we have still kept unemployment under 2 per cent. in those circumstances. That is a great achievement. It is no good the Opposition saying merely that they are in favour of full employment. I want to know how they are to achieve it. How are they to do it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.178.3", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I quite agree that the population is greater. Nevertheless, we have still kept unemployment under 2 per cent. in those circumstances. That is a great achievement. It is no good the Opposition saying merely that they are in favour of full employment. I want to know how they are to achieve it. How are they to do it? [HON. MEMBERS: \"How are the Government going to achieve it? \"] We have done it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.178.3", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Co-ops\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " it is true that the Labour Party have sought the support of those various sections of the community, what is the good of accusing us of making a class appeal? It just is not true; we want the Labour Party to be broadly based as a party of the nation. The party that has wrapped round itself class interest and class pre-election expenditure on a vast scale, the party that has become the instrument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Eccles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It depends on who the man is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Eccles", "preceding_text": "The Lord President of the Council made a grave charge against my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill). He said it was vicious to point out that there is a danger to the pound sterling. If one sees a man about to fall over a precipice, is it vicious to point out to him the danger in which he is and to pull him back?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fenner Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And America.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fenner Brockway", "preceding_text": "litarian Communist menace. I think that is shown by the fact that it is exactly in those countries which have the kind of economy which is advocated from the opposite benches—an uncontrolled, free, capitalist economy—that the strength of the Communist movement is greatest today. That is true of France, Italy, Western Germany and other countries of Western Europe which have uncontrolled capitalism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fenner Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To what figure?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fenner Brockway", "preceding_text": " (Mr. Eccles), particularly when he referred to Belgium. He speaks of a flexible economy. A flexible economy is proved, by evidence from all over the world, to mean high unemployment. In Belgium, which he gave as an example, unemployment has now reached a figure of 15 per cent. According to the United Nations' Bulletin unemployment in France has increased during the last two years by 500 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.200.3", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "cause I believe that millions of pounds can be saved in this way. Therefore, I shall make some concrete proposals. First, the Government should consider what Ministries can be merged. The Government have the responsibility of deciding. In my view, the Ministry of Civil Aviation can be and should be abolished, or it could be merged into the Ministry of Transport, with large cuts in both Ministries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.200.3", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "nsider what Ministries can be merged. The Government have the responsibility of deciding. In my view, the Ministry of Civil Aviation can be and should be abolished, or it could be merged into the Ministry of Transport, with large cuts in both Ministries. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] The Ministry of Supply should be reduced to an irreducible minimum or merged with some other Government Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.200.3", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "t could be merged into the Ministry of Transport, with large cuts in both Ministries. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] The Ministry of Supply should be reduced to an irreducible minimum or merged with some other Government Department. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Large cuts in expenditure could be made at the Board of Trade, at the Ministry of Town and Country Planning and at the Ministry of Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.200.3", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "e new type of accountants who set out to hide rather than to reveal the true state of affairs. I should like to ask whether it is a fact that profits increased last year by 10½ per cent., because, if that is so, then it becomes a most urgent problem which needs to be dealt with. Hon. Members opposite may be interested in what I am going to say now. In the \"Economist\" of 17th December, 1938—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under a Labour Council.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "when he has been here a little longer he will not feel so kindly as he does at the present moment towards the Minister of Health. The hon. and gallant Member said that a great transformation in housing had taken place in his constituency, but it has certainly not taken place in my own division at Macclesfield and Congleton, where very few houses have been put up. He has been very fortunate indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give the quotation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spence", "preceding_text": "e opposed by hon. Members opposite in 1932, 1934, 1935 and 1937. The reason for that opposition was stated by the present Chancellor of the Exchequer when he said that no major expenditure could be made on agriculture until the land had been nationalised. That was the basis, and I think that if hon. Gentlemen care to look up the quotation from HANSARD, they will find that that is what took place.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.252.4", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "cue_text": "Laughted", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "preceding_text": "ts of the election geographically one sees that, on the whole, the less educated people in the country voted for Socialism and that those people who have more education and slightly more time to study these problems voted against it. It may be said that the rural areas proved an exception to that theory, but I suggest that people living in the country develop a philosophy and a certain \"ca-canny\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.252.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.252.4", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "preceding_text": "he Treasury Bench putting forward the mandate argument. They said they had a mandate for certain things and, indeed, they claimed to have a mandate for the nationalisation of iron and steel. By tacit agreement the mandate principle was to be applied again at the recent election in order to make assurance doubly sure, but in fact the mandate has spoken against the nationalisation of iron and steel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.252.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "preceding_text": "se countries behind the Iron Curtain, which are completely savage and totalitarian in relation to democracy, and yet say we are too pure to have anything to do with, or to recognise, the more moderate and at least anti-Communist Government in Spain? I am not dealing with the other aspect of the matter, which is that the whole of our approach to Franco has, in fact, strengthened the hand of Franco.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "preceding_text": " the mean average of the Labour Party. It is bad enough to pander to this sort of thing at home, but it is even worse to pander to it abroad. The Prime Minister, I dare say, may think that in foreign affairs he has not appeased. Nor has he in relation to the general \"Keep Left\" element in the Labour Party which has always been pressing for a far more pro-Communist direction of our foreign affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "preceding_text": "His Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "If the question had anything to do with leasehold reform, upon which I have been speaking, I would answer the question, but I do not see that it has. I am glad that, as in the past five years when we fulfilled every promise that we made at the previous General Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.264.3", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did it very well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "see him in our present difficulties, he ought to stand at the Despatch Box and say, \"In the interests of the country there will be no nationalisation of the iron and steel industry.\" Then he would rise to greater heights. But in his arguments in defence of the Gracious Speech he waffled about and so did the Lord President of the Council. All he did was to try to taunt the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.264.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-07", "file": "debates1950-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "cbc7246d4bec050a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.264.3", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": " if he takes the right attitude and does not continue to think that he enjoys the same majority that his party had in the last Parliament. We are almost evenly divided. I wish to make a plea to the Government, particularly to the Prime Minister. We are ready and willing, as the Leader of the Opposition has said, provided that the Government bring in no contentious legislation, which is only right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-07a.264.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-08", "file": "debates1950-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "869076e60884a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "TRIBAL CHIEF, BECHUANALAND (RECOGNITION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fenner Brockway", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the very grave concern among all sections of our community at the fact that a colour bar, which influences certain quarters, has determined the decision of the Government on this matter? I want to give notice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.291.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-08", "file": "debates1950-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "869076e60884a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.291.3", "colnum": "291", "heading": "TRIBAL CHIEF, BECHUANALAND (RECOGNITION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is the motive?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon-Walker", "preceding_text": "I am aware that that view is held. I can only say it has not been the motive in the Government's mind in coming to a decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.291.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-08", "file": "debates1950-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "869076e60884a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "TRIBAL CHIEF, BECHUANALAND (RECOGNITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon-Walker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Mutualise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon-Walker", "preceding_text": "ir own affairs. Secondly, we are to take steps for the increasing participation of the people of the Bamangwato reserve in their own affairs. It is not generally known that the Bamangwato tribe proper, of which Seretse is chief-designate, are only 18,000 in number and that they rule over 82,000 other subject peoples. We intend to devise steps to—I do not know whether to use the word \"democratise\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-08", "file": "debates1950-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "869076e60884a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": " I maintain that until we restore very largely authority and powers to the local authorities in both town and country, we shall never get proper government of the people in Scotland in their own interests. Then there is this other question. We have made, thanks largely to the Unionist Party, improvements in the last five years to the discussion and consideration of Scottish business in Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-08", "file": "debates1950-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "869076e60884a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Wales?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "ink they want to, but I think they sometimes do. I say with all the sincerity at my command that a great improvement is urgently needed in the handling of Scottish affairs at Westminster. I am not being anti-English in saying that. Far from it. What I think we have to realise is that there are two partners in Great Britain, to which we are proud to belong. One is Scotland and the other is England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-08", "file": "debates1950-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "869076e60884a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "and. In the few suggestions which I have tried to make, I believe we have a solution. With a new Secretary of State and a new Under-Secretary of State, I believe that we have a chance to start again. Scotland is going to have this put right, and I believe in doing it by thoroughly constitutional means, and not by the more violent means which may follow if we do not have the thing properly settled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-08", "file": "debates1950-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "869076e60884a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.309.3", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "hieving the increased production called for in these targets for increased acreage and increased yields are very good, and we have no reason to think that the targets my right hon. Friend has set the industry are inconsistent with the demands of good husbandry. Now let me say a word about feeding-stuffs, in respect of which it is widely alleged that we have not obtained what we ought to have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-08", "file": "debates1950-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "869076e60884a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "out what the Lord President said, because it does not seem to me to be clearly enough understood; it certainly was not appreciated in the Debate last night. Last year we provided for the industry over 80 per cent. of all the feedingstuffs that we had pre-war, and we are much nearer to having as much feedingstuffs—although there are certain particular causes of difficulty, especially with proteins—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-08", "file": "debates1950-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "869076e60884a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "n after the First World War—\" Homes for heroes to live in.\" It was a grand expression, but a very disastrous one. It set the wrong tempo to the whole nation then, just as this new expression is setting it to the nation now. We do not want \"homes for heroes to live in.\" We do not want a \"welfare State.\" If we do want to coin an expression, let us say that we want \"a land for warriors to work in.\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-08", "file": "debates1950-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "869076e60884a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That happened before the wan\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "to do it quickly, to work hard and not to imagine, as hon. Members opposite do imagine, that we are happily living in a leisured welfare state. Immediately I came back to the House on Tuesday for the first time for five years, I noticed that in the yard there was a row of six or eight or ten great cars, each one with a chauffeur waiting to carry right hon. Gentlemen in state back to their offices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.355.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-08", "file": "debates1950-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "869076e60884a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.356.2", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not true.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": " the result of that? The result was that several hundreds of people were doing nothing for the whole of 24 hours. It may not matter at all, but it is a sign of the times. It is a sign of the way we are going. It is a thoroughly bad sign, and it is a sign that ought to be eradicated. I know workshops where production is 20 per cent. and 30 per cent. less per man per week than it was before the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-08", "file": "debates1950-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "869076e60884a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.357.8", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "ng the whole four and a half years they have been pointing out to hon. Members opposite that our position, far from improving, was getting worse; and when they did so point it out, hon. Members opposite accused them, saying, \"Are you disparaging our country?\" What nonsense. We are disparaging nothing at all—except the Government. I do not want to take up much more of your time, Mr. Deputy-Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.357.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-08", "file": "debates1950-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "869076e60884a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.392.0", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And tomatoes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "some time, and the best efforts of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Food, combined with the Board of Trade, ought to be, and indeed are at the moment, as I can assure hon. Members, to try and make those imports complementary to and not antagonistic to our home production. That has been our policy and if there have been unfortunate incidents, such as the onion position two years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-08", "file": "debates1950-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "869076e60884a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.395.3", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "at least 94s. a week. What is more to the point is that the nation is getting the food. The right hon. Gentleman asked me about water schemes, main and minor. For the 12 months to 31st March, 1949, the Minister of Health approved schemes to the value of £6½ million, which was a good deal in excess of the record prewar figure of £2½ million in taking main water schemes to rural areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-08", "file": "debates1950-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "869076e60884a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "d States are praying us to give, we can go forward and overcome those obstacles no matter how difficult they may be. In the Dominions—not only on these benches—and not only among those who believe in free enterprise in the Dominions, but among all parties, there is a feeling that the Government have moved in these matters only when they have been kicked into moving by the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-08", "file": "debates1950-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "869076e60884a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "ence of industrial undertakings into the special development areas. I am a Tynesider. I have battled on Tyneside's behalf just as hard as any of the Members opposite for the solution of our problem of unemployment, and I am glad to say that we have succeeded, up to a point, in obtaining a balanced industrial economy. A great deal of our heavy unemployment, dating, in particular, from 1929 to 1931—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-08", "file": "debates1950-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "869076e60884a5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Nutting", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member for Ogmore (Mr. Padley) upon his maiden speech. If he did not exactly follow the usual non-contentious pattern of maiden speeches, but seemed to indulge in what appeared to us on this side of the House rather more like a bang-over from the General Election, he can certainly rest happy tonight in the thought that his speech has struck us all as not only sincere but also as audible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-08a.420.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.458.3", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Permission is asked from the Chair and not from the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.458.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.458.5", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order. I should like to ask for your guidance, Mr. Speaker, on this aspect of the matter: was not the hon. Member for Solihull (Mr. Lindsay) too late in making his decision?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.458.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.458.7", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "With respect, if I may explain, Sir, I am one of the questioners who asked whether certain information was available. The Minister says that we must await his official reply. I asked him only a short question as to whether, when we see the reply, it will contain the fact that information is available, or not. The right hon. Gentleman gave me a very discourteous reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.458.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.459.3", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.459.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.459.5", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "It is perfectly customary in the House of Commons for a Minister to hand to Mr. Speaker a list of Questions he proposes to answer consecutively, or that he proposes to answer in the OFFICIAL REPORT. That has been done on this occasion, as it has been", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.459.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.459.5", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is not much left.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "It is perfectly customary in the House of Commons for a Minister to hand to Mr. Speaker a list of Questions he proposes to answer consecutively, or that he proposes to answer in the OFFICIAL REPORT. That has been done on this occasion, as it has been [Interruption] —on others. The answer ! intend to circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT would take the whole of the rest of Question Time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.459.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.461.2", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "May I ask, Mr. Speaker, whether you would consider this matter at your leisure and give the House your answer in due course?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.474.7", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "or all put an end to private enterprise. I think everyone will agree that I am not overstating the case in saying that. But do not let the Government underrate the forces which would come to our aid, and which, I may say, have come to our aid over this very matter. We are very glad, if the Press reports are correct, to know that the Liberal Party are in sympathy with the objects of this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.474.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.474.7", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "e in power and are able to last longer or are allowed to or the public interest appears to all sides of the House to require them to continue admittedly they would be causing a delay in the operation of this Bill. But surely that is exactly the kind of balance which we all desire. It is at least clear that this Government's tenure of office depends upon keeping away from controversial legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.474.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.485.1", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. G. R. Strauss)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or five.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. G. R. Strauss)", "preceding_text": "nds of all associated with the industry if his proposal were accepted would, I submit, be at least as great if not greater than those arising under the Act with its present wording. Why it would remove suspense or anxiety or delay to say that the Act shall not come into operation until nine months after the next election—which may be in three months, six months, one year, two years or three years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "As to the extent to which the problem of public ownership of this industry—a problem where principle and complex technical considerations are very closely bound—was in fact a major issue at the election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "to the extent to which the problem of public ownership of this industry—a problem where principle and complex technical considerations are very closely bound—was in fact a major issue at the election—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Was it?\"]—no one can tell for certain. On my personal experience I found to my regret that outside the steel areas it was not a major, certainly not the major, issue of the election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is no argument at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "people of that town have suffered, perhaps more than those of any other town in Great Britain, from the irresponsible private ownership of the iron and steel industry. There, the Conservative vote rose, in round figures again, from 14,200 in 1945 to 19,800 in 1950—that includes the Liberal vote—an increase of 39 per cent.; but the Labour vote rose from 20,700 to 33,800, an increase of 66 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.499.1", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "aced on the Order Paper at this stage of our deliberations. The question, of course, arises—indeed the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman) has managed to anticipate it—of what should be our attitude in that situation. One thing is quite clear. No one who holds the views which the Liberals have held in relation to the Iron and Steel Act can possibly vote in favour of this Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.499.1", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "ite clear; which is more than the Government are choosing to do in relation to the Iron and Steel Act—far more. There can be no question, in view of the attitude which the Liberals have adopted in relation to the Iron and Steel Act, of their supporting the Government in regard to this Amendment. The difficulty which arises, and it is a substantial difficulty in which the Liberals find them selves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.499.1", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "he Liberals have adopted in relation to the Iron and Steel Act, of their supporting the Government in regard to this Amendment. The difficulty which arises, and it is a substantial difficulty in which the Liberals find them selves—[ Interruption. ] Liberals voting in this House are placed in more substantial difficulties than the Socialists or the Conservatives, who have only to obey instructions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.499.1", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "mendment. The difficulty which arises, and it is a substantial difficulty in which the Liberals find them selves—[ Interruption. ] Liberals voting in this House are placed in more substantial difficulties than the Socialists or the Conservatives, who have only to obey instructions—[ Interruption. ] I am sorry if I am keeping the House in suspense. The substantial dilemma which the Liberals are in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.499.1", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "use of our attitude towards the timing of this Amendment, to give due notice to the Government Whips of our view. We consider that whatever differences of policy and principle there may be between us, it is in the national interest today, in view of our domestic economy and the likely reactions in the international sphere, that the Government should not be brought to an end by a sudden, snap vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or defeated.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "I suggest that it was the right and honourable thing to do. We gave as much notice as possible to the Government Whips of the attitude which we intend to adopt. In our present state, with the Government just starting to deal with the vital business of Supply, my colleagues and I took the view that this was not the time when the Government should be embarrassed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Lord Dunglass", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the noble Lord worrying about?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Dunglass", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite have never thought out the full implications of extending the policy of nationalisation as far as the relationship between the wage earners, the trades unions and the Government is concerned. I do not think there is any evidence at this moment to show that the trade union system as it has grown up in this country can live in a socialised state.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": "I am glad to have an opportunity of taking part in this Debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.519.3", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "The principle of the nationalisation of all the means of production, distribution and exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.519.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "nd the seven Labour candidates appeared before the electors of Sheffield, not one of the seven candidates in their speeches said one word about steel nationalisation. Therefore, the House must accept what the hon. Member for Attercliffe said when he remarked that \"it was not made an issue by us.\" It was played down, I suggest, because it was known to those gentlemen that it was an unpopular issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": " gone down similarly. The great recovery, in which we are all pleased and proud to be helping, has come from this great steel industry directly and indirectly in these recent years. Therefore, for hon. Members to come at this time and to try, as I think it must be, to disorganise the organisation of that industry, is most unwarranted. The recovery has been despite Socialism, but not because of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "lping, has come from this great steel industry directly and indirectly in these recent years. Therefore, for hon. Members to come at this time and to try, as I think it must be, to disorganise the organisation of that industry, is most unwarranted. The recovery has been despite Socialism, but not because of it. [ Laughter. ] Certainly, because the equivalent figures abroad are higher than our own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "That improves my argument even further, and I am grateful to the hon. Member for his intervention. It is true that the Socialists did not mention steel nationalisation except where there were steel units.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is law.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": " urgently—that it must be carried out. All that we put forward is the simplest argument of all, that the Government should make an effective compromise with time so that the Act—which we reject as foolish and ludicrous—but whether it be good or bad, is put into its best possible effect. If it is to be made law, then let it be made law and put into action when it is a good time for that to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is an Act\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "o effect on 1st October, he will not secure the top-class and best men in the country for the Steel Corporation. The other question I raise is the wider question of whether the Government are going to pay attention to what has been the new mandate from the people. The people of this country, except in certain areas, solidly with an overall majority of several millions have voted against this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.550.3", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": " the one cited by my right hon. Friend the Member for Aldershot (Mr. Lyttelton) this afternoon. I do not want to quote it again, but those were words with reference to the appointment of members of the Corporation. Those were words exactly framed as we on these benches would like to see them framed today in an authoritative pronouncement by the Minister himself or by the Government. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.550.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "preceding_text": "Petrol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Groundnuts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeger", "preceding_text": "c. 220.] We find, therefore, as part of the Conservative policy accepted and admitted during the Second Reading Debate, price controls, the elimination of competition, Government supervision and, of course, the continuation of Government subsidies. During 1948–49, Government subsidies to this industry amounted to practically £22 million. If the Opposition are looking for cuts and economies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.573.5", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "ceeded in compressing a great mass of inaccuracy into a very short space of time. I regret that, as I am limited in time, I can deal with only one point, which is of great importance: his references to the so-called steel subsidies. It is most tendentious to suggest that those subsidies were payments from the taxpayer to the profits of the industry. They were certainly not for that purpose at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.573.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.573.5", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Crewe.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": " the first job of keeping the industry going at full pressure. The industry remains confident that ultimately the nation will reject nationalisation. We have heard a good deal of argument about votes in the steel towns. It is perhaps appropriate to notice the very small Labour majorities in the railway towns, where they have had a dose of nationalisation. Railway nationalisation is not so popular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.573.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "he Act itself was specifically designed to prevent dismemberment of the industry. The Opposition have been speaking all along as if the nationalisation of steel will dismember the industry immediately it is taken over. That is completely untrue. The Act was designed to make this change-over as smooth as possible and any dismemberment can come only from deliberate sabotage by those in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "Parliament, and now they are trying to prove to their newcomers that they can in this. The second reason—bearing in mind the statement of the right hon. Member for Aldershot (Mr. Lyttelton) that we must not underrate the forces that will come to their aid—is that they have to satisfy their financial backers who want some return for the money they poured into the election coffers of the Tory Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "ershot (Mr. Lyttelton) that we must not underrate the forces that will come to their aid—is that they have to satisfy their financial backers who want some return for the money they poured into the election coffers of the Tory Party. [ Interruption. ] Well, it is obvious. It is clear that the people who wish steel to remain in private hands must have contributed very heavily to the Tory Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.578.1", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "r a Liberal candidate on this particular issue, —and I take it no further than that—may honestly be considered to be against the Iron and Steel Act? If the Liberal view is challenged—and it is not for me to speak for the Liberal Party in this House—is it not right to ask the House to read a speech given in another place by the Liberal Leader there? He made it quite plain that it was his view that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-09", "file": "debates1950-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "17fb16cd8d1d2750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.591.2", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are they now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d by the right hon. Gentleman with such vehemence and, shall we say, such vituperation. What really is the design of this? The design, of course, is directed to the Liberal Party more than to the Government. In fact, I think it is quite obvious that the Conservative Party, and particularly the right hon. Gentleman, is much more interested in trying to destroy the Liberal Party than the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-09a.591.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-10", "file": "debates1950-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5f4fab9f2746824", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-10a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Because the Tories were in power then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-10a.620.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-10", "file": "debates1950-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5f4fab9f2746824", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-10a.645.2", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "With all respect, I am trying to devote myself to the King's Speech. I am only too willing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-10a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-10", "file": "debates1950-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5f4fab9f2746824", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-10a.645.9", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"The chairman of Lloyds Bank.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman has referred to me, it is only fair to Lord Balfour of Burleigh, if I may say so with respect, to tell the House that I deprecate any attempt to get over the Rules.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-10a.645.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-10", "file": "debates1950-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5f4fab9f2746824", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-10a.646.0", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "t one of my hon. Friends has been good enough to pass me a quotation of what he said, and it is this: One cannot expect an all out effort in an environment in which the discipline of dismissal has been largely removed. Human nature being what it is, we cannot dispense with the whip or curb. It will be difficult not to fear that a wage spiral will continue so long as over-full employment continues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-10a.646.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-10", "file": "debates1950-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5f4fab9f2746824", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-10a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Claptrap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "g back food consumption and checking the flow of raw material imports. The country is really faced with the problem of either shorter rations—real starvation—or mass unemployment. That is what the Socialist Government said, and not what Tory propaganda said. The Government said it in their White Paper, Cmd. 7572. That sense of urgency is what they should have put into the Gracious Speech, and not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-10a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So did the Opposition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "overnment of the day inherited a machine which, under the Liberal-Labour Coalition of the day had been allowed to run down to practically nothing. It is unjust perhaps to call it a Liberal-Labour Coalition. Let us say that it was a Liberal Government supported with singular faithfulness by the Labour Members of the day, and in whose Cabinet a former Labour Member, Mr. Burns, played a nominal part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "am not denying that there are episodes in his past about which we do not entirely agree. However, let me come to the point with which we are dealing, that is to say, the action taken by the Government of which my right hon. Friend was an honoured Member after the 1914–18 war. In two years we brought up the number of houses to within 4,000 of the number which were being built before the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.755.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.759.0", "colnum": "759", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "We had some air raids in the last war.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": " the point with which we are dealing, that is to say, the action taken by the Government of which my right hon. Friend was an honoured Member after the 1914–18 war. In two years we brought up the number of houses to within 4,000 of the number which were being built before the war. [ Laughter. ] Yes, and hon. Members are still 180,000 behind the numbers which were built by us before the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.755.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.759.2", "colnum": "759", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Middleton", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.759.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.759.3", "colnum": "759", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Crimea?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "No, but I will give hon. Members a figure in which they and my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition will be interested. The figure which the Government propose is only 30,000 houses a year more than were being built during the Boer War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.759.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.761.0", "colnum": "761", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "4 were repaired. The creation of new flats and dwellings by repairing old houses is also running out as a source of supply. Some 47,000 dwellings came from that source in 1947, 28,000 in 1948, 14,784 in 1949. And remember, houses do not stand still. If they are not maintained, they begin to fall down. During our administration 1,000 people a day were being moved out of the slums. That has stopped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.761.0", "colnum": "761", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You built them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "y were being moved out of the slums. That has stopped. [ Laughter. ] I do not know why hon. Members laugh at the thought of slum dwellers being moved out of the slums. The slum dwellers do not laugh at it, neither will the House, and neither will they when they see the action of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite tonight. Two million houses in Britain today are more than one hundred years old.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.761.0", "colnum": "761", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "tained. The labour force which produced 1,000 houses a day, as well as schools, hospitals and other buildings, is still maintained. In 1939 there were roughly one million men in housing; in June 1948, as in June, 1949, the number of people employed in housing was still one million. By the end of that time the state of full employment existed in the key trades of the bricklayers and the plasterers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.761.0", "colnum": "761", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "tered at under 100. Today, with full employment, it is 61. Of course, a certain number of people change their jobs, but the key trades of the bricklayers and plasterers were in the past very highly employed. Indeed, if they were not, would it not be all the more astonishing that we could build 367,000 houses a year and maintain all the other capital development of the country with the same forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not a point of Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. A false statement has been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.763.3", "colnum": "763", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "The important point is that the unemployment to which the hon. Member refers reached enormous heights under the Labour Government, that the unemployment was gradually worn down under the National Government", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.763.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.767.3", "colnum": "767", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "tly for the private citizen, not necessarily for the local authority, is one of the oldest established traditions in the world, a tradition which the Labour Party are breaking at great cost to the country and with very little credit to themselves. The re-deployment of labour by means of allowing the private builder to build for the private citizen will, we believe, speed up the process of housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.767.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. Blenkinsop)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Steel boxes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. Blenkinsop)", "preceding_text": "ents and interest which would be involved. What a ludicrous position the Opposition are in. I propose to devote some time to the facts of the situation. Since the end of the war we have built in Great Britain a total of additional homes, excluding Service camps and temporary huts and requisitioned properties, of 1,063,000, of which 638,000 are new permanent houses and 157,000 are temporary houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": " the Army, he is more entitled to the house than a man who has just married, but who comes and asks for it. Physical needs should give physical possession. My second point is that financial need should secure financial assistance. When local authorities are building nine out of every ten houses, I do not think it is right or proper that every occupant of those nine houses should receive a subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.789.2", "colnum": "789", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order. Stand up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "But surely the Macclesfield Tory Council can control that, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.789.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "If private enterprise is allowed in the way I suggest there will not be building on competitive tender. There will not be a tender.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "eport of the working party. I have a Question down asking when it will be published. It may follow the classical example of the Girdwood Report, which was killed by its late publication. The same thing must not happen with this report, which, I believe, will deal with the points I have mentioned. I believe that the Government have failed in their housing programme. Many comparisons have been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.808.5", "colnum": "808", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who for? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "gland is due entirely to private enterprise building, and I cannot understand why hon. Members, who are now enjoying the fruits of that, are so anxious to deny its benefits to future generations. This should not be a subject for stupid ideological arguments. As my hon. Friend the Member for Wallasey pointed out, it does not matter who builds the houses so long as they are built, and built quickly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.808.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": " I am convinced that the hon. Member would not go back to his constituency and say that he would rather those houses had not been built. I have here a letter from a man whose wife has left him because he could not get her a home. He says: My wife's nerves must be shot to pieces with the worry of not having a house. She has told me\"— and this is the serious part— that she does not love me any more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.813.3", "colnum": "813", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What kind of houses were built during the Boer War?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "Colonel Elliot) seeking to justify the policy and attitude of his party in relation to house building by comparing the efforts in the years 1945 to 1950 with what was built during the Boer War. The right hon. and gallant Gentleman will find much to interest him in the building of that period if he is really interested in prevention as a form of cure and the history and antecedents of tuberculosis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.813.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.814.2", "colnum": "814", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman not agree that, although he may be talking about certain houses which appear bad and were bad, a vast amount of housing at that time was excellent and still is?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.814.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "nd in expressing the hope that we shall look forward with much interest to hearing them in the future. I took part in the last Parliament in a great many of these housing Debates, and I must say that, looking back, my main feeling is of a sense of contrast and paradox—contrast between the brilliance in debate and ineffectiveness in administration of the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.827.2", "colnum": "827", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "is that time has not executed its vengeance upon the right hon. Gentleman, in which there might have been considerable poetic justice; but instead the burden of that vengeance has fallen upon the house-hungry people of this country. The result of that is that, in the postwar period, houses have taken longer to build and have cost more to build than would have been conceivable in the prewar period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.827.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.830.0", "colnum": "830", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "ulfil their statutory duty of housing the working classes. They can only supply houses at a rate which the working classes cannot afford to pay. There we have the result of five years of unrealism and obstinacy in the housing policy of the right hon. Gentleman and the present Government. What is needed today, surely, is to build a great number of houses at high speed, low cost and of good quality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.830.0", "colnum": "830", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "e thought that an unexceptionable definition of our aim. Surely hon. Members opposite know, though they manifestly did not in 1946, that we can only get this great number of houses, and can only reduce these enormous waiting lists, if we can build at high speed and at low cost. We cannot get it by a policy of 90 per cent. local authority and only 10 per cent. piecemeal private enterprise building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.830.0", "colnum": "830", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "mbrousness of local authority procedure, superimposed upon the cumbrousness of contract building procedure. In the Debate of 1947 I analysed, as I had on other occasions the reasons for the cumbrousness of contract building procedure. They are the over-rigidity of specification, the diversity of forms of contract and the over-elaborateness of bills of quantity, and the like. Those are the reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Squadron-Leader A. E. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron-Leader A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": "o tend so often to be in the cart. We have done well by the Minister's standards but we have done badly by our own records. In the past four and a half years we have only built in aggregate a total of houses we built annually in the years before the war. Hon. Members must realise that houses are built, not by legislation, but by the simple physical, process of putting bricks on top of one another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Squadron-Leader A. E. Cooper", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Tory?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron-Leader A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": "n start to build a house?, Is this House aware that from the time a local authority wishes to start until the builders actually get on to a site and start building probably something like 18 months to two years have passed? I can see some shaking of heads on the other side of the House. I have a detailed schedule prepared for me by the borough surveyor of my own town which gives chapter and verse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.855.1", "colnum": "855", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": " to know that I have considered it—both the statement by his colleague the President of the Board of Trade and the answer in the \"Timber Trade Journal\" by the president of the relevant association. I consider that the answer is really a complete reply to the electioneering speech of the President of the Board of Trade. The noble Lady the Member for Anglesey thought that the answer was substitutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.855.1", "colnum": "855", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "eater diversity in houses, with a greater number of small houses into which old people would have been not only prepared but very willing to go, leaving the bigger houses free for young couples with children. The Girdwood figure of 86 per cent. of three-bedroomed houses demands consideration from that point of view. The fourth excuse, apologia pro vita sua , which the right hon. Gentleman offered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.859.1", "colnum": "859", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says \"jerry-built houses.\" I do not agree. If the hon. Gentleman examines, not in party controversy, the accounts of the building trade in the 'thirties he will find that the vast majority of the comments upon them are complimentary. However, I must sit down at half past nine, although I do want to deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "preceding_text": "cally all the speeches we have heard from the other side of the House were an almost exact repetition of what we have had before. As a matter of fact, the hon. Member for Hertford (Mr. Walker-Smith) was so bard put to it that he treated us to a repetition of his own speeches. If he will look at HANSARD tomorrow he will find that most of his speech consisted of a recitation of what he said in 1946—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "preceding_text": "y, I find the attitude of the Opposition so profoundly immoral. They have put up placards all over the country—financed by secret sources, financed by sources they have never disclosed—in which they say, \"Let the builders build you a house now.\" That was a very cruel poster, because it led those people who needed houses to believe that all that stood between them and a house was Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "preceding_text": "I am bound to tell him that I did ask it during the General Election, but the newspapers did not report the question. Lord Woolton said in 1947: I ask in these days of over-full employment for the postponement of all works of a public nature and for the discouragement of all capital expenditure, whether by Government, or by private industry. Did that represent the policy of the Opposition in 1947?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.861.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.865.0", "colnum": "865", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "preceding_text": "7 the whole of the housing programme of Great Britain was to be brought to a standstill. I am going to ask one or two questions and I think the House and the country are entitled to know the answers, because the Opposition will not be able permanently to escape from this dilemma by the consistent lying of the Tory Press. Is that a fact: did Lord Woolton express the point of view of the Tory Party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.865.2", "colnum": "865", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is ill, like you were.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "onservative Party in 1947, the people of Great Britain would have been deprived of all the houses built since that time. But I wish to go on to an even more eminent authority because it was only last October that we had a discussion about the capital investment programme in this House, and we were addressed by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, whom I do not see in his place at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.865.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.865.2", "colnum": "865", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ites recently, separate plebiscites on each issue. More houses?—yes; higher expenditure—yes; lower Income Tax?—yes; each a single plebiscite. I warn the Opposition that plebiscites can be very dangerous instruments in the hands of political parties. I can suggest a number of other interesting questions for plebiscites if hon. Members want them; but perhaps this is not the occasion to suggest them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.865.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.865.2", "colnum": "865", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": ". I have asked it for 4½ years. May we have the answer finally this time? Assuming there should be a total—I suppose they would agree there should be a total? They would not let the builders all free to build where they like anywhere. Assuming there is to be a total of houses, then I would like to ask the Opposition what number of houses do they consider should be built on licence for sale?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.865.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or Bermondsey\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Oh, I am giving the answer —one in ten. That is the answer the Opposition is having; and that represents far more than applied for licences in Birmingham; far more than applied for licences in Wales, or Hammersmith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "rsmith—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Or Bermondsey\"]—or Bermondsey. In fact, far more than applied for licences in those parts of Great Britain where most of the work of the country is done. That is the situation, and therefore we are laying down as a proposition that so long as the housing programme of this country has to be curtailed, and every programme has to be curtailed so long as we have full employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "mebody else is told that they are going to have less of what they want. That is why the whole of the propaganda of the Opposition during the General Election was the lowest form of propaganda ever seen in the history of politics—because they promised everybody something. May I say that I do not need to be told here about what are the consequences of living in bad houses. I was born in a bad house—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-13", "file": "debates1950-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "414272584a90ac41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.884.3", "colnum": "884", "heading": "FISHING GEAR (COST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"High profits.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "In the case of the 2½ per cent., that includes the fishermen's associations. The general picture of it is that the high cost of gear is entirely due to high prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-13a.884.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-14", "file": "debates1950-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "71c77f68946fd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.926.0", "colnum": "926", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "They went to sleep.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "46 the Supplementary Estimates were £33 million, in 1947, £145 million, in 1948, £222 million. This year there has been a drop, but they are still £169 million. This from the arch planners, and they can look back as much as they like to 1919, 1921 and 1922, which I have here with me, but they will find nothing comparable in the way of Supplementary Estimates. In the fourth year after the last war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.922.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-14", "file": "debates1950-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "71c77f68946fd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.985.5", "colnum": "985", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "work. In the constituency which I now represent they have a Tory legacy of pail sanitation with human excreta being removed every afternoon. All over the country people have been suffering these degrading conditions, from the point of view of preventive medicine. This is a personal treatment scheme, and it is one of the best pieces of legislation which has ever been passed through this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.985.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-14", "file": "debates1950-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "71c77f68946fd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "[Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "On the contrary, the pain may prove to be the proper road to a diagnosis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-14", "file": "debates1950-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "71c77f68946fd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Chuck it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": " Perhaps this is not in order, but, after all, these questions go to the very foundation of the whole scheme. The hon. Gentleman to whose speech I would refer spoke sometimes as a Conservative and sometimes as a Liberal, sometimes sauve and calm and sometimes forceful. He showed a delightful personality and is a great master of his subject, though always looking at it from one side of the picture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-14", "file": "debates1950-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "71c77f68946fd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": " I would not dare to talk to the House in this way when other people think that I am not sticking to the subject. There are still a few gaps in the National Health Service. Much more money will need to be spent and many More reforms to be carried out. I think that the Conservative Party, who opposed this scheme when it was going through the House and yet pretended in the country that they did not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-14", "file": "debates1950-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "71c77f68946fd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.998.3", "colnum": "998", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "ical. I listened to their speeches on the wireless and in the country. If they had been returned to office and had kept their promises to do all the things they said they would, I do not know what the Supplementary Estimates would have been. Nobody would have been able to meet them at all. So all this talk and criticism, I believe, is very often to get at an individual whom they want to criticise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.998.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-14", "file": "debates1950-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "71c77f68946fd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osbert Peake", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I quite believe that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osbert Peake", "preceding_text": "All hon. Members who have sat through the Debate this evening will agree that we have heard three first-class maiden speeches. If there is one thing about which I am convinced, it is that the level of maiden speeches today is very much higher than it was when I first came into the House in 1929.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-14", "file": "debates1950-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "71c77f68946fd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osbert Peake", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The electorate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osbert Peake", "preceding_text": "nstead of them winning the election by the bare margin of six seats in this House, we on this side had won by a similarly small margin. How convenient for them if it had been our task to present to the House and the nation this Bill for £148 million! I can tell the Minister of Health who is responsible for his hon. and right hon. Friends sitting on those benches and for us sitting on these—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-14", "file": "debates1950-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "71c77f68946fd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osbert Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osbert Peake", "preceding_text": "resent to the House and the nation this Bill for £148 million! I can tell the Minister of Health who is responsible for his hon. and right hon. Friends sitting on those benches and for us sitting on these—[An HON. MEMBER: \"The electorate.\"] No, not at all; it is the Lord President of the Council. His wangle, to use the mildest possible word in regard to it, over the redistribution of seats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-14", "file": "debates1950-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "71c77f68946fd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.1022.3", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "de his speech today the Debate was over. After the explanation about most of the Supplementary Estimates as distinct from that of the National Health Service had been given the House practically emptied, and, indeed, has been almost empty all day. So vigilant and angry are the Opposition about this profligate way of conducting the national finances that the benches opposite have been almost empty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.1022.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-14", "file": "debates1950-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "71c77f68946fd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.1027.2", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "s in this House on hospital management committees and regional hospital boards. Are they conscious of maladministration in their hospitals? I would ask the hon. Member for Hendon, South, whether the hospital, of the governing body of which he is a member, maladministers its finances? I ask the hon. Member for Putney (Mr. Linstead) where he knows of any instance of wanton extravagance in his group?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.1027.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-14", "file": "debates1950-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "71c77f68946fd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.1027.2", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "l management committees and regional hospital boards. Are they conscious of maladministration in their hospitals? I would ask the hon. Member for Hendon, South, whether the hospital, of the governing body of which he is a member, maladministers its finances? I ask the hon. Member for Putney (Mr. Linstead) where he knows of any instance of wanton extravagance in his group? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.1027.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-14", "file": "debates1950-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "71c77f68946fd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.1027.2", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "stration they are really indicting members of their own party in different parts of the country. I am not saying that there ought not to be a tightening up of hospital administration, and there will be. There must be a closer identification of the central Government with the local units of hospital administration. The reasons for that are perfectly obvious. Because we have inherited from the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.1027.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-14", "file": "debates1950-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "71c77f68946fd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.1031.3", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "If he imagines I am going to answer questions relating to the Budget he is making a very great mistake. That is entirely a matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.1031.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-14", "file": "debates1950-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "71c77f68946fd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.1031.5", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "We have already saved, on streptomycin, £240,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.1031.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-14", "file": "debates1950-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "71c77f68946fd064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.1031.5", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "We have already saved, on streptomycin, £240,000. [ Laughter. ] Have not the Opposition been covering the country with posters, \"Let us fight the high cost of living?\" I want to help them to support the low cost of loving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-14a.1031.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-15", "file": "debates1950-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a2582964598b5f54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-15a.1082.3", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "I am not necessarily accepting the figure of £34 per ton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-15a.1082.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-15", "file": "debates1950-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a2582964598b5f54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-15a.1105.1", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Barnes)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Barnes)", "preceding_text": "lways recognised represent, and must of necessity be, an on cost on British production, I think it will be to the common good. The first thing with which I wish to deal is the appeal to the emotions by the misrepresentations of the hon. Member for Monmouth when he was referring to the problem of the treatment of ex-Service men. To introduce that matter into these affairs does no service to anyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-15a.1105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-15", "file": "debates1950-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a2582964598b5f54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-15a.1120.4", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "h. It is the only area in Great Britain which can make a massive contribution to the production of beef, mutton, lamb, pigs, poultry, butter and eggs. I recall that 50,000 head of cattle used to be walked down every year to Falkirk Tryst and then taken on to Newcastle and Scotch Corner to be handed over to the English drovers. We have to use that country again. The neglect of the past is finished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-15a.1120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-15", "file": "debates1950-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a2582964598b5f54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-15a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "e improvements will percolate down to all levels. But a start has been made and we are appreciative. In matters of welfare, and so on, certain practical proposals have been made, but let none of us be under any illusion about this. We inherited, as the Minister of Town and Country Planning, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, said, \"a poor bag of physical assests\" when we took over the railways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-15a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-15", "file": "debates1950-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a2582964598b5f54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-15a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "his problem. Unless we can have such an approach there is no purpose in nationalisation. The Minister knows in his heart as well as I do, that we can never have a co-ordinated and integrated transport system and at the same time have 700,000 vehicles running about this country under \"C\" licences, carrying what they will, where they will, when they will and under any terms and conditions they will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-15a.1166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-15", "file": "debates1950-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a2582964598b5f54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-15a.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I do not quite follow the hon. Gentleman. Can I take it that he agrees that there is a loss of £50 a minute? Can I take it that that is agreed and common ground between us?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-15a.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-15", "file": "debates1950-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a2582964598b5f54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-15a.1198.1", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyle", "preceding_text": " which we all have to face if we are considering this position. I 'believe that my hon. Friend the Member for Monmouth (Mr. P. Thorneycroft) did make the serious and important suggestion that in filling the vacancy left by the late Lord Ashfield, whom we all not only admired but loved as a personality, the Minister should try to get someone with commercial experience who will deal with that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-15a.1198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-16", "file": "debates1950-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f17fb9754de5ac8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1229.4", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTORAL REGISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman allow me to put this suggestion to him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1229.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-16", "file": "debates1950-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f17fb9754de5ac8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1229.4", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTORAL REGISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman allow me to put this suggestion to him? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I do not suggest re-opening the whole machinery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1229.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-16", "file": "debates1950-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f17fb9754de5ac8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1229.4", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTORAL REGISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman allow me to put this suggestion to him? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I do not suggest re-opening the whole machinery—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] I am asking a question. Would the right hon. Gentleman allow me to suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1229.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-16", "file": "debates1950-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f17fb9754de5ac8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1262.18", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is what the right hon. Gentleman said.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "preceding_text": "My attention has been called to the misinterpretation of a statement I made in the Debate on Monday. I am quoted in HANSARD as having said: It would be an interesting subject for a plebiscite as to whether this nation is in favour of being ruled by a man merely because he is the son of his father.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 13th March, 1950; Vol. 472, c. 864.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1262.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-16", "file": "debates1950-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f17fb9754de5ac8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1282.1", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We never heard of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "last Parliament, and we adhere to it now. I think we were somewhat ungratefully treated on this subject in the election. I was surprised to learn that an active whispering campaign was on foot, especially in garrisons abroad, in Germany and the Mediterranean fortresses, in Singapore and Hong Kong, that the length of compulsory service would be increased if the Conservatives were returned to power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-16", "file": "debates1950-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f17fb9754de5ac8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1285.0", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is constantly talking about whispering campaigns. There was the ridiculous one which he suggested had been put about that he was dead. No one has heard of these whispering campaigns except the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-16", "file": "debates1950-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f17fb9754de5ac8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1285.3", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "about our Rules of Order before he raises points of Order. All I can say is that I was very glad to be in a position myself to deny the rumour that I was dead, and I only regret it was not as easy to get upon the track of and kill a great many other falsehoods to which we were subjected. Personally I think it was very shabby for hon. Members and others, if they were engaged in the campaign at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1285.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-16", "file": "debates1950-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f17fb9754de5ac8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1289.3", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1289.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-16", "file": "debates1950-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f17fb9754de5ac8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1308.3", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Stand up and say it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman wants to repeat that remark, he can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1308.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-16", "file": "debates1950-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f17fb9754de5ac8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1309.0", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman accused the right hon. Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) of wanting the rearmament of Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1309.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-16", "file": "debates1950-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f17fb9754de5ac8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1309.2", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What did he say?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "That is what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-16", "file": "debates1950-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f17fb9754de5ac8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1309.5", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Neither did you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I said that the hon. Gentleman did not take part in the war himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1309.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-16", "file": "debates1950-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f17fb9754de5ac8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1310.4", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I hope that my hon. Friend is not accepting it from the right hon. Member that the Leader of the Opposition in his speech made no special qualifications—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1310.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-16", "file": "debates1950-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f17fb9754de5ac8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1373.1", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "ent of this country, wanting to know what it all means. For that reason I ask the hon. and gallant Member for Carshalton to tell us specifically what is involved; and whether in saying what he did say the right hon. Member for Woodford was speaking as an individual or as the Leader of a responsible Opposition which a few weeks ago was almost at the stage of becoming the Government of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-16", "file": "debates1950-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f17fb9754de5ac8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1379.1", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "preceding_text": " and it is my belief that, until they do that, we shall not get the men. Hon. Members will say, \"Wages are frozen. We are out for economy. We are spending £800 million on defence.\" I could tell the right hon. Gentleman several ways by which he could cut the present defence expenditure. I do riot see why I should do it, however, because I should gain the unpopularity of the people I should mention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-16", "file": "debates1950-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f17fb9754de5ac8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1379.1", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "preceding_text": " [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"] Hon. Members say Ah \"but I expect the Minister of Defence has some idea. One way not to cut is to cut down on those people who are the foundation of our defence Forces, the long service Regular element. If we pinch on those people it is like building a vast skyscraper with the most beautiful offices, telephone exchanges and lifts, and then skimping on the foundations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-16", "file": "debates1950-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f17fb9754de5ac8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1379.1", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "preceding_text": "a. One way not to cut is to cut down on those people who are the foundation of our defence Forces, the long service Regular element. If we pinch on those people it is like building a vast skyscraper with the most beautiful offices, telephone exchanges and lifts, and then skimping on the foundations. [ Laughter .] Hon. Gentlemen opposite have had great experience of erecting large office buildings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-16", "file": "debates1950-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f17fb9754de5ac8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1391.3", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was in the Army.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman was not here and his experience of the House has not been very long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1391.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-16", "file": "debates1950-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f17fb9754de5ac8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1391.5", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "olicy. Parties have habitually done this and we did it on points of policy. It was misrepresented as a vote for total disarmament. That was invented by the present Lord Simon, although the Liberals only a year or two before, had done precisely the same thing with regard to a number of Estimates. That is the story. As a matter of fact, this party never opposed the proper rearmament of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-16a.1391.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-17", "file": "debates1950-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "665479792a54c072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-17a.1493.1", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER.: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "e, the first in regard to broadcasting. We all welcome the new Postmaster-General, and we are all grateful for the wide terms in which he made his speech, which has permitted us to raise matters which many of us have been wishing to raise. I wish the Postmaster-General seriously to consider and to discuss with the broadcasting authorities the question of broadcasting the proceedings of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-17a.1493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-17", "file": "debates1950-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "665479792a54c072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-17a.1495.1", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " had made that interjection at any other moment of his speech I would not have disagreed at all, but that was the moment when I was in complete agreement with the hon. Member for Croydon, East. I have the greatest difficulty in getting through on the automatic telephone. All I want to know is what happens when I dial Cunningham 6100 and get Holborn 3516 and somebody answers—do I pay for the call?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-17a.1495.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-20", "file": "debates1950-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "baa9cb958011420d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1525.0", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Per quarter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "I hope for that reason that he is getting very cheap current. He is, in fact, hiring, as I understand it, a heater, a cooker, and an electric kettle for 28s. a year, which is not a very high charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1524.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-20", "file": "debates1950-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "baa9cb958011420d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1530.5", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Slate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman asked me about the price of coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1530.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-20", "file": "debates1950-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "baa9cb958011420d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1537.0", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "I cannot deny anything on which I have no information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1537.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-20", "file": "debates1950-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "baa9cb958011420d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1539.6", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Thorp", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Thorp", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister accurate in his statement that there is a big demand for crab meat?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1539.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-20", "file": "debates1950-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "baa9cb958011420d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1581.2", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1950–51", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman; normally I should have left the point to my right hon. Friend, but I think the right hon. Gentleman's remark reflects on the three Services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1581.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-20", "file": "debates1950-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "baa9cb958011420d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1581.4", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1950–51", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He is very touchy.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman seems very sensitive on this point. I never suggested for a moment that he has not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1581.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-20", "file": "debates1950-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "baa9cb958011420d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1585.5", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1950–51", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "National Service ought to be a great advertising period for the Army to attract a conscript to take on a Regular engagement; but it is universally found that very few conscripts do in fact sign on for a Regular engagement. because by the time they have had 18 months' service they are fed up with it, and do not want to do any more. I think that it is reasonable to ask oneself why this should be so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1585.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-20", "file": "debates1950-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "baa9cb958011420d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1666.1", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1950–51", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "ore in history has the Army had a squarer deal than it has had from the Labour Government during the past five years. Conditions and opportunities for advancement have been improved under this Government. To develop my point about reality, we seem today, on both sides of the House, to be talking in terms of 1910 and even 1810. The best recruiting officer that this nation ever had was unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-20", "file": "debates1950-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "baa9cb958011420d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1667.0", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1950–51", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman has already conceded my point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-20", "file": "debates1950-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "baa9cb958011420d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1668.1", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1950–51", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "It is quite true that during the period of power of the Opposition there was mass unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-20", "file": "debates1950-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "baa9cb958011420d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1950–51", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. R. W. Low", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. R. W. Low", "preceding_text": "nt next year on the Army, there are very few teeth showing—very few balanced formations. I think one hon. Member opposite said he thought there was no more than one division. I know the Government are so coy about these things that they would never deny a thing like that for fear of committing a breach of security, but I think we on this side of the House know that there is more than one division—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-20a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-21", "file": "debates1950-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1d50d826a642881d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1727.1", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "MOTION FOR NEW WRIT (OBJECTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I believe I may only speak again with the leave of the House, but if I have that leave—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-21", "file": "debates1950-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1d50d826a642881d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1729.0", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "MOTION FOR NEW WRIT (OBJECTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether I may again intervene with the leave of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1729.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-21", "file": "debates1950-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1d50d826a642881d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1730.0", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "MOTION FOR NEW WRIT (OBJECTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Would not the Prime Minister consider bringing the House together on this technical point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1730.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-21", "file": "debates1950-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1d50d826a642881d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1730.4", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "MOTION FOR NEW WRIT (OBJECTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "What is the unusual and extraordinary hurry? Why 21 days and not 28 days? Surely it would be more natural to bring the whole House together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1730.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-21", "file": "debates1950-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1d50d826a642881d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1741.3", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Government dare not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "The noble Lord talks about the programme for the next two years. We have not stated a programme for the next two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1741.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-21", "file": "debates1950-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1d50d826a642881d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1754.2", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman cannot expect me to agree with his last statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1754.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-21", "file": "debates1950-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1d50d826a642881d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1755.0", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. My hon. and learned Friend will be aware that, with him, I have a constituency interest in this problem so that perhaps there will be personal attention to it as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-21", "file": "debates1950-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1d50d826a642881d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1792.0", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1950–51", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that in dealing with technical matters and new aircraft it is difficult for any Minister to give an exact month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-21", "file": "debates1950-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1d50d826a642881d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1890.1", "colnum": "1890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1950–51", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "ster of Defence and the Secretary of State—an estimate of what one of these bombers costs. I will read a quotation from an article by a gentleman who, I believe, will be regarded as an authority on the cost of bombers. It was published in the \"Observer\" of 29th March, 1949, on the most prominent page, and I should say that the \"Observer\" examines very carefully the authority of its correspondents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-21", "file": "debates1950-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1d50d826a642881d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1890.1", "colnum": "1890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1950–51", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Try.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "ether that figure is correct, because he happens to be the writer of the article. After a rather tortuous method of research in the Library, we have it now, on reliable authority, that a jet bomber costs £250,000. The hon. Member for Preston, South (Mr. Shackle- ton) expressed some concern earlier in the Debate lest, when I came to speak, I would refer to Scottish housing. I know I cannot do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-21", "file": "debates1950-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1d50d826a642881d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1894.3", "colnum": "1894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1950–51", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "I know I am not very good at military arguments, Mr. Speaker, but the line between foreign affairs and military strategy is one of those rather obscure lines which an amateur strategist like me sometimes fails to discern clearly. The Ambassador, referring to the planes and not to foreign policy, said that these machines were evidence that we are fireproofing all the houses in our street.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1894.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-21", "file": "debates1950-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "1d50d826a642881d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1912.3", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1950–51", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawley", "preceding_text": "This document I can only describe as irresponsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-21a.1912.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-22", "file": "debates1950-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "bba2c2f8afd5b9f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-22a.1946.2", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawley", "preceding_text": "I am sure that we all sympathise with the hon. Lady in wanting to get every possible vote, but this is a case where security must be considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-22a.1946.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-22", "file": "debates1950-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "bba2c2f8afd5b9f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-22a.2018.1", "colnum": "2018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1950–51; NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1949–50", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": " vessels in peace-time, and one capable of expansion, should war occur, to ensure the safety of the realm. But before developing this important naval theme, I wish to deal with certain points raised on the subject of shipbuilding and repairing by the hon. Lady the Member for Tynemouth in her speech a fortnight ago, during the Debate on the Address, HANSARD, 8th March, 1950, Volume 472. column 412.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-22a.2018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-22", "file": "debates1950-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "bba2c2f8afd5b9f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-22a.2095.1", "colnum": "2095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1950–51; NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1949–50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has been placed in reserve.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "more give me the vote and confidence that they gave me at the last Election. I have been wondering why in the front line—although I do not know whether that is the proper naval phrase—we have tonight missed the battleship. I have been wondering all day where the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition has been, and why he has not been taking his usual very keen interest in naval Debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-22a.2095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-22", "file": "debates1950-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "bba2c2f8afd5b9f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-22a.2101.1", "colnum": "2101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1950–51; NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1949–50", "cue_speaker": "Commander Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Noble", "preceding_text": " I only point out at this stage that we should be quite certain that we get into production in plenty of time because we on this side of the House repeatedly have warned against a \"No war for a number of years\" policy; when the time comes for us to need the ships, time is seldom on our side. The ex-Minister of Defence. Lord Alexander, made a very important statement in a Debate on 1st March, 1948—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-22a.2101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-22", "file": "debates1950-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "bba2c2f8afd5b9f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-22a.2128.1", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1950–51; NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1949–50", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": " the figures I am going to give are not figures which the hon. Gentleman wants to hear mentioned in this House. It is a fact that in 1938 there were 22,000 people unemployed in Sheffield, and that this year the number was 1,850. Those people who are employed today are for the first time able to make a claim for new housing. The tragedy of the past, when the hon. Gentleman's friends were in office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-22a.2128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-23", "file": "debates1950-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0701be83f47df814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2132.4", "colnum": "2132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "While thanking the right hon. Gentleman for that reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2132.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-23", "file": "debates1950-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0701be83f47df814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2144.8", "colnum": "2144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hill", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Minister, in view of the fact that he has so much power and that the Health Service is within his control, whether he will urge the Whitley Council to get down to this question of the new salary scales? It is a fact that some of the Departments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2144.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-23", "file": "debates1950-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0701be83f47df814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2144.8", "colnum": "2144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hill", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Minister, in view of the fact that he has so much power and that the Health Service is within his control, whether he will urge the Whitley Council to get down to this question of the new salary scales? It is a fact that some of the Departments—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—I want the Minister to know that the Departments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2144.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-23", "file": "debates1950-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0701be83f47df814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2155.2", "colnum": "2155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron-Leader A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that many local authorities in this country feel that the manpower and raw materials used in the Festival of Britain would be much better used in building houses for the people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-23", "file": "debates1950-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0701be83f47df814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2172.2", "colnum": "2172", "heading": "MEMBER FOR WEST BELFAST (ELIGIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " was asking about. Has the Lord President not been considering this in the number of days on which it has been discussed? Is he taken by surprise when, having been asked a Question and answered that he will set up a Select Committee, he is asked the terms of reference of the Select Committee? One would have thought that those two processes would have been gone through in his mind at the same time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2172.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-23", "file": "debates1950-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0701be83f47df814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2182.3", "colnum": "2182", "heading": "NEW WRIT (ATTORNEY -GENERAL'S STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Thirty-nine days.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "May we assume that the learned Attorney-General will take special care to avoid repetition of errors so serious that they can confuse nine days with 49 days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-23", "file": "debates1950-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0701be83f47df814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2188.1", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "BURMA (SHORT-TERM LOAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "e people of that country that it is not subservient to or dependent upon England and America but is a truly independent Government. Therefore, if we are to make suggestions here that no Government loan should be given to Burma, unless the Burma Government are prepared to accept conditions for which they throw away any advance towards Socialism which they may have chosen for themselves, it is only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-23", "file": "debates1950-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0701be83f47df814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2195.1", "colnum": "2195", "heading": "BURMA (SHORT-TERM LOAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I will withdraw immediately if I have done any injustice to any hon. Member who has spoken or if I have made the slightest inaccurate reference to what has been said. I listened very carefully to the hon. Member for Altrincham and Sale and I thought he was basing the first part of his objection to the loan on the fact that it was helping State trading, to which, he said, he strongly objected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-23", "file": "debates1950-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0701be83f47df814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2200.1", "colnum": "2200", "heading": "BURMA (SHORT-TERM LOAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "ing wrong in the Opposition wanting to know the facts about conditions in Burma and the conditions under which this loan is to be made, but I am certain that my hon. Friend the Member for Aston (Mr. Wyatt) was right when he said that the way in which the Amendment will be interpreted in parts of South-East Asia will be to make them think that the Opposition are more or less playing party politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-23", "file": "debates1950-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0701be83f47df814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2200.3", "colnum": "2200", "heading": "BURMA (SHORT-TERM LOAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "lable for her commitments this year. It is not only rice that is suffering like this. Hon. Gentlemen opposite know full well that timber is at a standstill and cotton and the production of peanuts and even oil, about which I see they have another Amendment on the Order Paper. The hon. Member for Hornsey (Mr. Gammans) spoke of trade with Japan but this type of Amendment would drive trade to Japan.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-23", "file": "debates1950-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0701be83f47df814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2283.1", "colnum": "2283", "heading": "IMPORTED MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Mr. Maurice Webb)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Mr. Maurice Webb)", "preceding_text": "e and let me have my Estimate. The hon. Member put his views in a moderate way and I have no complaint to make, except that I regret what he said about my predecessor. I want to make it quite clear to the Committee and to the public that if ever I am able in the next few months to relieve the burden of people in this country, it will be largely because of the excellent work done by my predecessor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-23", "file": "debates1950-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0701be83f47df814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2284.1", "colnum": "2284", "heading": "IMPORTED MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "it has become necessary. The hon. Member for Angus, North and Mearns called attention to our negotiations with the Argentine. He called it a \"storage fetish.\" I was really surprised to hear him say things like that. I should have thought he would have wanted to support us in the efforts we are going to try to make to show the Argentine Government that we are not going to be blackmailed any longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-23", "file": "debates1950-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0701be83f47df814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2284.1", "colnum": "2284", "heading": "IMPORTED MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Try to sell them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": ", the House must enable the Ministry of Food to have behind it adequate reserve stocks at all points so that if anything goes wrong with supplies the Ministry of Food are there with stocks to enable them to honour the rations. I was as much worried about rabbits as the hon. Member. There they are; I wish they were not there. As a matter of fact, I think the hon. Member exaggerated their condition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-23", "file": "debates1950-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0701be83f47df814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2289.1", "colnum": "2289", "heading": "IMPORTED MEAT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I did not deal with that very important point which the hon. Gentleman raised. There are difficulties about this matter, as hon. Members opposite will recognise. Obviously the negotiators in the Argentine would give a lot at this moment to know exactly what our meat stocks are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-23", "file": "debates1950-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0701be83f47df814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2298.3", "colnum": "2298", "heading": "POLES, LUDFORD (FOOD REGISTRATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ry traders, were denied. If I can establish that, I am sure that I shall have even some hon. Members opposite with me. In January of this year, the Poles were given a series of lectures on British citizenship by a Mr. Gulc, an English-speaking Pole. I am told that from the beginning of January to the end of February his lectures were largely on the advantages of joining the Co-operative movement.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-23", "file": "debates1950-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0701be83f47df814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2298.3", "colnum": "2298", "heading": "POLES, LUDFORD (FOOD REGISTRATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "strange coincidence—and this is my point—on the day, at the very hour, they were issued there were three representatives of the Lincoln Co-op. Society in the hut where they were issued. My constituents who have shops only a stone's throw away were not told anything about it. I have been told by certain people on the spot that it showed an intelligent anticipation on the part of the CO-op. Society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-23", "file": "debates1950-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0701be83f47df814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2298.3", "colnum": "2298", "heading": "POLES, LUDFORD (FOOD REGISTRATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "for the past four and a half years the Lincoln Co-op. have done nothing for their Co-operative brethren—not one thing: they left it to the private traders, the little people in the village shops, to look after them. But as soon as ever a real plum comes along, one arm of the Socialist Party helps the other arm of the Socialist Party under the big umbrella of the State in order to get an advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-23", "file": "debates1950-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0701be83f47df814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2298.3", "colnum": "2298", "heading": "POLES, LUDFORD (FOOD REGISTRATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "a real plum comes along, one arm of the Socialist Party helps the other arm of the Socialist Party under the big umbrella of the State in order to get an advantage. [ Laughter .] Hon. Members opposite may think that is funny, but I think it is a dastardly thing to do. I went up to my constituency, saw the people concerned, and this is what I was told. Mrs. Jones, who keeps the post office told me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-23", "file": "debates1950-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0701be83f47df814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2301.2", "colnum": "2301", "heading": "POLES, LUDFORD (FOOD REGISTRATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They will not be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "d, but I do not think so. In two years' time these Poles are going to be entitled to full British citizenship, which means they are going to have a vote. That is quite right and proper, because they are doing a good job on the farms and in the canning factories. Will the same principle apply to them politically as is being applied commercially here? Will this Government if they are still in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2301.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-23", "file": "debates1950-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "0701be83f47df814", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2307.3", "colnum": "2307", "heading": "POLES, LUDFORD (FOOD REGISTRATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Co-op.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "htly described, keeps the little post office-grocery-general shop, where, obviously, her trade is very limited. Hon. Members can envisage Mrs. Jones's little shop. Mrs. Jones came to the hostel with the other traders. The hon. Gentleman alleges that none of them were known. Mrs. Jones alleges that the education officer had been bringing pressure upon the Poles to register with the private traders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-23a.2307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-24", "file": "debates1950-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f76eb1073476d3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-24a.2323.1", "colnum": "2323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "t 100 yards away on the village green. It is sometimes stated that in a residential area such as Sale, telephones are largely a social convenience and amenity and not a necessity, but today it is more than ever an urgent necessity to have a telephone in one's own house. That is particularly true in a moderately well-to-do area. Those are the areas which are most liable to armed attack and robbery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-24a.2323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-24", "file": "debates1950-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f76eb1073476d3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-24a.2327.0", "colnum": "2327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": " try to get better value for the money we shall spend as a result of the Bill. I urge the right hon. Gentleman to look at the type of equipment which will be purchased. Let us see that it is really up-to-date and not shocking old stuff. The hand microphone was a good design when it was introduced, I think under a Conservative 'Government. 15 or 20 years ago, but there has been progress since then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-24a.2327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-24", "file": "debates1950-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f76eb1073476d3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-24a.2332.1", "colnum": "2332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": " extraordinarily high that something must be done along these or other lines, otherwise it will be years before a reasonable provision of telephones is made to meet the existing enormous demand. I am told that 7,000 farmers are awaiting the installation of telephones. I cannot help thinking that that number must be very much greater. I should have thought there were 7,000 in my constituency alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-24a.2332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-24", "file": "debates1950-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f76eb1073476d3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-24a.2367.1", "colnum": "2367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1. —(AMENDMENTS OF 7 & 8 GEO. 6. C. 44.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Sir Charles. I did not mean to go so wide but I was dealing with the point of who are affected and, particularly, delegates to Strasbourg. However, I was wandering, and I apologise because I never like breaking the Rules.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-24a.2367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-24", "file": "debates1950-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f76eb1073476d3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-24a.2376.0", "colnum": "2376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1. —(AMENDMENTS OF 7 & 8 GEO. 6. C. 44.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "nk I am correct in saying that the General Affairs Committee of the Consultative Assembly meets next week at Strasbourg. I take it that my hon. and learned Friend is perfectly right in suggesting that without any further Amendment any member of that Committee would be covered under the agreement contained in Cmd. 7780 because he is a member of the Assembly, although the Assembly is not in session?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-24a.2376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-24", "file": "debates1950-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f76eb1073476d3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-24a.2393.0", "colnum": "2393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1. —(AMENDMENTS OF 7 & 8 GEO. 6. C. 44.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "preceding_text": ". These speeches have served to cloak the fact that there is a large measure of agreement on this matter between both sides of the Committee. Until those speeches, this discussion was proceeding in a reasonable tone on the important matter at issue. It is true that there may be an apparent inconsistency between what was said on the last occasion and what has been said on the Government side today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-24a.2393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-24", "file": "debates1950-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f76eb1073476d3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-24a.2393.0", "colnum": "2393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1. —(AMENDMENTS OF 7 & 8 GEO. 6. C. 44.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "preceding_text": "should be covered by the Bill itself. Therefore, the intention, the purpose of what the Opposition want is, in fact, agreed to by both sides. The Government, however, have expressed their intentions in a form of words which the Opposition believe to be ambiguous and dangerously vague in meaning. I am not going to argue about the merits of that case, but I would make a suggestion to my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-24a.2393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-24", "file": "debates1950-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f76eb1073476d3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-24a.2394.1", "colnum": "2394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1. —(AMENDMENTS OF 7 & 8 GEO. 6. C. 44.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "I should like to reinforce the appeal which has been made by the hon. Gentleman the Member for Norwich, North (Mr. Paton).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-24a.2394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-24", "file": "debates1950-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f76eb1073476d3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-24a.2397.5", "colnum": "2397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1. —(AMENDMENTS OF 7 & 8 GEO. 6. C. 44.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "On a point of speech, Sir Charles. It is quite monstrous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-24a.2397.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-24", "file": "debates1950-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f76eb1073476d3bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-24a.2408.1", "colnum": "2408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1. —(AMENDMENTS OF 7 & 8 GEO. 6. C. 44.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "Yes, I think I was, Sir Charles. I will refrain from that because that might justifiably lay me open to the charge of filibustering which is the last thing in the world I want to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-24a.2408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-27", "file": "debates1950-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "23b7ad75d78245ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-27a.10.0", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "may I point out to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-27a.10.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-03-27", "file": "debates1950-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "23b7ad75d78245ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-27a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must not make imputations against the patriotism of other right hon. or hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-27a.31.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-27", "file": "debates1950-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "23b7ad75d78245ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-27a.83.3", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1950–51—REPORT [20th March]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": " moved forward one year each year. It seems to me that we are doing something like that on a rather hand to mouth basis. It may be some exaggeration to say that the information which we receive each year from the Estimates can be summarised by saying this: we have not got an Army that can fight this year and we shall not have an Army that can fight next year, and that progresses from year to year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-27a.83.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-27", "file": "debates1950-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "23b7ad75d78245ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-27a.148.3", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (GANG LABOUR AND MACHINERY)", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir Thomas Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir Thomas Dugdale", "preceding_text": "The House owes a great debt of gratitude to my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Northants, South (Mr. Manningham-Buller) and my hon. Friend the Member for Thirsk and Malton (Mr. Turton)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-27a.148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-28", "file": "debates1950-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "6e4fca86b9be29c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.189.5", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I notice, Mr. Speaker, that you looked to the other side of the House, and I certainly fully comprehend the motives which led you to look in that direction. I am sorry that the Foreign Secretary was not willing to open this Debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.189.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-28", "file": "debates1950-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "6e4fca86b9be29c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.189.7", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Then we were weak; now we are equals—almost. But our intention is to give the same help to His Majesty's Government in foreign affairs as we did in the years when we were helplessly outnumbered. In fact, it will be stronger help numerically. The Foreign Secretary need not, therefore—I trust that he is not in any way indisposed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.189.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-28", "file": "debates1950-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "6e4fca86b9be29c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.275.3", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " united. Arm her, and we make the unity of Europe impossible; the ultimate dream we always had of the Slavs coming back and the Russians withdrawing also becomes impossible, and we make war very much more likely than it is. For that reason I believe that whoever believes in European unity must stand up and say \"No\" to the idea that five German divisions are worth the withdrawal of American troops—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.275.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-28", "file": "debates1950-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "6e4fca86b9be29c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.321.3", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I will not enter into an argument now, but if a Minister happens to be a member of that body that does not commit the Government.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-28", "file": "debates1950-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "6e4fca86b9be29c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "fraid that the bringing of France and Germany together would be set back for a very long time. Then we are to use this force when we have armed it, to defend ourselves against Russia. Well, there are such things as preventive wars. The Continent is in a very derelict state and as I understood the position of the Fulton speech, it was a preventive war which the right hon. Gentleman had in his mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-28", "file": "debates1950-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "6e4fca86b9be29c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "long time. Then we are to use this force when we have armed it, to defend ourselves against Russia. Well, there are such things as preventive wars. The Continent is in a very derelict state and as I understood the position of the Fulton speech, it was a preventive war which the right hon. Gentleman had in his mind. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Preventive action, shall I say, before the war was developed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-28", "file": "debates1950-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "6e4fca86b9be29c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRIBAL CHIEF, BECHUANALAND (RECOGNITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "I believe that the marriage of Seretse Khama and this young London typist was in itself an unfortunate thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-28", "file": "debates1950-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "6e4fca86b9be29c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRIBAL CHIEF, BECHUANALAND (RECOGNITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "ch other congenial characteristics; it may be a case of complete love. I do not doubt that at all. Therefore, we may say that, with human rights as they are, this man and this woman had a right to seek each other out and marry, but from a broad standpoint, it is politically unfortunate that it should have happened. There is an instinctive belief in all of us that the East and the West do not meet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-28", "file": "debates1950-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "6e4fca86b9be29c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.344.5", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRIBAL CHIEF, BECHUANALAND (RECOGNITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "esia have racial discrimination. I am not saying for one moment that they are right. They may well be wrong in their conclusions. But the way the inquiry was conducted, the whole line of conduct in this matter, certainly gives strong reasons for these conclusions. That is what I regard as one of the most unfortunate matters in this problem. Before I deal with statements advanced by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.344.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-28", "file": "debates1950-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "6e4fca86b9be29c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PURCHASE TAX (GREETING CARDS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "cretary has told us that there is to be an Order which is satisfactory in character and is to reduce the rate of Purchase Tax to which we took exception. When my right hon. Friend was speaking, the Financial Secretary shook his head, and therefore I think he was not as candid with the House as he ought to have been. He led us to believe he was going to do things. That is what he led me to believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-28", "file": "debates1950-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "6e4fca86b9be29c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PURCHASE TAX (GREETING CARDS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "ook exception. When my right hon. Friend was speaking, the Financial Secretary shook his head, and therefore I think he was not as candid with the House as he ought to have been. He led us to believe he was going to do things. That is what he led me to believe. [ Interruption. ] Then I am very sorry he is so incompetent in explaining what is in his mind. He said he had negotiations with the trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-28", "file": "debates1950-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "6e4fca86b9be29c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.367.3", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PURCHASE TAX (GREETING CARDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "overnment supported by the Conservatives and Liberals and not by the Labour Party. I should like to answer the questions asked by the hon. Member for Blackburn, West (Mr. Assheton). He asked me when the amending Order would be introduced. We hope within the next 10 days, if possible. He asked me to assure him that it would not contain the 100 per cent. rate. I certainly cannot give that assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-28a.367.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-29", "file": "debates1950-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "945d8576c1112010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.393.0", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CORFU CHANNEL INCIDENT (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "No, I did not say that. A very large sum was awarded by the Court, as the hon. and learned Member probably knows. We are concerned with practical means of getting a settlement of this very large sum, which, I think, no one could expect to be paid immediately in one lump sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-29", "file": "debates1950-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "945d8576c1112010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I only discovered this overall figure myself in the course of inquiries for the purpose of replying to these Questions. I must confess that I am very much disturbed about the rate, but it is true to say that many of these desertions are not desertions in the ordinary sense but rather in the nature of absences without leave—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-29", "file": "debates1950-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "945d8576c1112010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.407.5", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "saying that I have got the evidence for that, or evidence of actual victimisation by the National Coal Board. I am saying that there is widespread fear, which makes the task of bringing concrete cases before the House extremely difficult. We have had numbers of cases brought to our notice, and, in practically every single one, there is a paragraph which says \"We hope you will not quote our names.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.407.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-29", "file": "debates1950-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "945d8576c1112010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.407.5", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of course, it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "sonally investigated of poor quality coal show that 20 per cent. of the supplies as an average are bass or stone. These are two cases for which we can definitely vouch, because we have the details, and I should like to know what answer the Minister is going to give. I hope that we shall not be given the old excuse about pre-war failure or the shortage of adequate washeries, because it is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.407.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-29", "file": "debates1950-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "945d8576c1112010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "t figures well below what we promised the Americans and the housewife is fobbed off with so-called coal in quantity well below pre-war, in quality definitely inferior and at prices multiplied several times. Judging by the information in the Economic Survey the returns in 1950 will be but little better and it looks as though the housewife is once again going to find herself at the end of the queue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-29", "file": "debates1950-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "945d8576c1112010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.431.3", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "er man-shift, output per man-year, and costs—what the right hon. Gentleman might perhaps call the business results of nationalisation. He does not like us to talk about output per man-shift; he prefers output per man-year. Well, in fact, output per man-shift has always been regarded as the test of business efficiency in the mines, of good management and of the real effort which industry is making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.431.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-29", "file": "debates1950-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "945d8576c1112010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "ago by an official of the Liverpool Corporation Public Baths Department in regard to the use and quality of coal used now for the baths as compared with pre-war. I would commend these figures to the House because I did not know at first what they were. I was startled by them. I received them from the manager of the public baths in Liverpool, and he is no politician and there are no politics in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-29", "file": "debates1950-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "945d8576c1112010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hubbard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hubbard", "preceding_text": "rs of agriculture. He strikes me as being very well informed on that subject, but now that he has left the subject of beef not without bone, to deal with coal not without stone, I do not think he is so well-informed, and I was not so much impressed. It seems to me that the whole tenor of the speeches of right hon. and hon. Members opposite today has been to blame all our difficulties on the miner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-29", "file": "debates1950-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "945d8576c1112010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "It was not an allegation made by me. It was a quotation of an allegation made by the Coal Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-29", "file": "debates1950-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "945d8576c1112010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. H. Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are trying to change that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. H. Lever", "preceding_text": "iven a little consideration. It works tolerably well on the Continent of Europe. If we feel any sense of outrage that a rich man should be able to motor a longer distance and in a more comfortable car as a result, we might at least take into consideration that we accept a system of life where rich men have many advantages over their fellows. They can do many things besides motor greater distances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-29", "file": "debates1950-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "945d8576c1112010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "at the right hon. Gentleman is the \"nigger in the wood pile\" in connection with the irresponsible statements about setting the motorists free made by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford in an endeavour to sway all the motorists, to the side of the Tories. They failed because a good many motorists are good patriots as well as motorists. If I may return to this question of substitution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-29", "file": "debates1950-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "945d8576c1112010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.524.3", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for King's Norton spoke about refinery delays; that was an interesting view coming from him. It is only while there has been a Labour Government in power that we have ever built any refineries in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.524.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-29", "file": "debates1950-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "945d8576c1112010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.524.3", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "shed in 1951. Shell Haven was started in 1948, and it will be finished in 1951. Llandarcy was started in 1948 and will be completed in the autumn of 1953. Grangemouth was started in January, 1949, and will be completed in mid-1953. There will be a total of refinery capacity of 14.7 million tons in these refineries which I have just enumerated. I do not propose to say much about Haifa, except that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.524.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-29", "file": "debates1950-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "945d8576c1112010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.524.3", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": ". ] I do not know that that is very funny; I see nothing funny about it. The countries concerned are both sovereign countries, and they have the right to please themselves in these matters. His Majesty's Government would like Haifa re-opened, and representations have been made from time to time, as the Foreign Secretary has said in this House. Beyond that, there is nothing more to say about Haifa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-29a.524.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-30", "file": "debates1950-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "4848e2962fd71787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.534.6", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that such apprehensions as there are are based on the still lively recollection in Lancashire of heavy unemployment, heavy part-time employment and starvation wages and that the best guarantee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.534.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-30", "file": "debates1950-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "4848e2962fd71787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.534.6", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that such apprehensions as there are are based on the still lively recollection in Lancashire of heavy unemployment, heavy part-time employment and starvation wages and that the best guarantee—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—that the best guarantee to the Lancashire labour for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.534.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-30", "file": "debates1950-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "4848e2962fd71787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.534.6", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "Friend bear in mind that such apprehensions as there are are based on the still lively recollection in Lancashire of heavy unemployment, heavy part-time employment and starvation wages and that the best guarantee—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—that the best guarantee to the Lancashire labour for—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] On a point of Order. I would like to ask a supplementary question, Mr. Speaker. Is", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.534.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-30", "file": "debates1950-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "4848e2962fd71787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-30", "file": "debates1950-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "4848e2962fd71787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to hear an hon. Member of an Opposition ask me to control prices of goods which are available in a free market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-30", "file": "debates1950-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "4848e2962fd71787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FILM QUOTAS (AMENDMENT ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Six times.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "preceding_text": " be far better if the right hon. Gentleman, with his political background, scrapped the quota altogether and took the advice of the noble Lord the Member for Horsham who said in effect that the film industry is international. We cannot build a film industry as a national racket behind tariff walls and quota restrictions. The United States has a cinema-going population three times as large as ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-30", "file": "debates1950-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "4848e2962fd71787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FILM QUOTAS (AMENDMENT ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I can reply only by leave of the House, but if I have that leave I should like to deal with one or two of the points which have been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-30", "file": "debates1950-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "4848e2962fd71787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STANDING ORDERS (PRIVATE BUSINESS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hargreaves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hargreaves", "preceding_text": " power is given to them to cover their expenditure such as borrowing money in order to purchase land, putting out tenders for sewering that land, or asking for tenders for buildings that may be erected on that land, at every stage they must refer to the central authority. First they must ask for the powers to borrow, for authority to seek tenders and so on, and yet it is suggested that this power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-30", "file": "debates1950-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "4848e2962fd71787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STANDING ORDERS (PRIVATE BUSINESS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": " this House, effective control over the financial machinery. If we look at other countries where control is lax, we shall see that all sorts of things happen which could not possibly happen here. I again ask the Minister who is in charge of this matter whether he will not again think over the matter. There is no particular hurry. A lot of the Bills have been blocked for entirely different reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-30", "file": "debates1950-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "4848e2962fd71787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STANDING ORDERS (PRIVATE BUSINESS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "we are not to have the power to control the raising of the money because we cannot control the spending of it; but the responsibility will be thrown upon us. If a Motion before this House is not raising any charge, the point about control does not arise. It only arises if the charge is being raised. That is where the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West, missed the point—a very rare occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-30", "file": "debates1950-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "4848e2962fd71787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STANDING ORDERS (PRIVATE BUSINESS)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Gurney Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Gurney Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "nt has been brought out of the cold storage in which it was placed for the past four and a half years. If hon. Gentlemen did not realise it before, they should realise it after the happenings of last night. They can no longer ride roughshod over democratic government and try to stop parliamentary institutions from working. That day is over. So, without going into the merits of this Standing Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-30", "file": "debates1950-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "4848e2962fd71787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICE (SUPERANNUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Advertising,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "The more I am interrupted, the more I am certain I am correct. As a matter of fact, in the course of my medical duties I attend to more cases of superannuation than any other professional Member in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-30", "file": "debates1950-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "4848e2962fd71787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICE (SUPERANNUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "I want to make a very short speech, because I want to get home. I know this thing upside down. I am on the executive of a trade union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-30", "file": "debates1950-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "4848e2962fd71787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.711.2", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING, BIRMINGHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "asonable discussion. They included the question of the introduction of laboursaving methods; the discussion of absenteeism—which, for example, might be caused by inadequate transport facilities—and the setting up of a house-building department for the city, to try and prevent the drain of labour. The trade union representatives and the trades council have so far received no reply to their request—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-30a.711.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-31", "file": "debates1950-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "eecc3603bffcfec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-31a.727.2", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH (MONEY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "Quite so; I apologise. Of course, the expenditure I am referring to is included in the £75 million, and therefore I submit that I am in order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-31a.727.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-31", "file": "debates1950-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "eecc3603bffcfec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-31a.755.5", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT, HONG KONG (DISPOSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No, they are leaving the island now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "The spares are quite clearly sub judice, as we have just heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-31a.755.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-31", "file": "debates1950-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "eecc3603bffcfec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-31a.757.11", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT, HONG KONG (DISPOSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is very significant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "I must express my great astonishment at the efforts being made by every conceivable means by hon. Gentlemen opposite—although they are perfectly within their rights in using them—to stop this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-31a.757.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-31", "file": "debates1950-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "eecc3603bffcfec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-31a.764.2", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT, HONG KONG (DISPOSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "preceding_text": "entral issue. We have to make up our minds whether, in this enormously difficult matter of putting a measure to the advance of Communism in the Far East and elsewhere, it is a wise and statesmanlike thing to meet it everywhere with an opposition that can only be a vain opposition, or whether we should try, as we are trying to do in China, to establish normal friendly relations which will at least—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-31a.764.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-03-31", "file": "debates1950-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "eecc3603bffcfec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-31a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENERAL ELECTION ARRANGEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Usborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Usborne", "preceding_text": "I hope the House will forgive me if I raise a subject which is quite different from that which was before the House up to a moment ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-03-31a.804.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-04-03", "file": "debates1950-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "19c9978a8d3befa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.839.0", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Bring the price down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bossom", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that a good many Kentish growers of apples last year did not sell all they grew? Is it not very unfortunate that we should be importing apples when we have very good apples of our own which we are not able to sell?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.838.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-03", "file": "debates1950-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "19c9978a8d3befa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.848.4", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "I can give the assurance that this decision was not taken for the purpose of driving traffic to any other form of transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.848.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-03", "file": "debates1950-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "19c9978a8d3befa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.849.2", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "I was under the impression that in a recent Debate the hon. Member himself was urging the importance of the effects of such a decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.849.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-04-03", "file": "debates1950-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "19c9978a8d3befa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.849.6", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman explain how the inter-Departmental inquiry discussing transport rates in Scotland can discuss the subject intelligently when they do not know on what to base their costs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.849.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-04-03", "file": "debates1950-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "19c9978a8d3befa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.856.2", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH SUGAR SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "To whom?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I apologise most profusely. Sir. My information was that that permission had been applied for and conceded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-03", "file": "debates1950-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "19c9978a8d3befa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "PRIVATE MEMBERS' TIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rights.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "preceding_text": " statement from the member who moves and from the member who opposes any such motion respectively, shall put either the question thereon, or the question, that the debate be now adjourned. The object of the Amendment is, as my right hon. Friend said, to reinstate a privilege which Private Members had in days before the war. It is not by any means a new move on our part to get these old privileges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-03", "file": "debates1950-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "19c9978a8d3befa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "PRIVATE MEMBERS' TIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "nt made in that respect by the right hon. Member for Bristol, West (Mr. Stanley), because so far as I can see, it will make no difference whether we have that right this Session or next Session. In either event, if the Private Member puts down a Bill it will be considered and it might be taken up in the next Session or by the next Government or by the Government after that. In any event the right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-03", "file": "debates1950-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "19c9978a8d3befa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.932.4", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "reful that when he was not here his supporters would know which is North Battersea and which is South Battersea. The object of Clause 35 is to make it quite clear what is North Battersea and what is South Battersea. Again that suggests the Festival of Britain, but I hope not. I come on to a rather meaty Clause, 36, which is designed to authorise all the London Boroughs to run commercial laundries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.932.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-03", "file": "debates1950-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "19c9978a8d3befa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.932.4", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "t the purpose of the Clause. They need to use the rates of London. I am a ratepayer and I think I pay rather too much in rates. Hon. Gentlemen opposite want to run municipal laundries which will engage in competition with private individuals. Suppose they suffer losses? Borough councils nearly always suffer losses. Nearly every municipal undertaking is a flop, even when it has a complete monopoly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.932.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-03", "file": "debates1950-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "19c9978a8d3befa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They had to do it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": " the House of Commons having no right in this matter. In view of the arrangement reached between the sponsors of the Bill and the petitioners, this question has been removed from the ambit of this House, and therefore we cannot now determine whether this is a good bill or a bad Bill. That is bad practice. It is a shocking business. I am sorry that the London County Council have acquiesced in this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-03", "file": "debates1950-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "19c9978a8d3befa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.957.3", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTAURANT CARS (NON-SMOKERS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Barnett Stross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or our fellow-travellers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Barnett Stross", "preceding_text": "palatable or unseasoned. I am glad to hear that my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South (Mr. Ellis Smith) agrees with me. The other feature is that the amount of free hydrochloric acid in those who have a tendency to disorder—those who are dyspeptic and have a feeling of tension—is doubled in those who smoke after a meal. It is a delusion that we smoke in order to annoy our fellow men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.957.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-03", "file": "debates1950-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "19c9978a8d3befa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.963.1", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTAURANT CARS (NON-SMOKERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "hen as the train stops on the journey and they get out we can look at them and try to guess which is it of the things normal people enjoy that they do not do. I think that the public generally are always very tolerant when there is a non-smoker in a compartment and are prepared to desist from smoking or go out into the corridor. After all, we are catering for a very small percentage of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-03", "file": "debates1950-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "19c9978a8d3befa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTAURANT CARS (NON-SMOKERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "It is unfortunate that there is no Member of the Independent Liberal Party present on this interesting occasion to give us the benefit of the Liberal philosophy. Owing to the fact that restaurant cars are already divided in that way, and owing to the fact that we on this side are aiming at a classless society, whatever may be the views of Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-03a.965.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-04-04", "file": "debates1950-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7d68ab1cb6b9c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1011.10", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "May I take it that His Majesty's Government will not allow this country once again to be flooded with finished Japanese textile products?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1011.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-04", "file": "debates1950-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7d68ab1cb6b9c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1014.2", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE (INCREASED RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": "May I ask two questions? First, whether the increase fully covers the increased cost of living and the reduction in the value of money since the rates were first fixed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1014.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-04-04", "file": "debates1950-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7d68ab1cb6b9c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1016.3", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE (INCREASED RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "In view of the misleading questions which have been asked, suggesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1016.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-04", "file": "debates1950-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7d68ab1cb6b9c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "STERLING AREA (GOLD AND DOLLAR RESERVES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Look behind you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "I am sure the whole House are glad to hear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-04", "file": "debates1950-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7d68ab1cb6b9c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "STERLING AREA (GOLD AND DOLLAR RESERVES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "I am sure the whole House are glad to hear—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Look behind you.\"] I am sure the whole House are glad to hear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-04", "file": "debates1950-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7d68ab1cb6b9c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "STERLING AREA (GOLD AND DOLLAR RESERVES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "We have listened with interest to a statement 10 minutes long containing a lot of factual information, some of it controversial. I well remember many occasions in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-04", "file": "debates1950-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7d68ab1cb6b9c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "STERLING AREA (GOLD AND DOLLAR RESERVES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "We have listened with interest to a statement 10 minutes long containing a lot of factual information, some of it controversial. I well remember many occasions in the past—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] I well remember many occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-04", "file": "debates1950-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7d68ab1cb6b9c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "STERLING AREA (GOLD AND DOLLAR RESERVES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "We have listened with interest to a statement 10 minutes long containing a lot of factual information, some of it controversial. I well remember many occasions in the past—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] I well remember many occasions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] The Speaker will look after me. I well remember many occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-04", "file": "debates1950-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7d68ab1cb6b9c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "STERLING AREA (GOLD AND DOLLAR RESERVES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "ions in the past—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] I well remember many occasions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] The Speaker will look after me. I well remember many occasions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech \"]—in the past when there are been protests against very long statements without the opportunity of subsequent Debate. It is absolutely wrong that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should read out a 10-minute speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-04", "file": "debates1950-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7d68ab1cb6b9c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "rld boom, are apt to be a little invidious when compared with efforts made in the same direction at the time of a world slump. That is a perfectly fair point. Most of the legislation dealing with these special areas was put on the Statute Book by Conservative Governments. I am sorry to have to mention this, but the President of the Board of Trade has given the Debate one of those Socialist twists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-04", "file": "debates1950-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7d68ab1cb6b9c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Cuthbert Headlam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Cuthbert Headlam", "preceding_text": "really be satisfied with industries that so often do not supply work for men. I have been personally associated with the bringing of new industries to the North-Eastern area for more years than I care to remember. I was one who strongly advocated the proposition in the period between the wars. There is no doubt about it that the origin of all that development came from the party to which I belong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-04", "file": "debates1950-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7d68ab1cb6b9c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I do not want to read the whole of the evidence of the meeting which the hon. Gentleman attended. If he has forgotten it, I shall be very pleased to let him have the typescript. They are known to many hon. Members on the other side of the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-04", "file": "debates1950-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7d68ab1cb6b9c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1135.3", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "cessity because of our financial procedure in dealing with claims. It happens that I am a director of an insurance company. Any hon. Members who are insured against anything will know that when they get their policy there are dozens of paragraphs printed in small type which none of us ever read, all designed to deal with the people who try, in some way or another, to defraud the insurance company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-04", "file": "debates1950-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7d68ab1cb6b9c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1135.3", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": " why they are all put in. Everybody knows that. It is obvious. A policy is started at the first stage, then somebody finds some fraudulent way of getting round it and, therefore, a new paragraph is put in next time it is printed. However, a board of directors have a free discretion and, accordingly, if they get an honest, straight-forward claim, they never take advantage of these numerous clauses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-04", "file": "debates1950-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "f7d68ab1cb6b9c31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1143.3", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "preceding_text": "ways a high proportion of cases where, when the person is faced with a demand to go before the regional medical officer, he immediately backs out and goes to work. In practice the fact is that we would have no check at all upon this matter. I would say to the Minister that we want a speed-up in administration. We want sick visiting made as efficient as it was under the old approved society system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-04a.1143.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-05", "file": "debates1950-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d1732eb307bd592f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1169.3", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CORFU CHANNEL INCIDENT (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "They have to discuss the payment which has been awarded by the Court. The Albanian Government have, quite wrongly in our view, denied the right of the Court to fix a particular sum, but have expressed willingness to enter discussions about the payment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-05", "file": "debates1950-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d1732eb307bd592f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1178.4", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATOMIC ENERGY (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "But does not my hon. Friend agree that the last document to which he referred—though I have no doubt that it was carefully and objectively prepared—nevertheless puts the different views and proposals from the point of view of one side, and that many people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1178.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-05", "file": "debates1950-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d1732eb307bd592f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1178.4", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATOMIC ENERGY (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech:\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "But does not my hon. Friend agree that the last document to which he referred—though I have no doubt that it was carefully and objectively prepared—nevertheless puts the different views and proposals from the point of view of one side, and that many people—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—would like to see in a readily accessible form the actual proposals and the actual arguments in favour of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1178.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-05", "file": "debates1950-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d1732eb307bd592f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1189.0", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES (QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "As regards transport, I think the hon. Gentleman is on a weak point. As far as the Transport Commission are concerned, they have dealt, by correspondence—in which, I think, hon. Members perhaps get more satisfaction sometimes than by Questions to Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-05", "file": "debates1950-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d1732eb307bd592f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1189.2", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES (QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "If I may say so, the hon. and learned Gentleman is not well fitted to draw a subtle distinction between \"nationalised\" and \"socialised.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1189.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-04-05", "file": "debates1950-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d1732eb307bd592f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1189.3", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES (QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "subtle distinction between \"nationalised\" and \"socialised.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] This is not an occasion to debate the matter, but I think the term \"socialised\" is a perfectly legitimate term, and I think it is right that great public monopolies—great public concerns—should be the subject of social answerability as distinct from private monopolies, which answer to the antisocial irresponsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1189.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-05", "file": "debates1950-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d1732eb307bd592f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1204.7", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JOINT CONSULTATION IN INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "t must be acknowledge that the total of the national economy which is represented by the socialised industries—perhaps hon. Members opposite would prefer to call them the nationalised industries, although we do not lose any votes in my constituency by talking about nationalization—is 20 per cent., which means that the other 80 per cent. of our national economy is in the hands of private employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1204.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-05", "file": "debates1950-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d1732eb307bd592f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1204.7", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JOINT CONSULTATION IN INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "s a Code of Conduct and submitted to Parliament for debate and adoption. We shall ensure that this Code is strictly applied in all undertakings under Government control. After due notice has been given, only those employers who observe the Code will obtain public contracts. Then, of course, our hon. Friends opposite who sit below the Gangway, the Members of the Liberal Party, issued \"No Easy Way.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1204.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-05", "file": "debates1950-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d1732eb307bd592f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1282.1", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JOINT CONSULTATION IN INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "Yes. I meant much more important things than canteen questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-05", "file": "debates1950-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d1732eb307bd592f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1298.1", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JOINT CONSULTATION IN INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the hon. Member for Sheffield, Park (Mr. Mulley) was making his maiden speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-05", "file": "debates1950-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d1732eb307bd592f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1304.5", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JOINT CONSULTATION IN INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " immense value, it seems to me, of this process is that it brings, as it is so difficult to bring in modern industry, management and men—at any rate, some of the men—face to face. It is terribly easy to hate and dislike people we do not know, people of whom one merely sees the signature at the bottom of a document. It is terribly difficult, Sir, really to hate people whom you are seeing regularly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-05a.1304.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-04-06", "file": "debates1950-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c3c85795ec35429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-06a.1345.0", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALIENS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "The reports are sent to the appropriate officers of my Department. All cases which involve any doubt come to me personally. I think that the strength of Communism in this country can rightly be judged by the votes polled by Communist candidates at the General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-06a.1344.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-06", "file": "debates1950-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c3c85795ec35429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-06a.1346.1", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VOTING (IMPERSONATION)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Medlicott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Medlicott", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister not aware that there is feeling that it cannot be just that an offence which must, in essence, be the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-06a.1346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-06", "file": "debates1950-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c3c85795ec35429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-06a.1411.2", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "B.S.A. AIRWAYS (REDUNDANCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "I think it was on the third day that this matter came up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-06a.1411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-06", "file": "debates1950-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c3c85795ec35429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-06a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "SCOTTISH FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "The price is double but with the same number of fishermen, double the quantity of fish has been landed, so that the income for fishermen is just about four times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-06a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-06", "file": "debates1950-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "8c3c85795ec35429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-06a.1452.4", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "POST-WAR CREDITS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Gurney Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Gurney Braithwaite", "preceding_text": " It is now a little more than a month since the General Election, and I ask the Financial Secretary: What is the result of the fresh examination? Has it, in fact, taken place? I think there is no doubt at all that thousands of votes were swayed by so important a declaration from so important a Minister, the effect of which, in common language, was: \"Put us back and your money will be forthcoming.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-06a.1452.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-18", "file": "debates1950-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ea8cd15ea2180ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-18a.51.3", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Not enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "We therefore propose to fix a total for the housing programme upon a more stabilised basis to which the rest of the capital investment programme will have to conform. For the three years 1950–52 therefore we have decided that the programme for Great Britain should be at the completion rate of 200,000 houses a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-18a.51.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-18", "file": "debates1950-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ea8cd15ea2180ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-18a.52.3", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT AND EARNINGS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! '2", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " measure of their share of increased production. I should like to emphasise in this respect the great difference there is between increases in wage levels whereby more is paid for the same service, and increases in earnings arising from more being paid for more produced. This latter form of increase in personal incomes we have always encouraged because it is the by-product of greater productivity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-18a.52.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-18", "file": "debates1950-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ea8cd15ea2180ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-18a.52.4", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT AND EARNINGS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Who says so? \"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "f unfilled vacancies which indicates a lower pressure of demand for labour. The figures of labour turnover show a very considerable mobility of labour, although it is, of course, held down to some extent by the shortage of housing. This does not support those who say that much less full employment is necessary in order to enable industry to adapt itself to the changing requirements of the markets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-18a.52.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-18", "file": "debates1950-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ea8cd15ea2180ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-18a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BASIS OF BUDGET POLICY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Clearly, since saving is the opposite of spending, to say that a Budget surplus is necessary to remedy a deficiency in saving is simply to re-state the earlier proposition that a surplus is necessary to curb excessive spending. We must all be agreed that the present danger continues to be one of excessive spending or deficient saving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-18a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-18", "file": "debates1950-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "1ea8cd15ea2180ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-18a.75.1", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE IN PETROL TAX", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "We propose, therefore, to add 9d. a gallon to the Customs Duty on petrol and other light oils and on heavy oils used as road fuel. This increase will apply from 6 o'clock today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-18a.75.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-04-19", "file": "debates1950-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be2827cf60fe0dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATOMIC ENERGY (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "When my hon. Friend says that the Russian refusal is due to the fact that China is still represented on the Commission, does he not mean that it is due to the fact that China is not represented on the Commission?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.115.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-04-19", "file": "debates1950-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be2827cf60fe0dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.134.6", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Lewisham.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am all in favour of it; indeed, in some places in Southern England it needs to be better known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.134.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-19", "file": "debates1950-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be2827cf60fe0dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.144.8", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "ses a variety of questions of principle, not the least of which is that we on this side of the Committee do not believe in retrospective legislation, and this and other aspects of this case will be considered when we deal with this matter in detail later. Further, I think it most important that no action by the Chancellor should remove what might be called the legitimate incentives to managements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.144.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-19", "file": "debates1950-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be2827cf60fe0dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "mise of the future development of that investment is an encouraging point. What, in fact, has been done has been to take a sum of round about £70 million from one particular source, and that particular source is motor transport, with special emphasis on commercial vans and lorries, the increase in the number of which during recent years has been too marked to represent any real increase in demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-19", "file": "debates1950-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be2827cf60fe0dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "will drag British prices out of line with world prices. If that fear did not exist, why do His Majesty's Government hesitate to risk the convertibility of the £ in the company of European nations, not one of whom has the metropolitan and imperial resources that we have? Apart from these considerations, does any hon. Member believe that the high level of taxation had nothing to do with devaluation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-19", "file": "debates1950-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be2827cf60fe0dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Douglas Jay)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Douglas Jay)", "preceding_text": " saying that they were frightened of the ordeal. I must say that their speeches have frightened me, because if they are as good as that at the start, I do not know what they will be like later. In his speeches in these Debates the hon. Member for Chippenham always seems to indulge in vague prophecies of impending doom. He told us tonight, among other things, that the welfare State will have to go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-19", "file": "debates1950-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be2827cf60fe0dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "The words I wrote down were, \"the welfare State will have to go.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-19", "file": "debates1950-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be2827cf60fe0dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At high prices.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "nterest saved, there was actually a net gain from the small saver last year. Secondly, we should notice that the change last year was much more an increase in withdrawals than a drop in the total of actual new savings, which still stands at nearly £800 million a year. Quite clearly, that increase in withdrawals is due to the fact that there are more goods available on which people may spend money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-19", "file": "debates1950-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be2827cf60fe0dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "xation. That appears to me to suggest that their main policy is one of large reductions in Government expenditure. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Saffron Walden was a little guarded about that, but I think it was the main thesis of the speech of the hon. Member for Chippenham that we were \"overspending \", as he said, on a large scale, and that the size of this expenditure must be reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-19", "file": "debates1950-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be2827cf60fe0dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.261.7", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL ENDOWMENTS FUND", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Mellor", "preceding_text": "ilities took effect as at 5th July, 1948, but it is the Regulations against which we are praying tonight which provide for the discharge of liabilities out of the Fund. Therefore, the date was not 5th July, 1948, but the date of the making of this Order. Again, when he says that the provisions for the apportionment among hospital boards and committees took effect as at 5th July, 1948, he is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.261.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-19", "file": "debates1950-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "be2827cf60fe0dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOSPITAL ENDOWMENTS FUND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": " were subscribed, but they must have been very considerable and not very far short of the sums subscribed 'annually before the Act was passed. The receipts in favour of the hospitals continued up to the day of transfer, and I suggest that the outgoings were not likely to have greatly increased. They could not have increased very greatly because there was not the opportunity to spend very greatly.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-19a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-20", "file": "debates1950-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "f03de79974ae72d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.321.6", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. De la Bére", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bére", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman not realise that that reply does notgive the precise number; does he really mean to suggest to this honourable House that we are not to have this information? Supposing there were but one, is that not one too many; and is it not commensurate with a \"Police State \"? Surely something must be done to preserve our traditional liberties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.321.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-20", "file": "debates1950-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "f03de79974ae72d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.335.8", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "say that we are building up on the shakiest of foundations. I have given three major instances—no margin of taxable capacity, the extremely insecure position regarding the balance of payments, and the artificial and insecure foundations regarding the so-called personal income profits—and my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) reminds me that the \"infrastructure\" is defective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.335.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-20", "file": "debates1950-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "f03de79974ae72d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says, \"We do.\" I am not trying to make a smart point, but there has been no incentive whatever to the employing side to restrict the output of their works in the last five years, and the worst restrictive practices at the moment are entirely on the labour side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-20", "file": "debates1950-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "f03de79974ae72d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nothing of the sort.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " from the Commonwealth has, obviously, been one of the most important economic events of the last four or five years. Hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite have talked many times since the war, as well as before it, about the need to develop trade with the Commonwealth and to develop our imports from the Commonwealth. The difference has been that they have talked about it whereas we have done it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-20", "file": "debates1950-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "f03de79974ae72d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Groundnuts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "vastation of certain Commonwealth areas, the figure fell to 29 per cent. immediately after the war; it has now recovered to 37 per cent. In the case of raw materials of which, before the war, we were getting 34 per cent. of our imports from the Commonwealth, excluding Canada, that figure was 37 per cent. in 1947; today, it is 46 per cent., and is still rising. I will give one or two illustrations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-20", "file": "debates1950-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "f03de79974ae72d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ive Party would achieve their election pledges and poster hoarding promises by reducing distribution costs. It is plain to me and to my hon. Friends on this side of the Committee—and perhaps to some hon. Members on the other side—that the only way in which they could honour their promise to fight the rising cost of living would be by the traditional and time-honoured Tory method of slashing wages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-20", "file": "debates1950-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "f03de79974ae72d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": " a time of depression increase taxation and at a time of boom decrease taxation; that we should aim at a balance over a period much longer than one year, so that in time of depression we can lower taxation and at a time of boom maintain a high taxation, and so build up a surplus which will enable us to resort to loans in a time of depression. That seems to be now an accepted principle on all sides", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-20", "file": "debates1950-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "f03de79974ae72d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ke an Alpine climber who has reached a ledge on a mountain from which he can neither go up nor down, where his very position on the ledge depends upon the fairness of the weather for the next 12 months and a blizzard of increased wages will sweep him off. The Government and their supporters are always challenging those who criticise in this way to say where they would make the cuts in expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-20", "file": "debates1950-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "f03de79974ae72d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "preceding_text": "That is not so at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-20", "file": "debates1950-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "f03de79974ae72d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "preceding_text": "That is not so at all. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"] Oh, dear no. Modern trade is a question of exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-20", "file": "debates1950-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "f03de79974ae72d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Chamberlain Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "onary factor is the size of the National Debt, which has risen from £7,000 million to over £20,000 million and which is reflected in the savings of almost everybody in these Islands. Never do we hear a word about that. The right hon. Member for Saffron Walden told us the old story about Marshall Aid, but he did not tell the Committee that he, as a member of the Churchill Government before the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-20", "file": "debates1950-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "f03de79974ae72d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You supported it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": " his head in assent at that observation, and I know that other hon. Members feel uncomfortable about the matter. How much more uncomfortable must they feel when they realise that it was this Government and this Chancellor of the Exchequer who relaxed the Married Women's (Inheritance) Act, which releases heiresses from thousands of pounds of Surtax. What an astonishing piece of Socialist economics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-20a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-21", "file": "debates1950-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "50287852f81c1bea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-21a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osbert Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osbert Peake", "preceding_text": " current account by charging everybody ls. for every prescription issued on the National Health Service, owing to the fact that the service had been the subject of abuse. The Minister of Health can comfort himself with having secured a complete repudiation by the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer of everything they said and did affecting his Ministry in the crisis of October last.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-21a.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-21", "file": "debates1950-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "50287852f81c1bea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-21a.493.4", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "ord or two about the work of the Public Accounts Committee. The hon. Member for Chesterfield said that in one of my speeches in advocating economy in public expenditure, I had given some instances from a report of the Public Accounts Committee and he totalled them all up, and they amounted in toto , he said to a sum of a quarter of a million pounds. One thing I never do is to read my old speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-21a.493.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-21", "file": "debates1950-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "50287852f81c1bea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-21a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The means test.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": "cture can succeed unless the foundation is all right. One could make all sorts of other suggestions. The suggestion has been made that children's allowances could have been improved in the case of those who need them most—being stepped down for those who need them least and stepped up for those who need them most. That would bring in some form of inquiry into wage earning and assessment of income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-21a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-21", "file": "debates1950-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "50287852f81c1bea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-21a.531.2", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman apparently is failing to follow this very careful calculation. It is very important not to work out the total cost for the commercial traveller but to work out what it costs him per mile.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-21a.531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-21", "file": "debates1950-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "50287852f81c1bea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-21a.538.4", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": " of the substitution of sterling oil for dollar oil: Are we going to throw away that chance of narrowing the gap\"— that was the dollar gap— for the sake of consuming that extra petrol in the United Kingdom? I suggest that it would not be a sensible policy to do so. I doubt very much whether one could ever really seriously consider it. It is a non starter so far as we are concerned. Then I went on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-21a.538.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-04-24", "file": "debates1950-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc1e86bd42fd128e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.603.6", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIDDLE EAST (ARMAMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.603.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-24", "file": "debates1950-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc1e86bd42fd128e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " I asked him why the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, when reducing the Income Tax by a shilling, should have made sure that the Surtax on these largest incomes was retained at the confiscatory rate of 19s. 6d. in the £. I shall never forget the look of contempt which came over his expressive features, on which already lay the shadow of approaching death, when he replied in a single word, \"Hate.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-24", "file": "debates1950-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc1e86bd42fd128e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have only your word for it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "er, when reducing the Income Tax by a shilling, should have made sure that the Surtax on these largest incomes was retained at the confiscatory rate of 19s. 6d. in the £. I shall never forget the look of contempt which came over his expressive features, on which already lay the shadow of approaching death, when he replied in a single word, \"Hate.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"] Hate is not a good guide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-24", "file": "debates1950-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc1e86bd42fd128e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "the Government Departments. But I have no doubt, after a long experience of affairs, even longer than that of the Father of the House, if I may say so, that substantial economies could be made which could be passed on to the taxpayer in a manner which would be highly beneficial to production and to savings, and that they could be made in such a way as would effectually safeguard the weak and poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-24", "file": "debates1950-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc1e86bd42fd128e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "n the other side. As for the right hon. Gentleman and other hon. Members, we still await anything at all precise in the way of proposals which might deal with' the situation. There are two great issues which transcend all others in importance in this Debate, and which are at the heart and core of our economic and budgetary policy. First, should we take as our aim the full employment of our people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-24", "file": "debates1950-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc1e86bd42fd128e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.672.4", "colnum": "672", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is not true?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "entration of debate the better, yet we have had a speech on the dock strike by one hon. Member, a speech by another hon. Member on Jarrow—largely inaccurate. Hon. Members opposite have talked so much about the \"20 years of Tory misrule\" that at last they have come to believe it themselves. I was in politics during most of that period, and I say that most of what hon. Members have said is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.672.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-24", "file": "debates1950-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc1e86bd42fd128e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.672.4", "colnum": "672", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "themselves. I was in politics during most of that period, and I say that most of what hon. Members have said is not true. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What is not true?\"] About Jarrow. The revival in Jarrow took place before 1945 largely as a result of the efforts made by Sir John Jarvis. I know about it and I refreshed by memory during the election because there was a poster about Jarrow in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.672.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-24", "file": "debates1950-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc1e86bd42fd128e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.672.4", "colnum": "672", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "sputes were comparatively small, except in 1930 and 1931. I examined all the figures last night. I cast my gaze over the whole period, not over the limited period which the hon. Member mentioned. The \"triple alliance\" was formed in 1919. That was a combination of trade unions of the miners, railwaymen and transport workers for the distinct purpose of achieving political ends by industrial methods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.672.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-24", "file": "debates1950-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc1e86bd42fd128e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.675.2", "colnum": "675", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I had no intention of speaking about this matter but for the speech of the hon. Member for Sowerby on Friday and the speech of the hon. Member for Bristol, Central (Mr. Awbery) today. I have made my protest about the width of this Debate. Having done so, I am entitled to the same rights as any other hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.675.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-24", "file": "debates1950-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc1e86bd42fd128e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.675.2", "colnum": "675", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So do we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "ly. Why should I not? I came here with a larger majority than most hon. Members. Then we had the coal strike of 1921. Still a Liberal Prime Minister. He completely dominated that Government. Then, on 15th April, we had the great tragedy—the day on which the railway men and transport men would not join in. For years that was known as \"Black Friday\" among the comrades. I remember all this very well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.675.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-24", "file": "debates1950-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc1e86bd42fd128e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.675.2", "colnum": "675", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "posite try to forget it, and try to induce the nation to forget it. In 1926 we had the great revolutionary movement, the General Strike. Make no doubt about that; it was admitted afterwards by many of those who spoke. That lasted for 10 days. Then they went cringing to 10, Downing Street to surrender. They were told they would not be allowed inside the front door unless they had come to surrender—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.675.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-24", "file": "debates1950-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc1e86bd42fd128e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.675.2", "colnum": "675", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Look behind you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "domiciliary treatment, if they could only have proper medical advice. At present they cannot get it. The number of people who have died in the first 18 months of the National Health Service is 60,000 more than the number for the corresponding period before the Service was introduced. This is the national death service. I will not hesitate to criticise it when I see waste in every single direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.675.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-24", "file": "debates1950-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc1e86bd42fd128e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like his father.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "s ago. In due course he got his commission and I went to his passing-out parade. Then he was posted to Dover to a light anti-aircraft unit. He was not very far from home, and after a month he came home. I asked, \"How are you getting on, Robin?\" He replied, \"It is absolutely marvellous. I have an unearned income.\" I asked him what he meant, and he answered, \"I am being paid and I am doing no work.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.680.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-04-24", "file": "debates1950-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc1e86bd42fd128e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.695.0", "colnum": "695", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is this to do with the Budget?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": "ncluding the old-fashioned 'For God, King and Country' patriotism, assisted by all the tomfoolery of Jubilees and Coronations. Again: If we are plunged into war, I devoutly hope that the workers of this country will use it for the purpose of revolution. Again: When the Labour Party come into power … there is no doubt that we shall have to overcome opposition from Buckingham Palace. …", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.692.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-24", "file": "debates1950-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc1e86bd42fd128e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "No, I certainly will not read the rest of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-24", "file": "debates1950-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc1e86bd42fd128e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Supplementary Estimates.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "ows what it is the Conservatives would do, and also that if the voters were told it would mean goodbye to any chance of the Conservatives regaining power. Today, the right hon. Member stated that he did not know enough about the expenditure. What are all the Estimates printed for, pages and pages, hundreds of pages, of them, every item detailed in them? What are Supply Days for, except to examine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-24", "file": "debates1950-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc1e86bd42fd128e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.719.3", "colnum": "719", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": " of play has been made about the food subsidies. It is necessary to get one point cleared up. The Leader of the Opposition asked—it is an old question—whether it was necessary to give food subsidies to people who can perfectly well afford to pay the market price. The answer is, \"No,\" provided that you do not mind the consequent repercussions on farm prices and markets, which would be very serious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.719.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-24", "file": "debates1950-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc1e86bd42fd128e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.719.3", "colnum": "719", "heading": "BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SURVEY", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are agricultural subsidies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "o can perfectly well afford to pay the market price. The answer is, \"No,\" provided that you do not mind the consequent repercussions on farm prices and markets, which would be very serious—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"]—and the extra administrative costs. If any hon. Member will examine what goes into the food subsidies, he will see that it would be very awkward for farmers if all those were discontinued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.719.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-24", "file": "debates1950-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc1e86bd42fd128e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.732.3", "colnum": "732", "heading": "PLANNING GRANTS (LAND ACQUISITION CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Town and Country Planning (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In other words, the Labour Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Town and Country Planning (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": " scales of these grants. They are grants made only in respect of the acquisition of land by local authorities under the Town and Country Planning Act and not in respect of acquisitions in general. I do not wish to weary the House with too much detail, but they are the classes of acquisitions which cover \"blitz, blight and dereliction,\" to use the terse terms which have grown up in this connection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.732.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-24", "file": "debates1950-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "fc1e86bd42fd128e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.732.3", "colnum": "732", "heading": "PLANNING GRANTS (LAND ACQUISITION CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Town and Country Planning (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Town and Country Planning (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": " asked. I gave them this assurance on the Saturday. The matter might have been allowed to close there. Indeed, I have in my hand a copy of the communication which was sent to the various local authorities' associations. The one I hold was addressed on behalf of the Urban District Councils Association. I gather that the association sent comparable communications to Members of Parliament interested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-24a.732.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-04-25", "file": "debates1950-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "864226424ddf4c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.785.4", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is the name of the paper?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I have been informed that the attention of the newspaper in question was drawn to the fact that their statement was wrong, and that they were asked to correct it. They declined to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.785.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-04-25", "file": "debates1950-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "864226424ddf4c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.802.0", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL-MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, Hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "rge number of practical recommendations. In the brief time at my disposal I can only deal with a few, but I advise hon. Members to consider paragraph 56 of the Report. The Committee said: We have touched only briefly upon the harsh effects of mining subsidence upon the comparatively small number of individuals who suffer directly from them. These effects have been well-known at least since 1927 \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-25", "file": "debates1950-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "864226424ddf4c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.838.5", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL-MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was always the case.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "ho is to own and control the land now owned by the National Coal Board. These are all vital questions which the Bill does not touch. A new housing estate can be built in the most dangerous area from the point of view of mining subsidence, and yet the Bill can do nothing about it. The National Coal Board can play havoc with the amenities of the mining villages, but the Bill can do nothing about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.838.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-25", "file": "debates1950-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "864226424ddf4c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL-MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sylvester", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Not in Bournemouth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sylvester", "preceding_text": "se who have suffered as a result of mining subsidence. When the party opposite were in power this problem was played about with for 16 years, and nothing was done. The right hon. Member for East Bournemouth and Christchurch (Mr. Bracken) suggested that this was a most inadequate Bill. I do not know whether he was electioneering and trying to get the miners votes for his Party at the next election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-25", "file": "debates1950-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "864226424ddf4c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL-MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "preceding_text": "f which can come into this Bill. The Bill proposes to spend £500,000 a year throughout the whole British mining industry in an attempt to make up damage caused by 100 years of mining; and to start off the Government say, \"We shall not deal with anything that happened yesterday.\" Three houses collapsed in Mardy, in my division, some four or five weeks ago. They cannot be dealt with under this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-25", "file": "debates1950-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "864226424ddf4c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.866.3", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL-MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "o the attention of the House this afternoon is this: that we want the full Turner Report, but we are not going to have a very complicated measure, with a long Committee stage in this House of Commons. Why not be honest about it? Our much loved and respected Chief Whip, now sitting on the Front Bench, will have a hard enough job getting us all here tomorrow night, as will the Opposition Chief Whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-25", "file": "debates1950-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "864226424ddf4c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.866.3", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL-MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": " come here or whether he ought to stay away. The Opposition Chief Whip will have this same problem, so why not be honest about it? Why not admit that in the composition of this present House of Commons it is impossible to bring forward a long and highly complicated Bill, knowing that hon. Members opposite will one moment be false friends and the next moment jump in to do all the mischief they can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-25", "file": "debates1950-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "864226424ddf4c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.872.3", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL-MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "So have I. I am there every week, and the excavations which have taken place there are being remedied at the earliest possible moment. Not far away, where coal has been won through opencast mining, better crops are growing now than ever before. I have heard quite a lot today about the poor farmers. I will take up the challenge, because I am not afraid of being chastised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.872.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-25", "file": "debates1950-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "864226424ddf4c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.872.3", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL-MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ute to my hon. Friends the Members for Abertillery (Mr. Daggar) and Leek (Mr. Harold Davies) who did such a magnificent job on the Turner Committee. I am sorry that we are unable to implement all the findings of that Committee, but that does not prevent me from giving my blessing to this Measure. I suggest that at least we shall be no worse off under this Bill than we were before its introduction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.872.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-25", "file": "debates1950-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "864226424ddf4c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL-MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "preceding_text": "It is not a question of blocking it. The only point I am raising is that of time and controversy. I think that all hon. Members would like to see a much more comprehensive Measure than the one at present before the House. The question is: Is it a practical proposition to get such a Measure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-25", "file": "debates1950-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "864226424ddf4c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL-MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Robens)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Robens)", "preceding_text": "possession, and if a house is completely demolished, compensation would, in fact, be based on that assumption. The right hon. Gentleman also referred to the question of flooding. We can go into greater detail on that in Committee, but it can be said right away that if the flooding were due to damage to drains within the curtilage of the house that would obviously come within the scope of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-25", "file": "debates1950-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "864226424ddf4c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL-MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "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": " detail on that in Committee, but it can be said right away that if the flooding were due to damage to drains within the curtilage of the house that would obviously come within the scope of the Bill. [HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not the point.\"] I am only giving one of the points. If the flooding is occasioned from somewhere outside and causes damage to a house then that is clearly not within the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-25", "file": "debates1950-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "864226424ddf4c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL-MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "ies their people need. The hon. Gentleman talked about amenities to go with houses. He mentioned public houses and other types of buildings. Surely the local authorities know exactly what is wanted in their areas. They build a house not with a view to its being of a certain rateable value but for the purpose of accommodating families, and if a family needs a large house, a large house is provided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-25", "file": "debates1950-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "864226424ddf4c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KEY INDUSTRY DUTIES (REDUCTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "I should like in a few sentences to add my protest to that of my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon, East (Sir H. Williams) about the use by the Minister of these horrible initials. He talked freely and easily of G.A.T.T. and I.T.O., in a way which was an illustration to me of the atmosphere in which Ministers now live. They live in this sort of world of initials, which means something to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-25", "file": "debates1950-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "864226424ddf4c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.914.4", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KEY INDUSTRY DUTIES (REDUCTION)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman the Secretary for Overseas Trade is not paying much attention to what has been said. You have ruled, Mr. Speaker, that we cannot discuss the principle behind this and that we must confine ourselves to the specific items in the schedule, but when one of my hon. Friends was speaking a short time ago the hon. Member for Loughborough (Mr. Follick), who is about to leave the Chamber, asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.914.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-25", "file": "debates1950-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "864226424ddf4c38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.920.1", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS (DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacMillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Liberal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacMillan", "preceding_text": " recommendations have not all been carried out, but we have to make some allowances for the difficult times in which the Secretary of State has to try to implement the recommendations. There must be a little more regard for the background of difficulty, not created by this Government. Hon. Members opposite should remember that we are still paying tonight for Tory rule in the Highlands and Islands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-25a.920.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-26", "file": "debates1950-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "e46cb063f3e7eaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-26a.960.11", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I was unable to hear the Minister's answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-26a.960.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-26", "file": "debates1950-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "e46cb063f3e7eaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-26a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ILFORD CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ed in both of the counties whose affairs are now being considered. The next point I should like to make is that the Government alone are in a position to take action in this matter. The Opposition obviously cannot initiate legislation. We do not know all the facts. We do not know all the facts in the international sphere and there are a great many things we do not know even in the domestic sphere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-26a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-26", "file": "debates1950-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "e46cb063f3e7eaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-26a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ILFORD CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "applications of the urban communities, will have much to say if those proposals include promotion for urban communities anywhere. No doubt if it is a two-tier status that is proposed—something on the new county borough lines—the existing county boroughs will have something to say, and, if anything is done to assault the rural district councils, there will be such an uprising of parochial passions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-26a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-26", "file": "debates1950-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "e46cb063f3e7eaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-26a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ILFORD CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Managing directors.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "stion of the reform of local government. I do not think it is a normal party political matter. The same sort of trouble affects Governments as that which affects county councils. Because of grants in aid, the Ministry of Health like to look upon themselves as a senior partner with the local authority. Similarly, county councils like to look upon themselves as senior partners with county districts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-26a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-26", "file": "debates1950-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "e46cb063f3e7eaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-26a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ILFORD CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reader Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reader Harris", "preceding_text": "n more remote by reason of the even balance of the parties in this House. But that is not an argument at all. With the parties so evenly balanced there is little likelihood of controversial legislation, such as the nationalisation of the sugar industry or the cement industry or anything like that, so surely the way is now open for some sort of agreed legislation on the subject of local government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-26a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-26", "file": "debates1950-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "e46cb063f3e7eaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-26a.1071.0", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ILFORD CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "ond Reading. Why cannot they be given that? The inference has been that if two county districts are given county borough status it will cause a tremendous upset in the local government world. The hon. Member for Widnes (Mr. MacColl) said that he was against what he called \" isolated pockets of resistance.\" Is that a fair description of a county borough? Is Croydon an isolated pocket of resistance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-26a.1071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-27", "file": "debates1950-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2246bd1bf179787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-27a.1147.0", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "RAILWAY FREIGHT CHARGES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "There is no reason for the right hon. Gentleman, who is usually very courteous, to lose his temper. From what he says anyone would think that the Government were seeking facilities for a debate. We are not; it is the Opposition. After all, this is a decision after a hearing by a judicial tribunal, and I am not going to attempt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-27a.1147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-27", "file": "debates1950-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2246bd1bf179787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-27a.1154.0", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "RAILWAY FREIGHT CHARGES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "It is entirely within the hands of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-27a.1154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-27", "file": "debates1950-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2246bd1bf179787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-27a.1154.0", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "RAILWAY FREIGHT CHARGES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Next week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "It is entirely within the hands of the Opposition. [HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"] Well it is, because they have two opportunities whereby they can have a full day's Debate on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-27a.1154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-27", "file": "debates1950-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2246bd1bf179787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-27a.1160.10", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": " given in various forms on the Continent, notably in Holland. I do not want to introduce an unduly controversial note, but when I think of the amount of money spent—I will not say squandered—on the groundnuts scheme by the Government, and the trivial proportion of that sum which would have been necessary to put the fishing industry upon a sound basis for the next ten years, it makes my blood boil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-27a.1160.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-27", "file": "debates1950-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2246bd1bf179787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-27a.1160.10", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "ention did not accept a general reduction of the fishing fleets to a percentage of the tonnage operating in 1938, which it should have done; but it did agree to an increased minimum size of mesh and to size limits for white fish. But that is not in operation. Why is it not in operation? Mainly because Iceland has not yet ratified the Convention. Why do we not start turning the \" heat \" on Iceland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-27a.1160.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-27", "file": "debates1950-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2246bd1bf179787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-27a.1168.0", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "nment in the free market of the City of London by Hambro's Bank, and in the announcement the Government said that they took no responsibility for it. The Icelandic Government said that the responsibility was entirely theirs. I think, therefore, that the hon. Gentleman should clear up the point that the Treasury had no hand in the matter at all except to give approval, which is automatically given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-27a.1168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-27", "file": "debates1950-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2246bd1bf179787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-27a.1213.1", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Howard", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Howard", "preceding_text": " Japan, and next to it is a notice \" Imported by the Ministry of Food, London.\" That is hardly consistent with not being traders. In my division there are mothers and relations of men who have lost their lives at sea, whose feelings I am sure hon. Members can well imagine when they go into shops in West Cornwall and see on the shelves such tins packed in Japan and imported by the Ministry of Food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-27a.1213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-27", "file": "debates1950-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2246bd1bf179787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-27a.1238.1", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "00,000 if the decontrol which has been allowed in regard to the fish that goes to the ordinary market had also been allowed for the fish that goes for fishmeal. I want to know from the Minister why the Director of Animal Feedingstuffs refused to give an answer. Secondly, speaking as many hon. Members have done for their constituencies, and I am speaking for the biggest fishing port in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-27a.1238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-27", "file": "debates1950-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "f2246bd1bf179787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-27a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD HAULAGE, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Very wise of them", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "Transport Commission as a public concern or are in its favour. The firm of Messrs. Wiseley and Sons was acquired voluntarily by the Commission in August, 1948. No compulsion at all was introduced; the acquisition was by voluntary agreement. This company held a contract with the Milk Marketing Board, but the contract contained a cancellation clause, of which the Milk Marketing Board took advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-27a.1269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-04-28", "file": "debates1950-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "32519bdcb3249d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-28a.1286.1", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL PATRIOTIC FUND CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "I did not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-04-28a.1286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-01", "file": "debates1950-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ec4fd721fbba8315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-01a.1389.0", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Sandys", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that there is widespread dissatisfaction in all parts of this House and in the country at the lack, of effort which is being put into permanent house building?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-01a.1389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-01", "file": "debates1950-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ec4fd721fbba8315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-01a.1393.0", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I must point out to the hon. Gentleman that cement has not been nationalised. The position is that there has been a record distribution during the last week or so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-01a.1393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-01", "file": "debates1950-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ec4fd721fbba8315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-01a.1395.1", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, but it was asked to make nominations because it represents a very large number of working class women. People of all political parties belong to the other organisations which I have mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-01a.1395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-01", "file": "debates1950-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ec4fd721fbba8315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-01a.1494.2", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD HAULAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" By motor vehicle?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "le to an operator who works within such a limited radius. Turning again to my own constituency for an example—the principle applies throughout the country—I can tell the Minister of a case of a firm which, for years before the Labour Party was formed, was engaged in the transport of goods from the railway in the whole of the district from Shoeburyness to Pitsea. The name of the concern was Jacobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-01a.1494.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-01", "file": "debates1950-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ec4fd721fbba8315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-01a.1510.6", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD HAULAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Smith", "preceding_text": "All I can assume is that people in the hon. and learned Gentleman's division do not think it worth while writing to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-01a.1510.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-01", "file": "debates1950-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ec4fd721fbba8315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-01a.1510.6", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD HAULAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Do not get excited.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Smith", "preceding_text": "All I can assume is that people in the hon. and learned Gentleman's division do not think it worth while writing to him. [Interruption.] This is my second speech, and I can be interrupted; indeed, I am very pleased to be interrupted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-01a.1510.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-01", "file": "debates1950-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ec4fd721fbba8315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-01a.1530.2", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD HAULAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Barnes", "preceding_text": "If they were in business before 1946, I think they would be covered by the special arrangements made by the road haulage Executive for hardship cases, because I have in front of me a statement that absence in His Majesty's Forces is one of the circumstances that had to be taken into consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-01a.1530.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-01", "file": "debates1950-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ec4fd721fbba8315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-01a.1530.2", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD HAULAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Barnes", "preceding_text": "ade by the road haulage Executive for hardship cases, because I have in front of me a statement that absence in His Majesty's Forces is one of the circumstances that had to be taken into consideration. [Interruption.] I beg to differ, and it is no use hon. Members making allegations and statements of this kind, because they require to be examined in detail to prove whether they are correct or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-01a.1530.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-01", "file": "debates1950-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "ec4fd721fbba8315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-01a.1531.3", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD HAULAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "That interruption supports my first statement, that what hon. Members opposite are demanding here tonight is that the Transport Act should not be applied, and that there should be no interference whatsoever with regard to existing conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-01a.1531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-02", "file": "debates1950-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e8d9ecfd0d37620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-02a.1556.5", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that unless he treats this American company with justice international complications may ensue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-02a.1556.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-02", "file": "debates1950-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e8d9ecfd0d37620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-02a.1568.6", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "In view of the serious figures which the hon. Lady gave in reply to the previous Question, does she not think that they should be a spur, in order that the classifying schools for children should be speeded up, which may help to reduce the large number of those boys who do come back before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-02a.1568.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-02", "file": "debates1950-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e8d9ecfd0d37620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-02a.1583.3", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGHWAYS (PROVISION OF CATTLE-GRIDS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Barnes)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \" That the Bill be now read a Second time.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-02a.1583.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-02", "file": "debates1950-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e8d9ecfd0d37620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-02a.1603.1", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGHWAYS (PROVISION OF CATTLE-GRIDS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Ten thousand pounds.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "lists use the road a great deal. If it were placed on the highway it would get very quickly into a state of disrepair from the point of view of the motorist. It is clear that the Minister will have to devise provisos to meet these points if the needs of cyclists and motorists are to be considered. I believe it would involve an expenditure far in excess of the £10 million mentioned by the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-02a.1603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-02", "file": "debates1950-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e8d9ecfd0d37620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-02a.1640.1", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGHWAYS (PROVISION OF CATTLE-GRIDS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Chichester asked whether this was a big or a little Bill and why if we could obtain all these results for so little it had never been done before. The answer is simple. It had like so many other matters, to await this kind of Government to find the time for it, and that is the kind of answer which the hon. Member can give to his constituents when they raise that point with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-02a.1640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-02", "file": "debates1950-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "5e8d9ecfd0d37620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-02a.1653.0", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Frederick Lee)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Frederick Lee)", "preceding_text": "The point raised by my hon. Friend is, of course, covered by some of the provisions of this Clause. We have the facility under a previous Act to remove people who are now unemployed into a development area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-02a.1653.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-03", "file": "debates1950-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ec8b5fd88e4a101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1693.9", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "To give some help to the smaller establishments by this new freedom, will the right hon. Gentleman see if he can increase the rations which they are allowed to have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1693.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-03", "file": "debates1950-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ec8b5fd88e4a101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1695.4", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "recall it, it did not state that control or decontrol had really influenced the prices. The Question was different, because it had regard to today's high prices for vegetables. I would like to inform—[HoN. MEMBERS: \" No, ask.1 May I ask the Minister if he is aware that when carrots were decontrolled on Monday, the price in Glasgow rose from 2-/cl. to 91c1. per lb. and if he is aware that decontrol", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1695.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-03", "file": "debates1950-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ec8b5fd88e4a101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1724.1", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGH COURT AND COUNTY COURT JUDGES BILL [Lords']", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" But cannot save it today.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "y concerned with the financial advantages of doing so. even if the financial advantages were to be more real than, in fact, they are. There is no doubt that most of these men—I do not say all of them—suffer a considerable sacrifice of income when they leave the Bar to go on to the Bench. They do it because they value some other things more. Most of them have made a good deal of money by that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-03", "file": "debates1950-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ec8b5fd88e4a101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1747.6", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGH COURT AND COUNTY COURT JUDGES BILL [Lords']", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": " fair example of fair shares for all. However, I beg hon. Gentlemen opposite to understand the importance of keeping up the dignity of the Bench. It is impossible for a High Court judge to discharge his functions properly if he knows that during the day he will sit on the Bench with a prisoner in the dock before him and later in the evening may be sitting side by side with the prisoner in the bus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1747.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-03", "file": "debates1950-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ec8b5fd88e4a101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1791.3", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGH COURT AND COUNTY COURT JUDGES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "You would be.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "on (Mr. Pickthorn), supported by the noble Lord the Member for Lanark (Lord Dunglass). There is no doubt that the mean and meagre terms of the Financial Resolution burk debate. This is a deliberate attempt to burk debate, and it is more worthy of Goering's Reichstag than the House of Commons. I was delighted by the speech made by the hon. Gentleman the Member for Merthyr Tydvil (Mr. S. 0. Davies).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1791.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-03", "file": "debates1950-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ec8b5fd88e4a101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1795.2", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGH COURT AND COUNTY COURT JUDGES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "I hope I have been addressing myself to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1795.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-03", "file": "debates1950-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ec8b5fd88e4a101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1797.3", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGH COURT AND COUNTY COURT JUDGES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \" Go and have some", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "d the difficult questions which those analogies open up, and can say that it will be for the courts to decide, makes our point for us, the point that there ought to be ample opportunity for the whole House, in Committee, to consider all possible Amendments to this Bill. I apologise for my voice. I have been sitting here since three o'clock and have had nothing to eat or drink, which does not help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-03", "file": "debates1950-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ec8b5fd88e4a101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1800.0", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGH COURT AND COUNTY COURT JUDGES [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Lord Dunglass", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Dunglass", "preceding_text": "I should like to make one more appeal to the Parliamentary Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1800.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-03", "file": "debates1950-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ec8b5fd88e4a101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1803.2", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE SCALES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of National Insurance (Dr. Edith Summerskill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of National Insurance (Dr. Edith Summerskill)", "preceding_text": "onary powers exercised by the Board. I have had to tell hon. Members often that these discretionary powers are very wide. They will be exercised under the Regulations. Discretionary power covers power to give assistance with extra food for sick people and even the cost of domestic help. I have sometimes felt that in this respect hon. Members have thought the Board may have been a little niggardly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1803.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-03", "file": "debates1950-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ec8b5fd88e4a101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1815.1", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE SCALES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. N. Browne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. N. Browne", "preceding_text": "ut old age pensioners in receipt of supplementary allowances. I should like to echo the sentiments of the right hon. Lady the Minister when she spoke of the sympathy, the skill and the careful attention which are given by the officers of the Board to these old people. I am sure that both sides of the House will agree with me that these men carry out their work in a very fine and creditable manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-03", "file": "debates1950-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ec8b5fd88e4a101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1827.1", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE SCALES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": " scales. When we find that a man paying a rent of the order of £1 a week, having three children, will have a claim to something like £5 a week, there will be many too close to that amount who will quite properly say \" If for a regular week's work I can earn but a few shillings in addition to the basic needs as judged by these Regulations, then it is surely time that I had an increase in my wages.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-03", "file": "debates1950-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ec8b5fd88e4a101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1827.1", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE SCALES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Do they come under the Regulations? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": "tions point both a warning and a moral. The warning I have already dealt with, and the moral, if the House will bear with me for a couple of minutes more, can best be expressed in a little conundrum which used to be set as an intelligence test and which I think is not entirely irrelevant to what we are discussing this evening. It is said that once two sheiks were crossing the desert on two camels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-03", "file": "debates1950-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ec8b5fd88e4a101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1832.1", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE SCALES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" It is your own Front Bench.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I think I have proved my point. The hon. and gallant Member for Ilford, South (Squadron—Leader A. E. Cooper) knows little about this subject. It is a satisfactory thing, but it is five months too late that we have achieved it. I hope that the next time we shall achieve it earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-03", "file": "debates1950-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ec8b5fd88e4a101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1837.1", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE SCALES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I Fraser", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I Fraser", "preceding_text": "ark of the right hon. Lady about the cost of living scale being a little more than the actual arithmetic would have suggested, the reason being that she cannot make changes frequently and that she wants a certain measure of stability for a year or two. That is a good reason for what she has done, but mark the implication: the implication is that she expects a continuing rise in the cost of living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-03", "file": "debates1950-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ec8b5fd88e4a101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1838.1", "colnum": "1838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE SCALES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "y he has a vicious trait in expressing his antagonism to the common people and to the Government who respond from time to time and try to uplift them from the poverty from which they suffer. We must remember that we all desire some of the things that he says, but underlying a number of speeches we have heard there has been a bitter resentment of any increase being given to those who are suffering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-03", "file": "debates1950-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ec8b5fd88e4a101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1840.1", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE SCALES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Go over to the other side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "es meant that you penalised a good father and gave assistance to a bad father who did not want to advance the standard of housing of his family and maybe even drank away the money. We gave at that time 7s. 6d. for the first child and 2s. for a child under two. The scales at that time of a diehard Tory council compared favourably in monetary value with the scales being paid by the Assistance Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-03", "file": "debates1950-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ec8b5fd88e4a101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1842.2", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE SCALES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain MacLeod", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain MacLeod", "preceding_text": " as we are discussing tonight. He is staring gloomily and unhappily at a small collection of those nuts which the right hon. Lady will remember from a previous Ministerial existence, and of which, no doubt, she hoped she had heard the last. The title of the picture is, \" Where the Money Goes.\" I invite the right hon. Lady to go and look at it. It is perhaps the aptest comment on these Regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1842.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-03", "file": "debates1950-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ec8b5fd88e4a101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1845.1", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE SCALES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "ere with the present work of the National Assistance Board will not agree with the hon. Mem- ber for Morecambe and Lonsdale that there has been any continuity of policy, and they will not agree with the right hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. W. S. Morrison) that what is being done tonight, and what was done on 5th July, 1948, is merely an extension in degree of what had gone before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-03", "file": "debates1950-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ec8b5fd88e4a101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1849.2", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE SCALES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" The cost of living went down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "Yes, there was a decrease while the cost of living was going up. It ill becomes hon. Gentlemen opposite to talk derogatively about the Government responding after only five months in this matter, when they had Governments in office who responded to an increase in the cost of living by reducing the level of assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1849.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-03", "file": "debates1950-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6ec8b5fd88e4a101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1850.0", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE SCALES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "I have looked up my figures. The hon. and gallant Member has not a monopoly of having studied the period 1920–1930. In fact, of course, there were fluctuations in prices and I repeat that all the time there was a general over—all rise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-03a.1850.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-04", "file": "debates1950-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "65bdafded265f69e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-04a.1904.1", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "Before my right hon. Friend answers that question, may I ask him whether he agrees entirely that, while the Opposition have a perfect right under our Parliamentary system to challenge a Division whenever they like, it is a fact that the calling of \" snap \" Divisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-04a.1904.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-04", "file": "debates1950-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "65bdafded265f69e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-04a.1953.3", "colnum": "1953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "tions with the Church of England and the Free Church Council and with the Catholic hierarchy, never in the course of those negotiations—I am sure the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Saffron Walden will correct me if I am wrong—never until now have all the people interested in the denominational schools been brought together round one table. There is still the problem of the single school area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-04a.1953.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-04", "file": "debates1950-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "65bdafded265f69e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-04a.1973.2", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "preceding_text": "urse, an impossible position in any democratic community. If any organisation is entirely financed out of public funds there must be a large measure of public control. No concern can be financed entirely out of public funds and its management left to private persons. if a 100 per cent. building grant were given to Catholic schools, then other churches would also have a perfect right to ask for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-04a.1973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-04", "file": "debates1950-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "65bdafded265f69e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-04a.1993.2", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LUTON CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "Surely the Minister is going to give the House some guidance before we come to a decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-04a.1993.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-04", "file": "debates1950-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "65bdafded265f69e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-04a.1993.2", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LUTON CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "Surely the Minister is going to give the House some guidance before we come to a decision. [HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"] There is the whole evening before us. I trust that the Minister is going to give us some guidance upon this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-04a.1993.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-04", "file": "debates1950-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "65bdafded265f69e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-04a.2023.1", "colnum": "2023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hopkin Morris", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Hopkin Morris", "preceding_text": " in various forms. A compromise was reached in 1944. but that compromise is not to be allowed to work. One alternative is that gradually the Church must take possession of the Church schools—that will be the gradual development of it—and the Church becomes the State, which is a retrogressive measure. It will block opinion and free inquiry on the development of science as it did in the Middle Ages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-04a.2023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-04", "file": "debates1950-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "65bdafded265f69e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-04a.2033.1", "colnum": "2033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hollis", "preceding_text": "ly for happy reasons and partly for unhappy reasons. It is hardly a sane opinion any more to believe all sorts of things which our grandfathers could have believed. It is hardly sane any longer for any Catholic to believe in the modern world that Protestantism is the main enemy of the Christian religion, or for any Protestant to believe that Catholicism is the main enemy of the Christian religion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-04a.2033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-05", "file": "debates1950-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "8ac9b767263572da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-05a.2089.1", "colnum": "2089", "heading": "SCIENTIFIC RESOURCES (UTILISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "c training and then have gone on to general economics and the subjects needed in executive capacities. My own company is looking for such people at the moment, and we cannot find even one. I am sure there is a big need there. In the second category, there are some applied scientists in this country, but not nearly enough. On the other hand, have too many of the third category, the pure scientists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-05a.2089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-08", "file": "debates1950-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ed78484282c3f813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.10.1", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "For the reasons I have just stated. It was obviously undesirable to publish it in the middle of an Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.10.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-08", "file": "debates1950-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ed78484282c3f813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.32.7", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "Can we be told how many Palestine Arab refugees His Majesty's Government think there still are?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.32.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-08", "file": "debates1950-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ed78484282c3f813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNDERPAID WORKERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "merit, technical ability and capacity, instead of what takes place far too often. We want the growth of unproductive occupations and professions also to be considered in view of the position in industry. I happen to be in a very strong position in advocating this. We knew or ought to have known that our pre-war economy was becoming top-heavy, and it is easy to talk when there is no responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-08", "file": "debates1950-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ed78484282c3f813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNDERPAID WORKERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": " and trade union ideas, policy and action must not be, like the law of the Medes and Persians, unalterable. We must adapt ourselves to new ideas and the quickly changing times of the 20th century. Here are some facts which should be placed on record. This is part of the terrible burden imposed upon the productive industry of this country. In 1914 the National Debt was £649,770,000. In 1920 it was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.143.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-08", "file": "debates1950-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ed78484282c3f813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.143.3", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNDERPAID WORKERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Carry on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John McKay", "preceding_text": "Is. my hon. Friend referring to me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-08", "file": "debates1950-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ed78484282c3f813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.143.4", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNDERPAID WORKERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not all on the one side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "The National Debt in 1920—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.143.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-08", "file": "debates1950-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ed78484282c3f813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.143.4", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNDERPAID WORKERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the trade unions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": " charges are imposed upon productive industry by the trade associations, price maintenance associations, quotas and branding, and many hon. Members opposite have a great responsibility for the organising of these restrictive practices in industry. Before industry gets a chance, trade restrictions and prices are increased to an enormous extent compared with the cost of materials in other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.143.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-08", "file": "debates1950-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ed78484282c3f813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNDERPAID WORKERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "And the Chartists, too, amongst whose leaders were numbered a great many Conservatives, including some of those names I have just mentioned. I suggest that the hon. Gentlemen opposite, before they are so quick to criticise this side of the House, should be more certain of their facts of working class history than they have been up to the present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.146.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-08", "file": "debates1950-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ed78484282c3f813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.147.5", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNDERPAID WORKERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Mr. Brockway rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.147.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-08", "file": "debates1950-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ed78484282c3f813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.148.4", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNDERPAID WORKERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Government\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "hout producing any answer, or attempting to produce a practical answer. That has been shown by the tenor of speeches from hon. Members opposite tonight, for they provide no practical answer. I hope it will be noticed in all ranks of organised labour that, to all intents and purposes, the speeches from the other side of the House have amounted to a vote of no confidence in the trade union movement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.148.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-08", "file": "debates1950-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ed78484282c3f813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.150.3", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNDERPAID WORKERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Profits.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "isleading and very unfair to those whom they claim to represent. Let it not be thought that I and my hon. and right hon. Friends on this side of the House are not as determined as any hon. Member on the Government benches to do our level best to achieve a minimum standard of living for the people of this country. We believe that can be achieved through a right and wise policy designed to increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-08", "file": "debates1950-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ed78484282c3f813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNDERPAID WORKERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. T. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "ent. Without in any way attempting to exacerbate the feelings of hon. Gentlemen opposite, I say that I believe the restraint in industrial warfare which we have seen in the last five years has been due very largely—and I would even go so far as to say almost exclusively—to the fact that we have had a Government in this country which the workers have believed is concerned with them and their needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-08", "file": "debates1950-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ed78484282c3f813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNDERPAID WORKERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are better off than they ever have been.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "o intervene for just a moment to follow the speech of the hon. Member for Hammersmith, South (Mr. W. T. Williams). He has talked very laudably about the faith that his own party have kept with the poorest paid workers in the community, but I do not think that that is true. If it were true, then the lowest paid workers would not today be in the very difficult position in which they find themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-08", "file": "debates1950-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ed78484282c3f813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNDERPAID WORKERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Perhaps the hon. Gentleman is a Communist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "A.S.S.E.T. Ask the hon. Member for Reading, South (Mr. Mikardo).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-08", "file": "debates1950-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ed78484282c3f813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNDERPAID WORKERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "To be perfectly frank, as the hon. Member well knows, it is impossible for me to answer because my union covers every range of the engineering industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-08a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.176.7", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "As the hon. and gallant Gentleman knows, I have given this matter every consideration. If the contractors responsible would offer the houses to the people who have a claim to them and at a price that they could afford, I would reconsider the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.176.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.191.9", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "If these gentlemen leave the area, they will, like anyone else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.191.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "BURMA (COMMONWEALTH LOAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": " began with any effort on our side, if we lost Burma. That is one reason why it is just as important for us that Burma should take the loan as it is important for Burma that she should take it from us. Burma needs this loan because of her post-war difficulties, and also because of the difficulties which arose out of the disorders. I will not pretend that Burma is as well governed as Great Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "BURMA (COMMONWEALTH LOAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "We chose to make war with the Japanese. I am not saying we should not have done so; that is not the point at all. The point is that whether it was the Japanese or the British who decided to make war, it was certainly not the Burmese. They did not ask the Japanese to drop bombs on Pearl Harbour or for us to come and attack the Japanese.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "BURMA (COMMONWEALTH LOAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. R. W. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. R. W. Low", "preceding_text": "ht against Communism, to strengthen freedom in Burma—and to see whether this loan is going to achieve this purpose. I sympathise with many of the hon. Gentleman's hopes and wishes, but I wish that he would sometimes direct his mind towards some of the practical problems. I, sometimes agree with him, and perhaps I am a little bit at variance with my hon. Friend the Member for Hornsey (Mr. Gammans)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "BURMA (COMMONWEALTH LOAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon-Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon-Walker", "preceding_text": "I said His Majesty's Government viewed both the amount and the delay with some concern. We are glad to see recent official statements made by the Burma Government, realising the importance of attracting capital to that country, and, as my hon. Friend the Member for Blackley (Mr. Diamond) said, the best way to attract capital to a country is to treat the existing capital on reasonable conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY OFFICERS (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "d to think that if a few people happen to suffer it is just bad luck. This is much the same kind of principle as in the case of a person who has a piece of explosive in the slate which is termed \"coal\" and finds that his fireplace his disappeared. I would say to the Parliamentary Secretary that justice is never done by condoning injustice and that the only true test of justice is as I have stated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.281.2", "colnum": "281", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY OFFICERS (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "sorry, but the Parliamentary Secretary has not got my point. If the hon. Gentleman will look at Paragraph 6 of the original Regulation, he will see that in assessing compensation account has to be taken of various things which include any other job the man may have been offered. As these Regulations stand, I must ask the House to think of the whole argument I have developed and not this one point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY OFFICERS (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "The explanation of the hon. and gallant Gentleman reminds me of a jingle which I heard when I was a little boy: I've seen diamonds in Amsterdam And I've seen spiders in Lipton's jam.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY OFFICERS (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": ". Members behind me who will later have a word or two to say about these matters. I say they are not. Furthermore—and this is a very serious matter—why were not these unfortunates treated with the same generosity as was shown to the Commissioners? Just because they are small persons. It is only too obvious that the greatest patrons of privilege in this country are the present Socialist Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY OFFICERS (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "They treated them very well indeed. We are not talking about the Commissioner class. They, also, have been treated very well indeed. We were never the friends of the privileged in the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY OFFICERS (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": " We have gone over that ground time and time again, and I do not think there is any point in pursuing it further. The hon. and gallant Gentleman did however, say that, if an individual went into the employment of an electricity undertaking two weeks before he went for his military service, when he came back his military service was in fact counted. That is true, and I think it is right and proper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY OFFICERS (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "rt-time, when on the other side the work must have been whole-time? These are things, many of them I think right in themselves, which in the main Regulations were asked for for what were called working directors—I think rather offensively to other directors—of the private enterprise companies. I want to know what is the distinction between the two. I do not know that I need take the thing further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.314.5", "colnum": "314", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY OFFICERS (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": " does not know the answer, or he does not want to tell us whether this compensation will come or will not come within the provisions of the Finance Bill as drafted. That question is vital to the man who is going to get compensation, and very vital to the House, which has to try to see whether compensation is fair or not. Hon. Members opposite are surely concerned with whether compensation is fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.314.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.314.5", "colnum": "314", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY OFFICERS (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Repetition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": " five years' time retrospectively. I do not put that past them. It is for the Parliamentary Secretary to say, \"In my opinion and upon my information the lump sum does—or does not—come under the provisions of the present Finance Bill.\" I say that he must either know or have heard the answer, or he has not. He will not say so. He could get up easily and tell us. I do ask the Parliamentary Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.314.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.316.2", "colnum": "316", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY OFFICERS (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I would submit at this stage, with great respect, that this Debate is becoming a farce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.316.2", "colnum": "316", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY OFFICERS (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh,\" and \"Breach of Privilege.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I would submit at this stage, with great respect, that this Debate is becoming a farce. [ Interruption .] Don't pull it; it's long enough already. In my view the Debate is not reflecting credit on the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY OFFICERS (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was a point of Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd", "preceding_text": "May I suggest, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, with respect, that you do not require the advice of the hon. Gentleman on a point of this nature—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.317.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.318.3", "colnum": "318", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY OFFICERS (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Foster", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. Should the Parliamentary Secretary say to one of my hon. Friends about some part of his anatomy that he should not pull it because it is long enough? Surely that is a very un-parliamentary thing to say. I am sure that the Parliamentary Secretary, instead of laughing at it, will withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.318.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.319.2", "colnum": "319", "heading": "CHEESE PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "preceding_text": "ntion of the House should be drawn to this Order. Before I go any further may I say how glad I am to see the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food in his place? He and I were both members of the Select Committee for quite a long time. May I remind him that if he wishes to keep his job in the Government he must refrain from talking in his sleep or mentioning feather beds when he is awake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.319.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "CHEESE PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And speaking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "that it cannot fairly be stigmatised as carelessness I think that really does call for comment. If I may just refer to the last two lines of paragraph 4 of the memorandum, it says: … and in future it is intended to avoid the use of ditto marks with their obvious possibilities of error. There is a slight sign of repentence. But ditto marks can be very useful. They can save a lot of printing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "CHEESE PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I do not think I can give the hon. Member an inch on that point because ditto marks are not, as a rule, preceded by a number. When that symbol for an inch is intended to be used to represent an inch it is always preceded by the number of inches which it is meant to indicate. I do not wish to labour this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "CHEESE PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Weary the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "rther Statutory Instrument. If the Ministry has been imbued with a desire to help the Select Committee on Statutory Instruments, as they should have been, and if they have merely said, \"This Order is to correct mistakes made in two previous Orders,\" and if they had done that before the Committee got on their track, then the trade would have been saved a lot of trouble and I should not have had to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.326.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.338.3", "colnum": "338", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "In which year?", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-ColoneI Elliot", "preceding_text": "We built 377,000 houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.338.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.339.0", "colnum": "339", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He wants more houses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "We welcome the building of houses by local authorities and every other source which will help to meet this problem. The whole burden of the speech of the hon. Member for Peterborough was simply concerned with trying to get more opportunity for building houses by private builders for profit. He wants more private building and less local authority building—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.339.0", "colnum": "339", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "orough was simply concerned with trying to get more opportunity for building houses by private builders for profit. He wants more private building and less local authority building—[An HON. MEMBER: \"He wants more houses.\"]—when it is notoriously the fact that houses built by local authorities by direct labour are let at rents which are much lower than the rents of houses built by private builders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.339.2", "colnum": "339", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "Are private builders going to hold local authorities to ransom in the same way as the landowners held municipal authorities to ransom in regard to the price of land before the Town and Country Planning Act was passed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.340.6", "colnum": "340", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "Over one million homes for the people. We are building now to the tune of 200,000 houses during the current year, and I am sure that the country knows that if it were possible to build more houses this Government would build them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.340.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "So far as the number of houses built since the end of the war is concerned, I doubt whether they have succeeded in equalling the number that were destroyed during the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.341.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.341.6", "colnum": "341", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "During the inter-war years the average number of houses built by successive Governments was well over the 300,000 mark——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.341.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Do not give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snow", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. and gallant Member allow me——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.344.7", "colnum": "344", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "which I come and it makes quite clear that this problem is no new one. While we certainly appreciate its seriousness, we know also that it is a problem which has afflicted us for very many years. Today, for the first time, many of these people are having an opportunity of getting a new house, of which they were never able to take advantage in the old days because they had not the income available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.344.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "rk of the private builder. His main objection to the local authority as a medium for house building is that the local authorities apply very strict controls and checks upon the method of building, the standards and the full specifications of house building. That that is necessary, is proved over and over again by the disastrous results of private speculative building throughout the interwar years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-09", "file": "debates1950-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "09364ffeb246eb86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "y strict controls and checks upon the method of building, the standards and the full specifications of house building. That that is necessary, is proved over and over again by the disastrous results of private speculative building throughout the interwar years. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] Hon. Members do not need to go far from this House to see plenty of examples of distressing speculative building—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-09a.345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-10", "file": "debates1950-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b8bbc5897b296247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.376.0", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that Leicester, which is one of the most attractive cities in the Midlands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-10", "file": "debates1950-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b8bbc5897b296247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.388.3", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GAMBIA (POULTRY SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the Opposition have chosen to spot-light this important development, and that they wish to direct all the venom of their attack upon this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-10", "file": "debates1950-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b8bbc5897b296247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.388.3", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GAMBIA (POULTRY SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the Opposition have chosen to spot-light this important development, and that they wish to direct all the venom of their attack upon this—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"] They have previously tried to do so over the groundnut scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-10", "file": "debates1950-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b8bbc5897b296247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.435.3", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY FREIGHT CHARGES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I did not declare that it was bankrupt two years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.435.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-10", "file": "debates1950-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b8bbc5897b296247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY FREIGHT CHARGES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hurrah.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " and they are the people who are fighting for the road, and, of course, the interest in rail disappears directly the directorates cease to be on the other side of the House. It is simple. Every industry we nationalise loses its loyal political lawyers on the other side of the House from that moment. It is a somewhat one-sided relationship, after all. Now I want to turn to constructive suggestions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.445.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-10", "file": "debates1950-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b8bbc5897b296247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.446.2", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY FREIGHT CHARGES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ould give up the whole of our passenger side and say, \"On that side we will make the most drastice increase to the inconvenience of the public as a way of earning a living for the railways.\" Surely hon. Members-opposite cannot agree with the right hon. and learned Gentleman that the solution is drastically to cut railway services and to drive people once and for all from the railway on to the bus?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.446.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-10", "file": "debates1950-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b8bbc5897b296247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY FREIGHT CHARGES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "preceding_text": "do something if we were to maintain the railways on a paying basis. That something was to come to an understanding with the road services as soon as the petrol engine came in direct competition with the steam engine. Having tried to urge that, year in and year out, how can I find myself tonight in opposition to the railways? Therefore, I feel that I cannot vote in support of these Prayers tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-10", "file": "debates1950-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b8bbc5897b296247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY FREIGHT CHARGES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rate structure.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "preceding_text": "ue to the traditions, customs and feelings of different sections, which still continue. But the point is that we cannot build up with rapidity a rate structure unless we can underpin and build on a solid foundation. We were able to do that in 1921 because the competition on the road was not what it is today. What is absolutely essential is to stop the rot and to get on with the new wage structure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-10", "file": "debates1950-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b8bbc5897b296247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.480.3", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY FREIGHT CHARGES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about a concession for the fishing industry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ediency rather than of logic. I wonder what the railwaymen feel about this question? They are asking why they should be made to carry the burden of all the other private enterprise industries. The prices of those industries go up while the freight charges on which the wages of the railwaymen depend—they hope for an increase as well—remain unaltered because a change would affect the cost of living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-10", "file": "debates1950-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b8bbc5897b296247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.485.3", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY FREIGHT CHARGES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "all the arguments which have been adduced in favour of this rise in prices, the argument that other prices in totally different circumstances have risen to a greater degree is, with respect to the hon. Member, the most fallacious of the lot. Another curious observation was his reference to what he calls the £190 million which he said had been given by the Government to the railways during the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.485.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-10", "file": "debates1950-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b8bbc5897b296247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.499.0", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY FREIGHT CHARGES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "Somebody who did not have a ticket, I should think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.499.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-10", "file": "debates1950-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b8bbc5897b296247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.499.3", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY FREIGHT CHARGES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "bingdon (Sir R. Glyn) made a frank attack in a fairly good-natured spirit, on those of us who are opposing this increase. Let me repeat one thing that has been said by one of my hon. Friends already, because I think the hon. Baronet was not in the Chamber at the time. The hon. Baronet said in his speech that he could not bring himself to be against the railways. But nobody is against the railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.499.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-10", "file": "debates1950-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b8bbc5897b296247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.499.3", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY FREIGHT CHARGES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "s really the way that private industry is to be lectured by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, the Opposition are entitled to use the same argument in suggesting that the modest increases in prices since 1947 should be absorbed in increased efficiency in the transport industry. I do not pretend that transport economics are a simple thing or that I understand them completely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.499.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-10", "file": "debates1950-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b8bbc5897b296247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.499.3", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY FREIGHT CHARGES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "t shared in all this? Manufacturers do not make goods and sit down and look at them in the factories; they get them out of the factories, send them to the ports and export them. All that should bring great benefit to the transport industry. I am bound to say that if this is the best the transport industry can do in a boom with rising productivity, God help us in a slump. I hope I have said enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.499.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-10", "file": "debates1950-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b8bbc5897b296247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.510.3", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY FREIGHT CHARGES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who wrote it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "urse, and they are allowed and the traffic is only thrown about as it cannot be delivered. It just mucks the place up and they laugh at the foolishness of it all. It is true there are so many supervisors, inspectors, canvassers, collectors, etc., it is a real sickness to see it, even market inspectors and so forth.… Do what you can to have this state of affairs made known. That is a letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.510.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-10", "file": "debates1950-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b8bbc5897b296247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.523.1", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY FREIGHT CHARGES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "f criticising the railways and complaining that there is no enterprise? One hon. Gentleman says that station masters ought to \"sell\" the railways, and then his right hon. and learned Friend gets up and says, \"Why cannot you explain why they are endeavouring to cater for more trade by putting on more services?\" I have already pointed out that when we had the fuel crisis in 1947, due to the weather—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-10", "file": "debates1950-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b8bbc5897b296247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.523.1", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY FREIGHT CHARGES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "deavouring to cater for more trade by putting on more services?\" I have already pointed out that when we had the fuel crisis in 1947, due to the weather—[ Interruption .] Right hon. and hon. Members opposite cannot even have the decency to recognise that on that occasion it was the railways which practically saved the industry of the country because it was necessary to keep private industry going—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-10", "file": "debates1950-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b8bbc5897b296247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY FREIGHT CHARGES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": " efficiency test probably in connection with the railways has been mentioned already by some hon. Members, but I want to refer to it again tonight. In 1938, the figure was 461 ton miles per engine-hour; in 1947, the year before the British Transport Commission took over, it worked out at 516 ton miles per engine-hour; and in 1948 it was 542 ton miles per engine-hour. The hon. Member for Merioneth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-10", "file": "debates1950-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b8bbc5897b296247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY FREIGHT CHARGES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "aul in the United States is 424 miles compared with 72 miles in the United Kingdom. That emphasises the difficulty of comparing fares and railway operation and figures in a country like the United States, with its immense distances, with railway operations in this country, where the distances are relatively short. I think that the figures I am now going to give represent further striking evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-10", "file": "debates1950-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b8bbc5897b296247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY FREIGHT CHARGES (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "es the House to come to a decision. The average train load in 1938—under private management, I want to emphasise—was 125 tons. In 1948, it was 156 tons. The average wagon load under private enterprise was 5.55 tons. Under the Transport Commission it was improved to 6.48 tons. The waste of wagons under private enterprise can be judged from the fact that in 1933 there was 33 per cent. empty running.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-10a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.551.6", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "Then the Minister withdraws his previous statement that the Girdwood Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.551.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.551.6", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "Then the Minister withdraws his previous statement that the Girdwood Committee—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Then the Minister withdraws his previous statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.551.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.551.6", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "Then the Minister withdraws his previous statement that the Girdwood Committee—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Then the Minister withdraws his previous statement—[HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"]—that the Girdwood Committee established—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.551.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.551.8", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I am asking, Sir, if the Minister has withdrawn it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.551.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.551.8", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I am asking, Sir, if the Minister has withdrawn it—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No \"]—there seems to be some dubiety about it. If I may say so, I think that would be a proper subject for a supplementary question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.551.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.551.8", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I am asking, Sir, if the Minister has withdrawn it—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No \"]—there seems to be some dubiety about it. If I may say so, I think that would be a proper subject for a supplementary question. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] I am asking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.551.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.551.8", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I am asking, Sir, if the Minister has withdrawn it—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No \"]—there seems to be some dubiety about it. If I may say so, I think that would be a proper subject for a supplementary question. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] I am asking— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] I am asking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.551.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LONDON DOCKS (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Porter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Porter", "preceding_text": "The question I am asking is on the statement that the two organised sections of the industry will be consulted. The point I am making is that people who are not inclined to accept those organisations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.582.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.605.4", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. and gallant Gentleman that he quoted comparative figures of building during the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.605.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.627.2", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "d an income of between £5 and £6 a week, and one had an income of a few coppers over £7 a week. We cannot approve of local authorities just fixing an economic rent if they are to remedy the needs position in their areas. I want to suggest one or two things which we could do to improve this position. Local authorities ought to recognise—I hope I may be allowed five minutes to round off my argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.636.2", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "ealed to hon. Members opposite. They are always talking about fair shares. I am getting rather sick of hearing those empty words, \"Fair shares for all\" and would like to see them implemented in this matter of housing. I want to know whether Socialists—and I am talking of Socialists particularly from the southern part of the Kingdom, although I do not know whether there are many here at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.636.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "p. There has been some progress in building houses, but there has been none at all in the matter of preserving them. In fact there has been a steady increase in the deterioration of existing houses. This is a matter to which, as a Conservative, naturally I attach perhaps more importance than hon. Members opposite, who are busily engaged in squandering the wealth which has been handed down to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "nded down to them—[ Laughter .] Hon. Members have a most extraordinary sense of humour. On the last occasion there was uproar from hon. Members opposite when I described the dreadful conditions of the man whose wife left him because he could not find a house. Here again, on the same kind of thing, when I talk of what we have inherited from the past not being kept in a proper state of preservation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.650.3", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is his name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "preceding_text": " a reply in public, but he took the name and address and sent on to my friend the policy of his party in regard to property owners. It said local authorities had been allowed to raise the rents of local authority houses, and that the Conservative Party thought it grossly unfair that property owners had not been allowed to raise their rents. The document, which is signed by an hon. Member opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.650.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "Major Guy Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You do not look it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Guy Lloyd", "preceding_text": "This is the first opportunity I have had of saying a few words in the new Parliament and I cannot say that I feel particularly maidenly tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.696.2", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": " us in a series of questions. He asked, first of all, from what sector would we draw resources, manpower or material, if we wished to enlarge the housing programme in Scotland. Surely, the first thing is to restore it to what the Government themselves were building only two years ago. What is the justification, with the desperate state of housing in Scotland, for a cut of some 3,000 houses a year,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.696.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.701.7", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" It was only last week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "en requested by so many other hon. Gentlemen opposite and to pursue the same housing policy? We do not know yet whether the Opposition want merely to have in Scotland the housing policy that has been given effect to in England, or not. We have been asked several times in the course of the Debate, \"Why can't we in Scotland have one in five for private enterprise as they have in England and Wales? \"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.701.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.701.7", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": " out of 26,000 people consulted, less than 5 per cent. said they were able or willing to buy a house of their own. Are we to satisfy the needs of those people by giving to Edinburgh Corporation an opportunity of having more houses built to private account in their area than elsewhere, or should we leave it to the discretion of local authorities, which is what hon. Members opposite seem to suggest?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.701.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "We are not so very sure that the election in Edinburgh quite recently was fought on the housing policy of this Government, or any other Government. There were many other matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the unemployed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": ", \"Let us wipe out all these controls and set the builders free.\" We have been asked several times today to look at the figures of house completions since the war by local authorities of some 30 or more years' experience of house building, and to compare them with the rate of building immediately before the war. The fact is that we are fully utilising our resources at the present time inasmuch as—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shut up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "I suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.706.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-11", "file": "debates1950-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8a52cacf8d2d56c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.706.3", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shut up.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member asked a question——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-11a.706.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-12", "file": "debates1950-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "04e227df7584854f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-12a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "FOOD IMPORTS (PRIVATE TRADING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "The fact is that the Milk Marketing Board is a monopoly set up by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-12a.737.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-12", "file": "debates1950-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "04e227df7584854f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-12a.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "FOOD IMPORTS (PRIVATE TRADING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "olicy of State trading, but due to world shortages, to the difficulties in which the Government are placed in regard to the import-export position, and to the shortage of dollars. When his hon. Friend complains about not getting any chilled meat into this country he ought to know as well as we know, that this is due not to any policy of the Government but to the shortage of refrigerating shipping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-12a.737.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-12", "file": "debates1950-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "04e227df7584854f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-12a.739.2", "colnum": "739", "heading": "FOOD IMPORTS (PRIVATE TRADING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "t home waiting for the highest price? The truth is, as I said just now, that this account of private enterprise at work is wholly divorced from the real facts. The truth is that buying and selling are going on all the time, and that is why it is deliberately unfair of the Opposition to try to compare Government prices with market prices, for reasons which I will try to give as briefly as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-12a.739.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-12", "file": "debates1950-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "04e227df7584854f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-12a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "FOOD IMPORTS (PRIVATE TRADING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "preceding_text": "ise importers who were restricted to trading in these commodities for which there was least demand. I think there can be no logical argument that control should be retained only for those commodities that are always in short supply. I say that advisedly, because, looking back on our history we find that private enterprise has always been able in the past to close the gap between supply and demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-12a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-12", "file": "debates1950-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "04e227df7584854f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-12a.758.3", "colnum": "758", "heading": "FOOD IMPORTS (PRIVATE TRADING)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Barnett Stross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Barnett Stross", "preceding_text": "d that our meat is tough, we would rather have it that way and be certain that it was not diseased and cheap as it was in the old days. Let me mention another point about meat. The present-day average price, unsubsidised, for an average cut is probably about Is. 5d. per lb. My right hon. Friend the Minister will correct me if I am wrong in saying that the subsidy is on an average about 3d. per lb.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-12a.758.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-12", "file": "debates1950-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "04e227df7584854f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-12a.769.3", "colnum": "769", "heading": "FOOD IMPORTS (PRIVATE TRADING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I will be quite frank with the hon. Member, I have not read that report. I am going on information which has been conveyed to me. I was told, and have been told quite definitely, that the Government bulk selling of meat organisation was set up in 1946—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-12a.769.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-12", "file": "debates1950-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "04e227df7584854f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-12a.781.2", "colnum": "781", "heading": "FOOD IMPORTS (PRIVATE TRADING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": "which are so arranged that they encourage putting on as much weight as possible, and which give no incentive for the production of quality meat, of baby beef, which was present in the times of free enterprise before the war. The result is that the meat we are getting at present from the Argentine is past its prime; it is old, tough, overweight and fat. I am quite certain that no one can deny that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-12a.781.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-12", "file": "debates1950-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "04e227df7584854f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-12a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "FOOD IMPORTS (PRIVATE TRADING)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Mr. Maurice Webb)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Mr. Maurice Webb)", "preceding_text": "nother sign of progress. Now we have this Motion which contains these very significant words: Urges His Majesty's Government, whilst maintaining long-term agreements with Colonial and Dominion producers … I think that is a considerable advance and that hon. Members opposite are to be complimented on going so far as to accept the necessity for some form of bulk graying in some circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-12a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-12", "file": "debates1950-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "04e227df7584854f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-12a.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "FOOD IMPORTS (PRIVATE TRADING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In some countries.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "ng world, and that we must now bulk buy because so many countries insist on bulk selling. Nobody ever answers that question. Nobody on the Opposition ever says, \"How do you make sure that you do not have bulk buying when the vendor insists on bulk selling.\" We must face the fact that bulk buying of one kind or another has become an inescapable, indispensable instrument of 20th century world trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-12a.787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-15", "file": "debates1950-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "470e427cfd26d7ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-15a.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "I have told the House repeatedly that the National Coal Board, after conversations with me, are taking steps to improve both the quantity and quality of the coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-15a.828.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-15", "file": "debates1950-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "470e427cfd26d7ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-15a.849.8", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman really mean to tell the House that it is impossible to make any estimate of the number of prisoners who have been held by Russia and of the number who have been returned? Is that what he means the House to understand?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-15a.849.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-15", "file": "debates1950-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "470e427cfd26d7ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-15a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DENTAL FEES (REDUCTION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"' No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "'s work. We should therefore disregard any other sums which may have been earned, in view of the very special circumstances existing at the present time. The hon. Gentleman who moved the Motion spoke of the inflated incomes which are being earned by certain dentists, and I think the House will agree that there is a figure for a dentist's income beyond which it would not be reasonable for us to go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-15a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-15", "file": "debates1950-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "470e427cfd26d7ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-15a.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DENTAL FEES (REDUCTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "k done by the 10,000 dentists today. That is one of the aims. There will be a larger number of people waiting for treatment, a larger number of people who will never receive treatment, although they might be compensated by the fact that those who do have treatment may receive rather better quality treatment. It will certainly have the effect, however, of reducing the output of the 10,000 dentists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-15a.935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-15", "file": "debates1950-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "470e427cfd26d7ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-15a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWN, BASILDON (FREEHOLDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For another 99 years? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": " is not the position he upholds today. At the present time a man purchases a piece of ground on which to build a house which is leased for 77 or 99 years, at the end of which period, under the leasehold system, he has to hand the house back to the landlord in a good and habitable condition. He then has to make a bargain with the landlord to remain in the house he has occupied for nearly 100 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-15a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1014.4", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the housewives are getting weary of the ever-increasing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1014.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1019.3", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Douglas Jay)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Douglas Jay)", "preceding_text": " the major purposes of the new Purchase Tax on lorries—I am advised they should strictly be called \"commercial vehicles,\" but I will call them \"lorries\" for the purpose of brevity—which is the next important proposal in the Bill. Therefore, anyone in the House who opposes these new taxes will also be opposing the Income Tax reliefs, because if the one is abandoned the other must also be abandoned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1019.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1019.3", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Douglas Jay)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Douglas Jay)", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Chippenham (Mr. Eccles) used a curious phrase when he spoke of what he called: The driving force of a working-class Budget in all its undisciplined humanity and in all its shapeless suicidal power.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 19th April, 1950; Vol. 474, c. 239.] Those strange words seem to me to breathe a remarkable spirit of hostility to the human aspirations of most of the British people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1019.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "May I make that clear? At that stage I was referring to pleasure petrol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1029.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1032.7", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "Mr. Diamond rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1032.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "preceding_text": "generally are able to bring to bear in international markets, this, plus the extent to which we can get our traditional invisible exports to work. This will be particularly so when Marshall Aid ends. I then went on to say that in those circumstances we must not be averse from asking ourselves the most difficult, searching and, if necessary, embarrassing questions. Then I went on to ask one or two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "preceding_text": "everses the process. It is really astounding. If the same thing had gone on in the motor industry, Austin Tens would now be about £2,000 apiece. I went on to ask another of these inoffensive questions: Where are the ever increasing charges for the products of British agriculture going to land us? The British taxpayer has not a bottomless purse out of which to subsidise the agricultural industry \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1052.3", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did not the cost of living go up in the 'thirties?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "We can set aside all these indices, since everybody knows that the Cost of Living Index itself is very much open to question. I admit I used a rather extravagant phrase, being rather in a hurry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1052.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1068.3", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. P. Crowder", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. P. Crowder", "preceding_text": "anges are rather like the little game of Box and Cox. Do not they pale into insignificance when one considers the confiscatory weight of taxation which this country is now labouring under and will labour under so long as this Government's unbridled expenditure goes on? I know that we on this side of the House have been challenged again and again to say what we would do and where we would cut down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1068.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Lang", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lang", "preceding_text": "is to be congratulated upon introducing a Budget at all after what was said last autumn about his future, the future of the Government and of the country, and the most fearful things that lay ahead. It seems rather a remarkable thing that we are sitting this afternoon, comparatively calmly, discussing this Finance Bill with some hope, at any rate, of living tomorrow, next week and the month after.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "of the upper-class markets on which some of the industries were built up in this country. If hon. Members wish for an example of that they should look at the history of Rolls Royce's attempt to enter the American market in the '20's and '30's. The principal market for consumer goods is in future in high' quality mass production goods at low prices, which the utility standard attempts to establish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1126.2", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Try it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "preceding_text": "ake much less pleasure in what he does, the actual policy is just the same. It is a fact that it is the Socialist policy, from which they seem unable to escape, which creates a permanent excess demand and a position of inflation suppressed by controls, pleasant enough while it lasts but rather like the state of intoxication which, I am told, is also pleasant while it lasts but terrible afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member for Scarborough and Whitby (Mr. Spearman) will excuse me if I do not follow him in every one of the arguments he has put forward, as I cannot for two reasons. The first is that I could not hear him at all. The second one is that having regard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cannot hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "at the hon. Member for Scarborough and Whitby (Mr. Spearman) will excuse me if I do not follow him in every one of the arguments he has put forward, as I cannot for two reasons. The first is that I could not hear him at all. The second one is that having regard—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"]—having regard to the lateness of the hour I am quite sure the right hon. Member for Aldershot (Mr. Lyttelton)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1146.1", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "The suggestion which I made in the article was a different one, namely, that we should give a subsidy to the railways. I made no mention of cutting the interest on the compensation stock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1147.1", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "can, but two wrongs cannot make a right. The true answer is to try to remove the deterrents to success and in a properly organised society people will not pursue these expedients. In the words of the Chancellor, the Lord-Black agreements only serve to highlight the deep-seated maladjustments of our economic system. If we look at the Death Duties everyone will agree that they are another deterrent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1147.1", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "licy. The Opposition will not, of course, divide on the Second Reading of the Finance Bill, little though they think of it. That is for the simple reason that if we divide against the whole Bill we would have to divide against certain things necessary for the national life. We shall therefore await the Committee stage to pick out particular provisions which we think inappropriate and inapplicable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1149.0", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "wo as I can. If any hon. Member will agree to read my Budget speech I think he will find every single point which the right hon. Gentleman put this afternoon, no doubt taken from my Budget speech. The reality is of course that we should look at the situation with its advantages as well as its disadvantages. I do not propose again to go through the rather long review which I gave of that situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1150.1", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": " that the total volume of private savings has immensely increased, and has not decreased at all. This idea that somehow or other we have dried up the fount of private per- sonal savings is a complete fallacy. If we take even small savings, there again it is a complete fallacy. What has happened with small savings is that withdrawals have increased very much indeed. This is a quite different point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1153.3", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "ce the money. This is another £60 million. Well, where is he going to get £60 million from? Or does he want to reduce the overall balance in the Budget? Does he want a deficit Budget? None of these questions is answered. I could go through the whole Budget and give an excellent reason why every single tax should be taken off—an excellent reason. Anybody can, because, after all, nobody likes taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "Not at all. If the right hon. Gentleman only understood, it is not at all curious. What we are saying is, \"Unless you moderate your demands now, you will not be able to achieve them in the future.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-16", "file": "debates1950-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "9fca2e68fa892029", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way to the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-16a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1191.4", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether my predecessor was consulted, but there is nothing in that document inconsistent with what I have said from this Box, and if the hon. and learned Gentleman will examine it closely he will find that I am in accord with the document. With regard to the first part of the supplementary, in this case this is a small union; it is a dissident body—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1191.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1216.8", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "FLOODS, WINNIPEG (MESSAGES TO CANADA)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "preceding_text": "ister of Canada: On behalf of my colleagues and myself I should like to convey to you the deep concern with which we have learned of the serious floods in Winnipeg. Please express our heartfelt sympathy with those who have suffered in the catastrophe. I am sure that all sides of the House would wish to be joined with His Majesty's Government in this expression of sympathy at this serious disaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1216.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1217.4", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "FLOODS, WINNIPEG (MESSAGES TO CANADA)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am in the hands of the House in this matter. If the House would wish me to send such a telegram I shall be delighted to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1228.5", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blyton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not on this Clause.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blyton", "preceding_text": " to accept when the Tory Party supported them in the days that have gone. I say to the miners on this side of the Committee, and I shall say it to the miners in my constituency, that the first charge on our industry is not to carry the liabilities that private enterprise have refused to accept, but to see that the lower-paid men get better pay and to see that superannuation schemes are brought in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1228.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1234.3", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the Committee for having arrived a few minutes late, and I am not quite certain whether we are debating the second Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1243.5", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, he did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "The Minister is a peculiar type of grammarian. He has made an offer to consult with my hon. and learned Friend to find a form of words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1243.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1244.0", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": ". Of course it is, more obscure than the thickest of London fogs. The Minister will have an adequate opportunity of meeting my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kensington, South (Sir P. Spens), and my hon. Friend the Member for Carlton (Mr. Pickthorn), who is quite capable of giving the Minister some tuition in clarity of expression. On that understanding we shall not vote on this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1244.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1246.6", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Spens", "preceding_text": "Before we pass on, as you have not actually put the second Amendment Major Milner, may I say that in view of that semi-offer——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1246.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1259.2", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He pays no rent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " a man out of a job. I cannot understand this totally unjust attitude of mind. In effect, it is saying that if one is a Member of Parliament one is entitled to compensation, but if one is a Parliamentary Secretary one gets nothing. The Prime Minister, whose gross salary is over a quarter of a million pounds, is to get nothing because he is above the limit both at 10 Downing Street and at Chequers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1259.3", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very rough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "preceding_text": "y that the hon. Member for Croydon, East has spoken, it at once reminds me of harsher injustices in my own constituency. He reminds me of little chapels and modest Community centres and much else that mean a great deal to us. We are not implementing the Turner Report. There are all kinds of problems that will be settled in the future. For the moment we do not pretend to do more than rough justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1261.0", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "I must say it is interesting to us who sit on this side of the House and to those who sit on the other side to hear from the hon. Member for Cannock (Miss Lee) that her judgment is swayed when she has any conversations with or is forced to hear speeches by people who use immoderate language. She hates apparently violent language and she, like me, despises people who talk about \"vermin.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1273.4", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "So far as anyone desires to speak, it is the duty of the Chair to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1273.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1314.6", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why mention that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "ent is agreed by both sides, and that I can well understand. If the arbitrators disagree, then there is procedure by which an umpire can be appointed. The legal procedure by which the octopus calls in an arbitrator and then asks the little fellow whether he accepts, bearing in mind that the little fellow is already an employee of the octopus, does not strike me as being very kindly social justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1314.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1322.2", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "efore the Bill passes into law. We again get this illogical attitude of the Minister and his Parliamentary Secretary. Take the case of two adjoining houses, in both of which there is damage to the extent of £2. In one case the subsidence happens the day before the Royal Assent, and in the other the damage occurs after. The second house can get payment in full, but the first house gets none at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1323.3", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said nothing of the sort.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "How can the Committee accept what the Parliamentary Secretary says? I am surprised that there are not more representatives from mining constituencies present at this moment. I hope Mr. Horner is somewhere about tonight and will see the poor representation of miners. What does the Minister say? He says it is quite all right to do an injustice to the man whose claim is below £5.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "onstituencies, are away when they should be here, and they have nothing to say about the small man who puts his savings into a house and finds that he is mulcted in £5. Apparently, it does not matter at all, because the wondrous Lord Hindley would not deign to look at such a small claim, nor would the Minister or the Parliamentary Secretary. This is one of the gravest exhibitions I have seen here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": ". The man fills up the crack with cement, and everything is then all right. That is the Minister's recipe for dealing with subsidence. In point of fact, the cracks may appear on the following day, and the worker would be there all the time unless he was dealing with a fundamental subsidence. This idea that we can have an amateur pottering around filling up cracks when the foundations are shifting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1330.3", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "ing about, and so do I—No. 10 Downing Street. That house was falling down. Everybody said, \"You cannot keep that old shack going. It is quite impossible. It is unhealthy, the foundations have fallen.\" Nevertheless, the House of Commons approved the expenditure of an immense amount of money in putting right No. 10 Downing Street. Let us spend some money in putting right the humble houses of miners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1332.6", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "I am not informed myself as to the latest position of the casualty list of hon. Members opposite. I am told that the strain of late hours is telling on them, and that when the bell tolls, hon Members arrive in considerable numbers from the Terrace bar—which is usually overcrowded, except when there is a vote taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1332.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1343.1", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I did not quite appreciate the point made by the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South (Mr. Ellis Smith) when he said that before the Coal Board came into being, people used to fall down the shaft—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1348.3", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "preceding_text": "I will not detain the House for more than two minutes but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-17", "file": "debates1950-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6bae023fc75cd184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1360.1", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOFT FRUIT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I think to some extent it is in many cases the lack of attention by the growers, both as to the quality they put on the market and the way it is put up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-17a.1360.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-18", "file": "debates1950-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "b1d1f99e3d674cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-18a.1361.7", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "FLOODS, WINNIPEG (MR. SPEAKER'S MESSAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "D. CLIFTON BROWN, Speaker.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-18a.1361.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-18", "file": "debates1950-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "b1d1f99e3d674cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-18a.1394.7", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST-WAR CREDITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "No, there is no injustice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-18a.1394.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-18", "file": "debates1950-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "b1d1f99e3d674cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-18a.1451.4", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGHWAYS (PROVISION OF CATTLE-GRIDS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": " forward are to clear up a procedural point. May I refer to the actual wording of the subsection if we insert the Amendment? It will read like this— it shall be registered in the prescribed manner in the register of local land charges by the proper officer of any county borough or county district council in whose area the land … I do not think that is what the right hon. Gentleman intended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-18a.1451.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-19", "file": "debates1950-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ecdcc7b72edd58d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1510.3", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "PETROL RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "t. We were not surprised, however, when the hon. Gentleman was translated with almost indecent haste to a Department in which petrol played very little, if any, part. The second reason put forward by the Government against the de-rationing of petrol is the balance of payments. The Government are often critical of Members on this side and suggest that we are irresponsible in some of our statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1510.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-19", "file": "debates1950-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ecdcc7b72edd58d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1524.4", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "PETROL RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "urse they do not, and they have not anything like the national income with which to buy it, either. My small child can go along very nicely on a tricycle, but I cannot ride a tricycle. It is a bit too small for me. These questions are not rhetorical questions. We are entitled to answers. I have tried to deal with this matter purely from the point of view of how it affects the ordinary working man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1524.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-19", "file": "debates1950-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ecdcc7b72edd58d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1526.0", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "PETROL RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You asked for them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "To say that either I or my hon. Friend the Member for Dover (Mr. Arbuthnot) have sneered at civil servants is a gross distortion, and the hon. Member knows it. If the hon. Gentleman wants to talk about letters from constituents on complaints about petrol, I have had 27 this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-19", "file": "debates1950-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ecdcc7b72edd58d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1528.1", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "PETROL RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ill allow myself to be diverted from my main argument at this stage by making another point in answer to the hon. Member for Somerset, North (Mr. Leather), who referred to the increased attention of this party to the owners of high-powered cars. What is the picture? Of course, the number of cars on the road has rapidly increased. It is perfectly true to say that our planning under this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-19", "file": "debates1950-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ecdcc7b72edd58d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1531.3", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "PETROL RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "\"— he might have said the Conservative Party— into its head about the possibility of derationing petrol. They are based mainly on the idea that there is something called 'sterling oil' for which we don't pay dollars and can't get dollars, and which, therefore, we can consume with a good conscience to the limit of what is available. Unfortunately, the 'sterling oil' concept really won't hold water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-19", "file": "debates1950-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ecdcc7b72edd58d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1543.1", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "PETROL RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": " has been happening on the benches opposite. Good news for England has been received, as it was by the Foxites in the 18th century, with depression; bad news for England with elation. Indeed, one saw that to some extent even today when hon. Members asked, Why is this country worse off than Iceland and Belgium and all the other countries? There was joy and pleasure on the faces of Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-19", "file": "debates1950-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ecdcc7b72edd58d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1553.2", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "PETROL RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": " I am certain that the right hon. Gentleman could do something for that class of the community.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 11th July, 1946; Vol. 425, c. 733.] I am equally certain that hon. Members opposite want the abolition of petrol rationing, not for the sake of individual constituents, but for the welfare of the section of the community—the small section of the community—for which their party speaks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1553.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-19", "file": "debates1950-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ecdcc7b72edd58d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "PETROL RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, private enterprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": ". Lady the Member for South Coventry (Miss Burton) about courtesy. All the courtesy in the world will not help them when they want to go out on a Sunday or to go away for a holiday in their motor cars. I was surprised that the hon. Lady also spoke about herrings, because only this week, Scottish fishermen have been tipping them back into the sea because they could not be sold. If that is planning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-19", "file": "debates1950-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ecdcc7b72edd58d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "PETROL RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "ix months before by hon. Members on this side of the House. I can well understand that hon. Members opposite are not enjoying this Debate. I would not, if I were sitting on the other side. I remember that three or four years ago the Lord President of the Council slated us on this side because we did not oppose sufficiently; now that the Opposition is stronger, hon. Members opposite cannot take it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-19", "file": "debates1950-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ecdcc7b72edd58d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1564.1", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "PETROL RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "I am not suggesting that there was any intention at all in these matters, because the hon. Member who brings forward the application receives as much credit for anything that is achieved as the Minister himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-19", "file": "debates1950-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ecdcc7b72edd58d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1564.1", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "PETROL RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "f. The motorists represent all classes of the community, and I was surprised that the hon. Member for West Fife (Mr. Hamilton) should say that there were no motorists or motor-cyclists in his division. There may not be such a high percentage as there is in other parts of the country, but it is not the rich people who form the bulk of the motorists in these days, but members of the working classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-19", "file": "debates1950-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ecdcc7b72edd58d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1568.1", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "PETROL RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "that, I can see no justification at all for endangering the economic stability of this country, of the whole sterling area and of our future in order to satisfy, or to make an effort to redeem, some of the irresponsible speeches made on Conservative platforms during the General Election. It is even worse than that. I am sorry the hon. Member for Monmouth (Mr. P. Thorneycroft) has left the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-19", "file": "debates1950-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ecdcc7b72edd58d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1586.3", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "PETROL RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "My figure includes motor bicycles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1586.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-19", "file": "debates1950-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ecdcc7b72edd58d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1592.1", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "PETROL RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "nds quoted the White Paper which said that there were other competing demands for the resources required by the refineries—electricity generation, steel production, factory building, housing for people and all the rest. The steel shortage was the worst, because in 1948 alone the British oil companies wanted 650,000 tons of steel for this programme. Nevertheless, work began on the sites at Stanlow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-19", "file": "debates1950-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ecdcc7b72edd58d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1600.2", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "PETROL RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "l considered to be wrong in the eyes of the Minister of Fuel and Power. Only last week I had one of his snoopers in my constituency watching, on the other side of the road, to see when motorists drew up before a particular garage. He would then rush up, after the transaction had been completed, demanding to see the coupons which the motorist had surrendered. In the end, of course, he got a victim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-19", "file": "debates1950-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ecdcc7b72edd58d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1600.2", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "PETROL RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "of Fuel and Power. Only last week I had one of his snoopers in my constituency watching, on the other side of the road, to see when motorists drew up before a particular garage. He would then rush up, after the transaction had been completed, demanding to see the coupons which the motorist had surrendered. In the end, of course, he got a victim. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Then there is another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-19", "file": "debates1950-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ecdcc7b72edd58d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1601.3", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "PETROL RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "I am raising a point of Order. Is it in Order for the noble Lord the Member for Horsham to shout \"You Nazis\" across the Chamber?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-19a.1601.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1657.6", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STEEL DISTRIBUTION (DECONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "preceding_text": "With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I would like to answer Question No. 82——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1657.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1657.9", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STEEL DISTRIBUTION (DECONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No remedy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. What remedy have we, then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1657.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1657.9", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STEEL DISTRIBUTION (DECONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No remedy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. What remedy have we, then—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No remedy.\"]—if we believe that taxpayers, the producers of motor cars and the motor trade are penalised. What remedy have we, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1657.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1658.2", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STEEL DISTRIBUTION (DECONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "On a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1658.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1659.0", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STEEL DISTRIBUTION (DECONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question No. 81.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I propose to answer Question No. 82——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1658.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1659.4", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STEEL DISTRIBUTION (DECONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer Question No. 81——", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1659.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1659.5", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STEEL DISTRIBUTION (DECONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question No. 81.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "The answer to Question No. 82 is: The Government has now completed its review of the steel distribution scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1659.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1659.5", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STEEL DISTRIBUTION (DECONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"Question No. 81.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "The answer to Question No. 82 is: The Government has now completed its review of the steel distribution scheme—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question No. 81.\"]—and has decided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1659.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1659.8", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STEEL DISTRIBUTION (DECONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "Would not it be perfectly simple, Sir, if the Minister would answer Question No. 81?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1659.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1659.11", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STEEL DISTRIBUTION (DECONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question No. 81.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "As I was saying, Sir, the Government has now completed its review of the steel distribution scheme and has decided that, with the exception of sheet and tinplate, supplies of which are not yet adequate——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1659.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1660.0", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STEEL DISTRIBUTION (DECONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. As the Minister seems reluctant to answer Question No. 81—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1660.0", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STEEL DISTRIBUTION (DECONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. As the Minister seems reluctant to answer Question No. 81—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and as he also refuses to answer my supplementary question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1662.0", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MOSTON COLLIERY, LANCASHIRE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "loys, and can usefully employ for many scores of years, five or six hundred men? The reply of the Minister was: Perhaps my hon. Friend will be good enough to put that question down, and I will deal with it.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 15th May, 1950; Vol. 475. c 47.] Now I am told that it is a matter for the Coal Board and that the Minister is not competent to deal with it. I am in a very great difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1667.1", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "building industry has been the constant shortage of building materials. The recurrent shortages of bricks in the last few years could, with a little forethought on the part of the Government, have been avoided. There need have been no brick famine in 1946 if the Government had not, by an extraordinary oversight, forgotten to demobilise the brickmakers until several months after the end of the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1667.1", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "arch, 1950; Vol. 472, c. 864.] He argued that if house building was to be increased, some part of the national investment programme would have to be cut, and he asked in a jeering fashion whether the Opposition intended to cut schools or factories, or power stations or old people's homes. He added that the Opposition lacked \"the intellectual and moral discipline\" to say where the cuts should fall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1673.0", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I think the right hon. Gentleman is trying to draw a red herring. He gave the answer himself. He said: Oh, I am giving the answer—one in 10.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 13th March, 1950; Vol. 472. c. 865.] for houses to be built by private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1673.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1674.2", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Surely the sensible thing would be to do away with the ratio altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1680.0", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "n my hands the moment I was appointed Minister to the Department—that I think that the Working Party are wrong in thinking there was overloading. I think the trouble was quite different. There was material scarcity; a lot of brickfields had closed down; it was impossible for my right hon. Friend to wait for stocks to be built up before he started. One does not know what one can do until one tries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1680.0", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "osite. An immense amount of the industry seems to belong to that party in some curious way. There are 125,000 different companies. in this industry; 52,000 of them are one-man companies employing no operatives at all except on occasion; and the industry has a most complex structure. It does not lend itself very easily to co-ordination which makes it all the more important to try to co-ordinate it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1680.0", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ndustry; 52,000 of them are one-man companies employing no operatives at all except on occasion; and the industry has a most complex structure. It does not lend itself very easily to co-ordination which makes it all the more important to try to co-ordinate it. [ Laughter .] Well, that is so. Added to which, they were not accustomed to the idea of pre-planning, which everybody now stresses so much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1680.0", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "stry was down by 50 per cent. compared with pre-war, and the situation was even worse in the materials industry. In addition to that, there was a great deal of obsolete plant and machinery still in use. In the event—and right hon. Gentlemen opposite ought to realise it—by 1947, despite all the muddle that was imposed upon us on account of their incompetence, we had got a really balanced programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1681.5", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "t too few houses, not too many. They are now apparently complaining that we are over-loading the industry, which is a completely anomalous situation. I am very glad that they realise what the real position is. The situation would not be nearly so difficult for us if efforts had been made before the end of the war to get matters a bit straighter than they proved to be. Anyway, I welcome the Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1681.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1681.5", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "lous situation. I am very glad that they realise what the real position is. The situation would not be nearly so difficult for us if efforts had been made before the end of the war to get matters a bit straighter than they proved to be. Anyway, I welcome the Debate. [ Laughter .] Yes, and I shall get better at it as I go on. Quite seriously, I hope hon. Members will realise the difficulty I am in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1681.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1681.5", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " I can do depends entirely on the good will of those with whom I am seeking to co-operate, because there is no compulsion about it at all. It is therefore very difficult for me to overstress, or to discuss in too much detail, many of the points in the Reports. In the main, taking the two Reports together, action is called for under three heads: there is action to be taken mainly by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1681.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1683.1", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "planning in detail. Unless plans are made before the work starts—and I agree with what the American Report says about this—the building operatives on the site have not a chance of turning out a good job so far as costs are concerned. Then there are the incentive schemes. The right hon. Gentleman referred to these, but they are not employed to anything like the extent they should be, in my opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1691.1", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly call the attention of my right hon. Friend to the hon. Member's remarks. That more or less concludes what I wanted to say, and I end up where I started, by saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1701.1", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "The second point concerns the execution of the plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1703.1", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "t think we shall have an efficient industry. My last word is this. I think that the right hon. Gentleman has a great opportunity. He entertains us when he speaks in the House, and always has done, in a most delightful way. His business ability will be of untold value in the Ministry of Works. He has two things to do: first, to control the exuberance of his right hon. Friend the Minister of Health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1703.1", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "] My hon. Friend the Member for High Peak (Mr. Molson) tells me that that is no easy task. Well, the Minister of Health is rather mercurial and politically minded, but nevertheless, he has to be controlled if the industry is to build anything for the country. Secondly, the right hon. Gentleman must not allow the industry to be used as a pawn by politicians for their own purposes for getting power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1708.5", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "preceding_text": "If hon. Gentlemen opposite would remember how long I have been at this game, they would not try that kind of trick. I was not talking about the Coalition Government. I was talking of all the Tory Governments between the wars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1708.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1708.7", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Better.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "preceding_text": "trols, licences and so on, and have got the industry into such a mess, that it is completely failing. Of course, that is all nonsense to those who know the industry, as the hon. Member for Wallasey knows it, in spite of his rather foolish sneers about politicians. He is as good a one as I am. Hon. Gentlemen opposite know that this country has as good a record in house building as any in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1708.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1708.7", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "preceding_text": "sense to those who know the industry, as the hon. Member for Wallasey knows it, in spite of his rather foolish sneers about politicians. He is as good a one as I am. Hon. Gentlemen opposite know that this country has as good a record in house building as any in the world. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Better.\"] The only people, it seems to me, who do not know that are the Tory party. Everybody else does know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1708.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1760.1", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Davies", "preceding_text": "Club have had three covered stands rebuilt, and I have a document in my hand which says that much progress has been made on the site of the former grandstand which has been partly terraced and partly covered. They have rebuilt three stands in eight months, and they talk about other work which has been done. I say, \"Good luck\" to my friends in Millwall. Where is the consistency in this arrangement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1762.1", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": " he agreed in the old days that it was the duty of any Minister responsible for his Department to say in this Chamber what was his policy, and to answer questions. So it is the right hon. Gentleman's duty to tell us what is his policy and to answer the questions that have been put to him. Why is the increase of 25,000 possible within four weeks? Has he got the timber and the other materials ready?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1771.5", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "to demobilisation of the Army and mobilisation of the industry, although that is always forgotten. Because it is so obvious, one would think that we never had to do it, although it was an immense job. We also had to get rid of another very bad practice—negotiated prices for houses. I spent the winter of 1945 and the early months of 1946 disciplining the building industry again into good practices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1771.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1771.5", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "7 the administrative machine outran the building machine. That is why—I say this and I say no more under this head—that no more dishonest and cruel poster could have been put up in this country than \"Let the builders free to build your houses.\" On their showing they were wrong, and at the same time that the Conservative Party has been spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on immoral propaganda—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1771.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1771.5", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Elementary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "on. There are more of these reports which have said—I am bound to say that I am astonished at it being necessary to spend month after month in saying so elementary a thing—that there should be some pre-planning. What does it mean? All it means, as I understand it, is that the intelligent and efficient builder plans his time schedules and his materials before he actually begins physical operations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1771.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1780.1", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "s coal at some other time. At the moment we are discussing houses. I am saying, and this is based on the Reports, that the housing programme of this country has been conducted in such a fashion as to give rise to the situation that the products for which private enterprise is mainly responsible have risen 30 per cent. more than the houses for which the nation is responsible. Those are the figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1780.1", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "and this is based on the Reports, that the housing programme of this country has been conducted in such a fashion as to give rise to the situation that the products for which private enterprise is mainly responsible have risen 30 per cent. more than the houses for which the nation is responsible. Those are the figures. [ Laughter .] I will read out the figures. Does the hon. Member challenge that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1781.1", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "e going for- ward under planned direction—not standing still in the old jungle as it was before the war. Whilst we are not, and shall never be, satisfied with the housing programme as long as there are people without separate houses in Great Britain, we are proud of what we have done in the last four and a half years, and we know very well that all that is in the minds of hon. Members opposite is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1781.1", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Prime Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " programme as long as there are people without separate houses in Great Britain, we are proud of what we have done in the last four and a half years, and we know very well that all that is in the minds of hon. Members opposite is—[ Interruption .] Now that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) has shown his interest in the housing problem by coming in at the last moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1781.1", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " very well that all that is in the minds of hon. Members opposite is—[ Interruption .] Now that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) has shown his interest in the housing problem by coming in at the last moment—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Prime Minister?\"] I am sure that the whole House would like to hear now from the Leader of the Opposition what he thinks the policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1783.1", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Prime Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "We should like to know from the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1784.1", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Are we to be given to understand that a decision of such importance was taken without consulting the right hon. Gentleman? Does he not know? That seems to me to be a very strange thing indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1784.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1784.4", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too late.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan-Hepburn", "preceding_text": "Mr. Buchan-Hepburn (Beckenham) rose in his place and claimed to move , \"That the Question be now put.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1784.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-22", "file": "debates1950-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2803b5e388b58b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1811.1", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWSPRINT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "There was a lot of public importance, but it would have been more interesting, I think, if the reports had been based upon what took place at the conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-22a.1811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1869.2", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "Today, the Minister is full of sweet reasonableness. We accept his proposal. We are very anxious to get on with public business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1869.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1874.1", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I find some difficulty in understanding the Amendment. I do not like to disagree with my hon. Friends; but let us assume that my house, one morning, falls down a coalmine", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1885.0", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "been properly discussed in the Committee. We have had a confession from the Minister, a surprising confession, that he lost £400 by a failure to put in his war damage claim He is surrounded by secretaries, menials and lawyers, all the sort of people who serve opulent men, and if he did not remember to put in his claim how can we expect the humble miner, who has to work very hard all day, to do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1885.2", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "rved rest, and, therefore, I do not particularly want to see a Division because I am afraid that a large number of hon. Gentleman opposite would follow my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon, East (Sir H. Williams) through the Lobby. It would, indeed, be a peculiar development in politics if the hon. Member for Croydon, East, were to defeat the Government with the aid of Socialist Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1885.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1887.3", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": " on this side of the Committee who take such a great interest in the Bill, we shall have an opportunity to get something more satisfactory on the Report stage. It is obvious that the Minister is not quite satisfied with this form of words and neither is the hon. Member for Ilkeston. We have a great deal of public business to discharge and I am always anxious to speed up the business of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1887.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1919.1", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "I was trying to help the hon. Member for Hendon, South (Sir H. Lucas-Tooth) in his Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1925.3", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I do not think we have had an answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1925.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1926.14", "colnum": "1926", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "—is a great mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1926.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1940.1", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": " concerned, recourse to his union for advice. That is one of the functions of the miners' union, to give advice of that nature to its members. No doubt he could seek advice from the local authority. There are many sources from which he could get advice. I merely suggested that, in the last analysis and if the problem became too complicated, he could go to a lawyer, which is always the last resort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1960.2", "colnum": "1960", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Charles. While we do not claim to be intellectual giants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1960.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1962.0", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A dissertation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": " you need no reminding that the Scots are good all the way through, that they are very restive under the present Government and that a bone has to be thrown to them from time to time, because these Covenanters are ferocious creatures. I, therefore, feel that anything we can do for Scotland—and there is a very little we can do, with the Government taking control of everything that affects Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1962.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1962.0", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "t stand up for the Scots as well as for the miners. On the whole, I think there is nothing very much wrong with the Lord Advocate's brief explanation. There is, however, something wrong with his performance. It is now a quarter of an hour since I invited him to go and have a bowl of porridge, or whatever Scotsmen have in the evening. He has sat there all day long. The Ministers really ought to go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1962.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1971.2", "colnum": "1971", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "orld I will not mention, in opening up a mine we drove water apparently seven or eight miles away from the mine. The local farmers kicked up such a hullabaloo that they might have been Scottish Covenanters. We were faced with plenty of threats of writs, etc. Now, the farmers are thanking us because this particular water is growing crops—but I am never so sure of farmers' gratitude. I am wondering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1971.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1973.2", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "I feel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1973.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1975.0", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "I quite agree that the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1977.4", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "s very important Measure that there shall not be litigation in the future. However welcome it might be to the hon. Member for Leicester, North-West and his friends, the duty of the House of Commons is to avoid litigation if we can. I hope that in the interval during the Whitsun Recess the right hon. Gentleman can consider this. I see an hon. Member behind the Chair supporting the Attorney General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1977.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1979.0", "colnum": "1979", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "With great respect to you, Sir Charles, I do not think that anybody so far in this Debate has mentioned the particular point which I have just mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1982.0", "colnum": "1982", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "k (Miss Lee) to realise that these are matters of high consequence to the mining world. I hope—and I do not want to bring controversial language in here—that the Minister will have another look at this Clause. It could be redrafted in such a way that most of my hon. Friends probably could support it. Can I leave it like that? Will the Minister tell us that he will give this matter reconsideration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1982.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1984.3", "colnum": "1984", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "We want to get on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1984.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1984.3", "colnum": "1984", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "e to mortgage their houses and they are up against many difficult circumstances, more particularly if they have got children to educate. The owning of house property, despite what some hon. Members opposite may say, is on the whole a good thing. As my hon. Friend rightly said, if we pass this Bill in its present form almost every mortgage will be called in by cautious solicitors and their clients.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1984.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1990.0", "colnum": "1990", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mr. Deputy-Speaker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Charles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1990.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1995.1", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "l, and certainly not cheaper coal. In the last week in my own division, the price of the delivery of coal has gone up by 5s. a ton. One cannot say that under any of the main headings which should govern the methods of the Minister in applying the Act, he has succeeded. What is even more important is what members of the Coal Board themselves have to say on this problem. I find in them an arrogance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1998.1", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do you withdraw?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "Of course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.1998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2000.0", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Earlier today your predecessor in the Chair, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, while ruling as you have done, that the question of quality itself was out of order, nevertheless permitted the discussion of quality in so far as it had a very direct bearing on quantity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2000.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2002.1", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "preceding_text": " met in a way which is impossible today. That. I think, is a fair enough summary. Are hon. Members opposite unaware of some of the factors in this situation? I believe that they are, or that they are failing, deliberately, to disclose their knowledge. There are many thousands of domestic consumers in Great Britain today who are better pleased with the quality, as well as the quantity, of the coal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2002.1", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "preceding_text": "knowledgeable platform. The audience could ask any questions they chose, but they had to ask them in the presence of members of the community who really knew what they were talking about both from the coal-getting side and the coal-consuming side. I found that in that audience there was unanimous agreement that the householders were getting better coal today than they were getting in the old days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2004.2", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quantity.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "r hard for some of us to bear it when hon. Members opposite masquerade as friends of the housewife and the collier. When we turn back the records of the House of Commons and go back decade after decade, I challenge hon. Members opposite to point to a single Question, far less a single speech, from their benches in which there was even a word of protest when colliers' wives were getting dirty coal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2004.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2007.1", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": " get anything like the total which is supposed to be their right? I do not believe the people are getting a true picture at all. The picture in South Warwickshire, I know, is one of shortage. We have a shortage everywhere in my constituency and this shortage persists. We are getting letters and complaints from all over the place. At Long Compton, the vicar had to write to the Member of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2011.1", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "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": " that this Direction had not been debated before. It was. On that occasion it was a political stunt. It was at the time we were discussing the Gas Bill and were occupied for hours on end in the Committee stage. The Tories were running around looking for all kinds of Orders and things to keep the Minister and myself in this House while they were running upstairs to the Committee stage of that Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2012.1", "colnum": "2012", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What rot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "at is available for the domestic market. There has never been on any occasion any suggestion that the maximum permitted quantity was in fact available to all consumers. Indeed, the only reason for having the maximum permitted quantity is to prevent those who can take a lot from taking more and thereby depriving other people of their supply. What we have always tried to do is to make up the amount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2014.1", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member asks who said that. The very fact that the Opposition have put down a Motion to annul the Direction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2014.1", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member asks who said that. The very fact that the Opposition have put down a Motion to annul the Direction—[ Interruption .] Annul the Direction in the Division lobbies, and the lid is taken off. That is the natural consequence of this Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2014.1", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "e more than His Majesty's Government would like to increase the domestic coal ration, so that we could supply what we know much more about than hon. Members opposite, and that is the real needs of the ordinary people living in ordinary working-class homes. These people, whom we represent, are largely the people who are burning coal in old-fashioned grates; not the friends of hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2016.5", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "stribution side, is one of the most serious menaces to our recovery. Therefore, on behalf of my hon. Friends, I accept the Minister's invitation. We shall ask at the first possible opportunity for a Debate on coal. We shall base ourselves on the admissions made by the Government's nominee, Lord Hyndley, and we hope to go very thoroughly into this. But we do not want to do it in any partisan sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2016.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2016.5", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Vote, vote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "s the most vital industry in this country, but we do, and I must say that rarely have I seen a Minister approach an industry of the importance of coal with such levity as the hon. Gentleman did tonight. I say to my hon. Friends—and I know they are extremely irritated and must be forgiven because of the really provocative speech made by the Minister—wait until we can get a full day to discuss coal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2016.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-23", "file": "debates1950-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "91cfe04694841326", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2018.3", "colnum": "2018", "heading": "COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": " either now or at a slightly later stage-the Government would be in a position to increase the ceiling. From the Parliamentary Secretary's speech, it is quite obvious that under the present set-up we have not got the coal to increase the ceiling, either at present or this year. In view, however, of the hon. Gentleman's offer to have a full Debate on coal, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-23a.2018.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-24", "file": "debates1950-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "f4c4dcb27ffb2601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2036.4", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH-CZECHOSLOVAK LEAGUE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2036.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-24", "file": "debates1950-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "f4c4dcb27ffb2601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2036.5", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH-CZECHOSLOVAK LEAGUE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Go on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. [ Interruption .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2036.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-24", "file": "debates1950-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "f4c4dcb27ffb2601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2080.1", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "I want to express my appreciation and thanks for the very kindly reference which the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Eden) made at the beginning of his speech. I join with him in expressing an earnest hope that his wishes will be fulfilled and that I shall be cured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-24", "file": "debates1950-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "f4c4dcb27ffb2601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2093.1", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Somerset de Chair", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is recognised.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Somerset de Chair", "preceding_text": "I think that when the Foreign Secretary made his case, every word he used in regard to recognising an effective Government in China could have applied with equal force to the recognition of the Government of Spain. If he was thinking in terms of security and the most effective defence arrangements for the West against the spread of Communism, he might well have considered simultaneous recognition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-24", "file": "debates1950-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "f4c4dcb27ffb2601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2112.1", "colnum": "2112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "preceding_text": "bencher that, however much we may differ on matters of policy and however much we may clash, I myself—and I am certain I speak for every back bencher in the Committee—am most anxious that the further treatment which he is to have next week will be speedily and fully successful and will restore him to the health that is necessary to him in carrying on the very heavy responsibilities which he bears.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-24", "file": "debates1950-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "f4c4dcb27ffb2601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2118.1", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "preceding_text": "No, on the contrary. Ho Chi-minh's whole record, up to a point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-24", "file": "debates1950-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "f4c4dcb27ffb2601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2118.1", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "preceding_text": "hat area. I am only a layman in these matters, and I have been quoting General MacArthur, but so far as one can see there would not even be any practical advantage in this proposal that we hear coming from America for the rearming of Japan. I hope that the Government, through their spokesman tonight, will be able to give us a clear view on that matter. I have already spoken longer than I intended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-24", "file": "debates1950-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "f4c4dcb27ffb2601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2138.1", "colnum": "2138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": "r and tin. We have helped in health, we have helped in education although in the past we have neglected the latter. When my colleague and I went to one trade union, we saw in the large office there a number of children and a teacher. When we asked them what they were doing, they said, \"This is our school. There is no school to which the children can go, so we have established a school of our own.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-24", "file": "debates1950-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "f4c4dcb27ffb2601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2162.1", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAR EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": " are not necessarily disloyal, but we cannot expect them to give us the help we need unless we can offer them some sort of security and give them some reward for the help they give us. At the present moment, the position is that anyone who helps us is pretty certain to get \"bumped off\" by the guerillas, whereas anyone who helps the guerillas gets off scot-free, and gets a good mark for the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-24", "file": "debates1950-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "f4c4dcb27ffb2601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2194.3", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BACON (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "e Order Paper today was tabled on 17th May, and I am now informed that subsequent to the tabling of that Motion an Order has been tabled which, while revoking the Order against which this Motion is Praying, made continuous the point of substance—the reduction of the bacon ration from 5 ounces to 4 ounces. I seek your guidance, Mr. Speaker, on a point which may be of some constitutional importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-24", "file": "debates1950-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "f4c4dcb27ffb2601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2195.0", "colnum": "2195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BACON (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "May, not by the Minister but by the Parliamentary Secretary. On 12th May the Minister passed Order No. 784 which says Bacon is hereby declared to be rationed for the purposes of the principal Order. That principal Order is Order No. 1950 C, Statutory Instrument No. 790. Now, No. 790 was not signed till seven days later. We have heard a bit about retrospective legislation but this was anticipatory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-24", "file": "debates1950-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "f4c4dcb27ffb2601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2195.0", "colnum": "2195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BACON (RATIONING) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "er of constitutional importance. Hon. Gentlemen are very stupid to laugh at it. In the totalitarian States they make laws by decree, and these Orders are decrees in the Continental sense. If one decree can refer to a decree which is made seven days later, we are face to face with a major constitutional issue. If, on the day we expect to debate an Order we find that we cannot have a Debate because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-24a.2195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-25", "file": "debates1950-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a89c8ea6368f7360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2214.2", "colnum": "2214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "I would point out that this was a school in the nature of a nursery. If children have been waiting four hours between one meal and another, and somebody suggests that the only basis upon which they will be allowed to obtain their dinner is if they say \"Thank you\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2214.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-05-25", "file": "debates1950-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a89c8ea6368f7360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2214.8", "colnum": "2214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Commonwealth Day.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that some education authorities do not recognise Empire Day in this fashion, and does he not think that the day is of sufficient importance to warrant a holiday for all children in the land? Is there any better way of fixing the importance and significance of the Empire in the minds of young people than by celebrating Empire Day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2214.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-25", "file": "debates1950-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a89c8ea6368f7360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2221.5", "colnum": "2221", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH TRADE (MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Arising out of the right hon. Gentleman's last remark, surely he is under a misapprehension. That reference might be made in the case of a Dominions conference, but at an Imperial conference the British Colonies have always been represented, either by spokesmen nominated by the governors concerned or a group of Colonies, or by His Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2221.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-25", "file": "debates1950-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a89c8ea6368f7360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2239.1", "colnum": "2239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman implying that the comments of the Select Committee should have no weight whatever attached to them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-25", "file": "debates1950-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a89c8ea6368f7360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2247.0", "colnum": "2247", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "s. It is true that sometimes announcements are made at Press conferences but I think, on the whole, that when they are so made, it is appropriate that they should, because, if every statement—especially about the economic and trading activities in which certain Departments are involved—were made in the House, there would be a lot of statements and the House would begin to get rather tired of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-25", "file": "debates1950-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a89c8ea6368f7360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2249.0", "colnum": "2249", "heading": "FLOOD AND FIRE DAMAGE, CANADA (RELIEF MEASURES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the whole House will welcome and endorse these proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-25", "file": "debates1950-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a89c8ea6368f7360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2255.6", "colnum": "2255", "heading": "SCOTLAND (FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllister", "preceding_text": "May I, on behalf of my Labour colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2255.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-25", "file": "debates1950-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a89c8ea6368f7360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2271.8", "colnum": "2271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN COMPENSATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "use to produce books or documents or to furnish information when required by the Commission so to do; and it creates an offence punishable summarily in connection with the making of false statements in the giving of such information or the production of such documents. With the vigilance for the rights and liberties of the private subject for which His Majesty's present advisers are distinguished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2271.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-25", "file": "debates1950-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a89c8ea6368f7360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2296.0", "colnum": "2296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brendan Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brendan Bracken", "preceding_text": "hose connected with the fuel and power committee, ought to get the Order of Merit for labouring away and trying to improve this Government's sloppy legislation. We get little credit for it, except when the Solicitor-General appears. In these circumstances, it is a very happy experience for us to have the glowing tribute the right hon. and learned Gentleman has given. However, we are rather modest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-25", "file": "debates1950-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a89c8ea6368f7360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2309.1", "colnum": "2309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "I will not get controversial on this Third Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-25", "file": "debates1950-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a89c8ea6368f7360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2316.3", "colnum": "2316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINING (SUBSIDENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "t does not matter where it comes from. If I moved an Amendment which would improve the Bill and the hon. Member for Merthyr Tydvil (Mr. S. O. Davies) opposed it, who is insincere? Surely I would be sincere and he would be insincere because he did not support it, as he was afraid of disciplinary action which, in the Labour Party, is very rigid. In our party we are always free to express an opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2316.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-25", "file": "debates1950-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a89c8ea6368f7360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2331.3", "colnum": "2331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAINTENANCE ORDERS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate (Mr. John Wheatley)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate (Mr. John Wheatley)", "preceding_text": "s extended to the sheriff court within the jurisdiction of which the pursuer lives provided the parties last ordinarily resided together as husband and wife in Scotland. Those actions, of course, may also include conclusions for payment of aliment for the child of the marriage. The extended jurisdiction only applies where the husband is resident in one of the other countries of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2331.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-25", "file": "debates1950-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a89c8ea6368f7360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2364.1", "colnum": "2364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAINTENANCE ORDERS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "ent facilitated its progress. The hon. and learned Gentleman knows very well that if the Government had decided to oppose a Bill of that nature they could easily have done so. That Measure was carried through with the encouragement and with the support of the Government. It was not carried through by a Conservative Government. It did not appear until this Government, with its great humane outlook—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-25a.2364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-05-26", "file": "debates1950-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "b7d46ae1883a8e36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-26a.2414.1", "colnum": "2414", "heading": "PEACE EFFORTS (MR. TRYGVE LIE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ganley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ganley", "preceding_text": "t scientific research is always directed toward destruction. That is not so. It is done in order to satisfy the person who is inquiring what will be the outcome of the next discovery. It is satisfaction of the human spirit which is at the basis of scientific research. The pity is that, unfortunately, war pays handsome profits. That is why the situation that we face today is so extremely important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-05-26a.2414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-13", "file": "debates1950-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "fdba88ef2cd1f678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-13a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": " both sides of the House, may I ask him how it was that Mr. William Hayter was able to say that 90 per cent. of the people of Britain approved this plan before even this House had had an opportunity of discussing it? Might I further ask that whatever line we take we shall say that no supra-national authority will be allowed to interfere with the Socialist Government's planning for full employment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-13a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-13", "file": "debates1950-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "fdba88ef2cd1f678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-13a.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMIGRATION", "cue_speaker": "Captain Ryder", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Ryder", "preceding_text": "The housing problem in the Dominions is capable of solution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-13a.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-13", "file": "debates1950-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "fdba88ef2cd1f678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-13a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMIGRATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations (Mr. Gordon-Walker)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations (Mr. Gordon-Walker)", "preceding_text": "and gallant Member for Angus, South (Captain Duncan) said that in the old days the Labour Party used to oppose migration. I would point out that the entire circumstances in which the subject is discussed have changed. In those days when the Empire Settlement Act was being enacted, the whole idea was that the Commonwealth countries overseas were a sort of workhouse in which we deposited our people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-13a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-13", "file": "debates1950-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "fdba88ef2cd1f678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-13a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "their officers and the labour force, whom I have seen at work. I would add only a further point; at each new town I have visited, I have made a point of calling on some of the houses already occupied, and not merely on tenants who were prepared for the call I have called at various times and, generally speaking, during the working hours of the day so that usually I have seen the lady of the house—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-13a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-13", "file": "debates1950-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "fdba88ef2cd1f678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-13a.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRE SERVICES (APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will the hon. Gentleman answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "g, in Committee and on Report and no objection was taken at the time. I say, most emphatically, that it was recognised by Parliament that if there were to be efficient fire brigades then the Home Secretary must have the right to do this and, of course, the Home Secretary would not over-rule a fire authority except in extreme cases. But Parliament recognised to a man that he should have that power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-13a.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-13", "file": "debates1950-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "fdba88ef2cd1f678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-13a.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRE SERVICES (APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "e will read anything. Possibly he may think he is representing the local authorities, but the fact is that even bodies as important as county councils, who have their representative on the council accepted this. If hon. Gentlemen opposite will study this Act, and the council set up pursuant to it, they will see that these authorities are represented on the council. Let me pass to the second point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-13a.169.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.222.8", "colnum": "222", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "preceding_text": "I beg to give notice that I shall call attention to the need for improving and increasing the provision of reasonably priced holiday accommodation, particularly for families, and move a resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.222.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.223.1", "colnum": "223", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Usborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Usborne", "preceding_text": "I beg to give notice that I shall call attention to the need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. Gaitskell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. Gaitskell)", "preceding_text": "emen were educated at Eton and not at Winchester. The implications of this Amendment are, of course, perfectly clear. It not only involves the complete abolition in so many terms of Clause 1—of, indeed, all the first five Clauses of the Bill—but, if carried, it would completely transform the Budget because it would also mean dropping Clause 19 and the reliefs in Income Tax proposed in that Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.238.5", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "y hon. Members that the tax remissions are something which we all desire. It is very seldom that tax remissions are not desired. But I would go further than that. I would say that these particular remissions, the reduction of the 6s. and 3s. rates to 5s. and 2s. 6d. were particularly favoured by the Opposition themselves. Indeed, I think I am right in saying that they claim the authorship of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.238.5", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " are not desired. But I would go further than that. I would say that these particular remissions, the reduction of the 6s. and 3s. rates to 5s. and 2s. 6d. were particularly favoured by the Opposition themselves. Indeed, I think I am right in saying that they claim the authorship of them. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] They presumably cannot object to the reasons for the increase in the Petrol Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.238.5", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "cularly favoured by the Opposition themselves. Indeed, I think I am right in saying that they claim the authorship of them. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] They presumably cannot object to the reasons for the increase in the Petrol Tax. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] They really must face up to this. The reason this tax on petrol has been increased is entirely to find the money for the Income Tax remissions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.240.2", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "e the war brought in a sum of approximately £60 million, which was then, in proportion to the total revenue, 6½ per cent. In 1949—that is, the last tax year—the Petrol Duty revenue was very little changed. It had gone up by about £2,250,000 to £62,500,000; but, the percentage of the Petrol Duty revenue to the total revenue had fallen from 6½ per cent. to just over 1½ per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.240.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.240.4", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "—while all the time the Petrol Duty has remained unchanged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.240.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.240.4", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "—while all the time the Petrol Duty has remained unchanged. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why.\"] I ask hon. Members to pay attention to what I can assure them is a serious argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.240.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.240.4", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "e duty of any Chancellor of the Exchequer, when every Budget comes, to consider whether there should be changes in the level of taxation as between different taxes, and my right hon. and learned Friend, in my view, is absolutely right to say that Income Tax, in relation to the Petrol Duty, has become too high, and that it would be a good thing to increase the Petrol Duty and reduce the Income Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.240.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.240.4", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "I may say so, he will not find it nearly so silly if he looks at it from the point of view of the Income Tax payer. I should have said that, far from its being silly, there is everything to be said for reducing a tax which is very keenly felt and increasing a tax which, whatever may be said about it—and I shall deal with the criticism in a minute—is certainly not going to be felt nearly so keenly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.240.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.240.4", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "t—and I shall deal with the criticism in a minute—is certainly not going to be felt nearly so keenly. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If hon. Members opposite or their predecessors in fact found in the then Budget and the then national income that the tax should be 9d. per gallon, they should certainly not be against a tax of 1s. 6d. a gallon with a far higher national income and a far higher total revenue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.240.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "I am dealing with the Amendment, which is concerned with the tax on petrol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.245.0", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "d be well below 1 per cent. 4.30 p.m. There are several Amendments on the Order Paper on this special case of oil for particular industries, and I do not propose to trespass on them, but before I sit down I must deal with one or two remarks which the right hon. Gentleman made towards the end of his speech. I cannot accept the extraordinary story that we are in any way prejudiced against motorists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.245.0", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The red flag.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "t difficult circumstances of petrol rationing, always extremely cordial, and I do not think that they would ever suggest that there was any prejudice in my mind against motorists. Why should there be, seeing that I have been for many years a member of one of the motoring organisations concerned, and seeing that my right hon. Friend, so he tells me, was one of the pioneer motorists of this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.245.0", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was wise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ng that is obviously absurd. The right hon. Gentleman also said, for some reason which I cannot understand, that the advisers of the Government were prejudiced against the motor manufacturing industry. That is complete nonsense. As a matter of fact, my right hon. and learned Friend, in the course of his Budget speech, went out of his way to pay a special tribute to the motor manufacturing industry", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.256.2", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "It is a very difficult calculation, but 12s. was allowed for petrol and oil, and we threw in 2s. for depreciation of the car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.256.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.256.2", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"First or third class?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " oil, and we threw in 2s. for depreciation of the car. [ Laughter .] Yes, hon. Members can laugh. The amount allowed for depreciation is a very high percentage if I may say so, and I considered that I was not being unfair in the calculation. I am grateful to hon. Gentlemen opposite for laughing at the figure because if there is a distortion in my figures, it is to overstate road cost against rail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.256.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.257.5", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Comic?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I do not blame them for being wrong, but they have found that they have sold overwhelmingly the small cars in the United States as well as elsewhere. We cannot compete with the United States in the manufacture of the medium or high horse-power car because they can do those things better. The one car we can sell there is the little car, the comic little car that one's wife can drive to the station.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.257.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "It seems to me to be a most incredible argument to advance from the Government Front Bench. It shows a degree of financial irresponsibility which is a little terrifying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Member go further and agree that the only alternative, if he disapproves of this step, would be to subsidise the nationalised railways in much the same way as we subsidise the private enterprise farmers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.266.4", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not in Coventry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": " been very much weakened. He is on record in his Budget speech as having put forward four arguments. One was that the extra petrol would cost dollars. How many dollars will it, in fact, cost now? Let us have an account in some detail of this arrangement that has been come to, because I should have thought it was perfectly plain that the dollar argument has been at any rate very seriously weakened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.266.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "ay they have always been in favour of every advance in the social services, but always at some other time and somewhere else. If they are in favour of these Income Tax reliefs, how else are they to be paid for? I have listened with great care, as I always do, to the right hon. and learned Member for Montgomery (Mr. C. Davies), the Leader of the Liberal Party. I found his speech most disappointing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ery good Liberalism, and as such I support it. When has there ever been anything wrong in raising money from the whole community in order to relieve the hardest hit. What is wrong with that? The right hon. and learned Gentleman says that because they never paid Income Tax their income was not high enough, but he is forgetting that it was not more than two or three years ago that that was not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "I would regard it certainly as insignificant, after devaluation. The position regarding our exports as a whole after devaluation is that our prices are perfectly competitive in a great many lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": " their goods into the export trade. Now, the petrol tax is a particularly good tax from this disinflationary point of view, because not only does it cut down the demand for petrol, but it also cuts down other demands on the home market by its secondary effects. If people spend less money on petrol for their cars, they will spend less money in hotels and holiday accommodation and many other things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor have we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": " holiday facilities less frequently. There will be important secondary effects entirely in the right direction. It will mean that resources in use in the home market will then become available for the export market generally. If I may end up by a comment on the road and rail aspect of the matter, I would say that I have not the faintest idea what was in the mind of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.286.2", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "sts of any business undertaking have always been a small percentage of the total costs of the business, but in the last four or five years, under Socialism, transport costs have gone up by over 60 per cent. I say quite definitely that transport costs in manufacturing industry have risen from a very small percentage a few years ago to one of the highest single costs in manufacturing business today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.288.0", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Fenner Brockway", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Fenner Brockway", "preceding_text": "nment Front Bench regarding financial matters. As I continued to listen to the speech of the hon. Member for Monmouth, I thought the denunciation of irresponsibility came very uncomfortably from his lips, because when one looks back over the last five years one realises that the most marked feature has been the extraordinary success of the financial planning which has taken place during that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "come Tax concessions would have appeared very important to the Opposition because, after all, they had an important Amendment on this subject in last year's Budget, a declaration of war against Socialist finance they called it. They said that Income Tax was the heaviest burden and was the one they must fight hardest. That Amendment was a very bad Amendment in many ways. This is a better Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "the Income Tax concessions than they will lose through the increase in the Petrol Duty. Anyone who receives the full Income Tax concession—and one does not have to earn a very large sum to do that—receives, I think, £11 5s. a year. To spend that amount of money a man would need to use petrol at the rate of more than 25 gallons a month, and I do not think many people will use more than that amount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.305.0", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "se we have fought a long and difficult war, our people have had trying times since, and I should like to see the British people enjoy themselves. I think they are entitled to do so. What does annoy me is to hear hon. Members opposite, like the hon. Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman), talk about the prosperity of this country. I think that is a very misleading and dangerous statement to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.305.0", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Air-Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": " not say how much would be saved by way of civil servants who dealt with food, the points system and petrol rationing. There must be many savings which could be made. I ask the Government to bring about a real saving. We have been taunted this afternoon because we have not given instances where money could be saved in Government expenditure. I look forward to the Debate when we can give instances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "That, of course, is quite proper, because we must have fair shares all round. But there is quite a different class of motorist—and this is the point I want to make—the motorist with whom, I must admit, I first became thoroughly acquainted when I was in the Petroleum Department, and with whom I have endeavoured to keep in contact ever since. He is the working-class motorist, the small motorist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "avoured to keep in contact ever since. He is the working-class motorist, the small motorist. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Hon. Members may jeer, but this is a really serious problem. The kind of motorist I am thinking of is the small man who, very often, has a tin on the mantelpiece to which he and his wife, and sometimes his sons living in the house, subscribe for the running repairs of the car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Can we have his name and address? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "If he had gone into this matter at all, the hon. Gentleman would realise that the way a working man buys a car is nearly always out of savings accumulated, for example, during wartime. That is the way I found it. This particular man—the Committee may as well have it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "It was exactly the same when this tax was originally introduced, and the same as when the indirect tax on tea and sugar was introduced. In the same way we have taxes upon tobacco and upon beer, which fall upon everybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "that they would have an extra 4s. in future to put with it. I think that I have covered, as fully as I can, all the points raised in this Debate. I am bound to say, having listened to it most attentively, that I feel in exactly the same frame of mind as when proposing this increase in the Budget. I believe that, on balance, it will be a good thing for the people of this country. It will help them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.340.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.341.6", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Hon. Gentlemen must resume their seats when I rise. In my view the Committee are ready to come to a decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.341.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "Given by the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.399.2", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is plenty of time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "? I do not think it is reasonable that this industry should be called upon to bear this tax in view of the very good effort which it has made by not raising its prices, except by a very small amount, compared with many other industries, during the difficult days of the war and since the war. I think it would be unwise for me to press this point further, because I have stated the facts as they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.399.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I, for one, think the duty, as applied to these articles at least, was wrong before the war. I am sure that may be an argument which may appeal to hon. Members opposite who are so fond of finding what was wrong before the war. I hope we shall not hear that argument brought forward on this Amendment. If it was wrong before the war in our conditions then of comparative economic stability and wealth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "et except by taxation. If we continue the policy of increasing this huge expenditure, then it can only be paid for by lowering the standard of living of the people. 1.0 a.m. The hon. Member for Bury and Radcliffe interpolated in this Debate the question of costs involved in our trade competition with Germany and Japan, but he forgets that neither Germany nor Japan has this huge burden of war debt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.409.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.419.3", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I hope the Committee will agree to come to a decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.419.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.453.1", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "t is the constitutional point and there the duty on the Treasury Bench is to produce something which is slightly less objectionable than the Bill as drafted. The duty of the Treasury Bench is either to show that our objection is mistaken or to produce something which removes the objection. Our objection is to the taxing capacity of this House being exercised, as I think, in an unprecedented manner", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.461.0", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "t the initiative had to come from that body, while on this occasion the initiative comes from the Government. The body from which the initiative came on that occasion was a specially appointed body, and it had the confidence of almost every section of industry—and by that I mean both sides of industry. It was also in close touch with industry, and was not subject to political pressure of any kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.461.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.463.0", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "I hope hon. Members will sit down when I stand up. We have had more than a dozen speeches and have spent more than an hour on this Amendment. I hope the Committee is ready to reach a decision on the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.480.7", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "llors who have had to deal with very difficult Budgets. I have, furthermore, always noticed that if they had any political wisdom, or knowledge of the House, they tried to conduct the business peaceably on the first day. I have also noticed that a Minister who is weak and indecisive, and not really in control of himself, has tried to over-play his part in the Committee. In quite a friendly spirit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.480.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I do not know if the last intervention by the Chancellor of the Exchequer was meant to withdraw the statement which he made earlier that we were going to continue to sit now continuously until Friday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": "ntleman was meant to withdraw his statement, it indicates a more reasonable attitude. Giving the best guess I can—I know that it will be shared by some of my hon. Friends who are taking an interest in the Bill—I have always had a doubt whether the Committee stage could be completed in five days, but we have not had much doubt that it could be completed in not very much more. Even today, I suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": "hat very serious considerations arise. I have no doubt that he has the power to insist on that if he wishes. It is quite obvious in these circumstances that there is going to be no proper discussion on a Finance Bill to which, I suppose, he himself attaches importance. I should have thought it was rather disgraceful that his suggestion of a procedure which would have prevented all real discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "g to say that I indulged in some abuse of the right hon. and learned Gentleman. The point I have just raised about the right hon. and learned Gentleman was only the matter for which he was expelled from the party which he now adorns. It is most significant that a proposal should be made within the hearing of the whole of this Committee that we should sit from now continuously until Friday morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "onvince others who ought to know it; that it is the desire of the party opposite that Measures should not be properly discussed in this Committee. It is quite impossible for hon. Members opposite both to applaud the Chancellor of the Exchequer's suggestion to kill discussion by continuous session until Friday morning and to pretend that they have any interest in democratic procedure in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "eviously said, that it was the intention of the Government to sit from now until Friday morning without interruption? I ask that only for information. If that is the intention of His Majesty's Government, we on this side of the Committee are quite as capable of bearing the physical strain as hon. Members opposite, but there need be no illusion whatsoever about what the country will think about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "ry will think about it. [ Interruption .] I do not think that the country doubts the capacity of hon. Gentlemen opposite to make a noise. A short time ago, it was suggested that they were prepared to work without rest from now until Friday. That was easy, because, judging by today's proceedings, no work whatever will be done by the Government Front Bench. No point of substance raised on this side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Keep it up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "ut it. [ Interruption .] I do not think that the country doubts the capacity of hon. Gentlemen opposite to make a noise. A short time ago, it was suggested that they were prepared to work without rest from now until Friday. That was easy, because, judging by today's proceedings, no work whatever will be done by the Government Front Bench. No point of substance raised on this side—[ Interruption .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "uld be \"tedious repetition.\" He said that nothwithstanding the fact that he himself had been absent from the House at the time the discussion to which the hon. and learned Member for Northwich was claiming a reply took place. It would not have been tedious repetition or any repetition at all. My hon. and learned Friend was raising a point to which no reply has been given from the benches opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.502.0", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But they still drink beer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "the price was reduced by 2d. or 4d. we should not return to the old days when a man went to a pub at 5.30 and stayed until 10.30. The standards of our people in these days have improved considerably. I am told, for instance, that in my constituency more television sets were sold last year than radio sets. People are staying indoors more these days instead of finding then-pleasure outside the home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.502.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-14", "file": "debates1950-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "09a94980d2a0587a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "ed if any hon. Members know of parts of the country where live entertainment is provided with the cinema. I gather that it is an American company which is running the Empire and it is aiding the American and not the British film industry. Anyone with experience of the entertainment world will admit that in the main it is quite impossible to have live entertainment and a film in the same programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-14a.509.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Government's view is that it definitely would not be a help but a hindrance to put forward rival proposals before we have had an elucidation of the proposals that are being put forward by the French Government. After all, it is their initiative. We do not in any way want to cut across their initiative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.552.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.552.3", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A leak.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It was, as a matter of fact, not timed for that particular moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.552.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.552.6", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "In view of the very great weight of the criticism being levelled against this country both in Europe and in the United States, does not the Prime Minister think that it would be advisable to issue a comprehensive statement of Government policy, if only to clarify the issue as to whether this country is being governed by His Majesty's Government or by the Executive of the Labour Party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.552.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.553.2", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is himself, I believe, a member of the Opposition who goes in second wicket down, but he makes statements of party policy; and I have no doubt that when he was a Minister he made statements on party policy, but that when he made a statement on party policy it was never taken as a statement of Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.553.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.554.2", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman tell us whether he or the Foreign Secretary knew the Labour Party document was to be published on the day when it was published?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.554.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.554.4", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman to say, is he not in fact a member of the National Executive of the Labour Party? If so, can he have had no knowledge of this document before it was published?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.554.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.555.6", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister will recall that he informed the House that he regretted the publication of this document on that particular date. Can he not tell us whether he had in fact read the document?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.555.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.556.0", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Author.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "Does not the Prime Minister think that it might solve the whole of this question if a little time were given for the Opposition to read this pamphlet, when they would discover that none of these questions arise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.555.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "I was merely mentioning the existing stock of lorries in the country. That is not a material increase in our industrial costs as a whole, particularly when it is remembered that this tax is not intended to be permanent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": " preserve proper Budget secrecy, we could not have as full consultations as one would have wished before the Budget, but in the light of these subsequent consultations and of what we have heard here today and in the earlier Debates, we have come to the conclusion that it would be better to impose the tax simply on the chassis of the vehicles in question and to exempt all the subsequent operations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.598.3", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "perfectly prepared to deal with that point. Hon. Gentlemen opposite are presumed to represent constituencies, but more than enough in these Debates do we hear the voices of the great selfish vested interests. As a matter of fact, we have the Pharmaceutical Society represented by one hon. Member, and we all know, every time he speaks, whom he represents. We heard the brewers speak twice last night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Aldershot (Mr. Lyttelton) has put very clearly the point of view which hon. Gentlemen opposite hold in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.619.1", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman may not have used the word \"accentuate,\" but he said that so far as interfering with supply and demand, it must facilitate it. \"Facilitate,\" I think, was the word used. He wants to accentuate the forces of supply and demand so as to drag more easily the supply into the channel of demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.619.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.636.2", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Well, if it is not for the assent of the House, it is for the dissent of the House. It makes no practical difference to the result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.636.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.649.3", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Switzerland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harrison", "preceding_text": " argument of the hon. Member. The hon. Member suggests that the devaluation of the currency of this country is something which is special to this country, something deliberately engineered by the Government. That was the implication behind his speech. Can he tell me a country on earth, a civilised country, where the currency has not been considerably devalued during and since the close of the war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.649.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.661.3", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is Clause 17.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "in the shops for the people to buy. They are now spending the savings they made during the war. People are buying new houses and furniture, and therefore we are getting withdrawals from the banks. I am not alarmed at this at all. Unfortunately, we are precluded from discussing constructive proposals for the reduction of national expenditure, but I understand that we can do that later on Clause 17.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.661.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "As much as that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.685.6", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I have listened with interest to the Chancellor. He told us that this Amendment would cost £103 million. When the hon. Member for Stechford (Mr. Jenkins) was speaking, he said that the Amendment was of no value at all —the figures were so trifling that is was not worth considering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.685.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.685.6", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "he Exchequer now think they own all our income and that what we are allowed to keep is a great favour. That is all right for those in the happy position of inheriting a good fortune or who accumulated wealth before this oppressive system of taxation came along, but the great mass of the people I represent now see no opportunity of ever saving enough to retire. They are sentenced to death for life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.685.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.685.6", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "essive system of taxation came along, but the great mass of the people I represent now see no opportunity of ever saving enough to retire. They are sentenced to death for life. [ Laughter .] The phrase is much more explicit than hon. Members opposite seem to think, because life under the jurisdiction of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer is so near to death that it is an accurate description.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.685.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.685.6", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "resent Chancellor of the Exchequer is so near to death that it is an accurate description. [ Interruption .] I am merely correcting misapprehensions in the minds of hon. Gentleman opposite. The Chancellor of the Exchequer cannot say all the time that he cannot afford these concessions. Everybody can look at the Budget proposals. I have been in the House longer than the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.685.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.685.6", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the unemployed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "her in Buckinghamshire. That is one case when we were in agreement. It is quite intolerable for the Chancellor to ride against every Amendment on the grounds that he cannot afford it. Surely it is time for us to try to adjust our expenditure so that life shall again become tolerable to the great mass of our people. In the days when I was a junior Minister, no Minister of the Crown had a motor car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.685.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.691.2", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hutchinson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hutchinson", "preceding_text": " I am about to say I appear to be critical of these concessions, I hope the right hon. and learned Gentleman will bear in mind that they are after all substantially the only concessions which he has found it possible to make; and that even they have had to be purchased at the price of a tax which will enter into the budget of every home in the country. Indeed, the right hon. and learned Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.691.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.691.2", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hutchinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hutchinson", "preceding_text": "e purchased at the price of a tax which will enter into the budget of every home in the country. Indeed, the right hon. and learned Gentleman—[ Interruption ]—appears to have got himself into a frame of mind in which he is not able to conceive of any reduction in taxation unless there is some corresponding increase. Therefore, we are bound to look at these remissions of taxation rather critically.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.691.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutchinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutchinson", "preceding_text": "For a moment I thought this enthusiasm was intended for me, but I find it is intended for my right hon. Friend. I was about to say that these concessions are only made at the expense of the taxpayers in other directions. We are bound, therefore, to examine them critically, I hope not unduly critically, and compare them with the cost of which they have been obtained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member has admitted that these two contracts are un-meritorious attempts to evade taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-15", "file": "debates1950-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "dce8561c5ad6d34a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "tory fashion against individuals, and it is none the less tyranny because the action of the individual may have been deplorable and because the political circumstances may make it highly expedient to do so. For my part, I find a certain hypocrisy in the puritans in this matter. I do not myself, to use plain language, see much difference between the cases of Black, Lord and Plummer. I wish I could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-15a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.725.5", "colnum": "725", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "As I interpret this Motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.725.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.725.5", "colnum": "725", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "ion—[ Laughter ]. Surely it is proper for me, whose Motion it is, to offer an interpretation of it. As I interpret this Motion, it is possible for a Report to have benefits as well as for resale price maintenance to have benefits; it is possible that, if the Report be implemented, the benefits would be felt by the community. That is the intention of this Motion, and I think the intention is clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.725.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "er, one assumes, is able to buy a thing without examining its quality on the ground that established proprietary articles reach the same kind of quality every time they are packed. It enables the retailer not to have to be a specialist in the thing he is selling but to accept the guarantee of the maker. On the other hand, it is also true that branding has no necessary relation to quality whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Many traders do so. The Co-operative movement, with which I am associated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.733.2", "colnum": "733", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "preceding_text": "hich I will now repeat. A friend of mine manufactured a substance which I will call B. I call it so for the deliberate reason that my friend is not yet clear of economic pressure, which can be extremely dangerous. B is a by-product of A, which is a substance effectively controlled by a large monopoly, and in wide use throughout the country. My friend decided to have a go at making A. The monopoly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.733.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "preceding_text": "ative societies' position. It seems to me that the Co-operative societies are anxious to get the best of both worlds. The Committee have suggested in their Report that price maintenance is unobjectionable if carried out by individual manufacturers. The hon. Member who seconded the Motion said the same, and yet the Co-operative societies claim the right to give a dividend on price-maintained goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.753.3", "colnum": "753", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Captain Field", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Field", "preceding_text": "The recommendation came from the other side of the House, and not this side. The advertisement goes on: Keep a bottle always handy and take a dose whenever you are troubled by flatulence, heartburn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.753.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Captain Field", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Try them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Field", "preceding_text": "Now we come to Beechams Powders: for headaches, neuralgia, nerve pains, rheumatic pains, colds, chills, influenza. Perhaps the hon. Member for Putney will tell me, because I have no information, whether Beechams Powders are the same as Beechams Pills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.754.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.776.2", "colnum": "776", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "So do we. That is the trouble.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Padley", "preceding_text": "The Motion, in fact, welcomes the Lloyd Jacob Committee Report, and I would find it rather difficult to reconcile that statement by the mover, with the Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.793.3", "colnum": "793", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "n hour or two of the Debate beginning—indeed from the sharp interruptions which my hon. Friend had to put up with when he opened the Debate—that there were sharp divisions coming up on party lines. The hon. Member for Putney (Mr. Linstead) regretted that this was becoming an issue which was being dealt with on party lines, and so do I. I hoped that action on this would have been non-controversial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.793.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.793.3", "colnum": "793", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": ". The hon. Member for Putney (Mr. Linstead) regretted that this was becoming an issue which was being dealt with on party lines, and so do I. I hoped that action on this would have been non-controversial. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It became quite clear this afternoon that there was a division on party lines, and that some of my hon. Friends were taking the line of the consumer against the price fixer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.793.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.799.3", "colnum": "799", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Bennett", "preceding_text": "vers, while the people in London were getting all the plums. Therefore we had to work out a scheme for protecting our retailers and for maintaining the prices. Strange as it may seem to hon. Members opposite, the consumers approved of our doing so because they liked to know that they could get the same article, with the same name and the same quality, at any shop in the country, at the same price—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.799.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But it did happen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Bennett", "preceding_text": "action. What would hon. Members opposite have said during the cigarette shortage if a trader had said, \"Oh yes, I have Players but they are 5s. today for a large packet.\" If the intending purchaser had refused to take them at that price he would have been told, \"If you do not take them somebody else will.\" That kind of thing would have happened but for the price control fixed by the manufacturers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "t I want to confine myself to the general points. I think I have the support of the hon. Member for Angus, North (Mr. Thornton-Kemsley), in saying that even apart from the Committee set up by the Government as an official body, the case against resale price maintenance also has the support of practically every independent observer who has investigated the problem over the last three or four years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "or Angus, North (Mr. Thornton-Kemsley), in saying that even apart from the Committee set up by the Government as an official body, the case against resale price maintenance also has the support of practically every independent observer who has investigated the problem over the last three or four years. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I should say there is great unanimity once one gets outside trade circles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.808.2", "colnum": "808", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Distributor.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "preceding_text": "I only wish to clear up the point. The hon. Member will agree that he did say that the price tended to be the price which would protect the least efficient producer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.808.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.808.3", "colnum": "808", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "ly wants his market to be as wide as possible. If that is so, he presumably wants to charge a final resale price which will cover the costs of those distributors, including even those which have the highest costs. There is nothing else that he can do. If one wants to buy an Austin 10, it costs one the same if one walks 30 miles and takes it over at the factory, or buys it in the North of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.810.1", "colnum": "810", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "I have been saying for the last five minutes that it is in the public interest as a whole—and this is the view which I take—that there should be price competition. I will come back to that point in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.810.1", "colnum": "810", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "h degree of excessive price competition we had in the inter-war period and earlier. There is an argument here, and the hon. Member for Ogmore (Mr. Padley) made the same point. But in the new circumstances of today, are we still against price competition? Is not it a fact that the drastic and excessive degree of price slashing and price competition was the result of ex tremely depressed conditions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.813.3", "colnum": "813", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "maintenance was a protection of the consumer against high prices. The hon. Member for Edgbaston used that, and he has gone out; and the hon. Member for Heston and Isleworth used that, and he has gone. I am sorry they are not here, because it seems to me that to say that was most disingenuous—to say that the primary object of resale price maintenance was to protect the consumer against high prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.813.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.813.5", "colnum": "813", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member, if I may say so, is making a rather unfair debating point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.813.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.813.5", "colnum": "813", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member, if I may say so, is making a rather unfair debating point. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because he is claiming credit merely for being older than I; but I may add that the answer that I was going to make is that most of these price maintenance schemes were started only since 1920.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.813.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-16", "file": "debates1950-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7d32e7972eec79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "clusions as they stand. Now a number of hon. Members on both sides have pointed out that there is a serious illogicality in the conclusions of the Lloyd Jacob Report, and I personally think that they are right. Although I think the Report is a great advance and very much welcome it, there is this serious illogicality in it, that they spend about 30 or 40 pages saying that resale price maintenance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-16a.816.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-19", "file": "debates1950-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "58389bd730a1f7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-19a.857.7", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALBANIA (THE HAGUE COURT AWARD)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "Does that assurance mean that there will be interest to cover the time spent in the discussion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-19a.857.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-19", "file": "debates1950-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "58389bd730a1f7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-19a.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Clause 20.—(SURTAX TO BE CHARGED ON CONSIDERATION FOR CERTAIN RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "who has acted within the law perfectly innocently—it is utterly wrong to go back and punish the man for something which was lawful at the time he did it.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 15th June, 1950; Vol. 476, c. 703.] Do we really believe that these retroactive covenants which Clause 20 seeks to check retrospectively were entered into innocently? Can we really say that those concerned acted in good faith?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-19a.896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-19", "file": "debates1950-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "58389bd730a1f7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-19a.909.0", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Clause 20.—(SURTAX TO BE CHARGED ON CONSIDERATION FOR CERTAIN RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has this to do with it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "he propaganda of the Opposition about this Order and its effect upon the freedom of the individual. I remember how they tried to deride the Minister when the Order was revoked. Older Members opposite should know better; the younger ones are perhaps not old enough to do so. The Control of Engagement Order did offer anybody who came within its scope an average of four jobs before they were directed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-19a.909.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-19", "file": "debates1950-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "58389bd730a1f7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-19a.911.1", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Clause 20.—(SURTAX TO BE CHARGED ON CONSIDERATION FOR CERTAIN RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that in a minute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-19a.911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-19", "file": "debates1950-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "58389bd730a1f7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-19a.914.7", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Clause 20.—(SURTAX TO BE CHARGED ON CONSIDERATION FOR CERTAIN RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS, ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "Though the hon. and learned Gentleman is \"learned\" I can read too, and the phrase that I read out comes in this leader. It is a condemnation of these two particular covenants. The hon. Member for Oxford said he could not see any difference between Lord, Black and Sir Leslie Plummer. I can see a great difference between Lord, Black and Sir Leslie Plummer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-19a.914.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-19", "file": "debates1950-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "58389bd730a1f7f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-19a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Clause 35.—(COLLECTION OF DUTY FROM TRUSTEES AFTER DISPOSITION OR DETERMINATION OF LIFE INTEREST. ETC.)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "One hon. Member opposite asks, what is the object behind this Clause? It is not to try to bluff as the hon. Member for Kingston-Upon-Thames (Mr. Boyd-Carpenter), I thought rather offensively and quite unnecessarily said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-19a.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-20", "file": "debates1950-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd29ce4ef04beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1108.2", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " tax is upon the wholesale value of the chassis alone when there are a whole lot of accretions, to specify them so that they can be separated from the chassis itself. That is the reason for paragraph 1 of the Schedule. The only other part of the Schedule to which I shall refer is paragraph 3 (2), which is that part which defines what a goods vehicle is. I think it is comparatively straightforward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-20", "file": "debates1950-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd29ce4ef04beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ion. Often when these proposals are made, the argument is quite rightly adduced, and it always has been, that one of the major objectives to be attained is to prevent pictures and objects of artistic value being sent abroad and bought overseas. Of course, that consideration is peculiarly applicable in the case of things which can be sold overseas. It does not really apply in the case of buildings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-20", "file": "debates1950-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd29ce4ef04beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1148.3", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, Minister of Town and Country Planning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "ember for Bassetlaw went on: The right hon. Gentleman may be cynical \"— and my right hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, West said, \"Sceptical.\" The right hon. Member for Bassetlaw went on: He is cynical sometimes too—sceptical of the remarks of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer.\"—(OFFICIAL REPORT, 30th July, 1947; Vol. 441, c. 517.] now the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-20", "file": "debates1950-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd29ce4ef04beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did the Labour Party do\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": ". Nabarro) raised his voice when the hon. Gentleman opposite spoke about officers, instead of by way of an afterthought. I do not think there is any difference of view between the hon. Member for Blackpool, North and myself, when the Tory Party talk about Service conditions, they should first do a little bit of research to see how the Armed Forces of the Crown were treated when they were in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-20", "file": "debates1950-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd29ce4ef04beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1174.0", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " not use that in the sense that nothing is to happen. This has become a very urgent question, and something should be done, ignoring for the moment how it should be done. As my hon. and gallant Friend said, what really matters is what is coming in. It is a matter which should be reviewed at once, and if the Chancellor would give us an assurance on that point that would satisfy us on these benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-20", "file": "debates1950-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd29ce4ef04beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1196.0", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And in a white dress, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "cent. tax I pick out cosmetics, lipsticks, powder and perfume. I realise that on this subject I am on extremely delicate ground, but lipstick and face powder seem to me, with to-day's social habits, at least a semi-necessity. On this occasion I feel I am certainly on the side of the angels. I am: glad to see the hon. Lady the Member for Blackburn, East (Mrs. Castle) nodding her head at this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-20", "file": "debates1950-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd29ce4ef04beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1204.0", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Eccles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Everybody knows it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Eccles", "preceding_text": "hon. Members. He there wrote: 'Dr. Dalton has said that in a strictly honest State he \"— that is, the taxpayer— ought to be told when he was purchasing one of these articles that so much was the price of the article and so much was the tax due to the State. I do not think the Purchase Tax would last long if the advice of the right hon Gentleman was taken and the tax was tacked on to every article—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-20", "file": "debates1950-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd29ce4ef04beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1209.2", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is suggesting that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " is very good political propaganda, and I am sure it will be indulged in freely by hon. Members opposite. But, clearly, if we are responsible Members, who are really genuinely trying to do our best to lift the burdens from the backs of our people where they are heaviest and least justified, we cannot come to this wide range of Purchase Tax and pick out, piecemeal, one item here, and another there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-20", "file": "debates1950-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd29ce4ef04beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1209.2", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "subject to correction by the Treasury spokesman—some £68 million—an item which will make a very big impression on our expenditure during the coming year. I suggest to the housewives of this country, when they are judging this Debate, should not for one moment be ensnared by the belief that the right hon. Gentleman is really concerned with or thinking about their combs, or razor blades, or dusters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-20", "file": "debates1950-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd29ce4ef04beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1209.2", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nuts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "eally concerned with or thinking about their combs, or razor blades, or dusters—[ Laughter .] I buy my husband's razor blades. They come out of the housekeeping items. The right hon. Gentleman has moved a Motion which would cost £68 million revenue which would force us into a corresponding reduction in expenditure elsewhere. We know that a favourite item of hon. Members opposite is food subsidies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-20", "file": "debates1950-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd29ce4ef04beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1209.2", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Take it off.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "cause so successfully has this tax been graded and adjusted through the past few years by successive Chancellors of the Exchequer on this side of the House that in actual fact, as I hope to show the Committee in a moment or two, the total amount of revenue now raised by Purchase Tax on the simple, homely articles is quite small and only a fraction of the sum about which hon. Members opposite talk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-20", "file": "debates1950-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd29ce4ef04beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1213.1", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that hon. Gentlemen opposite have been bound by the terms of this particular Budget Resolution because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1213.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-20", "file": "debates1950-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd29ce4ef04beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1223.0", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Eating nuts.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "is this: Ought not the right hon. and learned Gentleman to give up the pretence that this tax affects only luxuries? The hon. Lady the Member for Blackburn, East (Mrs. Castle)—my distinguished constituent—made a very gallant attempt to pretend that it did not affect the working-class home, but the only man who does not pay Purchase Tax is a man who lives up a tree, wrapped up in a utility blanket—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1222.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-20", "file": "debates1950-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd29ce4ef04beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1224.2", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Squadron-Leader A. E. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron-Leader A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": " in people's pockets is the thing they need. At present the Chancellor, in one form or another, extracts practically all they have. I can tell the hon. Lady the Member for Blackburn, East, who appears to have little knowledge of what happens in working-class homes these days, that both in my own election campaign, and subsequently, I made considerable researches into how these people are affected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1224.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-20", "file": "debates1950-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd29ce4ef04beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1224.2", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Squadron-Leader A. E. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"These people!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron-Leader A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": "Chancellor, in one form or another, extracts practically all they have. I can tell the hon. Lady the Member for Blackburn, East, who appears to have little knowledge of what happens in working-class homes these days, that both in my own election campaign, and subsequently, I made considerable researches into how these people are affected. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes, I made a whole lot of inquiries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1224.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-20", "file": "debates1950-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "d5dd29ce4ef04beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1226.3", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "on tea and sugar, which we abolished last year, apart from the Imperial Preference. There were also, in those days, no food subsidies which are, of course, a negative indirect tax on necessities and which act progressively in exactly the same sense as the hon. Member for Chippenham pointed out that the indirect tax is regressive. It was following that controversy over the sales tax before the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-20a.1226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-21", "file": "debates1950-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "25b2ec430e855076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1273.8", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL STUDENTS, UNITED KINGDOM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "If two-fifths of those students are Government sponsored, does not that show up the figures given by the hon. Gentleman in a very poor light indeed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1273.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-21", "file": "debates1950-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "25b2ec430e855076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1298.2", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "MALAYA AND HONG KONG (MINISTERS' VISITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "We have debated Malaya several times. There was a Question down today asking for a statement. I really think that on an important matter like this the Minister should be entitled to make a statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1298.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-21", "file": "debates1950-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "25b2ec430e855076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1347.2", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "ALLOTMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "am gardening at weekends than whenever I am standing, for instance, on the Floor of this House. It provides me with relaxation, culture, friendliness and comradeship amongst men, something which is really worth while, in addition to the fact that we do not have to pay retailers Is. 6d. for a lettuce or 9d. for a bunch of a few radishes, which is nonsense but which is going on all over the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1347.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-21", "file": "debates1950-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "25b2ec430e855076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1378.1", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Hudson", "preceding_text": " way. I, for one, would never criticise the idea of increasing the fines. I think these figures throw a rather horrifying light on the brave new world we are living in, and I sincerely hope that the next time these figures come before the House they will be seen to have gone steadily down. I had wanted to say a word on the cost of works in London, but you have ruled that out of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-21", "file": "debates1950-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "25b2ec430e855076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1380.2", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "This is a serious point. I understood the hon. Gentleman to preface his speech with the remark that you, Mr. Speaker, had so ruled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-21", "file": "debates1950-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "25b2ec430e855076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1380.2", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "This is a serious point. I understood the hon. Gentleman to preface his speech with the remark that you, Mr. Speaker, had so ruled. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] On a point of order. The hon. Gentleman made an assertion that the Bill was on customary lines in its drafting, and in the hearing of the House he said that you, Sir, from the Chair had so stated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-21", "file": "debates1950-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "25b2ec430e855076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1395.2", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ngham, East (Mr. Harrison) said that there were only 39 people prosecuted for fraud upon the buses. \"But,\" he said, \"of course you can only prosecute the ones you catch.\" Of course we can only prosecute the ones we catch, and how will the quadrupling of the penalties help to catch any more? I should have thought it would have made it a great deal more difficult. I am not going to detain the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1395.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-21", "file": "debates1950-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "25b2ec430e855076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1399.0", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I am criticising the limitation of the words, \"every passenger station.\" I am criticising the fact that the position is strictly confined. My last point is this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-21", "file": "debates1950-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "25b2ec430e855076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1423.1", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "WOLVERHAMPTON CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "The point I was making was that if it is believed that this Bill is a good one, they should have taken it over as a Government Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-21", "file": "debates1950-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "25b2ec430e855076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1423.4", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "WOLVERHAMPTON CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": "h the Wolverhampton Corporation could tomorrow night arrive at an agreement with the Staffordshire County Council as to the number of houses it would build on a particular acreage of land, the Wolverhampton Corporation prefers to adopt the method, not of arriving at an agreement tomorrow—I am not exaggerating; I say that quite deliberately, and there are people in the Gallery who would confirm it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1423.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-21", "file": "debates1950-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "25b2ec430e855076", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1423.4", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "WOLVERHAMPTON CORPORATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": "t arrive at an agreement with the Staffordshire County Council as to the number of houses it would build on a particular acreage of land, the Wolverhampton Corporation prefers to adopt the method, not of arriving at an agreement tomorrow—I am not exaggerating; I say that quite deliberately, and there are people in the Gallery who would confirm it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] That is not out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-21a.1423.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1476.0", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. The problem is that nobody is certain what the law is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, he is not missing\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "Regarding the question of the missing Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1478.2", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "There are complications which arise which I am not anxious to walk into and hon. Gentlemen elsewhere may not be anxious to walk into when they get there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1478.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1502.0", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": ". I want to make an appeal today for something quite different. In my constituency of Oldham there are the greatest textile machinery mills in the world producing some of the best machinery in the world and selling it everywhere—everywhere but in Oldham. The market for home machinery is still stagnant and disappointing. The amount of re-equipment being done in cotton spinning is regrettably small.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1502.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1507.2", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "We have not got any groundnuts.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "e if I win, so I will have a go.\" Here I think the hon. and learned Member for Kettering made a good point when he said that perhaps this tax might be looked on as a transfer of money from the hands of industry to the hands of the Government. But I do not take the view which he does that the Government are an exceedingly good investor. I think it would be better to have telephones than groundnuts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1513.1", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or housing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "hen we are nowhere in a deflationary situation, and when there is pressure on our total investment resources, then the Government would have less and less control over the direction of capital investment. If we got into a situation in which some slight cut in the capital investment programme was necessary, the only thing that could be done would be to make the nationalised industries bear that cut", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1520.0", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": " in high finance or with joint stock holding companies, nor the other paraphernalia and jargon used by the hon. and learned Member for Norwich, South (Mr. H. Strauss), I want to see exactly what the new Clause seeks to do. If I am right, the position is that hon. Gentlemen opposite seek to retain all the profit made by various companies engaged in making profit and doing with it what they so wish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1523.0", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John McKay", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John McKay", "preceding_text": " the Conservative Party at the present time. Let us see what this proposal means and what it implies. All the speeches from the benches opposite have painted a picture of industrial conditions in this country as being so difficult and so hard that industry ought at this time to receive some special relief not granted to any other section of the community. I do not pretend to be a financial expert.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1523.0", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John McKay", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John McKay", "preceding_text": "d national balance, to give £60 million special relief to industry. It is not to be given to the workers, the human capital, but to investors in the economic field. What should we, as Socialists, tell our people if we agreed to that? What is £60 million spread over the whole of the investments of the country? Undoubtedly it would be a relief, but is that the only kind of relief that is needed? No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1564.1", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why\"?", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " over. I think that that would meet the kind of case which hon. Gentlemen opposite have been describing. If one takes the case of a large company with a small trading income abroad and a large trading income in this country, I suggest that it is quite unreasonable that that company, having ample income and assets from which to pay the tax on the foreign income, should not be called upon to pay it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1564.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1602.2", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " but at the same time it will not weaken our case in other quarters if the whole country, the House of Commons and other people are aware of the extremely difficult position in which the industry finds itself by virtue of the intolerable burden of taxation. Whilst I do not wish to make a long speech, and while I have the anxiety of every hon. Member to get out of this place as quickly as possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1610.1", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "t always impracticable. However, we shall continue our efforts to see if we can find some method which is practicable to increase our dollar earnings and to overcome the difficulties because we all have at heart the raising of our dollar exports still further. Indeed, devaluation itself has been the biggest incentive—a bigger automatic incentive—than anything we could have designed ourselves, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1612.2", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Davies", "preceding_text": " have seen such pedestrian items as screwdrivers and pliers coming from the United Kingdom compared with those produced in Germany and the United States. Some exporters have, I know, made a great effort here and have succeeded, but the fact remains that on the whole such of our goods as I have seen do not compare favourably with those produced in the United States and those exported from Germany —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1612.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1617.2", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where do you come in?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "sition over here trying to stimulate the export of British goods to America, because they realise that it has to be done. At the other end of the conversation was a managing director of a firm with which I have some connection that does not suffer from the disability of the firm of my hon. Friend the Member for Epping (Mr. Nigel Davies), because it produces the highest quality goods of their kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1617.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1617.2", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "lt to them is going to be a negligible return. Therefore, an incentive has to be provided, and that incentive is provided by the profit motive. None of the pals of hon. Members opposite works overtime unless he gets paid for it. We know that if a man works all night he demands 50 per cent. on his normal rate, and if he does not get it he will not do it, because he is animated by the profit motive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1617.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1626.4", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "still, if I may say so. It does show the lamentable want of enterprise on the part of many of my bachelor colleagues in this Committee. Now there is speaking one who must disclose his interest, for I am one of the many who are in the very position which this Clause seeks to cover. I have to contribute as much of my time as possible to the service of this House. I have to earn my living outside it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1626.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1650.0", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "f in a brand new Bentley or a Rolls, and it only costs him half what it costs me. Who is exploiting whom? I suggest to hon. Members opposite that that cut went home a little bit, because they know how weak that ground is. They are responsible. They are taking the extra money out of the working man's pocket. They are responsible for the disincentive, for the lack of the will and the desire to save.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "ndably brief and, if I may, I shall be the same. This Clause would, of course, increase the preference for Empire wine compared with foreign wine. That, unfortunately, would be contrary to the Geneva Agreement on trading tariffs, and that, I am afraid, is a fatal objection. I believe that some hon. Members opposite are in favour of even closer economic union with Europe than with the Commonwealth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1658.0", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It has not been ratified.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am glad to have heard the revealing statement that we have so tied ourselves up that we are no longer fiscally free. I think that three months is requisite in order to get out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1658.0", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "that this is an integral part of the policy which this side has always supported, and which the other side, in days before the war, always opposed—particularly in 1931 and 1932. What we want to do tonight is to restore what we did before the war in the matter of this preference. At this hour, I do not want to take up the time of the Committee, but I think we should be reminded that Cobden in 1859—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1659.3", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "The argument advanced by the Financial Secretary is that this country, in company with a lot of other countries, has agreed not to increase their preference. In the same Agreement are various Clauses about discrimination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1659.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1659.4", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "I hope, in dealing with this Clause, to suggest that Scotland is in the British Empire and that whisky would come under \"Empire wine.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1659.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1674.0", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "for businesses or the people employed in them or the country. The effects of the 1940 Act have gone far beyond what they were intended to go owing to changed circumstances and the incidence of taxation. I therefore hope that the right hon. and learned Gentleman will give us some comfort and will cause some consideration to be given to the very great difficulties which many of these companies face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1686.2", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "At least, Sir Charles, I am sure that the Solicitor-General has been listening with his usual courtesy, and I know that, as always, he will give the greatest attention to the points which are being made. I apologise for taking up the time of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1686.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1693.1", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Mellor", "preceding_text": "w how he is to distinguish between the contribution of professional fees incurred on the £300 million fund, and professional expenses for advice on Income Tax matters. Unless he can distinguish between those two I do not think any argument of principle put forward holds water. This is a matter we are quite competent to decide for ourselves, without the assistance of any committee, however eminent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1739.1", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Like the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I wish to refer to the traffics known as abnormal indivisible loads—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-22", "file": "debates1950-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "1bf06575e3984821", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1743.0", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ts. Next, timber carrying vehicles. I thought dollar timber was a problem today. I thought the Government intended to do everything possible to encourage the use of home grown timber from our forests. It would be difficult to find anything sillier or less consistent with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman is always pretending he is trying to do. The last point is perhaps the most important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-22a.1743.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-23", "file": "debates1950-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "d4822240a618d706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-23a.1763.9", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "preceding_text": "es should be drawn up, with the Commission purchasing sites and leasing them at a nominal rent, or erecting accommodation and leasing it to the nonprofit-making organisations. In making my next point I may be treading on dangerous ground, because I did not mention in my Motion the question of railway fares. There is not the slightest doubt that the cost of railway fares is a great limiting factor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-23a.1763.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-23", "file": "debates1950-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "d4822240a618d706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-23a.1795.1", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "ned later by other hon. Members—referred to Purchase Tax as \"the tax on the tools of the trade.\" We have had a very lengthy discussion upon Purchase Tax generally and it is not necessary for me to repeat what has been said in the Committee during the last few days. I share the view that in some cases this tax on the tools of the trade is a hindrance towards the freeing and recovery of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-23a.1795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-23", "file": "debates1950-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "d4822240a618d706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-23a.1798.7", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION", "cue_speaker": "Major Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Johnson", "preceding_text": "—but, if we read it more carefully and listen in particular to some of the speeches made in its support we realise that it has the seeds of nationalisation, or socialisation, or mutualisation, or whatever one likes to call it, of the hotel industry of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-23a.1798.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-23", "file": "debates1950-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "d4822240a618d706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-23a.1823.1", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "holiday accommodation for people of limited means, for men and women and their families who are in the lowest income groups. Despite the blandishments which have been held out by previous speakers, the fact remains that for a fairly large number of people in this country the existing facilities in the various holiday resorts are beyond their reach. That is a fact which, I submit, cannot be denied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-23a.1823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-23", "file": "debates1950-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "d4822240a618d706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-23a.1833.1", "colnum": "1833", "heading": "HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Evans", "preceding_text": "ire to get out of the rut, do not avail themselves of them. We feel that not only is it the duty of the Government to stimulate the development of the industry, but to bring it within the reach of those who hitherto have not taken advantage of the facilities available. We on this side naturally tend to develop more sympathy with what one might call the consumer interest, not only in this industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-23a.1833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-23", "file": "debates1950-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "d4822240a618d706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-23a.1833.1", "colnum": "1833", "heading": "HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Evans", "preceding_text": "fect safety, and derive great interest. Recreations such as sailing, swimming, boating, bird-watching and others are so very much in the British tradition. Mention has been made of the Catering Wages Act and its crippling effect upon the industry. It is all very well for hon. Members opposite to criticise that Act. It must be remembered that it was passed many years ago. It was an agreed document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-23a.1833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-23", "file": "debates1950-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "d4822240a618d706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-23a.1841.1", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " a large proportion. I do not think that utility furniture is always suitable for the sort of accommodation which I have in mind. A great many of the commodities I have mentioned are not produced as utility lines. Fabrics bear 66⅔ per cent. Purchase Tax. In the case of linen and towels, I agree that there are utility towels which are produced extremely cheaply, but frankly they are rubbish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-23a.1841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-23", "file": "debates1950-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "d4822240a618d706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-23a.1857.3", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "Then hon. Gentlemen opposite do want the Holidays Council set up which will interfere with the industry. Now we are clear about that. Now to the third point. At one time it looked as if the seconder of the Motion, at any rate, was in favour of some form of subsidised State competition between these new stately homes or new holiday camps and the existing boarding-house keeper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-23a.1857.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1906.5", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PETROL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Roberts", "preceding_text": "In view of the very grave situation, if the North Korean Government refuse to consider this resolution will the Prime Minister advise his representative in the United Nations to ask for the use of the atomic bomb—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1906.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1915.0", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "gotiations could have been fairly sure that that was precisely what would happen. But still, I admit there is a question which must be faced, and I propose to face it. Would we be prepared to enter discussions as a result of which a high authority would be set up whose decisions would be binding upon the nations who were parties to the agreement? My answer to that question would be, yes, provided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1915.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1918.0", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "it hoped, it should prove in the future that the application of these principles raises serious objections in practice. That was the Netherland position and that should be our position. If it is the Government's position I shall be delighted to hear it, but nobody in Europe at the moment thinks so. I know it may be argued that it is all very well for the Netherlands to come into these discussions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1919.3", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "two other factors to which I must briefly refer. The first is the record of hon. Gentlemen opposite in regard to the movement for a united Europe ever since my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) launched it. It has always seemed as though they were perpetually hanging back because it is associated, and must always be associated, with his name. I am not going to recapitulate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1919.3", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "to be published a fortnight ago? After all, it did not glide coyly into the world. Its arrival was heralded not only at the Press conference but even before that, heralded and trumpeted. Did not the Prime Minister know it was to be published? Did not any of his principal colleagues come along to him and say: \"Look, this document is coming out\"? Did they not tell him? I knew that it was coming out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1919.3", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ocialist bloc of States? Is it not far more likely that if they did not wholly agree with the terms put to them they would have strained every nerve to come in and to influence the situation from inside? That is precisely what we would have done. The difference is that we would have been prepared to take this step whatever the political complexion of the democratic party with which we had to deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1919.3", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ussions and a general weakening of our security and the defence of Western Europe against Communism. That is what I believe. If anyone has any doubt about it he has only to check it against Kremlin propaganda in the last few weeks. Weighing these considerations in the scale, and the still larger one of the immense gain to civiliation if France and Germany could be brought into working partnership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1933.1", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps)", "preceding_text": "eply, making clear beyond all doubt that the French Government desired to enter upon the negotiations only with those who were already agreed upon the objectives. Would the Opposition have been prepared to accept that point of view of the French Government, or would they have wished to try and force themselves into the negotiations upon a basis which the French had stated was unacceptable to them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1942.5", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "o say that we adopted the only honest and sensible course that was open to us, and so to reject the Motion of the Opposition, and to substitute our Amendment for it. I must now say a few words about the suggestion which, as I have said, lies behind a good deal of the criticism on this subject matter, that is, that the Government are less concerned with European co-operation than is the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1942.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1942.5", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": " Secretary that so much has been accomplished. I only wish, as the right hon. Gentleman said in his speech, that my right hon. Friend could have been here himself to speak of his own work. Let me here mention a matter which has led to a good deal of comment during the last few weeks—that is the Labour Party pamphlet. The Labour Party, upon whose support, curiously enough, this Government is based—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1942.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1944.3", "colnum": "1944", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "ng our European friends and Allies. In those first post-war years the wide availability of sterling enabled them to have access to imports which were essential, and which otherwise would have been denied them. The unrequited exports which this policy entailed were the cause of heavy criticism from the Opposition, but we have no regrets because we realise the essential help which it gave to Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1944.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1974.3", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "ment of the union. All they would agree to was automatic machinery for settling net balances among members; so that an opportunity has been lost to do something constructive in the monetary field to ward off the onset of European unemployment. Informed opinion in Europe knows all these things. For several years it has watched His Majesty's Government preach co-operation while practising isolation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1974.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1977.1", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not answered.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "preceding_text": "d Governments, to the democratic control of Parliaments. We have heard a lot in this House in recent months about the lack of direct democratic control over the nationalised industries in this country, although they are directly responsible to the Government, and although there is a Minister in the House to reply to questions from individual Members of Parliament about their day-to-day activities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1980.0", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "whole of my colleagues on this side of the Committee and in the Party when I say that we are prepared to go into a political union, federal or otherwise, not only covering Western Europe but covering the whole of Europe and the whole of the world—that was declared by my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary from the Front Bench only a few months ago—but not on any condition, not unconditionally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1987.1", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "litics in foreign affairs. The document says: In particular, the peoples\"— that is, of all Europe— must be able to decide the investment policies of the basic industries. Joint planning means nothing unless the industries in each country are required to fit their investment programmes into a European plan. The Labour Party is convinced that nothing less than public ownership can ensure this fully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1987.1", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": " of federation and this high authority. My course so far on the Government Amendment is quite clear. It is to vote against it and to show as clearly as I can that not only do I not welcome the French note of 9th May, but also that I am rigidly opposed to even discussing methods which I deplore. May I turn to the original Motion? That Motion at least does not express any welcome to the French note.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1987.1", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "n the cause of setting up an international tyranny and totalitarism. I am on record in this House and in my constituency during the election as having said that the United Nations organisation ought to be wound up. I say it again today. I say it because not one single member of the United Nations has been elected by the nations of the world. Even if they had been, I should still not approve of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1987.1", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": " that she is a European Power as well as an Imperial Power. That is why the document of the Labour Party on European unity is so wrong. The Socialist Party ostrich is to bury its head in the British Socialist sandpit, until it emerges as completely bereft of industrial plumage as the head of the author of that document is devoid of hair. We must play a part in Europe, indeed we must play the lead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1998.1", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "ies after five or six years of Socialist rule, is to be brought face to face with the much more lively and difficult competition which is coming from Europe in the next few years. I want to refer the House to some of the representations which I get from overseas customers and agents of the growing threat of German competition. I know that the Government view is that it is of no great significance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.1998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2014.2", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Colonel Sir Charles MacAndrew)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Colonel Sir Charles MacAndrew)", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member cannot speak unless the hon. Member who has the Floor gives way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2014.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2017.1", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "preceding_text": "efusal of the Government to participate in the Schuman talks, or to accept the Opposition Motion, on the ground that they could not accept a prior commitment to make as an immediate objective the institution of a high authority with binding powers. We must ask ourselves what is the objection to the institution of a high authority. After all, we know nothing about what this high authority is to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2020.1", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "here are risks if we go in or if we stay out; ut it is foolish in life to fear the unknown. The Government should make an effort to overcome the curious combination of moral complacency and intellectual inferiority complex which seems to assail them. In my judgment Britain is never so weak as when she is afraid to step in and give a lead. We are still the strongest and most stable power in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2025.2", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "er for Croydon, East (Sir H. Williams) to remain quiet, I will get on with it, but in my own time and not at the speed dictated by the hon. Member for Oxford (Mr. Hogg). I was saying—what is it that enabled the right hon. Gentleman with complete sincerity to say that, if he had been an Italian, he would have marched with Mussolini, and to acknowledge that he served with the Gestapo during the war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2025.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2025.2", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": " \"blood, sweat, toil and tears.\" That phrase united this country against a common enemy, but it was made with all the sincerity and conviction that comes from a life-long adherence to the policy underlying the phrase—the blood of his enemies, whether abroad or at home; the sweat of the worker needed to maintain his order of society; and the tears of the oppressed who suffer from his rule of power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2025.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2025.2", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "ghter .] I can see how much hon. Members opposite appreciate the significance of this analysis, judging by the roar of approval with which they greeted it. The truth is that the right hon. Gentleman is now prepared to yield power and responsibility if only ownership remains intact. He is prepared to go outside this country to seek a muzzle for Socialism at home. It really is pathetic, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2025.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2026.1", "colnum": "2026", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "quer gave very good reasons this afternoon. To those I would only add one other, and it is that Dutch trade before the war was two-thirds within the confines of Europe and one-third with the rest of the world. The position is exactly opposite with Great Britain. We do only one-third of our trade within Europe and two-thirds with the rest of the world. I wonder what hon. Members opposite would say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2026.1", "colnum": "2026", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "nfines of Europe and one-third with the rest of the world. The position is exactly opposite with Great Britain. We do only one-third of our trade within Europe and two-thirds with the rest of the world. I wonder what hon. Members opposite would say—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"] That is not an invitation I would accept at any time from hon. Members opposite. However, as time is going on, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2027.1", "colnum": "2027", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is back.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "In 1945 the hon. Member for Aberdeenshire, East—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2027.3", "colnum": "2027", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "that if the Conservatives insisted on following the policy they are enunciating now, then they could not expect the Commonwealth for ever to follow them \"like a gaggle of Strasbourg geese.\" So much for the unity of the party opposite. We shall be very interested to see whether the right hon. Member for Saffron Walden is confirmed in the Division which will take place tomorrow night. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2027.3", "colnum": "2027", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "ada who recognise the authority of the Crown? I am very pleased to find that Mr. Dingle Foot agrees with that point in a letter in \"The Times,\" today. That is, indeed, one of the points dealt with in the Labour Party pamphlet on European unity. I am conscious that I have overrun my time. There are many points which I should like to make in relation to the Commonwealth but my time has been overrun.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2032.5", "colnum": "2032", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way. I decided not to give actual quotations, in view of my promise to finish by ten o'clock. The hon. Member for Edinburgh, South (Sir W. Darling) must not tempt me into saying things about what he is saying at the moment. What I did say, and I will repeat it—and I will produce documentary evidence in this House at the appropriate time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2032.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2033.1", "colnum": "2033", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "roduction of all the countries concerned? Is the trade union movement to have any say in any of these negotiations? Are the Government entitled to give authority to this particular body to carry out certain duties? After they have given that authority, the body can act as it likes. It can close down establishments and extend establishments without having any conference with any particular country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2033.1", "colnum": "2033", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "of the workers, hours and wages, to say what pits should be closed down, what steel works should be closed down and what iron foundries should be closed down. Surely that is implied in the White Paper. Therefore, I say that, in my view, we are in favour of the greatest possible cooperation with other countries in the world, and we do not intend only to negotiate with people accepting our ideology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2033.1", "colnum": "2033", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "in European gatherings. In spite of the so-called Iron Curtain, the President of the Board of Trade last week, in answer to a Question, made known that we had already made agreements with Russia for a larger supply of timber than we had formerly. Surely that is evidence to the House that we are not attempting to associate ourselves in conference only with people that accept the Socialist doctrine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2041.1", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "y rather than double talk. Our pamphlet did that. It was a party pamphlet which gave party political reasons why the Labour Party would never consent to the federal union of Western Europe. Some reasons we have in common with the other side. The other side want a sterling area; so do we. The other side want a Commonwealth; so do we. The other side are concerned with British agriculture; so are we.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2043.3", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I should like to go on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2043.3", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "views on the supra-national authority. I agree with my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Hornchurch (Mr. Bing) that we are in something of a paradox. The Conservative Party for five years have been denouncing control and the upsetting of the price system, and now they suddenly say, \"We want a complete and iron control, clamped by 12 just men, upon all Governments, on iron and steel and coal.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2043.3", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who says so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ave been denouncing control and the upsetting of the price system, and now they suddenly say, \"We want a complete and iron control, clamped by 12 just men, upon all Governments, on iron and steel and coal.\" [ Interruption .] Hon. Members opposite cannot have been listening to the Debate, but I have been listening to Conservative after Conservative saying that he wants success for the Schuman Plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2043.3", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who says so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "y, \"We want a complete and iron control, clamped by 12 just men, upon all Governments, on iron and steel and coal.\" [ Interruption .] Hon. Members opposite cannot have been listening to the Debate, but I have been listening to Conservative after Conservative saying that he wants success for the Schuman Plan. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who says so?\"] We have been told that the Conservative Party is in favour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-26", "file": "debates1950-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5f3ac408f0adde1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2043.3", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "se, and has dilated against the control of iron and steel in this country, be delighted when it can find a control which is not subject to this Parliament, but subject to no Parliament at all? Then, it is perfectly all right. I have one explanation. Hon. Gentlemen opposite are very used to international controls which are not subject to Parliaments. Many of them have taken part in arranging them.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-26a.2043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2112.3", "colnum": "2112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "the hon. Member for Coventry, North (Mr. Edelman) for a very helpful and constructive speech. I cannot say that I disagree with a word of it, and I hope that the Government will listen to his advice. I would say to the hon. Member for Wallsend (Mr. McKay) that it is extremely unfortunate that not many people can take part in the Debate. It is a pity that it is not a two-or even a three-day Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2137.1", "colnum": "2137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "might not have occurred. What the right hon. Gentleman was doing at Zurich and Fulton was not laying down the lines of a future inevitable policy, but a course of conduct which made that ultimate necessity inevitable. In other words, he was firing the first shots in the cold war. The first operative act and the declaration of the cold war came from the right hon. Gentleman in his speech at Fulton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2139.1", "colnum": "2139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I did not say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2140.1", "colnum": "2140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ference between being outside a conference and being perhaps a leading member of one. There may well be a certain resentment against the Government which is thought by the others to have wilfully refused under all safeguards even to sit at the table. Here are the six Powers talking all these matters over among themselves with the United States beckoning encouragement to them from across the ocean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2159.2", "colnum": "2159", "heading": "KOREAN REPUBLIC (INVASION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "preceding_text": "May I, Mr. Speaker, with your leave and the leave of the House, interrupt Business in order to make a statement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2161.6", "colnum": "2161", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "May I ask the leave of the House to speak again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2161.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2164.0", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It comes from Paris.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "What is this plan of which the right hon Gentleman speaks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2164.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2165.8", "colnum": "2165", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2165.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2167.0", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh. no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I did not ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he approved it. I only asked him whether he had read it or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2167.1", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I was not referring specifically to the right hon. Gentleman. This was an occasion when he was not present. He went off on the question of a Debate the first time it was mentioned, but later the matter was taken up by the right hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington and others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2169.2", "colnum": "2169", "heading": "SCHUMAN PLAN", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That means that the right hon. Gentleman thinks we should have accepted this principle. The principle embodied in this is the handing over of the basic industries of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2206.1", "colnum": "2206", "heading": "MEDICAL BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"As a maximum.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that that is so, because at Question Time the Secretary of State for Scotland was asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Trades-ton (Mr. Rankin) whether he thought he could reduce this 4,000 to 3,800.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2237.7", "colnum": "2237", "heading": "GAS INDUSTRY (PENSION SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "The Minister has made secret arrangements with certain persons connected with the Gas Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2237.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2237.7", "colnum": "2237", "heading": "GAS INDUSTRY (PENSION SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "The Minister has made secret arrangements with certain persons connected with the Gas Council—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, he has, and he is anxious now to alter the Regulations so that he can fulfil arrangements which have never been scrutinised by this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2237.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2239.1", "colnum": "2239", "heading": "GAS INDUSTRY (PENSION SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraces.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "I will not detain the House for more than a few moments, but I think that the opinion which some of us hold of the spectacle we have just witnessed ought to go on record. Perhaps \"spectacle\" is too kind a word. For sheer irresponsibility, we have had the classic example tonight. The right hon. Gentleman who graces the Opposition Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2242.0", "colnum": "2242", "heading": "GAS INDUSTRY (PENSION SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "The Parliamentary Secretary is misleading the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2244.6", "colnum": "2244", "heading": "COMMUNISM", "cue_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": "I would ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2244.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2244.6", "colnum": "2244", "heading": "COMMUNISM", "cue_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": "equired is a regional authority having jurisdiction over a number of existing Local Government areas. … The regional Authority should be a commissioner. He is not impartial. He is a Socialist … rather like the Russian plan of Commissars. I would say to him, if he were here, that leopards do not change their spots. The war between good and evil has been going on since the world began.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2244.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2244.6", "colnum": "2244", "heading": "COMMUNISM", "cue_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": "uld decide with whom Britain would cast her lot—with the U.S.S.R. or with the United States. … The miners' union of Britain is dominated by its secretary, Arthur Horner, who is a Communist. He has announced publicly that if England goes to war with Russia, no coal will be mined in England. … Mr. President, I have none but feelings of friendship and affection for the British' people\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2244.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2244.6", "colnum": "2244", "heading": "COMMUNISM", "cue_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": "n of Britain is dominated by its secretary, Arthur Horner, who is a Communist. He has announced publicly that if England goes to war with Russia, no coal will be mined in England. … Mr. President, I have none but feelings of friendship and affection for the British' people\"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I make a, further appeal to hon. Members to be quiet. I have a difficult speech to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2244.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2246.4", "colnum": "2246", "heading": "COMMUNISM", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose speech?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "I am quoting from the Congressional Record of the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2246.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-27", "file": "debates1950-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "527804f77cfbfd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2248.5", "colnum": "2248", "heading": "COMMUNISM", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bow-wow!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "ratus of complete despotism is in existence and has been modified only because of the Government's reduced majority. I have been able to touch on only a few of the headlines, and I wish I had time to deal with more. I want to say, in conclusion, that I have many friends in the Socialist Party who sincerely believe in the philosophy of Socialism—but in my opinion they are barking up the wrong tree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-27a.2248.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-28", "file": "debates1950-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "8eb6fab45276219f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2293.5", "colnum": "2293", "heading": "KOREAN REPUBLIC (INVASION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "Earl Winterton rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2293.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-28", "file": "debates1950-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "8eb6fab45276219f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2314.1", "colnum": "2314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not right hon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "hat we making contributions to Northern Ireland for various purposes and that they add up to millions of pounds. I hope I shall be corrected if I am wrong. When the income from Northern Ireland is subtracted, the Exchequer grant made is approximately £32¼ million. I share, from another angle, the views which the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Antrim, South (Professor Savory) expressed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-28", "file": "debates1950-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "8eb6fab45276219f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2343.1", "colnum": "2343", "heading": "ROAD HAULAGE UNDERTAKINGS (EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The same thing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "at the permits under which many firms are operating at the present time will probably be withdrawn. No doubt the right hon. Gentleman could confirm that. It will mean that more of these men may find themselves out of work, because the activities in which they were engaged will be no longer there. The firms which now employ them will be bankrupt or be taken over by the British Transport Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2343.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-28", "file": "debates1950-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "8eb6fab45276219f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2365.1", "colnum": "2365", "heading": "SOUTH SHIELDS EXTENSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not fully.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. Blenkinsop)", "preceding_text": "I assume that my hon. Friend would agree that they certainly came before this House and were discussed on the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-28", "file": "debates1950-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "8eb6fab45276219f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2383.1", "colnum": "2383", "heading": "SOUTH SHIELDS EXTENSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Obviously.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": ". I listened to him very carefully, and it does not lie in his mouth to criticise. The argument so far has been about the interpretation of this 1948 code and the way the Minister has done it, but I will leave the Parliamentary Secretary to reply to that, because it is outside my knowledge as a back bencher, as a new Member of the House and as one who did not take part in the proceedings upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-28", "file": "debates1950-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "8eb6fab45276219f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2384.3", "colnum": "2384", "heading": "SOUTH SHIELDS EXTENSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": " very specific purposes. The fact is that the Minister of Health has used those regulations for the purpose of applying it to the nationalised industries. If local government officers are to be treated on the same basis as the nationalised industries, that is a very serious matter which ought to be decided by the House in the proper way, and not by the hole-and-corner methods adopted in this case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2384.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-28", "file": "debates1950-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "8eb6fab45276219f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2387.1", "colnum": "2387", "heading": "SOUTH SHIELDS EXTENSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "They did not come before the House in a form in which they were capable of amendment. That is perfectly true, but the suggestion is being made that a new principle is being raised before the House by what is called a \"back-door\" method.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-28", "file": "debates1950-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "8eb6fab45276219f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2390.1", "colnum": "2390", "heading": "SOUTH SHIELDS EXTENSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members are making a great deal out of a very little.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-28", "file": "debates1950-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "8eb6fab45276219f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2391.8", "colnum": "2391", "heading": "SOUTH SHIELDS EXTENSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "I find that the right hon. Gentleman, who has had a long experience of this House, is really attempting to introduce a point of order which hardly seems to be a point of order at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2391.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-28", "file": "debates1950-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "8eb6fab45276219f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2391.8", "colnum": "2391", "heading": "SOUTH SHIELDS EXTENSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "the importance of keeping a close check on public expenditure, but when we suggest in this new Clause that we should adopt a procedure which will effect a much closer check and is much more in tune with our economic needs today, we find them opposing us. I can only suggest that it is because they feel that they have an opportunity of gaining a little extra support from one organisation or another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2391.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-28", "file": "debates1950-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "8eb6fab45276219f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2401.1", "colnum": "2401", "heading": "SOUTH SHIELDS EXTENSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not unanimously.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "s, and this Bill, and this Clause was on the Order Paper. I happen to have some interest in all three. I took part in the Wolverhampton Bill Debate, and I had intended to take part in the Debate on this Bill, but it was not reached. If it had been reached we would have had the interesting situation that the House would have agreed to the Wolverhampton Bill, unanimously as they did on Third Reading", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-28", "file": "debates1950-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "8eb6fab45276219f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2402.0", "colnum": "2402", "heading": "SOUTH SHIELDS EXTENSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": ". But upstairs-they are in very much the same position. The Minister petitions that the Bill should be altered on the lines of this Clause. The Committee upstairs turn it down. Some people know all about the difference between the 1933 code and the 1948 code. I do not. All I do know is that all the people likely to be affected prefer the 1933 to the 1948 code; and nobody has replied to that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-28", "file": "debates1950-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "8eb6fab45276219f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2403.4", "colnum": "2403", "heading": "SOUTH SHIELDS EXTENSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": " the respective codes. The answer was, \"When we come to local government reorganisation in a year or two, we can take such a step.\" But that was no answer at all because if this Clause is accepted and becomes a precedent, then the 1933 code will die out. If this Clause is carried, there will be no opportunity for this House to deal fully with the 1933 code. This is not a party matter in any sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2403.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-28", "file": "debates1950-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "8eb6fab45276219f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2411.1", "colnum": "2411", "heading": "SOUTH SHIELDS EXTENSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "ing the House to resist this Motion for the suspension of Standing Orders. One can sympathise with the Home Secretary that this Bill has been selected as the occasion for beginning this experiment as a side door through which this newer code of compensation can be introduced, but it is a penalty of being selected for a test case that the attention of the House is focused on the principle involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-28a.2411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-29", "file": "debates1950-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "be05563976cd7c5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-29a.2498.3", "colnum": "2498", "heading": "NATIONAL FILM FINANCE CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "venue position arising from the new scheme I have outlined to the House today will not lead to any remission of activity in getting costs down on the part of the industry. This industry, with a home market of only a fifth or sixth of the market which the United States industry has, cannot afford any extravagance, any excessive fees or payments, or any excessive pandering to artistic perfectionism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-29a.2498.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-06-29", "file": "debates1950-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "be05563976cd7c5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-29a.2570.6", "colnum": "2570", "heading": "NATIONAL FILM FINANCE CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "I understand that the hon. Member refuses to give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-29a.2570.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-29", "file": "debates1950-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "be05563976cd7c5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-29a.2570.10", "colnum": "2570", "heading": "NATIONAL FILM FINANCE CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "nt. The exhibitors say that this proportion is wholly wrong and that they ought to get four or five times as much as the producers. It is because of this attitude of the exhibitors that there has been reluctance in reaching this agreement The attitude of the exhibitors exemplified in the classic example of the organisation about which the noble Lord is so sensitive. The Rank Organisation protests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-29a.2570.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-29", "file": "debates1950-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "be05563976cd7c5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-29a.2572.1", "colnum": "2572", "heading": "NATIONAL FILM FINANCE CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": " the Report, by juggling with the quota, because whatever quota is fixed, it is always evaded. What we have to do is to limit the number of films coming from America and if we say only 30 or 40 are to be allowed to come in one year, that would compel the Rank Organisation to make British films or close its cinemas. and would compel the Film Finance Corporation's films to be shown in those cinemas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-29a.2572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-29", "file": "debates1950-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "be05563976cd7c5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-29a.2614.1", "colnum": "2614", "heading": "CEYLON (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Propaganda.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "lonial Office has one policy of broadcast propaganda while the Foreign Office has a different policy, or perhaps no policy at all. Either we do or do not wish the whole of the Far East to come under Soviet domination. If we do not wish this to happen, surely this is the time to realise that one of the most important weapons in our hands is that of truth, the weapon of political warfare on the air.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-29a.2614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-30", "file": "debates1950-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ac3c20d888b3204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-30a.2716.3", "colnum": "2716", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That is a degree of sophistry quite unworthy of the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-30a.2716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-30", "file": "debates1950-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ac3c20d888b3204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-30a.2716.3", "colnum": "2716", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ich it would run—why heifers were in the first year, how they would be in at a reduced rate in the second year, and how they would not be in at a later stage. I merely point out that hon. Gentlemen opposite have had a run on this line of country before, when they were sadly off course. Because we ignored their views, the country has the prospect of a lot more meat than it would otherwise have had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-30a.2716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-06-30", "file": "debates1950-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "0ac3c20d888b3204", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-30a.2736.1", "colnum": "2736", "heading": "CEMENT AND BRICKS SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ourse, is a matter which we have under observation, but it is somewhat difficult to decide whether hoarding is taking place. If any specific cases are brought to my attention, it would be helpful and I will deal with them, but I am assured that, by and large, there is no serious hoarding so far as can be ascertained. I do not employ an army of officials running round looking into all these things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-06-30a.2736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-03", "file": "debates1950-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d0252ab76e28d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "As I have already explained, agriculture will shortly come to an end—within a measurable time as defined in my answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-03", "file": "debates1950-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d0252ab76e28d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.8.5", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that I shall be here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.8.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-03", "file": "debates1950-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d0252ab76e28d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.17.3", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "But they might order it and find that it is not there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.17.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-07-03", "file": "debates1950-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d0252ab76e28d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.34.5", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is not a record.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Before asking this Question, Mr. Speaker, may I ask whether a record has been achieved by all the Oral Questions down for answer on one day being answered in an hour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.34.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-03", "file": "debates1950-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d0252ab76e28d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.57.4", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I spoke without asking permission. I was under a misapprehension. I thought that the Minister in charge of a Bill could speak twice. May I have the permission of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.57.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-03", "file": "debates1950-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d0252ab76e28d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "lways a flat rate of taxation that bore most heavily, proportionately, on the poorest people and those with the biggest families. And, of course, no one could argue that this is the case with the present Purchase Tax. None the less, nobody likes indirect taxation and no one wants to keep it on longer than is necessary. However, as indirect taxes go, the Purchase Tax as we have it is not a bad tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-03", "file": "debates1950-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d0252ab76e28d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.88.0", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "egan his oration by a gratuitously offensive remark directed at my hon. Friend the Member for Stechford (Mr. Jenkins). Then he said he would speak only for two or three minutes but he actually spoke for four minutes and 31 seconds. Apart from being somewhat amusing, a condition which his nature impels him to be, the hon. Member did not enlighten us any more than did the speech which he criticised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.88.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-03", "file": "debates1950-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d0252ab76e28d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.88.2", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Take 31 seconds to say it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has an excellent conceit of himself. It would be as well if a few others shared it. Unhappily they do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.88.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-03", "file": "debates1950-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d0252ab76e28d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.92.0", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "I see the point the hon. Member is making, but I beg him to bear in mind that now we have ended clothes rationing the effect of reducing Purchase Tax on non utility clothing, and hence narrowing the gap in price between non utility and utility clothing, would increase the demand for those things the hon. Member is describing at home and would, therefore, lose export sale—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.92.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-03", "file": "debates1950-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d0252ab76e28d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmayne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmayne", "preceding_text": "I appreciate what the hon. Member says, and I am equally sure that he is wrong. I shall be only too happy to prove that to him with figures if he will give me the opportunity to do so in detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-03", "file": "debates1950-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d0252ab76e28d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "considerably beyond that of the hon. Lady. A generation is growing up which just does not know what quality means. That is nothing short of tragedy; I am sure that the hon. Lady would agree with that. They think that today is normal, but it is not. When Government spokesmen speak of \"normal\" they mean war-time. That is normal to them, but when we speak of \"normal\" we mean pre-war time for quality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-03", "file": "debates1950-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d0252ab76e28d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.140.0", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ort of formula. I hope that in the circumstances the House will feel that so far as these taxation anomalies are concerned we have stated a principle which is a reasonable one. I am quite aware that this does not meet the point that some hon. Members have made, which is very big and wide, that, in fact, the pay to persons in the Colonial Forces is not adequate. That is what they are really saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-03", "file": "debates1950-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d0252ab76e28d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And in Bristol\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "eral's reply. I should like also to add that we are extremely dissatisfied that once again, on an important new Clause, not one of the three Treasury Ministers should see fit to be here. The question is one which obviously has a very considerable bearing on the economic life of the country. It certainly has on the economic situation in the towns and areas where the shops and premises are situated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-03", "file": "debates1950-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d0252ab76e28d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.204.1", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRE SERVICES, SCOTLAND (COMPENSATORY GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-03", "file": "debates1950-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d0252ab76e28d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.204.1", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRE SERVICES, SCOTLAND (COMPENSATORY GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the hon. Gentleman. [ Interruption. ] If hon. Members opposite are satisfied with his tergiversations in his efforts at an explanation, I can only consider that they are the best reason I can offer for having moved this Motion. His explanation was a far better reason for this Prayer than anything I have said. We do not wish to divide the House on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-03", "file": "debates1950-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d0252ab76e28d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.204.1", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRE SERVICES, SCOTLAND (COMPENSATORY GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "ayer because no explanation was given previously by the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department. This same thing was then brought forward for Scotland, and pushed by without the agreement of a National Joint Council such as was in existence in the case of England and Wales. But we are now told that none of these fire-masters comes into this category, except between 5th April and 1st June.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-03a.204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-04", "file": "debates1950-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "7733294bc9d1ab5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.259.2", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "In fairness to the dock workers, would it not be right to point out that all these men are working at the moment? The Minister will understand that not one of them could be expected to work alongside troops—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-04", "file": "debates1950-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "7733294bc9d1ab5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Frank Soskice)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Frank Soskice)", "preceding_text": "ich was entitled to the allowance was the industry which could be stated to be part of the manufacturing, processing or extractive industries or part of the transport, water and power industries. He did not leave the matter in any uncertainty. He was not hard pressed to justify something which was an illogicality. When he said this it was broadly speaking true, and I submit it is just as true now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-04", "file": "debates1950-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "7733294bc9d1ab5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "should like to say one small thing. I have been reminded by a Friend, not technically but otherwise extremely learned, who sits near me, that the House is very rapidly, rather strikingly in the last few days, especially if this Amendment goes through as it stands, turning backwards on the procedure by which it achieved greatness. All the procedure by which the House in the 14th and 15th centuries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-04", "file": "debates1950-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "7733294bc9d1ab5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "As the Minister's remarks were based on a scientifically inaccurate interpretation of the Interpretation Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-04", "file": "debates1950-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "7733294bc9d1ab5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "bject to tax, then, of course, the law remains the same throughout and a proper tax is levied upon what was, in fact, income. I withdraw nothing of my abhorrence to retrospective legislation, although I was not able to convince hon. Members in the majority, of its offensiveness. I know, of course, the extent to which hon. Gentlemen opposite are actuated by certain political motives in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-04", "file": "debates1950-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "7733294bc9d1ab5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ded form would do, it is not really so unreasonable. Clearly, it is perfectly reasonable—and I think all those who have spoken desire it—that tax evasion payments should be made subject to tax. Even if the Clause remains as it is and brings within its scope those payments where the motive is purely or wholly a commercial motive, I would suggest to the House that that really is not so unreasonable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-04", "file": "debates1950-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "7733294bc9d1ab5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.365.4", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I ought to alter what I said. I think that what I said was right. In the case which the hon. Member mentioned, what that person is getting is something which stands in the place of the remuneration he could have earned by doing the work which he undertakes not to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.365.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-04", "file": "debates1950-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "7733294bc9d1ab5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "preceding_text": "te issue, if I may say so in all humility. Both of these Amendments deal with an issue of the future. I want to get this absolutely clear with the right hon. and learned Gentleman—whether or not we are here trying to stop compensation for loss of office with no restrictive covenant attached thereto. As I see it, the whole field of tax evasion still remains open provided no restriction is included.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-04", "file": "debates1950-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "7733294bc9d1ab5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.387.2", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "borne out by the quotation, with which I need not weary the House again because I have referred to it once before tonight already. The right hon. and learned Gentleman said on the previous occasion when we debated this matter, \"We give an undertaking that we shall introduce legislation to meet the position as far as possible, and I shall see that it does not exempt those two particular gentlemen.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.387.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-04", "file": "debates1950-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "7733294bc9d1ab5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.387.2", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": " already alluded: I hope we shall be able not merely to cover payments under such covenants before the Act comes into force, but after.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 19th June, 1950; Vol. 476, c. 883.] Now the right hon. and learned Gentleman has had to agree that he has not been able to honour that undertaking as regards transactions that come after. I do not want to detain the House further on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.387.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-04", "file": "debates1950-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "7733294bc9d1ab5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PuRcHAsE TAX;SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS AS TO ROAD VEHICLE CHASSIS AND ROAD VEHICLES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "icles, and had an assurance from the Chancellor which was satisfactory as far as it went. Nevertheless the silent Member for Salford, West (Mr. Royle) saw fit to come into my Division and poke fun at the work I was trying to do on the Committee stage of this Bill. I hope he will listen to me now, for I shall show that the discussion was not only worth while, but requires further clarification now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.418.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-07-04", "file": "debates1950-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "7733294bc9d1ab5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.420.3", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PuRcHAsE TAX;SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS AS TO ROAD VEHICLE CHASSIS AND ROAD VEHICLES.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "If it is not excluded by the words in the Schedule dealing with the various exclusions or with the one mentioned by the noble Lord which is not mechanically propelled but is drawn by something else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.420.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-07-04", "file": "debates1950-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "7733294bc9d1ab5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.423.3", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PuRcHAsE TAX;SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS AS TO ROAD VEHICLE CHASSIS AND ROAD VEHICLES.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "May I by leave of the House put a point to the right hon. and learned Gentleman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-04", "file": "debates1950-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "7733294bc9d1ab5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.426.8", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOUBLE TAXATION RELIEF (DENMARK)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "the concession which has been granted in exchange by Denmark, which, as I understand it, is that the rate of tax shall not exceed 5 per cent. above what the Danes normally charge. What is this extraordinary tax? It is called \"udbytterate\" and perhaps the hon. Gentleman will tell me what it means. I should love to know what it is and the effect it has on revenue coming from Denmark to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-04a.426.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.473.0", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCHUMAN PLAN (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I understand that the use of the word \"plot\" was in connection with the manoeuvres of hon. Gentlemen opposite. I understand that this was not a textual report. It was a report made in the ordinary way of a speech, and I think there was some confusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.473.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCHUMAN PLAN (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I understand that the use of the word \"plot\" was in connection with the manoeuvres of hon. Gentlemen opposite. I understand that this was not a textual report. It was a report made in the ordinary way of a speech, and I think there was some confusion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—between what was said with regard to hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite and what was said in regard to a foreign Power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.473.4", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCHUMAN PLAN (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that many of us on this side of the House who are no less perturbed about the reports of this speech, welcome his reassurances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.473.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill (Woodford)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill (Woodford)", "preceding_text": "r members of the Commonwealth, were also right in acting as they have done under the mandate of the Security Council by giving armed support to the intervention of the United States. The Conservative Party give their full support to the Government in these matters. We understand that the Liberal Party take a similar view of their duty and that their position will presently be put before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "\"Tories bay for war\"—that is the headline, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.497.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.497.7", "colnum": "497", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "And also these words? Let me just read them, because the House ought to see how all this is working out: There is quite a substantial number of back-bench Tories who, true to their jungle philosophy, cannot help baying their delight at the smell of blood in the air.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.497.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "controversies. Surely he has enough responsibilities to bear and enough work to do, and surely he has been treated with a great deal of forbearance by the House of Commons? I was commenting on the article of the hon. Member for Maldon just now, but I must confess that in some ways I prefer his outspoken diatribes to the comments of the hon. Member for Coventry who really has laid down a principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thistle (Shoreditch and Finsbury)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thistle (Shoreditch and Finsbury)", "preceding_text": "nk a great duty and obligation rests upon all of us who are now enjoying that freedom, to see that we do everything we can to pass it on unimpaired to the generations which follow us. Like the rest of us, I have enjoyed what I might call this Miltonic freedom all my life—the freedom to say what I think, to express the thoughts that are within me, as John Milton sought. But I am getting an old man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllister (Rutherglen)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Some of you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllister (Rutherglen)", "preceding_text": "ters that we are discussing today? Then he continued to debase the Debate by a wanton, vindictive, malicious attack on the Secretary of State for War—another cold war becoming a hot war. When one thinks of the record of the Leader of the Opposition as the great war leader of this country during the Second World War, when one thinks of the support which this party and the Liberal Party gave to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAllister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllister", "preceding_text": "turity of the past. We who are called \"starry-eyed idealists\" have behind us in this movement for world government some of the greatest men in the world today. I think I can claim that we have the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition, we have Mr. Nehru, Prime Minister of India, we have Professor Einstein, we have Lord Boyd Orr, we have Lord Beveridge. We have great men of every party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies (Merthyr Tydvil)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies (Merthyr Tydvil)", "preceding_text": "o all peoples aspiring for freedom and self-government. At the outset I hazard the opinion that were the Opposition changed in this House and, unfortunately, became the Government of this country, and if those of us on these benches were occupying the benches opposite, the type of Amendment which would have appeared on the Order Paper by such an Opposition would be that which I have moved tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies (Merthyr Tydvil)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies (Merthyr Tydvil)", "preceding_text": "ion. The Prime Minister also, to my amazement dealt with Northern and Southern Korea as if they were two totally different-nations. As a consequence of this treatment, most of what he had to say on the situation was pathetic, artificial and unreal. The Leader of the Opposition, may I remind hon. Members on these benches, has not been as happy in this House for a long time as he was this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies (Merthyr Tydvil)", "cue_text": "HON. MEM- BERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies (Merthyr Tydvil)", "preceding_text": "titled to give my opinion and personal reaction to his speech. I can quite understand why the right hon. Gentleman has led the Opposition to support the Government's motion. It is fairly obvious to all of us who have known and have paid close attention to his life that the right hon. Gentleman is never as happy as when all hell, in terms of war, have been let loose upon the people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies (Merthyr Tydvil)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies (Merthyr Tydvil)", "preceding_text": "is is the construction that millions of our men and women would place upon his speech—\"It looks obvious and certain that the United States have piled up quite a number of atom bombs. and it is doubtful\" —in the mind of the right hon. Gentleman—\"whether Russia has any at all. In that case, now is the time to use that deadly and destructive instrument that the United States have brought into being.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies (Merthyr Tydvil)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies (Merthyr Tydvil)", "preceding_text": "into being.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am not going to enter into any kind of argument with the Opposition. I shall leave the good sense of the British people to judge whether the construction that I have placed upon the right hon. Gentleman's speech is or is not the one that they will place upon it. The Government are asking for the approval of this House for their declaration of war against Korea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies (Merthyr Tydvil)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies (Merthyr Tydvil)", "preceding_text": "itically as he possibly could—of Mr. Truman's declaration regarding Formosa and the implications of that declaration and of the subsequent steps taken by the United States with respect to it? No. The United Nations ignored it, as it was ignored in the opening speeches this afternoon. We know that it is not only not in accord with the United Nations Charter but is a direct violation of the Charter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.550.5", "colnum": "550", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that a threat?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Koreans have put up such little opposition to their own countrymen from the North? I am told that they are disarmed. I express the opinion that there is another, much stronger reason, namely, that there are millions of Southern Koreans who are as anxious for the independence of their country as are the Northern Koreans. Before I conclude—and I shall do so unless I am provoked to take up more time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.550.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.550.5", "colnum": "550", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "e for me not to try to visualise what would happen, what must inevitably happen in this country in the event of another world war. We all know that this small island of ours would inevitably be regarded as the principal base of the Western Powers; in fact, as an annexe of an extension of the military power of the United States. This country would be the first to be destroyed in a war of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.550.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The megalomaniacs who provoke the third world war. I say this as a deliberate warning to the men and women of Britain should that catastrophic experience befall this country. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Absolute-nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "nd that our interests, our good name as a nation, as far as the war is concerned, is placed in the hands of General MacArthur. I am certain that the Socialists on these benches will take considerable pleasure out of the fact that General MacArthur has imposed his will on Japan, and has destroyed the freedom which so many working-class people and working-class organisations have the right to enjoy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " the only type of Government I would ever expect to realise the obvious—that the world is not divided between the U.S.A. and its satellites and the Soviet Union. It is divided as never before between the rampant forces of reaction and the resurgence of many nations in the world who are fighting for freedom and for self-determination, and it is because of these facts that I have moved my Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.557.1", "colnum": "557", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "t we must help to deal with the problems of poverty among hungry nations that create Communism.\" If we prepare for war we inevitably prepare for poverty and the conditions which lead to Communism. If we prepare for war we inevitably end in creating Communist conditions over the greater part of Asia and the greater part of Europe. I know I would be one of the first victims of a totalitarian regime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Fletcher (Bury and Radcliffe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Fletcher (Bury and Radcliffe)", "preceding_text": "General Chiang Kai-shek and his rump Government then. There is a thin red cover painted over China which people accept too easily as Communism, but in South China and South-West China and the borders of Indo-China there are, to my certain knowledge forces which could form the first self-governing area breaking away from it. The sign has been awaited on all sides, and on the determination in Korea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.569.1", "colnum": "569", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg (Maldon)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg (Maldon)", "preceding_text": "reas of the world as we are responsible for—then I should not be in the least surprised if the whole of Asia were Communist anyway within five or 10 years—and we should deserve it to be. Now, in this connection it is of course unfortunate that, owing to the necessities of history and of the situation in which we find ourselves—it is part of the legacy of the largely slum Empire which we inherited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.569.1", "colnum": "569", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg (Maldon)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg (Maldon)", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend did not refer to the fact that there was quite a strong minority report from that Commission, dissenting even from that modest view. It is a regime in which political opponents are customarily imprisoned—just as the hon. Member opposite wanted the hon. Member for Merthyr Tydvil imprisoned, thus showing a fine example of the Parliamentary democracy of which we are all so proud—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Lord John Hope (Edinburgh, Pentlands)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope (Edinburgh, Pentlands)", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member forgive me? I heard the intervention, and what the hon. Member said was, \"You ought to be shut up.\" That does not mean imprisonment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": " that is not really a very good parallel to apply to this particular régime, since, although it is undoubtedly the case that there has been an act of aggression—and that is what all the trouble is about—from the North, it is also equally true that there have been border incidents, aggressions, of a minor kind, not as big as this, from both sides, with provocation and threats from the South.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.573.4", "colnum": "573", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "ing, to a personal reference to myself made by the Leader of the Opposition. 1 do so, not because it is of any very great importance to the House but because the right hon. Gentleman who is the Leader of the Opposition thought it sufficiently important to devote some minutes of his speech to it, and because in doing so he happened entirely to misrepresent me and what I said in a newspaper article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.573.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.575.0", "colnum": "575", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "think that on the occasion of a big Debate like this, probably most hon. Members would be expected to be here. I have naturally taken the normal precaution of notifying the right hon. Gentleman that I was going to reply to him, in the unlikely event of my being able to catch Mr. Speaker's eye, but I added, of course, that I realised that he would not for a moment wish to come in to hear the reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite really must learn something about Parliamentary manners. They cannot order Members to say \"Yes\" or \"No\" just to suit their particular behest. I am quite certain that there is a very small minority of people in this country—perhaps a slightly larger minority in America—who positively enjoy the glamour and excitement of a great war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.576.3", "colnum": "576", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way again. I have already given way several times, and I have spoken longer than I meant to and I must soon sit down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.576.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "CLASS II", "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": "I think that from the reception which his speech has had the right hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Eden) can have the satisfaction of knowing that it has met—I think there was clear evidence of it—with the general approval of the House on both sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "CLASS II", "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": "sty's Government, I do not think there is anything which the right hon. Gentleman has said by way of exposition of policy and the situation with which we are faced which we should be disposed to disagree with, and on behalf of the House—I think, on behalf of the country—I might thank him for an able speech which admirably reflected the temper, the spirit and the common sense of the British people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "CLASS II", "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": "o a great, powerful and dictatorial position, and it seemed as though he was there a very long time; but after all, he was only in power for 10 years, and then he came to an end which, so far as we know, was an unpleasant one. I think it is a warning to all other gentlemen in a similar position, and, as the right hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington said, it is a good thing to know when to stop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lewisham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "tem of international relationships that then obtained. I do not know what the House thinks about it—I think I do, really, but I cannot follow this reasoning. I am absolutely sure that any candidate for Parliament who put himself forward on the basis of the complete withdrawal of this country from the United Nations would have a difficult time at the polls, unless he had an exceptionally safe seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "CLASS II", "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": "erits, and we cannot entirely settle such a question upon the basis whether we like the habits, the looks or the customs of people of various nations. The allegation is made by certain opponents of the Government's policy that the South Korean regime is corrupt and unpopular, as if that were a justification for armed aggression. There are plenty of unpopular régimes in the world at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-05", "file": "debates1950-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "37e66f5a3e0680ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.599.3", "colnum": "599", "heading": "CLASS II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Studholme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Studholme", "preceding_text": "I said that it was a presumption, and I think that any fair-minded person would accept that as a reasonable presumption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-05a.599.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-06", "file": "debates1950-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "5662ea3b891401e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.624.7", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I am about to ask the right hon. Gentleman a question, and may I say, in preface", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.624.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-07-06", "file": "debates1950-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "5662ea3b891401e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.631.3", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCHUMAN PLAN (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "d, I understand, locally, a textual report, which is confirmed by the Press Association, who took it down, in which the passage referring to the plot, as actually delivered by the Secretary of State for War, was as follows: We shall get more and more of these schemes, no doubt, which, under the guise of internationalism, are designed to prevent the people really controlling their economic system\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.631.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-06", "file": "debates1950-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "5662ea3b891401e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.631.4", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCHUMAN PLAN (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS:\"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " attempt—and I am really surprised that he should do so—to maintain in the House that\"these schemes\" did not comprise and were not indeed appended to the Schuman Plan, which is the only scheme before the House and the country at the present time? How does he explain it? Was he misled by the Secretary of State for War, or did he think of it on the spur of the moment? I have the greatest confidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.631.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-06", "file": "debates1950-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "5662ea3b891401e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.644.4", "colnum": "644", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "narrow entrances. Are you aware, Mr. Speaker, that two hon. Members were within the precincts but were not in a position to get to the Chamber because of the congestion They could not actually get to their seats because a Division had been anticipated and, because they wanted to be available for the Business which immediately followed, they had proceeded to the Lobbies in order to get out quickly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.644.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-06", "file": "debates1950-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "5662ea3b891401e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Further to that point, Mr. Speaker, for excellent reasons you were not present last night, but to my knowledge a Motion was proposed by the Minister of National Insurance before the Motion\"That this House do now adjourn\" was moved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-06", "file": "debates1950-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "5662ea3b891401e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.645.3", "colnum": "645", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "The Motion\"That this House do now adjourn\" had not been moved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.645.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-06", "file": "debates1950-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "5662ea3b891401e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.646.3", "colnum": "646", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "With great respect, Mr. Speaker, you were absent and I was present, and I should like to assure you that the Motion was moved before the Motion for the Adjournment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.646.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-06", "file": "debates1950-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "5662ea3b891401e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.647.9", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (TRADE UNIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"There are more than one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": ". Member who has the honour of serving as a member of His Majesty's Government to intervene with a Ministerial colleague on behalf of an outside organisation with which he was previously connected in a matter in which that colleague has to deal as between one organisation and another. I would be very glad, if there are precedents for this sort of action, if the Committee could be reminded of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.647.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-06", "file": "debates1950-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "5662ea3b891401e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.694.0", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (TRADE UNIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh, yes, it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I never did think that employers understood collective bargaining. An employers' association is not a trade union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-06", "file": "debates1950-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "5662ea3b891401e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (TRADE UNIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. V. Grimston (Westbury)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. V. Grimston (Westbury)", "preceding_text": "to- day administration of the Post Office. We have a right, and, indeed, a duty, to bring that administration under review, which we are doing in this instance in raising the matter of the refusal of recognition to the E.O.T.A. Therefore, I repudiate any suggestion that we should not be discussing this matter. Further, it has been suggested that the Tory Party favours breakaway or splinter unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-06", "file": "debates1950-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "5662ea3b891401e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (TRADE UNIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimston", "preceding_text": " another quotation: We socialised an industry but we hesitate to socialise or to organise our trades unions on the same basis that we socialised industry. What does that mean? It means that they have nationalised a number of industries but that they have not yet nationalised the trade unions. [HON. MEMERS:\"No.\"] That is the only inference to be drawn from it. The Postmaster-General goes on to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-06", "file": "debates1950-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "5662ea3b891401e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.708.2", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (TRADE UNIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": " after the 40 per cent. had been achieved. So E.O.T.A. has never been under any misapprehension about this, and I beg hon. Gentlemen opposite not to advise these members that they are entitled to press for recognition under a misapprehension. What is happening is that a number of the members now think, because of the pressure in the House of Commons, that I am deliberately doing them an injustice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.708.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-06", "file": "debates1950-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "5662ea3b891401e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.708.4", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (TRADE UNIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "r-General is being abused by a counter clerk in a public conference in the most shameful manner. If he will behave like that in public to the Postmaster-General, what sort of courtesy do hon. Members expect in the post offices of this country to the ordinary citizen? There is being encouraged in the Post Office by this political support a spirit of indiscipline, in some cases a spirit of sabotage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.708.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-06", "file": "debates1950-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "5662ea3b891401e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.708.4", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (TRADE UNIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "sident union, two of them are in the parent body. The operators are split up in the same way. What happened? Supervisors belonging to the dissident body obviously tried to cover their own members. The supervisors of the parent body obviously tried to cover their members. Each one blamed the other. And I have to write to the hon. Member and say,\"I am sorry, I cannot explain the cause of the delay.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.708.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-06", "file": "debates1950-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "5662ea3b891401e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.715.8", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BATH EXTENSION BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": " boundaries purely for the convenience of a large authority at the expense of a smaller authority. I would like to give the Minister some of the evidence, and I stress that it is independent unsolicited evidence. These letters have come from my constituency and from people in Bath without any asking. There are the Women's Institutes to start with. They are a very powerful force in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.715.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-06", "file": "debates1950-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "5662ea3b891401e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.715.8", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BATH EXTENSION BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "If the city put a new population of 1,000–1,500 people at Claverton Down there will be no church, shopping and amusement facilities, and a new and intensive bus service via Widcombe Hill will be called for. To my mind the whole thing is an outrage. That, I repeat, is from the chairman of the Bath Preservation Trust. I have a letter from the Vice-Chairman of the Bath Ratepayers' Association.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.715.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-06", "file": "debates1950-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "5662ea3b891401e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BATH EXTENSION BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snow", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"And lost.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snow", "preceding_text": "I wondered whether I should ask if anyone can join in this private dogfight, but on a matter of principle I should like to resist this Bill, as I resisted the Wolverhampton Bill a fortnight ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-06", "file": "debates1950-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "5662ea3b891401e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "I am bound to say that the last few words of the hon. Gentleman will not encourage me or anyone else to give way to him in the future. I will come in a moment or two to the so-called meeting of 29th June and deal with it in the most specific terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-06", "file": "debates1950-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "5662ea3b891401e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": " all the other back-stairs tittle-tattle. At the meeting on 26th June nothing of what the hon. Member for Mid—Bedfordshire described as having happened there took place—not one single thing. The hon. Member went into a great deal of detail about what happened, ending up with a threat of a strike. No such thing took place. I want to ask him—I will not ask him, because he might be tempted to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-06", "file": "debates1950-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "5662ea3b891401e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Grimston (St. Albans)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Grimston (St. Albans)", "preceding_text": " is the phrase, would be possible, to the great benefit of the Department's Vote. Much has been said by a number of hon. Members about A.E.A. The hon. Member for Southall (Mr. Pargiter), who was the first Member on the other side of the Committee to speak of it, made one or two assertions which although they were made in a moderate way, ought to be corrected. He said that we should keep out these—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-06", "file": "debates1950-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "5662ea3b891401e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREENWICH HOSPITAL AND TRAVERS' FOUNDATION", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "y into the Navy as cadets. The object should be to select boys who would normally enter the Navy on the lower deck and improve their position whereby they get in as artificers with the object of becoming commissioned officers. These should be the ordinary types of boys, not the \"posh\" cream with the idea of turning the School into a \"posh\" School, the poor boy being handicapped because he is poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-06a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-07", "file": "debates1950-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "dcaea6b2ec70adc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-07a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS KITCHEN COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "over of the Motion or the hon. Lady the Member for Wythenshawe (Mrs. Hill), who seconded, to face up to the magnitude of the loss. It is true that £81,000 is only a small turnover for a business which attracts a lot of attention. The hon. Member for Bristol, North-East (Mr. Coldrick) talked about the disgraceful scenes on the occasion of the all-night Sitting, which I was fortunate enough to miss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-07a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-07", "file": "debates1950-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "dcaea6b2ec70adc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-07a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS KITCHEN COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Because you have been away.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "n the occasion of the all-night Sitting, which I was fortunate enough to miss. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I was fulfilling an engagement which was made nine months before and I took the usual precaution of pairing, so I was not here. But I have taken part in a good many all-night Sittings in this building. We always had proper service before the war. What is the reason for the deterioration in service?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-07a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-07", "file": "debates1950-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "dcaea6b2ec70adc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-07a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS KITCHEN COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " takings in that very nice bar where we used to have supper during the war, which opens out in the Central Hall, which is patronised by the police as a bar and canteen and which we used then. I want to know whether that makes or loses money. I do not know whether the bar a little further along the corridor, to which one gains access down some stairs opposite the Lords Library, is run by us or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-07a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-07", "file": "debates1950-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "dcaea6b2ec70adc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-07a.843.1", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS KITCHEN COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the second 'Finally'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "preceding_text": "ccept the Report. It is a matter of complete indifference to the Committee whether the Report is accepted or rejected. The Members of this Committee are not paid to sit on it, but as Members they give the best service they possibly can to their fellow Members. If the House rejects this Report, the logical thing for the House to do is to constitute a fresh Committee and let them have a go. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-07a.843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-07", "file": "debates1950-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "dcaea6b2ec70adc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-07a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS KITCHEN COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "ss this as a purely commercial undertaking of course—is concerned, as a first statistic, with his rate of gross profit. It is elementary and we are all concerned with it. I am sorry that my hon. Friend the Member for East Ham, North (Mr. Daines) is not here to help us with his advice; he seems to take the point of view that under no circumstance can experts contribute anything in any walk of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-07a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-07", "file": "debates1950-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "dcaea6b2ec70adc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-07a.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS KITCHEN COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander Bullus", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Tea Room.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander Bullus", "preceding_text": "ount of smoking in the non-smoking portions of the cafeteria. I have never been quite able to understand why the small area in the cafeteria is the smokers' portion. That is the part that contains the service hatch and food counter; all the food lies there exposed, and many of the cakes and other food bear the fingerprints of many people. A large portion of the cafeteria is devoted to non-smokers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-07a.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-10", "file": "debates1950-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8a2b58303aee1375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-10a.979.8", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "l vehicles, and so on, they are direct taxes on production. Wherever we look we find that, for example, the trade unions are increasingly restless, for it is impossible under our present fiscal system and under the provisions contained in this Bill to deal properly with the capital equipment of industry in which their members work. They are right to do so, because we cannot secure full employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-10a.979.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-10", "file": "debates1950-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8a2b58303aee1375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-10a.988.4", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By the Chancellor?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "thorne has certainly said he has a right to consider what he describes as the state of things now. If we are going to envisage what the state of things may be in 12 months' time we shall have to refer to the present state of things. I should like to remind hon. Members of the prophecies made in the Debates in October on the proposed economic cuts. The most dreadful prognostications were made then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-10a.988.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-10", "file": "debates1950-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8a2b58303aee1375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-10a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "Devaluation is not the result of our finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-10a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-10", "file": "debates1950-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8a2b58303aee1375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-10a.1048.3", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Houghton) who struck a chord of memory which sent me hot foot to the Library. What a valuable institution is the Library of the House of Commons. In it I found what I believed to exist in the tomes of our records—utterances on that subject by two ex-colleagues of the hon. Member and myself who have since disappeared into the dim splendours at the far end of the Royal Gallery in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-10a.1048.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-10", "file": "debates1950-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8a2b58303aee1375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-10a.1077.0", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL PROVISIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": " advanced by the Civil Contingencies Fund to support a preliminary committee to get to grips with the problems, or to provide salaries for eminent gentlemen kept, as it were, on ice. That is a type of use of the Civil Contingencies Fund which has been made in the past. I think the most obvious use, and the one which hon. Members have been most accustomed to is the use of this Fund for emergencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-10a.1077.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-10", "file": "debates1950-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "8a2b58303aee1375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-10a.1089.1", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 8.—(SHORT TITLE.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The one which I have looked up was the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-10a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "We on this side of the House always welcome any sensible step directed towards European cooperation and solidarity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1159.0", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "All written down.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir David Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "as to give to the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for War and to the right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister an opportunity to give a full explanation, which we have certainly not yet had, of the speech of the former at Colchester and the account of its purport given in the House by the latter. We have now had a further explanation, but I cannot say that we have had a satisfactory one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He said so.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I am trying to understand this point. Had the Prime Minister the handout before him during this interview?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1166.2", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The handout?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes. I had the handout; I had the notes there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1166.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1167.4", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1167.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1170.1", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We have heard them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Could I trouble the right hon. Gentleman to say what those words were?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1170.3", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "I read precisely what I said in the opening of my speech. Immediately before the passage containing the word \"plot\" I used words to the following effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1170.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "With respect to the right hon. Gentleman, there is. There is the headline in the text which was precisely what one puts in, when one changes the subject from the Schuman Plan itself to the Parliamentary Debate on the Schuman Plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1172.6", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ed questions on the first day this matter was raised in the House of Commons, he had this before him. Let me read it out. I am sorry to have to impress it upon the House again. It is headed \"The Schuman Plan\": That brings me to the thing we have been discussing in Parliament this week, the Schuman Plan. What is the real issue underlying the Schuman Plan? I am quite willing to abridge what follows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1172.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1172.6", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ing to abridge what follows. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it all.\"] It goes on: This is a Plan to give control of the coal and steel industries of Europe, including the British coal and steel industries, into the hands of a council of eight or nine men. These men were to have complete power over these industries, and they were not to be responsible to any Government or Parliament or other democratic body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1172.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "e proposed a great central bank for Europe, again entirely divorced from popular democratic control. We shall get more and more of these schemes no doubt which under the guise of internationalism are designed to prevent the people really controlling their economic system. Well, \"more of these schemes\" must include the Schuman Plan. It must include the Schuman Plan. Then comes, I agree, a headline.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "in the ordinary way of a speech, and I think there was some confusion between what was said with regard to hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite and what was said in regard to a foreign power.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 5th July, 1950; Vol. 477, c. 475.] As a matter of fact, if the idea is to say this was not a Schuman plot but a Tory plot, we knew nothing about the Schuman Plan until it was made public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "eech of the right hon. Gentleman; not anything which had the slightest relevance to this Debate. I very much regret indeed that this matter has not been cleared up satisfactorily except in one respect. I believe that every Member in the House in his heart or conscience, or the great majority of them, must be convinced that the explanation of the Secretary of State for War is wholly unsatisfactory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "his Debate. I very much regret indeed that this matter has not been cleared up satisfactorily except in one respect. I believe that every Member in the House in his heart or conscience, or the great majority of them, must be convinced that the explanation of the Secretary of State for War is wholly unsatisfactory. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] For the rest, I have only to say: Let fair-minded people read—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1176.1", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hynd", "preceding_text": " the main portion of his speech and turn deliberately towards the Secretary of State for War and ask him in heavy, ponderous tones whether, in this situation, he should not search his conscience and try to reconcile his past behaviour with the present situation. I have long known the Secretary of State for War, and I am unable to recall anything of which he need be ashamed in his political career.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1180.1", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " on the same day— by the United States of America. There was no dispute in regard to that. I agree there was a distinct difference between the view of right hon. and hon. Members opposite and right hon. and hon. Gentlemen on this side of the House, as to whether it was right for the Government to go to Paris and take part in the discussions at this stage, because it was a condition of their going—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1180.1", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Tories.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "be responsible to any government or parliament or other democratic body. Again, I ask, where did he get that from? Even before the agreement could be regarded as finally settled, it would have to be debated and agreed upon by every one of the parliaments that sent their representatives there. The Plan was put forward, no doubt, from excellent motives. Then, mark these words: These dictators\"— Who?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1180.1", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "cratic body. Again, I ask, where did he get that from? Even before the agreement could be regarded as finally settled, it would have to be debated and agreed upon by every one of the parliaments that sent their representatives there. The Plan was put forward, no doubt, from excellent motives. Then, mark these words: These dictators\"— Who? [HON. MEMBERS: \"The Tories.\"] No, the Government of France.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1184.2", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is dirty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "acy of the Press Association reporter is that he checked it against the report of another reporter who was there, and both agreed the amendments to the handout which had previously been issued before they left the Recreation ground. Clearly, they realised, because they are ladies and gentlemen of considerable experience, the slippery customer with whom they were dealing and were taking no chances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1184.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1187.2", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "The speech to which we have just listened and the other speeches from the Opposition ought to make me angry. I am sorry to say that they only make me exceedingly sad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1189.0", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He resigned.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "I regret that the memory of the right hon. Gentleman is so much at fault. The right hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Eden) was a member of Mr. Chamberlain's Administration at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1189.0", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "I regret that the memory of the right hon. Gentleman is so much at fault. The right hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Eden) was a member of Mr. Chamberlain's Administration at that time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He resigned.\"] I am speaking of the years before he resigned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1191.0", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. This is not a point of order directed towards defending my right hon. Friend, but we must be quite clear. There are one or two of us who desire to speak. As I understand it, the hon. Member for Oxford (Mr Hogg), for whom I have a great regard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1196.1", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "sten carefully, he would not need to interject, as he usually does, on matters of this description. We are so used to his interjections that we place little value on any of them. This, of course, has raised a storm of conjecture and a storm of Press reports. The issue is whether this country under the suggested Schuman proposals will be more prosperous than it is at the moment, or less prosperous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1197.3", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "incerely, and extremely strongly: and I deeply regret it. The only thing I want to say is that we would be under an illusion, and the country would be under an illusion, if anyone thought the Secretary of State is a lone voice crying in the wilderness. At Colchester he gave expression to views which I firmly believe are fully shared and supported by a substantial majority of hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1200.3", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": " the length of the speech upon which I base my views. I have read, as many other Members of this House may have done, the sentences which the Press Association gave out originally. I do not expect the party opposite to accept what I say, if they will not accept what the Secretary of State for War has said, but I can only say that I looked at it and I said to myself \"Something has gone wrong here\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1209.3", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": "y, pseudo-dialectic; the sort of snobbery which, in this place, is apparently regarded as clever, but, in front of the average audience of ordinary or working-class people, would be regarded as \"putting on a front,\" the sort of thing which the average young Tory candidate tries I hope not to do. If I had to provide an object lesson to any young Tory candidate— and some of them are friends of mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": "ary of State for War might easily, in his speech, instead of saying that it was a plot, have described it simply as stupidity. While the Opposition say that they are in favour of the unity of Europe and other things, the real fact is that they do not know what they are talking about. Let us come to the test. The longest speech I have made in this House, up to the speech I am now proposing to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1212.5", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": "f the Opposition knew it perfectly well because the Secretary of State was one of the 10 key public relations personnel with which he had something to do—of explaining to the world what our policy was. When the Secretary of State for War was Under-Secretary of State for Air at the beginning of 1945, there was no objection whatsoever. A lot of things happened after that. He became Minister of Food_", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1212.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1212.5", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": "ch he made a long speech. At that gathering the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition was not himself. He uttered a phrase referring to political events, and to a member of the present Government which, even from the point of view of the average reporter representing a paper of the lowest standards, was quite unreportable. Is that perfectly clear? I really know what I am talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1212.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1220.0", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "in Malaya or anywhere else, but I must end on this note, and I think nobody will disagree here. This country, the British Commonwealth and the world are confronted with a peril of international tension painfully reminiscent to me—I do not know if it is to my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill)—of the days when he and I sat in this House in the late summer of 1914 and of 1939.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. A. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All Tories?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. A. Price", "preceding_text": "ent affairs, have had every opportunity to cover themselves, and have no right to expect sympathy if they have failed to do so. But there are thousands of other people who have been referred to this evening, who hate the sight of a buff form; who go to bed at 8 o'clock; who never listen to the radio; who cannot read, who are deaf and so on—literally thousands of them. And the proof of the pudding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1274.3", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "That the Draft Order in Council entitled the Census Order, 1950, a copy of which was laid before this House on 15th June, be not submitted to His Majesty.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that the House would be willing to have a general discussion on this Motion. Of course, if it is so wished, I could call the Motion in the name of the hon. Member for Westbury (Mr. R. V. Grimston) for a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1274.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1289.0", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "Were the answers compulsorily obtained?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1298.1", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": "ed twice what was the date of her first marriage. Now, the only reason, as I understand it, why such information is called for is, to compare the fertility of the first and second marriages. I am bound to say that I look with the utmost suspicion on those who seek to gain information on that point, because it can be used only if certain results are obtained, for interfering with the marriage laws.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1304.6", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "mportation the cut would not have been necessary. I hope the Parliamentary Secretary will tell me why they have failed to arrange for the importation of more tea. It may, of course, be that the Dutch have been pushed out in Indonesia through the action of what I may call the \"Insecurity\" Council at Lake \"Failure\". The British and American Governments, at the right moment, had not forced the Dutch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1304.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1304.6", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": " increase in the European countries which, in the past, used to drink coffee but now drink tea. We are the largest tea consumers, I think. of the white countries in the world and I know of no real world shortage of tea. There is a shortage of tea in this country. Maybe there is a shortage of brains in the Ministry of Food, because it is a shortage of brains which has led to the short-age of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1304.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-11", "file": "debates1950-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6cf55188575a32d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1307.1", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "rs, produced tea of the finest qualities and of qualities at varying prices in unlimited quantities for the people of this country. In no country in the world was tea more in demand or was there a better choice of it or more reasonable prices for it or where tea was more \"get-at-able\" by all grades of the population. Yet, here to-day, we are reducing this miserable ration of 3 oz. to 2½ oz.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-11a.1307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-12", "file": "debates1950-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ce5958444b99f1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-12a.1348.5", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCHOOLS (BOXING INSTRUCTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that most mothers of this country heartily endorse what was said by the right hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-12a.1348.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-12", "file": "debates1950-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ce5958444b99f1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-12a.1383.1", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "There are many things. First of all, there is full employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-12a.1383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-12", "file": "debates1950-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ce5958444b99f1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-12a.1389.0", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is the wireless.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "hat these accounts are carried round, as they used to be carried round by hawkers in this country 100 years ago, to small towns where they are read out, when possibly some of the language used is embellished. There seems to be so little responsible information to put in balance against it. If there were some such information, the problem would not matter so much. Can nothing be done in the matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-12a.1389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-12", "file": "debates1950-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ce5958444b99f1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-12a.1406.5", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Well done.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "ot destroyed by overnight attacks of locusts. In the event of attacks occurring, the financial help should be provided to save farmers from complete ruin which an overnight attack can undoubtedly mean. Some scheme for contributions from the farmers could be devised on the lines of our war damage scheme. If the burden on the taxpayers is likely to be very heavy, I feel the farmers would contribute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-12a.1406.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-12", "file": "debates1950-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ce5958444b99f1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-12a.1417.3", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "equality for all civilised men to the Minister for application or re-application in the Colonial Empire. It is a doctrine which bears examination. It gives all black men the feeling that there is no technical bar between them and others to the highest rights, including the right to vote, yet it admits a sufficiently small number of them to make the outvoting of the whites by the blacks impossible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-12a.1417.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-12", "file": "debates1950-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ce5958444b99f1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-12a.1445.0", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hitler.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to qualify what I have got to say by anything which the hon. Member for Mid-Bedfordshire (Mr. Lennox-Boyd) might say, and I am not paying a tribute to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Bristol, West, because I think he wants it. He does not want it. He is my political opponent and I would destroy him if I could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-12a.1445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-12", "file": "debates1950-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ce5958444b99f1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-12a.1455.1", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tory Africans.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ours, railways and roads. With regard to what I think are more controversial matters—though that does not appear to be accepted—that is, political and constitutional issues, I thought when I was in Nigeria that there was a feeling of grave disquiet. I thought the atmosphere out there was not very happy and that the unhappiness was most marked among those whom I would describe as moderate Africans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-12a.1455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-12", "file": "debates1950-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ce5958444b99f1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-12a.1470.1", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We want to, also.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "I am very glad to have an opportunity of speaking in a Colonial Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-12a.1470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-12", "file": "debates1950-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ce5958444b99f1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-12a.1509.1", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTORCARS (DISTRIBUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "orwich and in other parts of the country? I ask my hon. Friend to consider this matter. I am sure from correspondence that I have that prospective buyers would feel that there was a greater sense of justice and fairness if the covenant period were extended beyond one year. I would not suggest three years; I think that is perhaps too much; but I think it should be extended to a period of two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-12a.1509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1541.2", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREAN CAMPAIGN (INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that in communiquéóes from Tokyo there are reports of atrocities committed against American soldiers by Northern Koreans? Is he aware there are also very substantial reports of atrocities committed by South Koreans against North Koreans?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1541.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1571.0", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "be well described as a litter of bureaucracies. They are, in fact, mere power misers. They and the top-heavy National Coal Board are a big impediment to the management of the industry. We have constantly pressed for a sweeping measure of devolution in the management of the industry. I believe that many miners in this country share that belief, and so, I think, do a number of hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1570.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1573.1", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "My authority is that of a considerable number of persons whom I have seen and who might have died as a result of the disease had it not been checked early.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1576.3", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "e grievances of the consumers to the Coal Board? None other than the Vice-Chairman of the National Coal Board, Sir Arthur Street That is a fine consultative council. These farcical consumers' councils should be ended and replaced by a really independent and effective body modelled on the Transport Tribunal. The Transport Tribunal is an inheritance, and a good one, from the reign of Queen Victoria.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1576.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1576.3", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You said he did not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "onalisers is to read an extract from a speech made by the Chairman of the Scottish Division of the Coal Board: Domestic consumers are still making do with an amount which I believe would have been described before the war as impossibly inadequate Could you find a worse condemnation of the Coal Board than that made by its Scottish Divisional Chairman? The Minister talked a good deal about exports —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1576.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1580.9", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheer up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "This is the best news we have had for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1580.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh:", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "I cannot answer that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1581.6", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He never said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "Good. We shall read some supplementary corrections tomorrow. Has the Minister at last obtained a clear understanding from the unions to put an end to restrictive practices? I ask the House to note the statements by the right hon. Gentleman this afternoon. He tells us that the unions—the National Union of Mineworkers and others—in the industry have now agreed to abolish all restrictive practices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1581.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1581.6", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You look it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "s? I ask the House to note the statements by the right hon. Gentleman this afternoon. He tells us that the unions—the National Union of Mineworkers and others—in the industry have now agreed to abolish all restrictive practices. [An HON. MEMBER: \"He never said that.\"] It is well within the recollection of the House that he did, and I must say that this is a tremendous reform. How delighted we are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1581.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1581.8", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "his and I wish that the National Coal Board had been more successful in proving it to them. Windy exhortations from the headquarters of the National Coal Board, over-looking Buckingham Palace Gardens, merely irritate the miners. The miners are fed to the teeth with exhortations. The best way of securing cooperation from the miners is to give them opportunities for contact with a boss they can see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1581.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1599.3", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grey", "preceding_text": "I could have challenged the right hon. Gentleman time and time again, but I did not. We are supposed to be discussing the Report today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1599.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1607.1", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I misunderstood him. In considering this Report, opencast mining must be in our thoughts, for in the year 1949 12.5 million tons were produced from opencast sites but this coal was marketed and sold by the National Coal Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1609.1", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "ce in respect to administration, capital equipment, human relations, and so on, which need a great deal of central control. Another great improvement made by my right hon. Friend's predecessor, I think, was the alteration of the Board from being a functional Board to being a Board more for general policy making, having only one or two functional members left. Originally, it was a functional Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1614.0", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "alone, they amounted to 21d. on the price of a ton. I ask hon. Members to compare that figure with the figure of 1,880 directors that there were in the industry in 1943. I am quite certain that vast numbers of those directors played no executive part in the industry whatsoever. Taking the whole—and I am not a miner, and I am not speaking with any special technical knowledge of the mining industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1614.2", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "I would rather make my speech in my own way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1614.2", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "s of competitive fuels. If we are to overcome these difficulties we must have research. not only in mining methods and by-products, but also in the use of coal itself as a solid fuel. We must not sit down under the competition of alternative fuels, but must have research into the development of new and cheaper methods of using the fuel we have, especially as that fuel must become lower in quality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1614.2", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": " there is a good economic reason for it, but I have never been able to understand it. An instruction would seem to have been given to the Board by the Minister, and, as I say, it has been put into other nationalisation Acts as a statutory obligation, but I do not understand it, and do not see why it should be done. Then, I cannot quite understand why the Board are in such a hurry to make a profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1639.1", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thank goodness.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "s worse in the conduct of industry under full employment than a nationalised board. In industry under full employment, above all we need leadership, and if we are not to have men sacked for not doing what we want them to do, we must have better leadership. But nationalised corporations take away all real chance of leadership from where it is wanted. The mine manager is no longer the leader he was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1654.1", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "I shall detain the House for only a few minutes, but I feel that someone should try to speak on behalf of the consumer. There is a document which I do not normally quote called \"Labour Believes in Britain.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1654.1", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "of the consumer must ring out with strength and emphasis. So far today, I have heard a lot of miners' delegates saying how well the miners have done. I should like to speak on behalf of the people in Portsmouth and other poor towns, the ordinary common people in the street, who expected that when the coal industry was nationalised they would get their coal at the same price throughout the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1672.1", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "y that production is the key to this problem of more coal on the domestic market and of the ability to enter the export market to a much greater extent, and it is also the key to the quality problem on the domestic market because many coals which are on the domestic market, and about which merchants have complaints, are not bad coals in themselves. They happen to be the wrong coal for that market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-13", "file": "debates1950-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "525c9a632d3440a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1695.1", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "I think that the Parliamentary Secretary does not quite understand the position with regard to ploughed-up grass. Ploughed up grass is stored up fertiliser, and with the exception of chlorate of lime it does not want fertiliser for the first year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-13a.1695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-14", "file": "debates1950-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd76f3e8be1ca9dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-14a.1803.5", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Clause 14.—(CONSTITUTION OF MEDICAL DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE.)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "d, \"I can explain.\" She was called to the witness box and gave evidence that this person was an experienced typist, and that she had seen her taking down the evidence as given to the British Medical Council by the professional man who had examined the accused. She was using the word \"cicatrix\" for \"scar.\" The judge said that a young woman of this type of education did not use that word for \"scar.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-14a.1803.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-14", "file": "debates1950-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "fd76f3e8be1ca9dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-14a.1810.0", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Clause 15.—(PROCEDURE OF MEDICAL DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " its mind whether or not it should consider putting its disciplinary machinery into motion. That would seem to me to be a reasonable protection for the public, but it would not be reasonable to expect the Minister of Health himself to have a preliminary investigation on matters really falling within the jurisdiction of the General Medical Council's disciplinary machinery, and pre-hearing the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-14a.1810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-17", "file": "debates1950-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "8dfbaf7389c9f333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-17a.1844.4", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this is putting the House in a really intolerable position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-17a.1844.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-17", "file": "debates1950-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "8dfbaf7389c9f333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-17a.1845.1", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "It was desirable that, if possible, we should have had these accounts presented before the House rises for the Summer Recess. That would have been a great convenience for Members. Subsequently, that was found to be impossible. There have been special difficulties just now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-17a.1845.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-07-17", "file": "debates1950-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "8dfbaf7389c9f333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-17a.1848.2", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to answer about individual cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-17a.1848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-17", "file": "debates1950-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "8dfbaf7389c9f333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-17a.1880.3", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "forms—if indeed anybody ever reads them—will lose in authority and value unless those who have to answer the questions can read and understand the complex interrogatories put to them, and can also write down their answers to them in words which are legible and which accurately express what they have in mind. I was recently speaking, on a social occasion to a senior police officer about recruiting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-17a.1880.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-17", "file": "debates1950-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "8dfbaf7389c9f333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-17a.1886.1", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or 16.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "Hadow Report. That was held in many quarters to be a great and important event. The Hadow Report said that there was something magical about the age of 11. So much has that view persisted that today all our education ranges round that age of 11. I should like to know why. As a teacher, I do not see anything very wonderful about the age of 11 any more than the age of 8 or 9, or the age of 13 or 14.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-17a.1886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-17", "file": "debates1950-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "8dfbaf7389c9f333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-17a.1899.1", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "ounties, to which the child could be sent. I have dealt with a number of points about the status of the voluntary school. This Report is a very sound one, but it should not overlook the very dire plight of the voluntary schools and the necessity of maintaining their position securely in our educational system. The Minister is a Lancashireman and in Lancashire we are very proud of George Tomlinson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-17a.1899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-17", "file": "debates1950-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "8dfbaf7389c9f333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-17a.1918.1", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "line is, \"Tall boy worried by examinations. Thought he would fail exams: dies.\" Another one is, \"Baronet's daughter hanged in school.\" These cases were brought about by the fear of examinations. If one has an examination temperament, one can pass an examination without a great deal of knowledge. yet other people with far greater knowledge but without an examination temperament fail in their exams.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-17a.1918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2042.9", "colnum": "2042", "heading": "OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\") Hon. Members cannot have it both ways. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Neither can the hon. Member opposite.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " They will see that we are in this country nearly back to the per capita consumption of fats of the pre-war level, despite the increase in population. In the pre-war period, up to 1938, the consumption of fats in England was 65.8 lb. per head, in 1948 it had fallen to 58.4 lb., and last year it rose to 64 lb. This year it is expected to be 65.1 lb., which is only.7 of a lb. off the pre-war figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2042.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2061.1", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "n effort to reach a bigger target. This is not the only instance of realistic planning on the part of the Board, and I welcome this sound approach. They are surely wise to plan their activities carefully within the limits of their resources, even if this means a reduction in their targets. I had proposed to say a word about Queensland, but since that has not been raised, I will put it on one side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2089.3", "colnum": "2089", "heading": "OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "e, and they should assist this commission in coming to the right decision. In the Debate 12 months ago we repeatedly suggested that there should be pilot schemes and small testing schemes. It was looked upon at that time as a political stunt. I am glad to think that the hon. Gentleman the Member for Huddersfield, East, approves now of the idea and that the political element will be kept out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2089.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2099.1", "colnum": "2099", "heading": "OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "r, which I share. I think it was quite a reasonably balanced Report. It did not try to whitewash anybody and it did not try to blacken anybody. It tried to hold a balance fairly, to seek where the truth lay in respect of the past operations in the groundnut field. However, anybody reading that Report would say that by and large the Ministry and the Overseas Corporation do not come badly out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2100.5", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite may not like the fact but it comes out quite clearly in the evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2100.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2100.12", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "No, I am not going to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2100.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2101.0", "colnum": "2101", "heading": "OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "26; turned out to he seriously misleading. Your Committee are left with the impression that the basic fault in the scheme was the failure to realise the impracticability of the original plans in the conditions which existed immediately after the war. I repeat that that failure is a failure in which all the Members of the last House of Commons must share, because it was we who accepted that Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2100.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2101.4", "colnum": "2101", "heading": "OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": " which existed immediately after the war. I repeat, we must all share that responsibility and I take my whack of it. It seems to me to be strange that we should not bear these facts in mind whilst we are discussing the matter here. The third and last of the three parties who come out badly from this Report— and again I am sorry to have to say this—is the managing agency, the United Africa Company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2101.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2101.4", "colnum": "2101", "heading": "OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": " been initiated by Sir Leslie Plummer. In order to find a fair balance we might, therefore, have had some tribute to the good work which he has done and a less grudging tribute than has sometimes been paid, as well as less of the criticisms which have been made of his alleged shortcomings. Secondly, I say to the Minister, for goodness sake do not be misled by a craze for over-careful book-keeping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2101.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2108.1", "colnum": "2108", "heading": "OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": " many millions of pounds of money have been wasted, so many hearts broken and so much disrepute cast upon the Government of this country and the country as a whole is that he did not treat the House with candour. I believe sincerely that he thought he was doing right. He thought that the end justified the means. The long and short of it is that those thoughts led him to tell untruths to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2117.1", "colnum": "2117", "heading": "OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "ckground of the scheme, as is clearly seen in the White Paper. was as a scheme of Colonial development to enable us to open up these territories, not just to provide hospitals and welfare schemes for Africans, but to enable them to overcome the pressure of population and provide more space for Africans, free from the tsetse fly, and also provide them with the possibility of growing their own food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2151.1", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "colleagues for the care and attention they have given to the matter. A factor of really great importance, from the point of view of this Committee, is the expenditure of public money—whether we are getting, or are ever likely to get, anything commensurate in return; and that is why I must admit I was shocked to hear the remarks of two hon. Members in this Debate. First, the hon. Member for Bowles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2166.1", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. I cannot give way. After all, this is a matter which has been raised constantly by the Opposition. Whatever merits the case may have for this high-powered inquiry, it is peculiarly inopportune at the present moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2166.1", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "e of that inquiry are concerned, we can say, and I accept responsibility for saying, that the accounting side of the scheme is being put right. What we are concerned about—and this has been accepted in the attitude which has been taken by hon. Members towards what my right hon. Friend has said—is the future. Is there anyone better equipped to give his views about the future than the present Board?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2166.1", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Friend has said—is the future. Is there anyone better equipped to give his views about the future than the present Board? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Is there anyone with the same experience of this type of agriculture in these conditions? I have said that we have had an inquiry into the financial side of this scheme. Is there anyone who is better equipped on that side than the present Board?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2166.1", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Plot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "the opinions of those responsible for the scheme have been obtained; then, by means of a White Paper, these facts will be fully known and this House can decide whether or not it took a right and proper decision in setting up a public corporation to do this job. Surely that is the way in which we should approach a problem like this. This demand for an inquiry is nothing more than a political stunt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2166.1", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Plot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "ned; then, by means of a White Paper, these facts will be fully known and this House can decide whether or not it took a right and proper decision in setting up a public corporation to do this job. Surely that is the way in which we should approach a problem like this. This demand for an inquiry is nothing more than a political stunt—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Plot.\"]—each time the Opposition get up and say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2167.1", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wiley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wiley", "preceding_text": "views of the hon. Members for Leominster (Mr. Baldwin) and Newbury, but it is generally agreed that the Board sought the best advice and that the advice of the Kongwa working party will be considered when they formulate their plans. In the few minutes remaining at my disposal I should like to emphasise again that the responsibility for the scheme is ultimately the responsibility of this Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2168.1", "colnum": "2168", "heading": "OVERSEAS FOOD CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": ", I would refer the Committee to the concluding paragraph of the book, which says exactly the same thing. It is against the light of these broad generalisations which I have made that the scheme should be considered. It is really conceded everywhere that this work ought to be undertaken, that it should be undertaken by a public corporation, and that the men on the spot have done a first-class job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2177.0", "colnum": "2177", "heading": "Clause 17.—(AMENDMENTS AS TO STRIKING OFF REGISTER UNDER S. 29 OF MEDICAL ACT, 1858.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member is joking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "ny court in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland.\" In the Republic of Ireland they may have all sorts of laws over which we have no control. They may create new felonies. They might make it a felony to sing what we call the National Anthem, in the Republic of Ireland. A doctor, a general registered practitioner, might be convicted of the felony of singing what we call the National Anthem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2186.1", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "Clause 17.—(AMENDMENTS AS TO STRIKING OFF REGISTER UNDER S. 29 OF MEDICAL ACT, 1858.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "ke to say that it is obvious that the Minister has not read the Amendment and has not read his own Clause. He says this only applies to Irish doctors. It does not. It applies to any doctor on the register who may be a doctor permanently resident in this country, but who may be in Ireland. It is no good the Minister saying that this only applies to Irish doctors. It is not true; it is not accurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2192.6", "colnum": "2192", "heading": "Clause 17.—(AMENDMENTS AS TO STRIKING OFF REGISTER UNDER S. 29 OF MEDICAL ACT, 1858.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not to defend it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "at hon. Members have in their minds, because when this was discussed in another place the case now being put collapsed, and I cannot see anything more tangible at the moment. Let me put it in a concrete way. A doctor has been found guilty of adultery in another court. It is said—we are speaking frankly about these things—that for reasons best known to himself he is prepared to confess to adultery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2192.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2193.1", "colnum": "2193", "heading": "Clause 17.—(AMENDMENTS AS TO STRIKING OFF REGISTER UNDER S. 29 OF MEDICAL ACT, 1858.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "a position where he has been a party to an undefended divorce case. Therefore, he has not been even presumed to be guilty of adultery, but is divorced. That fact is brought to the notice of the G.M.C. The case that is made is that the doctor should be permitted to bring forward before the G.M.C. evidence he had not brought before the court. That is what is being said. It is a very dangerous thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2193.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2196.2", "colnum": "2196", "heading": "Clause 17.—(AMENDMENTS AS TO STRIKING OFF REGISTER UNDER S. 29 OF MEDICAL ACT, 1858.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "een found guilty of having been divorced the General Medical Council automatically proceeds to take his name off the register. The Council will take into account that he has been divorced and the surrounding circumstances. What is now being asked, and here is the danger, is that for the purposes of the General Medical Council the doctor shall be allowed to use evidence he suppressed in the courts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2201.1", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "Clause 17.—(AMENDMENTS AS TO STRIKING OFF REGISTER UNDER S. 29 OF MEDICAL ACT, 1858.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But there is no evidence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "to get rid of his wife. That is not good enough. We must rest on this, and if hon. Members get stubborn, I can get very stubborn as well. We must rest on the fact that it is the General Medical Council itself which, when it considers the evidence, addresses itself to the question not merely whether the person has been guilty of adultery, but to whether the circumstances surrounding the whole case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2201.2", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "Clause 17.—(AMENDMENTS AS TO STRIKING OFF REGISTER UNDER S. 29 OF MEDICAL ACT, 1858.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": " Council could not say that he had not been guilty of it. No one is contesting that on this side of the Committee. Nor would the right hon. Gentleman suggest that the Council was automatically bound to treat the doctor as a guilty party worthy of being struck off the register. We are not really far apart from each other. I do not think it should be impossible to find some accommodation between us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2202.0", "colnum": "2202", "heading": "Clause 17.—(AMENDMENTS AS TO STRIKING OFF REGISTER UNDER S. 29 OF MEDICAL ACT, 1858.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ace. I am informed that, in undefended cases, the courts decide that adultery has taken place, and the divorce is given, and the language in the subsection is as simple as it can be; it alights on the pivot of fact. What the Opposition is asking is that it shall be open to the Council to reexamine—although the doctor has secured his redress from the courts, and has secured justice from the courts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-18", "file": "debates1950-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd64f7bed89f86f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2203.0", "colnum": "2203", "heading": "Clause 17.—(AMENDMENTS AS TO STRIKING OFF REGISTER UNDER S. 29 OF MEDICAL ACT, 1858.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I must say that the Minister appears to be struggling with his naturally combative nature; he has genuinely tried to move towards us, and if he will undertake to have conversations with my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-18a.2203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-19", "file": "debates1950-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "2ea98207f04657c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2266.4", "colnum": "2266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES (EQUIPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "The term \"prevarications\" seems to me to be unduly offensive in the circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2266.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-19", "file": "debates1950-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "2ea98207f04657c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2279.1", "colnum": "2279", "heading": "OPENCAST COAL PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "r his efforts for having improved it to such an extent as to lift it from the 'C' category. A really first-rate performance, and the Minister of Agriculture was quite right to send his congratulations. The other was from the Ministry of Works\"— acting on behalf of the right hon. Gentleman— informing him that boring for opencast coal mining is to he carried out any time after receipt of the letter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-19", "file": "debates1950-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "2ea98207f04657c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2286.1", "colnum": "2286", "heading": "OPENCAST COAL PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I wish you would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman from Birmingham is a perpetual nuisance. He should try to catch the Chairman's eye and make his speech later on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-19", "file": "debates1950-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "2ea98207f04657c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2290.4", "colnum": "2290", "heading": "OPENCAST COAL PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "any rate obviously reduced, unless he or some of his supporters can show an alternative source from which the coal which would be lost if we did not have opencast working, could be provided. It is no good hon. Members opposite talking about absenteeism, strikes and all the rest of it. If they were in power today there would be absenteeism and strikes at such a rate that it would horrify the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2290.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-19", "file": "debates1950-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "2ea98207f04657c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2295.3", "colnum": "2295", "heading": "OPENCAST COAL PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Griffiths", "preceding_text": "uth, East and Christchurch (Mr. Bracken) or by the hon. Member for Twickenham (Mr. Keeling)—although I have been interested to hear the instances they have mentioned, and amused to hear their arguments. They were talking about the question of opencast coal mining interfering with the tourist trade. That is an extreme absurdity, because tourists do not visit mining areas where opencast coal is won.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-19", "file": "debates1950-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "2ea98207f04657c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2297.4", "colnum": "2297", "heading": "OPENCAST COAL PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Aha.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "He was speaking on his own initiative, and was not in keeping with some of his colleagues as officials of the Yorkshire Miners Federation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2297.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-19", "file": "debates1950-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "2ea98207f04657c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2306.3", "colnum": "2306", "heading": "OPENCAST COAL PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "f which 51 have been requisitioned, and at Harvey House farm, with 52 acres, 46 have been requisitioned. We have here a picture of the experience of these small farmers in districts where opencast mining is taking place. In my judgment, it is dishonest and unscrupulous, as well as being bad business, to take away land from which the farmer earns his livelihood without giving adequate compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2306.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-19", "file": "debates1950-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "2ea98207f04657c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2311.3", "colnum": "2311", "heading": "OPENCAST COAL PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell the Coal Board.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "preceding_text": "n done to the surface of the soil as by the London Brick Company? At one colliery in Midlothian there are greater reserves of clay than ever they had in Fletton. Lanarkshire is a living monument of the inefficiency of capitalism in the coalfield. Lanarkshire today is a desert, with millions of tons of water threatening millions of tons of coal. Underneath Glasgow there are 33 million tons of coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-19", "file": "debates1950-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "2ea98207f04657c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2319.3", "colnum": "2319", "heading": "OPENCAST COAL PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "the resources of the country to such an extent that nothing will be left for our children and their children to exist upon. I want to raise one point with which I have already dealt by correspondence with the Minister and the Parliamentary Secretary. In one part of my constituency, there is opencast mining in a very decent residential area as a result of which the neighbourhood is being despoiled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2319.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-19", "file": "debates1950-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "2ea98207f04657c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2362.3", "colnum": "2362", "heading": "EUROPEAN PAYMENTS UNION", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor anyone else.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " believer in having a system of protective and preferential tariffs, because they do not interfere with the freedom a trade. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was brought up as a free trader, and I have no doubt that he devoted himself very much to the study of the result of import duties, preferential duties. It is no good his shaking his head and looking superior, because that does not impress me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-19", "file": "debates1950-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "2ea98207f04657c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2364.3", "colnum": "2364", "heading": "EUROPEAN PAYMENTS UNION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I am not going to allow the hon. Member for Croydon, East, to get out of the hole in which he has put himself and his party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2364.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-19", "file": "debates1950-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "2ea98207f04657c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2408.1", "colnum": "2408", "heading": "UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION (IMMUNITIES AND PRIVILEGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "preceding_text": "nd necessary to pay the cost of that war, and one way to pay it was by increased charges for postal services. Long before we came into office, the penny postage had gone; but the principle remains, and I suggest that the 2½d. paid today is equivalent, roughly speaking, to the penny of the days of Rowland Hill. But that is merely trying to get away from the main issue confronting this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-19", "file": "debates1950-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "2ea98207f04657c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2415.4", "colnum": "2415", "heading": "UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION (IMMUNITIES AND PRIVILEGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or have a baby.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I quite agree, Mr. Speaker, and so far as I know a member of the Universal Postal Union could come over here, enjoy diplomatic privilege under this Order and would be at liberty to drive a car—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-19", "file": "debates1950-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "2ea98207f04657c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2415.4", "colnum": "2415", "heading": "UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION (IMMUNITIES AND PRIVILEGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "e other side of the Atlantic \"under-privileged.\" Of course, that expression can never be justified. Privilege means an advantage which one man has over his neighbour under the law; that may be a good thing or it may be a bad thing, but by its nature it cannot be a universal thing; and nothing is so idiotic as to condemn privilege and then to use a word that suggests that there is not enough of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-19a.2415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-20", "file": "debates1950-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ec00ceafb4d3d6aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2493.1", "colnum": "2493", "heading": "EDUCATION, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I hope the hon. Lady will not ask me to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-20", "file": "debates1950-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ec00ceafb4d3d6aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2496.1", "colnum": "2496", "heading": "EDUCATION, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I have heard the right hon. Gentleman say that two or three times before. I should like to deal with it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-20", "file": "debates1950-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ec00ceafb4d3d6aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2510.3", "colnum": "2510", "heading": "EDUCATION, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "ns of 1947 and 1949. In 1938–39 we spent on school bursaries—that was for those who remained at school in their fourth and fifth years—£97,932. In 1948–49 that sum had gone up by almost £100,000 to a total of £192,075. In 1938–39 we spent on post school bursaries for those at technical colleges and universities the sum of £104,747. In 1948–49 that had grown to £821,347.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2510.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-20", "file": "debates1950-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ec00ceafb4d3d6aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2517.3", "colnum": "2517", "heading": "EDUCATION, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "t that is the attitude that people have towards the welfare State. It is: \"You have no need to bother. The State will do it for you.\" There is no getting away from it that that is what the people of this country feel. It is very wrong. I would not do away with the principles of the welfare State. We have taken a greater part in building up the welfare State than has any other party in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2517.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-20", "file": "debates1950-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ec00ceafb4d3d6aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2517.3", "colnum": "2517", "heading": "EDUCATION, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "re is no getting away from it that that is what the people of this country feel. It is very wrong. I would not do away with the principles of the welfare State. We have taken a greater part in building up the welfare State than has any other party in the country. [ Laughter. ] That statement is capable of proof, starting with the formation of trade unions by a Tory Government in the years gone by.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2517.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-20", "file": "debates1950-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ec00ceafb4d3d6aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2518.1", "colnum": "2518", "heading": "EDUCATION, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "I hoped that I had made that clear. I am not saying that it is the fault of the parents or the teachers but that people like directors of education who are unintentionally making the friction that should never have occurred between parents and teachers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-20", "file": "debates1950-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ec00ceafb4d3d6aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2548.1", "colnum": "2548", "heading": "EDUCATION, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry. As the hon. Member knows, I am most generous in giving way, but I am really racing against time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-20", "file": "debates1950-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ec00ceafb4d3d6aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2619.0", "colnum": "2619", "heading": "TOMATO AND CUCUMBER MARKETING SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coldrick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coldrick", "preceding_text": "I believe it is in paragraph 29, but I will not trouble to trace it out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-20", "file": "debates1950-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ec00ceafb4d3d6aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2622.8", "colnum": "2622", "heading": "TOMATO AND CUCUMBER MARKETING SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "on that the Minister has built up; it may do good work in that capacity, work that it is worth while our supporting, but it does not give, as a scheme, that guarantee to the Labour movement, which has been carrying on a great propaganda about this for the last few years, that adequacy of representation in the detailed management which it wishes to claim. I will not carry this matter to a Division—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2622.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-20", "file": "debates1950-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ec00ceafb4d3d6aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2626.1", "colnum": "2626", "heading": "TOMATO AND CUCUMBER MARKETING SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "heme like this is giving full monopoly powers to a private body of producers. I would not have been surprised if a scheme of this sort had been put forward by the other side of the House and been opposed from this side. It is the other side of the House which has consistently supported, for example, retail price maintenance, and which was responsible for agricultural marketing Acts before the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-20", "file": "debates1950-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ec00ceafb4d3d6aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2641.1", "colnum": "2641", "heading": "TOMATO AND CUCUMBER MARKETING SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I am driven to the reluctant conclusion that late hours do not suit the hon. Lady the Member for Blackburn, East (Mrs. Castle).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-20", "file": "debates1950-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ec00ceafb4d3d6aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2648.1", "colnum": "2648", "heading": "TOMATO AND CUCUMBER MARKETING SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "to make this scheme acceptable to the Co-operative movement. I am prepared to accept the theory that some members of the Co-operative party do not like these marketing schemes, but I have been a member of a Co-operative society for 40 years, I am a whole-hearted supporter, and therefore my point of view on marketing schemes is at least equivalent to that of the hon. Member for Bristol, North-East—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-20", "file": "debates1950-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ec00ceafb4d3d6aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2648.3", "colnum": "2648", "heading": "TOMATO AND CUCUMBER MARKETING SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Of course, and it was easy for me to become a member of a Co-operative society already in existence on working people's capital. If the hon. Member insists on using such immoderate language when he makes a speech, he must give the other fellow an opportunity of replying to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2648.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-20", "file": "debates1950-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ec00ceafb4d3d6aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2675.3", "colnum": "2675", "heading": "WOOL (PRICES AND MARKETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about livestock?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "of skin wool. It will not become the property of those registered under this scheme. The position is that skin wool is still in because the Ministry of Food owns the skins and want power to market them. If one could imagine a position obtaining in two or three years' time, when the Ministry of Food no longer owned these skins, but had once again become the property of the skinners and fellmongers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-20a.2675.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-21", "file": "debates1950-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ae6265c84ce647bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-21a.2773.1", "colnum": "2773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JAMES KEIR HARDIE (MEMORIAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "nally disappeared. It may be that hon. Gentlemen opposite think the Socialists are immortal without being divine, that they will live for ever; but I should like to put to the House, as a student of the political scene, that when any party gives birth to another party, the mother dies. The child lives until it becomes mother or father, whichever the case may be. Liberalism gave birth to Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-21a.2773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-21", "file": "debates1950-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ae6265c84ce647bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-21a.2773.1", "colnum": "2773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JAMES KEIR HARDIE (MEMORIAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "e political scene, that when any party gives birth to another party, the mother dies. The child lives until it becomes mother or father, whichever the case may be. Liberalism gave birth to Socialism. [ Laughter. ] I do not think hon. Gentlemen opposite should deny their paternity. It is a mean party that denies its mother's womb. Out of its loins the Society Party was born and the mother has died.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-21a.2773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-21", "file": "debates1950-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ae6265c84ce647bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-21a.2773.1", "colnum": "2773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JAMES KEIR HARDIE (MEMORIAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "ves until it becomes mother or father, whichever the case may be. Liberalism gave birth to Socialism. [ Laughter. ] I do not think hon. Gentlemen opposite should deny their paternity. It is a mean party that denies its mother's womb. Out of its loins the Society Party was born and the mother has died. [ Laughter .] I am sorry, I am getting confused. In turn, the Socialists gave birth to Communism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-21a.2773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-21", "file": "debates1950-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "ae6265c84ce647bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-21a.2773.3", "colnum": "2773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JAMES KEIR HARDIE (MEMORIAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Don't worry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "That is why the Conservative Party will live on for ever, because in our case the mother does not die. I intended this to be an entirely sincere speech. Since Keir Hardie played this enormous part in the creation of the Socialist Party, I should like to pay a tribute to the Socialist Party. This may rob me of my chance of office when we come to power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-21a.2773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-24", "file": "debates1950-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "df19dcb58b9c1d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-24a.90.0", "colnum": "90", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": ", we should be faced with a universal catastrophe. We know what happened when atom bombs were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. We can find that out from an official report. In the light of that, and of the catastrophe that would follow if atom bombs were dropped on our cities, I submit that what has been said in this Debate has been largely irrelevant. Let us forget about the Dean of Canterbury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-24a.90.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-24", "file": "debates1950-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "df19dcb58b9c1d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-24a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about cement\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "s from being killed. Many months ago, when I first came to this House, I would have suggested to the Ministry of Health that every new house they put up, should have a suitable shelter. It is easier to build a shelter when building a house than afterwards. As the Minister of Health is so slow and so extremely bad in building houses, I refrain from asking him to slow up an intolerably slow process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-24a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-24", "file": "debates1950-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "df19dcb58b9c1d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-24a.141.2", "colnum": "141", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "iers' saying. What we have to do when we are faced with any weapon is to devise as good an answer to it, and a protection from it, as we can. The first answer to any form of attack of this kind is an effective active defence on the part of this country. That must come first. It is not for us to discuss that today. That will be a matter for discussion on Wednesday, and the House will not expect me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-24a.141.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-24", "file": "debates1950-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "df19dcb58b9c1d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-24a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "ENDOWED SCHOOLS, HERTFORDSHIRE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has changed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "preceding_text": "I believe that they can be more usefully employed in the place in which their original donors intended them to be spent than if they are thrown into the Minister's pool. It is all very well making fair shares for all if one is doing it with other people's money, but this money was bequeathed for a specific purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-24a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-24", "file": "debates1950-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "df19dcb58b9c1d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-24a.194.3", "colnum": "194", "heading": "ENDOWED SCHOOLS, HERTFORDSHIRE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "tion authority, which could pay half of the money but was not prepared to pay the whole sum; so the other half was met out of this endowment. The remainder of the income of the school was spent on grants and scholarships. I will give a few examples of how the money was spent; to enable a boy with a first class degree to do research at Manchester University, the local education authority could not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-24a.194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-24", "file": "debates1950-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "df19dcb58b9c1d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-24a.197.5", "colnum": "197", "heading": "ENDOWED SCHOOLS, HERTFORDSHIRE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "edged that his qualifications to speak were not in that particular very high. He referred to himself as having a spurious law degree at Cambridge. While I am not enamoured of the law school at Cambridge, or any other form of learning at that particular university, my regard for his talents makes me believe that his degree was not at all spurious. For myself, I am an Oxford lawyer, a common lawyer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-24a.197.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.239.2", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macdonald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "question, may I ask the hon. Lady whether she knows if any notification of this matter was sent, as a matter of courtesy, to the hon. Member for Berwick and East Lothian (Mr. Robertson), to whose area one of the constables has been transferred? I ask that question because I wish to know why certain Conservative elements in Roxburgh and Selkirk, who have raised this issue, have asked Lord Dunglass—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.267.3", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY (ANNUAL REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "alisation. Turncoats? Not at all. There are points to be made on both sides of this argument, and we shall now make the points for the other side. … I would ask the right hon. Gentleman and the Authority to consider the statement of this gentleman, because I hope we can have an assurance that it will not be continued. I wish to say a word about research and, here, I hope I can be objective—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.276.5", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY (ANNUAL REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "spared. Then, thirdly, since the Authority has the whole of electricity production and transmission as a single business, it is rather like the man who tucks away his winnings on the stock exchange in the losses on his farm. It is able to do that; if they were separate producers and transmitters, successful ones would have to pay Income Tax, but the Authority in this year pay no Income Tax at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.276.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.276.5", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY (ANNUAL REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why legal?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "d, and I leave it to the hon. Gentleman—if we add it, it comes to something very considerable. That really is, I think, the main thing I wanted to say, and I hope in my endeavour to be clear I have not been too lengthy. There is one small technical point I wanted to mention and which I think ought to be looked at, although I will gladly give way if some legal expert tells me I am talking nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.276.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY (ANNUAL REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "onalised industries made a loss. Now this industry has not made a loss, so the hon. Member for Carlton asks if it is really a \"true profit.\" I never heard him inquire, on other occasions, whether it was a \"true loss.\" The right hon. Member for Woodford and Lord Woolton also told us that where nationalised industries did not make a loss, they put up the prices. Here the prices have not been put up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY (ANNUAL REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "that nothing but credit could result to it from having the spotlight turned upon it and from seeing that the public at last were given some genuine information on the position instead of the propaganda prejudices broadcast during the election and during recent months. The fact is that, under public ownership, exciting and adventurous new possibilities are opening out already on the technical side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.310.5", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY (ANNUAL REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "be entirely left out of consideration when we look at the way tariffs have risen. A right hon. Gentleman who used to be the Secretary of State for Scotland was subjected to a considerable amount of heckling at a vesting day dinner because he charged Scottish local authorities with doing that same sort of thing. Some Tory local authorities attempted to sabotage nationalisation before it came about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.310.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY (ANNUAL REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "preceding_text": "Lothians Electric Power, and the Southern Electric Companies, each led the supply out to the verge of the urban areas and left a great triangle of the richest agricultural land in Scotland devoid of any supplies. There was no legislation to compel any of those supplying companies to give to the people in the rural areas a supply of electricity. Today, the South-Eastern Board has promised a supply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.342.3", "colnum": "342", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY (ANNUAL REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Middleton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Middleton", "preceding_text": "ionships upon which I want to comment, I would draw the attention of the House to the considerable waste which is going on at the present time of what would otherwise be excellent administrative ability, not only in relation to this nationalised undertaking but others as well. Owing to the superannuation scheme, men and women in middle life are often debarred from recruitment into the undertaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.342.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY (ANNUAL REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "Relative to the prices operating at the time when one is considering an article which is being sold. It is relatively cheaper, although the price might be more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.372.1", "colnum": "372", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "with the ordinary ballot papers when they have all been checked and the time for counting comes. I am quite sure the House will accept the view that this should result in a considerable saving of time in those cases particularly where the counting of votes is done on the evening of polling day, although I think that some of the longer counts were those that took place on the day after polling day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.378.4", "colnum": "378", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Was that why the hon. Gentleman lost?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "fication from voting by post I cannot see. I have always been a strong advocate of voting by post. Only once in my life have I voted personally in an election. I discovered that the qualification of being a Parliamentary candidate was accepted by most registration officers, and it is now recognised by Statute, as qualifying one as an absent voter. Only in the election of 1945 did I vote in person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.378.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.400.0", "colnum": "400", "heading": "HOUSING (RATE OF INTEREST)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " and the Minister of Health is not present. The Minister of Health always avoids being present if anybody is to speak after him. He always likes to speak last and not at the beginning, so that no one can reply to him. Let us be quite clear about that. He did not get on too well the other night when he was followed. Here is this document, improperly signed and improperly dated. A breach of the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.402.3", "colnum": "402", "heading": "HOUSING (RATE OF INTEREST)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. Blenkinsop)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. Blenkinsop)", "preceding_text": "by hon. Members on the other side of the House about the absence of my hon. Friends who as Lords Commissioners of the Treasury signed the particular Statutory Instrument about which the Prayer is being made tonight. I am here myself in order to answer the Prayer which is the customary practice in this House and it is quite unnecessary for any request to be made for the presence of my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.402.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.406.3", "colnum": "406", "heading": "HOUSING (RATE OF INTEREST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman is fond of interrupting himself, but I notice he does not give way very readily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.406.3", "colnum": "406", "heading": "HOUSING (RATE OF INTEREST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They walked out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman is fond of interrupting himself, but I notice he does not give way very readily. [ Interruption .] If hon. Members had been in the House at the beginning of the hon. Gentleman's speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.406.3", "colnum": "406", "heading": "HOUSING (RATE OF INTEREST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "to point out to him that it really is not enough in this House just to get up and say, \"I accept full responsibility, and I apologise,\" without telling hon. Members really what went wrong in this particular instance. A lot appears to have gone wrong. Or is the hon. Gentleman saying that so far as the Ministry of Health is concerned, there was no departure from the usual procedure in that Ministry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.409.3", "colnum": "409", "heading": "HOUSING (RATE OF INTEREST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "the head of a great Department of State, which for its validity requires the consent of the Treasury, 16 days should elapse before the necessary consent can be obtained. That is a matter which alone the Treasury can explain. Surely other representatives of the Treasury could explain. I see the Patronage Secretary is present, who normally confines his interventions to short and decisive utterances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.409.3", "colnum": "409", "heading": "HOUSING (RATE OF INTEREST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " necessary consent can be obtained. That is a matter which alone the Treasury can explain. Surely other representatives of the Treasury could explain. I see the Patronage Secretary is present, who normally confines his interventions to short and decisive utterances—[HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"] Members opposite think that these are the most effective interventions that come from the Treasury Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.409.3", "colnum": "409", "heading": "HOUSING (RATE OF INTEREST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "hese are the most effective interventions that come from the Treasury Bench. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am glad to hear that they approve. The Parliamentary Secretary did not attempt to deal with the question put by the hon. baronet the Member for Sutton Coldfield (Sir J. Mellor) as to the effect of this delay on the validity of the Order which may, as result, have to be dealt with elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.409.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.410.0", "colnum": "410", "heading": "HOUSING (RATE OF INTEREST)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "Secretary to direct his mind to whether an Order, purported to be made on 24th April with the consent of the Treasury, is valid or not when we know that the consent of the Treasury was not obtained until a month later. The Parliamentary Secretary did not attempt to answer, which I think means that he has a shrewd idea that the argument is unanswerable. One can take it, therefore, from his silence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "HOUSING (RATE OF INTEREST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "else. I hope, Sir, that those who represent the Treasury will take note of that, and will consider whether or not the events of this evening have not shown that what the customary practice has been shown to be is an unsuitable practice, and that it would be better that those who sign for the Treasury on these occasions should follow the normal practice of putting the date against their signatures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "HOUSING (RATE OF INTEREST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "That question, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, was posed by my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston-upon-Thames. He, in fact, was the only Member to raise this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "HOUSING (RATE OF INTEREST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "king on behalf of the Treasury? If he does not speak on behalf of the Treasury, I would ask him why it is that we cannot get a straight answer to a straight question from the Treasury itself, because we have not yet had one. I would not like to pursue that matter to the embarrassment of the Government, but really I do not think that the House —I am not trying to make trouble in this matter at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-25", "file": "debates1950-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "15320e153ca71ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "HOUSING (RATE OF INTEREST)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "preceding_text": "On our complaint of the unjustifiable delay by the Ministry of Health we have had no satisfactory explanation. On our complaint of the unjustifiable delay by the Treasury we have had no explanation whatever. Therefore, on that aspect of the matter we remain entirely dissatisfied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-25a.417.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.428.10", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "If the Corporation is dissatisfied there are proper methods for the expression of that dissatisfaction, and not by Parliamentary Questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.428.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "I am not suggesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.465.4", "colnum": "465", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "Did the Socialist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.465.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.465.4", "colnum": "465", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "Did the Socialist—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Did the Socialist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.465.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.465.4", "colnum": "465", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "Did the Socialist—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Did the Socialist—[ Interruption .] I am sorry if hon. Members waste so much time, Mr. Speaker. Did the Socialist hon. Members who acted as Tellers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.465.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.468.0", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Shinwell)", "preceding_text": "of Forces which our world responsibilities would require us to maintain. We decided to adopt National Service in order to build up an adequate body of trained reserves. This was an important step for which the Government have not always received proper credit. It was undoubtedly unpopular among many in the Labour Party and outside it. It might not have been undertaken by a Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.467.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.478.5", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "cised in some quarters for selling aircraft overseas. I can understand this view, but I do not accept it. It ignores the part which these orders play in keeping available here a larger war potential than the needs of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy alone would justify—design teams, craftsmen and specialised manufacturing space are kept employed which would otherwise be lost to the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.478.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.478.5", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ld justify—design teams, craftsmen and specialised manufacturing space are kept employed which would otherwise be lost to the industry. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] The policy is a wise one. I have been asked \"Why?\" I venture to furnish the reply. Not only do we get the advantages of a contribution to the country's export trade, but these sales strengthen the Air Forces of Allied and friendly countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.478.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.484.3", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "At the present moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "hat is why I want this subject to be discussed in private so that we can go into matters in more detail and without having to use these clichés . I know that I am going to use them this afternoon. One cannot avoid doing so when talking in public. I ask the right hon. Gentleman to believe that I do not think that the House was much wiser at the end of his speech than it was at the beginning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.515.2", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is telling us what we should do in the vaguest possible terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.515.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.516.0", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I now begin to understand what the right hon. Gentleman means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Several HON. MEMBERS: \"Four thousand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "nd armour. It means either a division or a brigade group. Whatever it means, it will have to be known presently, for one reason only—in order to bolster up the morale of the troops who are already engaged in Korea and who feel that they are doing all the work without any support from the other members of the United Nations. If Turkey can tell us that she is prepared to send 45,000 troops to Korea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In war-time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "If I thought so I would not support this claim. I have had considerable experience of Secret Sessions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "If I thought so I would not support this claim. I have had considerable experience of Secret Sessions—[An HON. MEMBER: \"In war-time.\"] Yes, it was in war-time but, as an hon. Gentleman said, we are nearly there now. What was the speech of my right hon. Friend but the preliminary to war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman said, we are nearly there now. What was the speech of my right hon. Friend but the preliminary to war? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Then what does it mean? The £100 million, the threat of an extension of the conscription period, the calling up of reservists—is that not partial mobilisation? Let those who know the signs understand what they mean. It is no good putting our heads in the sand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "preceding_text": "Not at all. I will deal with the hon. and gallant Gentleman in a second. Of course, the reason is that pay has gone up in civil life since the war, but pay in the Regular services has remained almost static. An increase is long overdue. If the wretched Army had had trade unions and agitators, and so forth, pay would have been up long ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.549.5", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Head", "preceding_text": "ut the Air Force and the Army. We will assume that the pay is better. A young man thinks that he would like the life of a Regular soldier or airman and he is 18 years of age. His father probably says to him \"Look here, you are 18 now, and if you do your maximum service you will be 39 when you are through.\" Hon. Members will agree that at 39 one is just beginning to become mature. It is my opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.549.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.559.0", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nineteen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "I think the same rules have to be applied as were applied in the last war. I forget what the exact age was then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.559.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.585.4", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "nd Russia to work together in order to lay the foundation of peace for 50 years. To the everlasting credit of Franklin Roosevelt, to his dying day he was confident that the common people of the world would build up the United Nations which would attain a more peaceful world. Some hon. Members might say that these kind of suggestions are all right, but what about facing up to the present situation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.585.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.590.3", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "e saved them about 10 or 12 years' time which they would have had to spend in developing such engines themselves. In my view, it amounts to criminal folly, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer should accept full responsibility. In normal times a Minister would not be allowed to get away with it. Not only would he resign and get out of it but the Government would, too, but this Government continues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.590.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Lindsay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Lindsay", "preceding_text": "heir ammunition and supplies are not going to be sabotaged. I believe that the first thing the Government must do to show that they mean business is to do what has been done in the United States, South Africa, and Australia; that is to tackle the Communist problem on the home front. It is not good enough to allow our training colleges for teachers to be largely in the hands of the Communist Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.632.5", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "I regret taking part in a Debate so late as this, but I felt bound to do so, because for many years I have been seeking an opportunity to say the things which I feel have got to be said now that the critical hour is striking. We are all speaking on the assumption that war is at hand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.632.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-26", "file": "debates1950-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "24f48fbc925f9095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Burden", "preceding_text": "ng the critical months ahead? Are they satisfied about the East German police, about the movements in Hungary? Is the Middle East threatened? I also ask the Minister whether technical Intelligence teams have gone to Korea to examine the material captured from the North Korean armies, and so make available to our own service chiefs and armament manufacturers the lessons that can be learned from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-26a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.658.8", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Sweden?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir; I have explained on a number of occasions that this decline compared with a year ago is one of availability of dollars for buying from Canada last winter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.658.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.679.3", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUBVERSIVE ELEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Lindsay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Lindsay", "preceding_text": "Has the Home Secretary seen the headlines in today's \"Daily Worker\"—\"Not a man, not a gun, for America's war. Save Britain's sons\"? Does he think that this type of subversive propaganda is helpful at the present time? Does he think that this is the sort of stuff which will sustain the parents of young men who have to fight and die in Korea?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.679.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.682.7", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MR. DE VALERA (VISIT TO LINCOLN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Could the Minister assure us that this distinguished, courageous Irishman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.682.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "When will the Prime Minister realise that the Secretary of State for War is a menace, and that the sooner he goes out the better?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.687.2", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SINGAPORE (RUBBER STORE FIRE)", "cue_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that rubber is a raw material—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.687.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.687.2", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SINGAPORE (RUBBER STORE FIRE)", "cue_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that rubber is a raw material—[ Laughter .] Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that rubber is a raw material—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.687.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.687.2", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SINGAPORE (RUBBER STORE FIRE)", "cue_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that rubber is a raw material—[ Laughter .] Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that rubber is a raw material—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that rubber is a raw material—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.687.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "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": "sentations from the Opposition or from other quarters of the House the Government will certainly take them fully into account and give them proper consideration in coming to their own conclusion as to whether they should make representations. We quite understand the circumstances in which we are adjourning. The House may take it from me that if it is necessary in the interests of the public house—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.693.4", "colnum": "693", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman. In view of what the right hon. Gentleman has just said, I think the time for the Adjournment has almost come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.693.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "d 1951 as we had 10 years ago. Here we are with deep and continuing differences between us in our whole domestic sphere, and faced with dangers and problems which all our united strength can scarcely overcome. It was this that led me to hope that in Private Session the sense of the corporate life of the House of Commons might have asserted itself. But that has been forbidden by the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ster of Defence, for there was no criticism of any sort of the proposals for rearmament put forward by the Government, even though the right hon. Gentleman had had 24 hours to think over the Minister's speech. I think we can feel that the Government have done well when, after 24 hours, that doughty expert could find nothing wrong in detail with the proposals put forward by the Minister of Defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "oing on which was closer to home than the subject of Defence. On that point I should like to make two comments. If we are really concerned with national unity in the present crisis, I would repeat the comment of my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Aston (Mr. Wyatt)—the best thing the right hon. Member for Woodford could do is not only to withdraw, but to withdraw from public life altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.715.0", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "Whatever my hon. Friend may think of my remarks yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.715.1", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I never suggested otherwise. I am relieved to hear that no one else shared my right hon. Friend's indiscreet views. I want to deal with one other subject, which has been raised throughout all the speeches from the Opposition, and implicitly was raised by the right hon. Member for Woodford. There was constant implication that the Government had neglected the subject of defence, for three years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.715.1", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "roughout all the speeches from the Opposition, and implicitly was raised by the right hon. Member for Woodford. There was constant implication that the Government had neglected the subject of defence, for three years—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] That applause helps my argument. It was suggested that three years had been frittered away, that the country had been allowed to drift into deadly peril.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "n. and gallant Member does not know that many of his hon. Friends, in his absence, demanded that more money should be spent now and complained that not enough money had been spent in the past. I do not want to stress this, however; it is obviously a painful subject for the Opposition. I want, instead, to turn to points of agreement between us. We all welcome one thing and it is that, by and large—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.717.2", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "e Russians were carrying out an \"invasion by proxy.\" It was a clever phrase, but, like so many clever phrases, it concealed the formidable truth, which is that the invasion of South Korea has not been undertaken by the Russians but by North Korean troops, trained in five years to be able to undertake a major operation of war. That is to say, the Russians have trained a colonial army in five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.717.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.717.2", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " to undertake a major operation of war. That is to say, the Russians have trained a colonial army in five years. [ Interruption .] I am not saying that it is right. I am saying that the really formidable fact is that they have built there a colonial army in five years to fight with a national ardour and fanaticism. General MacArthur has completely failed to train a colonial army on the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.717.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "nights of the Middle Ages who were overwhelmed by common people who had not such elaborate equipment—people from below, who fought with the strength of numbers and faith. Have any of the nations who are representatives of democracy got such coloured allies today? I reply, one country has, and one alone. It is not America. It is this country—thanks to the Commonwealth policy of the last five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " and squadrons, and the number of white Americans, British and French, is leading us into defeat. The ultimate issue is who wins the soul of the colonial peoples throughout the world. If this country, by an untoward act in Formosa, permitted the Chinese Communists to be dragged into this war against us, nothing could prevent, in the long run, the loss of every one of our positions in the Far East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ore yesterday which, I must say, has brought me nearer to the conclusion that really very simple arguments are the only effective ones on the Russians. The day before yesterday I was asked to meet Mr. Ilya Ehrenburg who, as the House knows, has been invited over here by the British Peace Campaign as a cooing dove of peace. I happened to sit in a room, with others, talking with him for three hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Shinwell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Shinwell)", "preceding_text": "nd that is not unexpected. I will admit that in the past, even the recent past, some observations have fallen from the lips of hon. Members opposite and there have been comments in the newspapers of a somewhat offensive character, for example, the allegation that the Service Ministers—including myself—are, if not thoroughly incompetent, at any rate hardly fit to occupy their responsible positions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Shinwell)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Shinwell)", "preceding_text": "their responsible positions. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am confirmed in my opinion that that view is held by some hon. Members opposite. It is common form, it has been common form ever since I became a Member of this House—and I am within the recollection of right hon. and hon. Gentlemen—always to attack Ministers, whoever they are, in whatever Government, on the ground of their incompetency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.747.3", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " I do not complain of the questions which have been addressed to the Government. It is quite proper that these questions should be asked. I used to ask questions myself and, if I may say so, frequently I did not get a satisfactory answer; and never more so than when I was asking the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition. I understood precisely and perfectly why he failed to satisfy me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.747.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.748.3", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "So far I have said nothing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.748.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.748.3", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ve a series of Secret Sessions and yet not make available the information for which he asks. Indeed, he disclosed to the House this afternoon a good deal of information, much of which I imparted to the House yesterday. Even in a Secret Session he could not have said much more, and even in a Secret Session he would not have expected me to answer precisely and in detail the questions which he asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.748.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.748.3", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "try. We have no wish to withhold information from the Leader of the Opposition, but it is quite a different matter to furnish, either in public or in a Secret Session, information beyond what we have furnished. We all know that, although there is no record of our deliberations in a Secret Session, the atmosphere and odds and ends of what occurs are often heard of outside. We are taking no chances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.748.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.750.6", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ces but air Forces and, in particular, material. I have been asked whether these Forces are to be built up speedily or not. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford himself said that he did not expect that a major war was imminent. Of course, we cannot tell. I must say to the right hon. Gentleman and to the House that I am not prepared to take any chances, but to proceed on the assumption—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.750.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.752.2", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Why not? It is obvious that it is impossible to speak to hon. Members like that. I have been asked whether we are preparing plans for strategic needs to cover not only the West and North Atlantic but the world. The world is a very large place. It may be there are some parts of it with which we need not concern ourselves at this moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.752.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.752.4", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " House. The assumption is that we waste it or, at any rate, part of it. That is far from being the case. Let us take the case of the Army, the estimate for which is £299 million this year. Of this we spend in pay £84,630,000. It is not suggested that we should not pay this amount. Indeed, hon. Members have asked us for increased pay. That is a question upon which there can be no question of waste.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.752.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.753.3", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "him a reply. The right hon. Gentleman forgets where our Forces are. He forgets we have Forces in the British Army of the Rhine, Forces in the Middle East, contingents in Malta, in Gibraltar, in Africa, and in Eritrea, and, in particular, large Forces in Malaya and Hong Kong. If all those Forces in those theatres were concentrated in this country, we should be able to produce very large formations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.753.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWSPRINT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I have never sought to deny that, and I have had a further look at these letters only today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.800.1", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWSPRINT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " point too far. Sweden, producing newsprint for all its requirements and all its exports as well, consumed 16, Australia 16, New Zealand 13, Hawaii—which always amuses the House—13, Switzerland 13, the United Kingdom 12, and some 50 or 60 other countries had lower figures. It would be wrong to give the impression that we are the worst supplied country in the world as far as newsprint is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWSPRINT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "type of speeches we hear from the Opposition benches. I am ready to admit that we have heard speeches tonight full of the real desire to help constituents, but we have also heard other speeches about which I feel dubious. There were speeches which seemed to be more concerned that newsprint should be available out of which profits could be made, rather than that there should be newsprint available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.809.3", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWSPRINT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": " sincerity—oddly enough that point reinforces the point of the President of the Board of Trade—that despite all the cutting down of newsprint and despite all the smallness of the newspapers, this is the best-informed public in the world. Whether that is because they had more space before, I do not know. I say to the House and especially to the party opposite: Drop your feud against the newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.809.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.809.3", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWSPRINT SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "ces the point of the President of the Board of Trade—that despite all the cutting down of newsprint and despite all the smallness of the newspapers, this is the best-informed public in the world. Whether that is because they had more space before, I do not know. I say to the House and especially to the party opposite: Drop your feud against the newspapers. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] It has been a feud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.809.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.824.6", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARBITRATION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scholefield Allen", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scholefield Allen", "preceding_text": "As a lawyer, I should like to welcome these consolidation Measures. I think a very good job has been done. It was a job which required doing. It will be of great help to the legal profession and will give help to the public. I welcome not only this Bill but, if I may say so, also the one we have just passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.824.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-27", "file": "debates1950-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "1ec1c9b86c5c5ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS (TIED HOUSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Drayson", "preceding_text": "nationalised railways to build more houses for the railway workers? It should be quite unnecessary for the Railway Executive to ask me to use my influence. Surely, they should go to the Minister or to the Minister of Health for permission for the nationalised railways to build more houses. This sort of thing did not happen before the railways were nationalised, because there were plenty of houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-27a.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-28", "file": "debates1950-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "9be62558b3af4df7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-28a.893.2", "colnum": "893", "heading": "HELIGOLAND", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A Tory Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": "pay a tribute, Lord Castlereagh. No doubt, hon. Members will remember that in their youth in their stamp collection amongst the most highly prized stamps they had were those beautiful stamps of Heligoland bearing a portrait of Queen Victoria. Heligoland was very content under our rule and we preserved for them their Frisian language and customs. Why did we hand it over to Germany in the year 1890?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-28a.893.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-07-28", "file": "debates1950-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "9be62558b3af4df7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-28a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "WORLD GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Davies)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Davies)", "preceding_text": "ned. After all, world government can only come, through the free consent of nations. There is no over-riding authority which can impose the unity of nations from above, and I think the arguments which have been put forward this afternoon—all of which are acceptable as a basis—the arguments which have suggested that we have just to believe in the idea of world government in order to bring it about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-07-28a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " Powers which would not involve the occupation forces of those Powers. We hold the view that the eventual participation by Germany in the defence of Europe can be considered only within the framework of the common defence of the West. Clearly, this is a very difficult problem, and it will need careful consideration by all the parties. I prefer not to say any more on that point at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d the view that the eventual participation by Germany in the defence of Europe can be considered only within the framework of the common defence of the West. Clearly, this is a very difficult problem, and it will need careful consideration by all the parties. I prefer not to say any more on that point at the present time. [ Laughter .] I do not know what is very funny when three Foreign Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.960.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "as disposed of after the war, and there have also been sales of some newly-manufactured equipment, including aircraft no longer on the secret list. These sales were of advantage to us at the time as, without them, we could not, in the existing circumstances, have maintained the war potential which we required; and we are reaping the benefit now in the capacity available for our expanded programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.969.4", "colnum": "969", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am having inquiries made about these particular machines, but I am informed they are not for Soviet Russia. I am not sure, but I am told they are for Poland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.969.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.969.4", "colnum": "969", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not have looked before now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " subject to a particular agree- ment. The terms of that agreement have to be looked at very closely. It is not exactly on the same level. It does make a difference what exactly the terms are. We are looking at them and if we need that boring machine, it will be retained in this country; but, as a matter of fact, it is not due for completion for some months yet. We are looking very fully into that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.969.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "who understand the solid qualities of British trade unionism, with the unaltering and unflinching defence of the free way of life of the Western parliamentary democracies. A vote was given last week at Brighton—I think the Prime Minister referred to it—which ranges the overwhelming mass of the British trade unionists with His Majesty's Government and also with the Conservative and Liberal Parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "September. So here we are. This was an emergency recall, and it seemed odd to announce it nearly a month before, and with such timing as to make it necessary that the important declaration of the lengthening of the period of National Service should be given over a broadcast rather than presented, according to normal constitutional practice, to the House of Commons. But these are not large matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "y we are deeply divided about internal politics and that first-class issues affecting the whole character of our country and its economic life are raised thereby. But the Socialist Government have been in a position of great advantage compared with other British Governments we have experienced. Compare their position, for instance, to that of the Baldwin and Chamberlain Governments before the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.979.0", "colnum": "979", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "It certainly was a great surprise to me, and I am sure also to my right hon. Friend the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Eden) and to the Leader of the Liberal Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.979.4", "colnum": "979", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I do not feel that that is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.979.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.979.4", "colnum": "979", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I do not feel that that is so. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I think the Americans are bitterly disappointed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.979.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.979.4", "colnum": "979", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " and patient hearing. It is my personal view that the Government and their military advisers, having rejected this project for many weeks, suddenly made a right-about turn and did what they had hitherto declared to be impossible. There was really nothing new in the situation, except perhaps the growing disappointment of the United States that we were so long in sending them anything from anywhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.979.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Shinwell)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Shinwell)", "preceding_text": "When?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.986.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.991.2", "colnum": "991", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "pay and the need for improved conditions so that men can be encouraged to volunteer because they will have terms which are commensurate with what they might get in civil life, and I have said that I welcome the White Paper and these proposals. We hope and believe that those increased emoluments will attract recruits, and I sincerely trust that they will bring in the full quota of what is required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.991.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "already been said with great truth by the right hon. and learned Member for Montgomery (Mr. C. Davies), the idea of increasing the pay of the Army, Navy and Air Force as a means of stimulating recruiting is not a bright idea which has newly originated in the mind of His Majesty's Government. It is the specific which has been recommended again and again from these benches during the last few years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1016.3", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "rsion, no country more vulnerable to atom bombs. The whole of their wealth and industrial power is concentrated in the Ruhr, which could easily be obliterated by modern weapons. I do not think an independent Germany can really tackle the world again. In addition to that, it is desperately important to keep them on our side because, by their history, they are part of Western Christian civilisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1016.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "ing if they had been deprived of responsibility. These are some of the charges made against the Government. The deeds of the Government which have saved the country for the last five years are not mentioned at all by hon. Members on the other side. Let us cast back our minds to Greece in 1945 and 1946. Who preserved Greece from the Communists in those years? No one more than the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "The present Administration of this country cannot be blamed for the difficult situation which exists between India and Pakistan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "5,000. There are 400,000 altogether, according to the Estimates. The Minister of Defence has suggested 125,000. All right. We have Gibraltar, Malta, Aden; a certain number in Egypt, Malaya, Korea; India, I do not know—I presume not—and in Germany and Austria. They total 125,000; far more than that, 200,000. They are organised in seven and a half divisions, so the Prime Minister told us earlier on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1053.1", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "All right. I do not mind one or two in a calculation of this size. The right hon. Gentleman says six and a half; and the strength of a division is, I believe, 10,000 men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1053.1", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "All right. I do not mind one or two in a calculation of this size. The right hon. Gentleman says six and a half; and the strength of a division is, I believe, 10,000 men. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am not talking about communications. It used to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1054.5", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am talking about men in soldiers' uniforms, which is not quite the same thing. Two hundred thousand. And then there are 200,000 outside this country which comprise six and a half divisions or the equivalent thereto, plus the odds and ends which an Army now gathers round itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1054.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "ellous.\" I said, \"What is marvellous?\" He said, \"It is marvellous; I have an income and no work to do.\" Six weeks later he said, \"It is more marvellous than ever.\" I said, \"What is?\" He said, \"In our unit there are 12 officers, six N.C.O.s and no men at all.\" I do know that, and I have not to go to the Library to find it out. There is something ridiculously wrong. I do not profess to be an expert—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "m out of the misery and poverty which many of them have for so long had to endure. It is a very heartening aspect of the situation that certain editorials in the American newspapers speak so confidently on another aspect of the matter which has been mentioned by a number of hon. Members—this business of the anti-Communist crowd. I have here the \"New York Herald-Tribune\" of Saturday, 2nd September.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "e benches on which we sit, whether on this side of the House or that, I think it is of importance that at last we should be giving some thought to getting something constructive done, so that sooner or later, and I hope sooner, we will work with a greater enthusiasm than we have done in the past on furthering this particular point of view. A few weeks ago \"Reynolds\" also made an interesting point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1068.1", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "o catch them. Another instance was last autumn, when the farmers had piles of fruit, and the Ministry of Food went out of its way to buy a million pounds' worth of Italian apples. The result was that our apples rotted in store because those wretched things were blocking the market and we could not get our apples sold. Those instances may not seem to have much relevance to the stock-piling of food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "entlemen opposite—to such a degree that it is difficult for us to determine exactly what is the danger in the world which we variously describe as the \"Soviets,\" \"Imperial Russia,\" \"Communism,\" \"the remnants of Marxism,\" and so on. I believe that we have managed to whip ourselves into a state of anxiety about Russia which would not have been possible a generation ago, at any rate on these benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do not want to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": ", is out at this moment in Korea under the command of a man who has revealed quite clearly what he regards as the policy that should be pursued. Although I may be told that President Truman is a wiser man than General MacArthur, he has not been able to get rid of General MacArthur, any more than the Conservative Party have been able to get rid of the right hon. Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": " revert to what the Society of Friends said in the document that I read, that it is better to seek the methods of trying to overcome evil with good. All the attempts that the world has made through its long history to meet evil with evil has led to the growth of confusion, misery and tribulation. I sympathise with the difficulties of the Government, and I am not going to add to their difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-12", "file": "debates1950-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "b34f9898fc7feef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "We provide him with food and clothing, but I have too much respect for the intelligence of the Minister of Defence to suggest that he does not see the superficiality of the argument I am about to examine. What happens to the rise in pay of the soldier? Will the rise be subject to Income Tax?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-12a.1084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-13", "file": "debates1950-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "6149e702be45ae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have already got it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " than a larger number dropped on the Soviet Union. If that is so, I fail to see the force of the argument which has been the keystone of much of the war strategy and advice of the Leader of the Opposition during the last five years. I do not think it holds good. The next suggestion is that we should build up a huge European Army, but nobody seems to face the fact that the Russians may do the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-13", "file": "debates1950-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "6149e702be45ae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not the commandant: he has been sacked.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "and aggressor countries which are in favour of war. If one reads the Russian Press and the American Press these days and listens to and reads the comments from American generals, one will find that from the point of view of bellicosity the Americans can beat the Russians every time. I want to quote the views of Major-General Orville Anderson, commandant of Maxwell Field Air War College at Alabama.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-13", "file": "debates1950-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "6149e702be45ae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "term of regular engagement to extend their service; and I think the latter objective is by no means the less important of the two. It is also important to attract back into the Forces the right kind of men who can serve as instructors and non-commissioned officers. These changes in pay and conditions are long overdue and I am particularly glad that, after four years of pressure from these benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-13", "file": "debates1950-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "6149e702be45ae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1117.7", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "Not the right hon. Gentleman. He has done very well. We had a good example of reform last night. I was very glad to hear the hon. Member for Swindon (Mr. T. Reid) end his speech by singing to us the refrain of \"Rule, Britannia.\" I was very glad to hear it. He may remember that the last Parliament was begun by hon. Members opposite singing \"The Red Flag.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1117.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-13", "file": "debates1950-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "6149e702be45ae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1126.1", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. Gaitskell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Impressive?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. Gaitskell)", "preceding_text": "atters under discussion. I am quite sure that my right hon. Friend the Minister of Defence will deal very adequately indeed with such points of substance as arise from his speech. I have another task to perform today, but, before I begin it, I am bound to say this to the right hon. Gentleman. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, in his impressive survey of the position yesterday, was at pains—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-13", "file": "debates1950-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "6149e702be45ae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1133.1", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ic Treaty will be. Here, too, we have to have regard to the time factor, and since we know that much of what has been included in the United Kingdom production programme put forward in August is certain to be needed either by ourselves or others, we can safely push on with the production not only of the short list of high priority items agreed at the Deputies' Council but with other items as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1133.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-09-13", "file": "debates1950-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "6149e702be45ae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1159.3", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Leave him alone.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-13", "file": "debates1950-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "6149e702be45ae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1161.1", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who started it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "No doubt, the hon. Gentleman's claim has been duly noted. But this is no time for party politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-13", "file": "debates1950-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "6149e702be45ae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1162.0", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": "This is rather pathetic but, even for what the hon. Member is, for his sake we had better correct him. There are two hon. Gentlemen who represent Coventry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-13", "file": "debates1950-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "6149e702be45ae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "litics, I beg the House to consider what can be done, short of the formation of a national Government, to take defence out of party politics and to achieve unity in defence. In the proposition I am now going to put forward I am not, in any way, attempting to reflect upon the present Minister of Defence: but I believe that a Minister of Defence ought to be appointed who stands entirely above party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-13", "file": "debates1950-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "6149e702be45ae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": " point is this, I commend the hon. Member who spoke below the Gangway for daring to refer in this Debate —I say \"daring\" because, as I see it, the House as a whole seems to have got into a state of fatalism which I have never experienced in my long experience in the House of Commons—to the sort of feeling that we are slowly sliding down, and we must get the best defences because war is inevitable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-13", "file": "debates1950-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "6149e702be45ae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1206.1", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "It must be answered by a vast cultural and social effort. If, when we had gone back into France, in 1944, we had followed up the advance of the Allies with a great system of administration and the techniques of full employment in a free society; if we had gone in with some of the aspects of the Welfare State, that would have been a more inviting message to the Western world and to Germany as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-13", "file": "debates1950-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "6149e702be45ae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1210.5", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I cannot give way. I have already given way and I want to sit down as soon as I possibly can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1210.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-09-13", "file": "debates1950-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "6149e702be45ae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1212.0", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "So what?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " know anything about Nationalist China, but I can tell you, honestly and truthfully, that corruption and graft were an every- day occurrence in the Republic of Korea from top to bottom. The police department operated on it. The Army operated on it. The Ministries operated on it. There was not a single day went by but what some scandal occurred in the way of these very things, corruption and graft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1210.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-13", "file": "debates1950-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "6149e702be45ae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1212.3", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I do not want to take up the time of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1212.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-13", "file": "debates1950-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "6149e702be45ae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1215.4", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "tesmen in many countries of the world, although I have only at the moment quoted particular examples from Canada and the United States? I give the Government full marks for what they have done in the Brussels and North Atlantic Treaties. Those are great steps forward, such as have never been taken in peace-time before. They must allow that the impetus for this movement came largely from my leader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-13a.1215.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1257.5", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "at despite his optimism, there are one or two major issues which divide the country. One cannot anticipate the Debate next week, but I would say this: In 1940, when things were very dangerous for this country, the Labour Party and Labour movement, at the demand of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill), put their Socialism into cold storage for the duration of the crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1257.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1257.5", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ia, hoping to collaborate with the Communists, who is not gaoled in Siberia or dead. I would also add that it is a responsibility of everybody in this House that those men died because all of us, including the right hon. Member for Woodford suggested that they should go back to Czechoslovakia and seek to collaborate with the Communists, with the result that this is the fate they have now suffered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1257.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1260.1", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMbers: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "to build them. Or again, suppose we had gone in for a gigantic rearmament drive instead of mechanising the coal mines, building generating stations and doing the hundred and one jobs we had to do in order to put our economy on its peacetime feet, would we be stronger for war than we are today? Have we misused those five years even in terms of defence by re-equipping the industries of this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1268.3", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ing them up, because there is one thing which is clear: if we want to influence American policy we have to contribute to the defence of the West sufficiently to make Britain a power for good. In my view, nothing has been done more effectively to avert this danger of war than the job we did in Washington. We helped to prevent MacArthur from having his way and frustrating a sensible American policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1268.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1268.3", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "re are people who preach preventive war. But there are strong forces against them. We have got President Truman and Mr. Acheson and the Fair Dealers. What is the thing that is saving peace today? It is the collaboration between a loyal Labour Government here and an American Administration which shares the same ideals, which wants the same sort of world, the fair shares we want in our Commonwealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1268.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "give way. I want to conclude by summing up very briefly. The reasons for our rearmament and the reasons for the scale on which we have done it are these. We do not want to make war inevitable by total rearmament, but we want to make it unmistakably clear to the Russians that if they try another Korea in Germany or anywhere else we shall not only want to stop it but shall have the power to stop it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "aximum of party unity. We have been told that recrimination is no good; but recrimination is, I think, sometimes useful and sometimes inevitable. If I might adapt a definition used by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition during the war—I have forgotten exactly what he said—I would say that recrimination is useful in so far as it helps, if not to avoid, at least to observe past errors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I think I can, but what is much more curious is that the Foreign Secretary, with whom hon. Gentlemen opposite have better opportunities of consulting than I have, and whose language they may perhaps interpret more easily than I can, could apparently have told them that this necessity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1293.3", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "MR. BEVIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "MR. BEVIN", "preceding_text": "y longer believe them. There is no argument against the charge of \"too late.\" There is another point about this question of getting agreement in all parties: that is the question of whether a war ought or ought not to be of advantage to a party. I do not know if hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite think it ought. The hon. Gentleman from Coventry, East, certainly obviously thought that it ought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1293.3", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "MR. BEVIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "MR. BEVIN", "preceding_text": "ould be the duty of Socialists to see that they were preserved afterwards. But I do not have to go back to wartime pamphlets, because this is the latest official document on Socialist policy, August 1950: Prices have a habit of going up as a consequence of war. But this time \"— they mean, last time— earnings have gone up still more, and today families can be sure of a regular pay packet each week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1295.3", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "he world at least three quite easily distinguishable sorts of war: the cold war, to which we have been long accustomed—and I may say that the present Chancellor of the Exchequer in September, 1948, said that we had been long accustomed to the cold war, which is another confirmation of the \"too late\" argument. The cold war we have been long accustomed to, and I should hate to quote my own speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1295.3", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "o which we have been long accustomed—and I may say that the present Chancellor of the Exchequer in September, 1948, said that we had been long accustomed to the cold war, which is another confirmation of the \"too late\" argument. The cold war we have been long accustomed to, and I should hate to quote my own speeches—[ Laughter .] Hon. Members are quite right, I do not either memorise or read them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1296.1", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "That is what happens. Now hon. Gentlemen really must not laugh at me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1296.5", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "t even, as much as you may have to in a hot war, allow your intentions to be obvious before you start on them, that your actual operations are, in the main, secret. That is the essence of a cold war, and therefore hon. Gentlemen opposite can very easily score off me by saying, \"Well, how would you fight the cold war back?\" It is quite obvious that I ought not to tell them even if I thought I knew.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1296.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1304.1", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then what is the point?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": ". Only when they were asked, \"What would you do if assistance were given?\" were these new plans made. It seems, therefore, to follow beyond any real controversy that in recommending these two proposals to the House of Commons His Majesty's Government are not being guided solely by their own judgment and their own assessment of what the necessities of the case require. I am not complaining of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1312.0", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Surgeon Lieut.-Commander Bennett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are all in the Pacific.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Surgeon Lieut.-Commander Bennett", "preceding_text": "I must differ from the hon. Member opposite. I believe they have, and quite a lot of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1318.5", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "Northfield (Mr. Blackburn), this Robinson Crusoe, may find a Man Friday joining him. I want to bring back unity to the House. I want to talk well of the Prime Minister and thus bring back unity. The Prime Minister is carrying a great load. Even if he is not a Titan, he does not pause as does the weary Titan. We all admire the spirit in which he leads a Government composed of incompetent Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1318.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1330.1", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Harvey", "preceding_text": "ment to provoke open aggression with Russia but to keep the democracies under a continuous pressure. Of course, he is right. That is the problem which I think, this Government faces at the moment. The problem is how to face that situation. I hope that I may not be accused of plagiarism if I take as my theme for the few observations which I have to make—and I will endeavour to keep within the hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "e Opposition like to enjoy themselves by a play on a phrase which was originated by a senior Member of my party: \"Left speaks to Left.\" It may be that they have a debating point on that. It is true that Left did not speak to Left in the way that we hoped it would. But we can say, at any rate, that a Labour Government is far better able to understand the social forces that are at work in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1341.3", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "It is precisely because there are British troops fighting in Korea that I think we are entitled to have some voice in who their commander should be, and when it is a person of so bad a political reputation as General MacArthur, this House is entitled to say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1346.1", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the hon. Member for having raised that point. Of course not. I am not talking about the field of politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "not a factor in preventing recruits from joining the Services. Carried to its logical conclusion, this would mean that more men joined the Services during full employment and fewer during mass unemployment, which, obviously, is nonsense. Everyone on the lower deck knows that the main reason for men joining the Service before the First War and between the two wars was unemployment, as I shall show.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And reduced it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "ut I ask hon. Gentlemen opposite to wait until I quote a few things against them; then, perhaps, they will take the grin off their faces. If the Tory and Liberal argument is right, how do Opposition Members, both Tory and Liberal, relate their argument to the fact that for 60 years the Tory and Liberal Governments failed to increase the pay of the Services, and, in fact, opposed an increase in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"25 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": ". Walter Long, in an official document which was presented to this House. So perhaps, hon. Members opposite will try to laugh off the condemnation of their own party from one of their own Cabinet Ministers. The pay of able seamen was then raised to 4s. a day, but what happened? After only six years, in 1925, the Tory Government reduced the able seaman's pay by 20 per cent., by 1s. from 4s. to 3s.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1386.1", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Shinwell)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Even their enemies?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Shinwell)", "preceding_text": "disturbance of internal security, and that, of course, is the major objective of that force. We have considered whether it would be possible to increase the number of units of Colonial troops, but there are financial and other difficulties about that. For example, there is the difficulty of making such Colonial troops agreeable to all the people in any particular theatre to which they may be sent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1388.1", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Malaya.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman—or anywhere else. I reply at once that there is not a single commitment overseas in the last five years that the Government have failed to meet. If any hon. Member can point to one I am willing to deal with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1390.1", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Prime Minister in his speech informed the House that we intend to send another division, an armoured division, there by March of next year. Let me tell the House my view about this matter. I believe that more is required. I believe that we have to match, so far as is possible—and that is a qualification, because many factors have to be considered in this regard—the contribution made by our allies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1390.1", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " House my view about this matter. I believe that more is required. I believe that we have to match, so far as is possible—and that is a qualification, because many factors have to be considered in this regard—the contribution made by our allies. [ Interruption .] Indeed, we have not been asked to do more than that. I am much more familiar with what our allies are asking than hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Yes, I do. This is not easy to say, and, perhaps, not so agreeable to hon. Members opposite, but I beg of them to understand that I know exactly what the French expect of us, and what we believe is a worthy addition to the forces that they propose to provide some time next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not 12?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " for the right hon. Gentleman opposite, an easy problem to solve. We are engaged in trying to find a solution. But now I wish to come to the matter of the contribution of Territorial divisions some time next year, to which the Prime Minister referred. We can give the House this assurance: I hope there will be no emergency, but in the event of an emergency we shall provide 10 Territorial divisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "No, I am speaking of the American troops. The American addition in troops will not be part of an auxiliary force. They will be trained Regulars who have joined the United States Forces, most of them voluntarily, although it may well be that some of them will be conscripted. That is a matter entirely for the United States of America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "(Sir P. Bennett) that there is no advantage in placing orders unless we secure the completion of those orders at a very early date. I am unable to answer the question how many aircraft are available. Indeed, I tell the House quite frankly that it is inadvisable that I should tell the House and the world what aircraft are available and the number of squadrons that will be available early next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-14", "file": "debates1950-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "1116a58d04a7b5de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1395.3", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman imagines that he can compel the German people to do as he desires, he is making a very grave mistake. After all, the German people have a right to be consulted as to whether they wish to make a contribution to defence. We might persuade them, but we cannot compel them, and speeches we have had in this House about forcing the Germans to do this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-14a.1395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-15", "file": "debates1950-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "6e811c859e6e08f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "llectively build up and maintain a force which is capable of defending our frontiers. Before I am prepared to support this Bill, I want the assurance that that is our intention and that we recognise that in the defence of our frontiers a German contribution, an effective German contribution, is absolutely essential. My hon. Friend the Member for Coventry East, has a great receptivity to new ideas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-15", "file": "debates1950-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "6e811c859e6e08f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1462.6", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I have only two minutes left. In those circumstances we should not need conscription. Nothing reasonable has been done for the pensioner or the war widow. If our men have to go and be killed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1462.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-09-15", "file": "debates1950-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "6e811c859e6e08f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1463.1", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Colonel Sir Charles MacAndrew)", "preceding_text": "I do not see how that could arise on this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-15", "file": "debates1950-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "6e811c859e6e08f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1463.2", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "I was just about to say how it arose. Men should not be asked to go and fight Communism under a man who is a professed Communist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1463.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-15", "file": "debates1950-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "6e811c859e6e08f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1464.3", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "That is a coward's statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-15", "file": "debates1950-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "6e811c859e6e08f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1464.4", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is repeating it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman was trying to explain why he felt that I had misunderstood him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1464.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-09-15", "file": "debates1950-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "6e811c859e6e08f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1465.10", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "It is only fair I should have my say, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. I feel that the Prime Minister should shuffle the pack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1465.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-15", "file": "debates1950-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "6e811c859e6e08f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1466.0", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. I have had very little chance to speak owing to the touchiness of hon. Gentlemen opposite. There is no doubt that nearly all share my views, only they do not like having it said publicly, and I am glad I have had the opportunity of saying this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-15", "file": "debates1950-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "6e811c859e6e08f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1466.5", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So was the Secretary of State for War.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "I have heard a lot of derogatory remarks about myself from the other side. They say I am neither gallant nor a gentleman. Well, at least I have been in uniform and I have been in it for seven years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1466.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-15", "file": "debates1950-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "6e811c859e6e08f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1475.1", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Roberts", "preceding_text": "The closing words of the right hon. Member for Epsom (Mr. McCorquodale) would seem to indicate that he is of opinion that if National Service can be conducted properly, then permanent National Service in this country is a good thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-15", "file": "debates1950-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "6e811c859e6e08f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1494.1", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "we were considering the Second Reading of this Bill. Shortly, the proposal of the Government embodied in this Bill to extend the period of National Service from 18 months to two years will have had the approval, or at least the acquiescence, of hon. Members of this House. Some, no doubt, will have given their approval because they believe in conscription as a permanent part of our national policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-15", "file": "debates1950-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "6e811c859e6e08f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1500.1", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that the Government would have welcomed this with open arms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-15", "file": "debates1950-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "6e811c859e6e08f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1502.0", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "the vital point. We have got to be realistic about all this. We are exposed to danger. I am speaking now of an inescapable fact. On the evidence before us, evidence that has been in part, and only in part, presented to the House, we are exposed to danger. What are we to do in those circumstances? To take the risk of abandoning our National Service system, for that is what we have been asked to do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1502.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-15", "file": "debates1950-09-15a.xml", "sha256": "6e811c859e6e08f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1504.0", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ot to pass it, then we cannot continue the National Service element or any other element of the Forces because we have no power to pay anyone. Of course, the matter can be raised when that Act is discussed. There is nothing to prevent the right hon. and learned Gentleman or any other hon. Member raising the issue at that time. On such an occasion the greater would include the less, or vice versa .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-15a.1504.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1524.6", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Williams", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister say why Italian apples are, in fact, being offered in the shops at the present time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1524.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1525.2", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "I cannot think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1553.2", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "ntre were added to the list, but for some reason which I shall seek to discover later large planing machines and large centre lathes are today still not on the list. This is entirely illogical. I have here a schedule of exports in the course of manufacture by Craven Bros, of Manchester for export to the U.S.S.R. and Poland. Members may wonder why this particular manufacturer's name comes up again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1553.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1564.5", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " wide extension of our system of export controls. I should like to remind the House of the words which I used on that occasion because they have been the basis of our policy ever since: The desirability of extending our export controls to cover a wider range of goods of potential military value from the point of view of our security interests is constantly under review by His Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1564.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1571.1", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Chair", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1571.10", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Well, is it not right?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I am usually aware of things that I hear my own right hon. Friends say in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1571.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1571.10", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I am usually aware of things that I hear my own right hon. Friends say in the House. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Well, is it not right?\"] The point I was making is that if the right hon. Member for Woodford had reason to believe—and he seems to be very well briefed in this matter of what is going on at Craven Brothers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1571.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1572.0", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You would not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is making a reflection upon this firm. I had never heard of them before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"You were.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The speech of the right hon. Gentleman seemed to be based on the assumption that I was criticising Messrs. Craven Brothers for briefing him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1574.2", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I think that when he has had time to study this, the right hon. Gentleman will draw the deduction that if the machine tool had been the subject of an order after the signature of the Polish agreement, there would have been no obligation on us to ensure its shipment, but if it had been ordered before the Polish agreement there would be an obligation, which, I think, makes something of a difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1574.4", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "s which world conditions have forced on us, make a great difference to the position so far as equipment required for defence purposes is concerned; and there can be little doubt where the responsibility for those world conditions lies. I am sure the House will agree that certainly we ought not in present circumstances to be denied the use of such necessary equipment for our own defence programmes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1574.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1594.0", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": " have captured the markets, which would have been lost to us for ever. It is not quite so easy, therefore, to say that we should stop supplying machinery to other countries. After all, this country has to live in peace. The whole purpose of the Opposition's Motion, as it first appeared—and I am glad that that impression has been corrected—seemed to be that we should declare economic war on Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1594.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1597.1", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Wing Commander Hulbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing Commander Hulbert", "preceding_text": "Obviously, the House was not sitting, and the matter was not raised on the Floor of the House; but when the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition says in public, over the radio system of this country and of the world, that he brought the matter to the notice of the Government, I believe him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1599.2", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Wing Commander Hulbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing Commander Hulbert", "preceding_text": "inancial balance, but I do not think that, in the critical state of the country today, there is any excuse for the Government not breaking any agreement which might exist in regard to essential war materials. I would point out in passing that after the war, Russia did break agreements with the British Government to the extent of some £30 million. They cancelled contracts for engineering equipment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1600.1", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Wing Commander Hulbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing Commander Hulbert", "preceding_text": "at side of the House begin to look after this country first, the better. I only wish to refer to one other point, and that is the question of the Russian inspectors in our factories. Any works manager or any engineer knows that, if they have inspectors of a contractor in a factory, whether of a home contractor or a foreign one, it is virtually impossible to keep them in one section of the factory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1603.2", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": " shop stewards' committee. I know that there is great difficulty in speaking to hon. Members who are not trade unionists and who know nothing about the inside of an engineering factory. I was a shop steward before I came here. It is, therefore, rather difficult to know where the Leader of the Opposition got his information, when he said that he was speaking on behalf of the men of Craven Brothers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1603.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1607.6", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "I can answer the hon. Member by saying that I know very little about engineering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1607.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1622.1", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "preceding_text": "trade. Quite obviously, there are certain machines and machine tools which could not, and should not, be exported, because of the grave damage which they might bring if they were to fall into the hands of an aggressor, actual or potential, but it is precisely because the Government recognised that, not when the Leader of the Opposition made his broadcast, but 18 months ago when the Order was made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1638.8", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pargiter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pargiter", "preceding_text": "ld not be in some respect war potential, certainly as far as capital goods are concerned. There is no machine used for the fabrication of metal or of wood, or even for the fabrication of fabrics, which cannot be regarded as war potential. We might as well be quite clear about where we are. It is fairly obvious that before this Debate the intention of hon. Members opposite was an economic blockade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1638.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1644.1", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "That may be so; I am not arguing that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1644.3", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "nk from the words \"economic blockade.\" I do not know why. In 1933, the then Conservative Government in fact imposed as a weapon of policy an economic blockade on the Soviet Union. That was one of the irresponsible actions committed by the party opposite when in power, and it helped to create that barrier of suspicion between East and West which is responsible for the present unfortunate situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1648.1", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Fisher", "preceding_text": "ing on, I promise to be very brief. I should like to refer to the attacks made by the right hon. Member for East Sterling (Mr. Woodburn) and others on the benches opposite upon the Leader of the Opposition. When the right hon. Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) first raised this subject in his broadcast, the nation and the whole free world was shaken and impressed by the revelations he then made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1659.3", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Canada.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Hale", "preceding_text": " country. The American machine tool industry has been built up because of the great internal market America has for such commodities. We know well that America is not prepared to buy machine tools in this country and has quite enough of her own. It is equally certain that Europe is quite unable to absorb the whole of the export surplus of machine tools from this country. Where are we to sell them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1659.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1665.0", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "WAR MATERIALS (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "e not indulging in this trade simply as depending upon our exports in order to obtain the timber, grain and other commodities which are available to us. Therefore, by stopping the export of war potential in the shape of valuable tools, I maintain that we are not in any way prejudicing the import of timber, grain or other commodities which are vital to our building programme and to our agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1665.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-18", "file": "debates1950-09-18a.xml", "sha256": "3edef105897830ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1680.1", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "DEFENCE (COAL SUPPLIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "merica is one of the greatest producers of petroleum in the world yet nobody criticises American economy because she imports oil. Just as America imports oil and Britain has had to import wool, the time has now come for Britain to consider the importation of foreign coal if we are to have reality in our talk of Defence. London already imports coal from Newcastle-on-Tyne, and the docks and wharves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-18a.1680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1719.2", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "iament, the Government were secretly preparing a new and deadly blow at national unity and co-operation by an act of party aggression which was bound to plunge us, and evidently has plunged us, and all our affairs into violent controversy. The action of the Prime Minister in taking such a step at such a time and in such circumstances will, I believe, be sternly judged by the nation and by history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1719.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1719.2", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under a Labour Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "h occupied our attention last week. The record of the steel industry in recent years has been magnificent. The output of the industry has expanded from its low point of five million tons a year in 1931, when hon. Gentlemen opposite were largely in office—I mean their party was largely in office. As I say, it has expanded from five million tons a year in 1931 to 16 million tons at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1719.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1719.2", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ements which have been in force under the Iron and Steel Board, and which have proved and vindicated themselves by results. This new stroke of party faction by a Government already confronted with a vast superiority of potentially hostile forces in Europe, and also by the challenge of the Communist fifth column here at home—this new stroke, I say, took all of us and our friends abroad by surprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1719.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1719.2", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "by results. This new stroke of party faction by a Government already confronted with a vast superiority of potentially hostile forces in Europe, and also by the challenge of the Communist fifth column here at home—this new stroke, I say, took all of us and our friends abroad by surprise. [ Interruption .] There was no need for the Prime Minister to take this hazardous course at the present moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1719.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1719.2", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "e which are already highly integrated. Consequently, an alternative method of public control over private industry which deserves further consideration is the statutory Board of Control. This method has already been used by the Government, for a short period, in the iron and steel industry with the intention of securing a measure of control pending the transfer of the industry to public ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1719.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1727.1", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "g, under the Schuman Plan—get ready to cheer now; a long breath—to hand over British iron and steel to the control of a supra-national European cartel which would have the power to close any mine or factory in Britain by a majority vote. I do not think hon. Gentlemen—and I gather that from their rather quiescent mood today—will get very far with this falsehood in any prolonged national discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1727.1", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " gather that from their rather quiescent mood today—will get very far with this falsehood in any prolonged national discussion. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see.\"] We thought, and we still think, that the representatives of the Government could perfectly well have gone to Paris and taken part in the discussions, it being clearly understood by all parties that they could break them off at any moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1727.1", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ood in any prolonged national discussion. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see.\"] We thought, and we still think, that the representatives of the Government could perfectly well have gone to Paris and taken part in the discussions, it being clearly understood by all parties that they could break them off at any moment. [ Laughter .] I have often gone to discussions which I could break off at any moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1727.1", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "for British representatives to have been present at meetings upon a project which carried with it many hopes for the ending of the Franco-German quarrels which have wrecked Europe in our lifetime and, by removing them, thus to strengthen the foundations of peace. We might have helped others and helped ourselves, and we should have run no risk at being committed to anything in the slightest degree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1731.1", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "We must also preserve our sense of proportion. It seems difficult to believe that the activities of the small number of Communists in our midst could at the present time inflict upon our defensive effort, or upon our national unity, anything like the injury that will be done to us all by this Act of party sabotage. Now let me say what would be the policy of the Conservative Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1731.1", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "of the House behave so disreputably. It does not affect me with 50 years' experience. I have seen many awkward situations. Hon. Members opposite only reveal the deep, internal, mental and moral malaise which distresses and disturbs their consciences. Now let me say what is the policy of the Conservative Party, and, judging from the public declarations, of the Liberal Party also, on iron and steel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1732.1", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "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": "I need hardly say that the advice of His Majesty's Govern- ment to the House is that this Motion, moved in characteristic language and terms by the right hon. Gentleman, should be rejected. We believe that it is contrary to the public interest. We believe that it is mischievous and meant to be mischievous. We believe that it is calculated to impair the national unity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1732.1", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "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": "c policy, and that the attitude of the Conservative Party, of the steel employers and of some of the Press, is an attempt deliberately to sabotage a great basic industry. There is plenty of evidence to the end that the Conservative Party, another place, the employers and some others, have done their very best to see to it that, the nation having proclaimed for a policy of public ownership in 1945—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1732.1", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "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": "hed a deliberate plot to upset the national unity at this time. He accused my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Minister of Supply of having plotted and carefully worked cut the timetable so that the announcement should be landed into the middle of the Defence Debate last week. What absolute nonsense. The process of implementing the Iron and Steel Act has been taking its normal course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1732.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1734.2", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about 1940?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "thought it right not to evade Parliament but to make an announcement even if it was in the middle of the Defence Debate. Now that is held against us as a naughty thing to do, as a criminal thing to do, as, in the words of the right hon. Gentleman, a direct plot on the part of the Prime Minister to upset national unity. The biggest expert in upsetting national unity is the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1735.0", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I held certain views and principles and I stuck to them and I do not regret it. If there are cries of \"1940,\" this party comes out of the claims of national unity very well and I must add that there is no one who enjoys upsetting national unity more than the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1735.2", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "trictions on production and the tendency to close down plants without regard to the consequences—the state of the iron and steel industry and certain other industries of a restrictive character was one of the causes of the economic and financial crisis of 1931, for which the Labour Government was blamed. The right hon. Gentleman says that steel prices are below the general level. That may be true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1735.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1735.2", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "the causes of the economic and financial crisis of 1931, for which the Labour Government was blamed. The right hon. Gentleman says that steel prices are below the general level. That may be true—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"] I was not getting into a state about it, why do hon. Members? My impression is that they have gone up somewhat more than some of the prices and charges of socialised industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1735.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1736.1", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ustry. It is a very able and valuable report, and I am glad the right hon. Gentleman has read at any rate part of it. For all I know he may have read the lot, but, if he has, I must say he has been very naughty this afternoon in the way in which he has presented to the House a sub-edited version. This is one of those constructive, able, documents for which the General Council is now so well known—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1736.1", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "been enthusiastic about the supervision of private industry? Indeed they should not become too keen about the old Iron and Steel Board, because some time ago the employers' representatives on the Board went on strike, if I may say so. They walked out, and did so not because they were dissatisfied with the work of the Board but because they objected to the Government contemplating public ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1738.1", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I suppose that they were all of a certain political opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1739.3", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Then what was the point of saying that employers and workers in the industry had refused to serve? What was the point of it, if it was not to give an impression that members of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation were against public ownership? Let us look at the facts. I had lunch with Mr. Lincoln Evans today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1739.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1740.0", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Date.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "fairs should be recruited to some totalitarian secret service; he would do very well. Let us see what the Confederation said. This is a letter written to the Minister of Supply: The Executive Council of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation welcomes the Steel Bill and places on record its satisfaction that the Government are now introducing a Measure to bring the industry under public ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1739.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1740.1", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "in, when they have to decide if it is their public duty to act on a Corporation—whether they could be more useful to their trade unions and to the General Council and to the nation by remaining trade union officials, or whether they should go into the public service. For perfectly honourable reasons, he decided that, in his circumstances, he could serve the nation best where he was. He assured me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1740.3", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I would only add this on the point I am now dealing with. As my right hon. Friend the Minister of Supply reminds me, Mr. Lincoln Evans has said what I said he said, and he has also said it to my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1740.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1740.3", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "y, or the over-riding authority. His Majesty's Government took the view that we could not accept the invitation on that basis, and we urged them to invite us on more free terms. The Opposition challenged the decision of the Government; the Opposition dissented from our decision; the Opposition demanded that the Government should go into these discussions together with these terms, notwithstanding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1740.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1744.3", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "entered a Coalition. But when the election came a little later in the year, the Liberals proper—I am not including the so-called Liberal Nationals—dropped from 59 to 37 seats. There were not so many to lose, but it was a notable drop. I put it to Liberal Members, and to the right hon. and learned Gentleman who has gone on record in favour of the principle of the public ownership of iron and steel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1744.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1747.0", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Minister?\" my guess is they would vote for iron and steel. The right hon. Gentleman argues that it is electoral votes rather than the composition of Parliament that should determine Parliamentary policy on specific issues. I do not accept that. This is novel constitutional doctrine. If he came back with a majority in the House, but a minority of votes, would he still repeal the Iron and Steel Act?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Red Letter.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ever one likes—the General Strike of 1926, one of the most characteristically gentle British affairs ever experienced in our history, into a revolutionary movement is childish. At the end Mr. Baldwin came into the House and said, \"Peace in our time, O Lord\" and brought in the anti-trade union Act as quickly as possible. The Tories had not had a mandate for that, nor an electoral majority. In 1924—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1751.1", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose fault was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "gave before and during the election but carrying out the Liberal policy of that time, I am accused of selling the pass to the Conservative Party. Every Liberal Member, every Liberal candidate, put that policy in the forefront of his election address. We did that, and here is the difference between us: we also put it in such broadcasts as we were allowed to make. We were allowed to make only three.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1769.1", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Jones", "preceding_text": "the Council, of a Molotov. Then there is the suggestion that in this instance the Opposition should abandon their convictions. In a time of emergency nobody is required to sacrifice his conscience or abandon his views. It is traditional and desirable only that those who wield power and therefore have the responsibility for initiating action should refrain from putting into practice onesided views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1774.1", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "know that there are also profits to be made in other industries. If the hon. Gentleman is prepared to table a Motion that we should extend the scope of nationalisation to all industries manufacturing armaments, I shall be glad to second it. The second reason, which probably hon. Gentlemen opposite will not recognise, is that there is a great need to put forward a positive alternative to Communism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1777.3", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "rrelling too much with that, but am disposing of any argument that the 1950 programme was a mandate or that the question was speci- fically put to the country by the party opposite. The right hon. and learned Member for Montgomery (Mr. C. Davies) pointed out with a good deal of relevance that not one word was breathed about iron and steel by any Labour Party speaker during the election broadcasts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1777.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1779.1", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "Steel prices fell in the most fantastic way up to 1931 and 1932, and from then onwards, after there was protection in this country, prices began to pull themselves together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1779.3", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I do not know the years to which the hon. Member refers, but I will tell him this. During the very bad years we had to use Belgian steel, which was very competitive in price with ours, but latterly after 1932, British steel became competitive with anything on the Continent. We had better leave that, however, because hon. Members opposite cannot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1779.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1780.1", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "em of relationship with the State which had to be studied. If ever an industry made real progress towards solving one of the almost insoluble problems of our day—the relationship of great industries, subject to heavy world fluctuations of trade, with the State—the British steel industry was well on its way to solving that relationship. If this Act is implemented, all that work will go for nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1780.1", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "moving steadily towards the solution of a very difficult modern problem, the relationship of great industries to the State, but if this Act is implemented that progress will be wiped out altogether. We will start yet another experiment, because this is not the same set-up as the other nationalised boards. I think it has been accepted that the other nationalised boards have been a hopeless failure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1782.3", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Price?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "Better quality or price. I take as one example the electricity régime in this country, which is one where that could be claimed with absolute honesty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1782.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1783.3", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "in the last Parliament that taking the industry into public ownership and control and away from the present masters had to be left very nearly to the end. It was for that reason alone that the Opposition had the chance of fighting this issue again, and only a very few months ago. in the last General Election, when the Leader of the Opposition received such a handsome trouncing from the electorate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1783.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1784.2", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "h people for the destructive work they are carrying on. I hope they will bear in mind these people in their clubs and board-rooms who behave in just this manner. There is rather an interesting campaign going on in a minor way in the steelworks at the present time. It is being put around that when nationalisation becomes operative, prices will at once go up, and, of course, that means unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1784.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1788.4", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has got it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "isive answer can be obtained, and that is the duty of any statesman today. Today, there are two alternatives, and only two, which a statesman would take if he were in the position of the present Prime Minister. The first is this. If he feels confident that the country really will give him a decisive mandate in the sense in which I have used the word, it is his duty to go to the country and get it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1788.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1800.2", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": "ys, should have regard to the leadership which Europe expects from us, and that we should pay attention to such views. What a contrast between the decisions in such matters as this made in Norway by their Socialist Government, who in the interests of national unity have decided to postpone steps of this kind, and the action of the Government here at the present time. What will the Americans think?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1800.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1806.3", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Usborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Usborne", "preceding_text": " cooler war, something much nearer a state of peace than we have had before, which will bring about the very conditions that tend to a recession? There are reasons which make it necessary, in facing the future, to take over the steel industry, reasons that have been given in this House dozens of times. The question at issue is: Why we are doing this now? I say that because there is a bit of cream—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1809.1", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Robson-Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Robson-Brown", "preceding_text": " and woman in the land is entitled to his or her political or ideological beliefs; every man has a perfect right to accept nomination to any board of any kind. At the same time we must remember that when we carry out the pledge which we have given, as Conservatives, to denationalise steel we shall expect the men in the industry to support the judgment and the decision of the Government of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1809.1", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Robson-Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Robson-Brown", "preceding_text": "t language and in his own inimitable style, recommended the Government to follow a proper and dignified course in this matter, having regard to the emergency existing in the nation's affairs. I have only one or two minutes left to make one or two further points. The first is that this House should know that at no time was the British steel industry a member of any international or European cartel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1815.3", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "rnment must pay as much attention to that conspiracy as they do to searching the Communist ranks. We know from experience that the higher stratum of Toryism and society in this country has no love for the Measures we put on to the Statute Book. I would not trust them very much as to the measures they would take to destroy them. If we dismiss all this verbiage we have had from the other side today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1815.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1819.1", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "s were interested in this point of view. It is for the Government to weigh that in the light of the national and international situation and of the re-armament programme which only last week they asked the House to approve, and the resulting obligations which the Front Bench have to shoulder. A reasonable postponement might be to the spring of next year so that the matter could be looked at again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1819.1", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "uts the industry face to face with a much more uncertain future than would a definite declaration now to the effect that, \"For a year we continue as we are. Then, may be, in the political situation which then exists, we will try to put through this proposal on a basis which the country as a whole will have endorsed.\" The right hon. Gentleman at times used some very violent language this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1823.1", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "mission that this was an issue in 1950. Certainly, we did everything we could to make it an issue in 1950, and there is no dispute about that. In the opening broadcast which I made on behalf of the party to which I belong, I dealt with it. it was in our election manifesto and in almost every speech made by hon. Members on this side of the House, and it was in the Liberal Party's manifesto as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1823.1", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " he said: One conclusion should be drawn; the authority cannot be completely independent. Of course, we always knew it could not be completely independent when we got down to the discussions, and so it is going to prove. The Governments will have to be associated with the authority, whatever countries join it. That, therefore, is an issue about which I hope we shall hear no more false accusations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1826.1", "colnum": "1826", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "it is the proposal also put forward by the Liberal Party and ourselves in the course of the election. Cannot we yet find agreement on this latter course and give it a trial while there is this acute, sharp division between the parties and this limited and narrow majority? I know that the Prime Minister can say, \"I have my technical majority.\" He has; probably he will prove it in the Lobby tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1826.1", "colnum": "1826", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "vision between the parties and this limited and narrow majority? I know that the Prime Minister can say, \"I have my technical majority.\" He has; probably he will prove it in the Lobby tonight. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Well, I do not know. But that does not decide the issue; that is not what matters. What the Government ought to feel is that they have the country behind them in this experiment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1826.1", "colnum": "1826", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ountry behind them in this experiment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"We do.\"] How can they feel that when the House is completely divided on this issue? Hon. Members opposite must know in their hearts that at the very most 50.5 per cent. are for them on this issue. I would say it was more like 48.3 per cent. and probably much less. Surely Ministers must be a little impressed by those sections of the newspapers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1826.1", "colnum": "1826", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " criticised for raising the issue at all. I think it is just as well we did. Now we are at this late hour. Now, I believe that the country is much more perturbed than, perhaps, hon. Gentlemen in the House think about the international situation that confronts us. I believe it wants unity. Now, hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite may say it is in our power—of the Opposition—to create that unity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1828.1", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. G. R. Strauss)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. G. R. Strauss)", "preceding_text": " asking the House to reject … regrets the decision of His Majesty's Government to bring the Steel Nationalisation Act into immediate operation … and merely for the sake of accuracy I want to point out two inaccuracies in the wording of the Motion. The first is that many provisions of the Act are already in operation, and, second, there is no such Act as the Steel Nationalisation Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1828.1", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. G. R. Strauss)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. G. R. Strauss)", "preceding_text": "oblem which has been raised again tonight and the House ought not to think that it has been raised now for the first time. This is the reference to the organisational difficulties that may arise, as a result of only part of the industry being included in the nationalisation provisions. Well, it is true that there are organisational difficulties, but they are not serious. They can well be overcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1830.1", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Korea?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I do not want to quarrel on this point. The statement was made, according to the right hon. and learned Gentleman, on 30th July. Austro-Hungary had declared war on 28th July.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-09-19", "file": "debates1950-09-19a.xml", "sha256": "eaf8202edb275d98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1835.1", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "IRON AND STEEL NATIONALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "Most of this has come out in public pronouncements by Sir Ellis Hunter and others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-09-19a.1835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-17", "file": "debates1950-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "8ed991aad04d2159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-17a.1854.4", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "If it was a written reply, I would like to look at it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-17a.1854.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-10-17", "file": "debates1950-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "8ed991aad04d2159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-17a.1859.6", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Noble", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that, as these men pleaded guilty, the only thing sub judice is the sentence? Could he not, therefore, tell the House why the Government did not take earlier action to protect the consumer, because millions of people in London were without gas for three weeks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-17a.1859.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-17", "file": "debates1950-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "8ed991aad04d2159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-17a.1883.1", "colnum": "1883", "heading": "MEMBER FOR BELFAST, WEST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I do not want to debate this matter now, but will only say, in regard to one of the observations of the right hon. Gentleman, that in my view the hon. Member concerned had a perfect right to vote up to the time of that decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-17a.1883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-17", "file": "debates1950-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "8ed991aad04d2159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-17a.1886.4", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "MEMBER FOR BELFAST, WEST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. Friend agree with the view that if the opinion of the Privy Council, that the hon. Member for Belfast, West, has never been a Member of this House, is accepted, an election is not necessary at all, for surely the runner-up at the last Election should be automatically elected?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-17a.1886.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-17", "file": "debates1950-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "8ed991aad04d2159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-17a.1951.10", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 26.—(REQUIREMENTS AS TO UNDERTAKERS' WORKS WHICH ARE LIKELY TO AFFECT OTHER UNDERTAKERS' APPARATUS.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "rotection of the undertakers concerned and for nothing else, and the undertakers all agreed to three days' notice. The hon. Member may think that there is no reason, as they do not themselves recommend longer notice, to encourage dilatory proceedings on the part of these undertakers; and now that the undertakers are largely nationalised, they may be expected to work with expedition and efficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-17a.1951.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-17", "file": "debates1950-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "8ed991aad04d2159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-17a.1985.2", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LABELLING OF FOOD ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "n the view of his Department they will have the effect I have described. At any rate, a cursory reading of the regulations raises doubts about the effect of them, whatever may have been the intentions of the Department. Regulation 4 ( e ) appears to make it illegal to produce and label the liquor which has been known for many years as \"champagne cider.\" I do not know whether that is the intention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-17a.1985.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-17", "file": "debates1950-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "8ed991aad04d2159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-17a.2007.1", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LABELLING OF FOOD ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Perhaps he is at the bar.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "revent the making of false claims, it would be a very desirable thing to address attention to the falseness of the claims that are made for the food value and the building value of such liquids as have on other grounds much to commend them to many in this House. I am bound to say that I deplore the absence of the hon. Member for Ealing, North (Mr. J. Hudson) on this occasion. I think it is a pity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-17a.2007.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-10-18", "file": "debates1950-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f7a100cbfa4327d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2032.5", "colnum": "2032", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL EMPIRE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether it would not be quite fair to say that large numbers of planters in Malaya deeply regret the destination to which the rubber goes, and that the destination of that rubber is in the hands of His Majesty's Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2032.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-10-18", "file": "debates1950-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f7a100cbfa4327d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2048.2", "colnum": "2048", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that my information was given to me by the authorities concerned, and that it is completely accurate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-18", "file": "debates1950-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f7a100cbfa4327d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2053.8", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "rty opposite to have put down the the Amendment to the Motion. If we calculate the accounts of the British Transport Commission on the same basis as private enterprise would present accounts for the year, the Commission could claim that their net receipts amounted to some £31 million. Indeed. a private company presenting this Report would state that it had made a profit on the year of £31 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2053.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-18", "file": "debates1950-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f7a100cbfa4327d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2080.1", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": " the fares. My next point relates to freight, in which there has been another decline of £4 million. I know the difficulties which the railways face, but I have talked to many industrialists—as many as I can—on the question of how their goods are carried. I find an increasing disposition on the part of industrialists to say that they cannot risk their goods on the railways. I argue the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-18", "file": "debates1950-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f7a100cbfa4327d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2083.1", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I am aware of that. As long as the right hon. Gentleman means to give the pledge which, I understand, was the substance of his intervention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2083.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-10-18", "file": "debates1950-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f7a100cbfa4327d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2089.2", "colnum": "2089", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir David Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "There was no licensing till 1933. There was no question of opposing new entrants from 1918 to 1933.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-18", "file": "debates1950-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f7a100cbfa4327d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2092.1", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "y free and unrestricted. We have heard today something about the activities of the Commission in buying up these 35,000 vehicles. The hon. Member for Monmouth must have spoken with his tongue in his cheek, because he ought to know, from his associations with the road industry, that when the Commission bought up these vehicles the traffic they carried was immediately switched to C licence vehicles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-18", "file": "debates1950-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f7a100cbfa4327d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2100.4", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harrison", "preceding_text": "rt Commission during the last few years is reasonable, and I am sure that hon. Members on this side, and the Government themselves, share that concern; but what is the Opposition's remedy for this unfortunate state of affairs? I will tell them, since they seem to have forgotten. Their remedy is to de-nationalise all those sections of the British Transport Commission's undertakings that are paying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2100.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-18", "file": "debates1950-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f7a100cbfa4327d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2128.3", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": " at the Press conference which was the occasion for the publication of this second report of his undertaking. He was questioned by a reporter about the North-Eastern passenger scheme and he is quoted in a reputable journal as having said: I propose' to continue with the scheme, despite opposition. Why should he continue with a scheme \"despite opposition\"? Why should he not consider the opposition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-18", "file": "debates1950-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f7a100cbfa4327d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2128.3", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "oad and rail timetables. I can hardly believe that the Transport Commission are so ignorant of what has been done already as to have said that in full sincerity, because these time-tables have been co-ordinated for years through the medium of standing joint road-rail committees. That work has largely been done already and all other necessary measures of co-ordination have already been carried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-18", "file": "debates1950-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f7a100cbfa4327d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2160.3", "colnum": "2160", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is something.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "If he intended to, I will analyse some of his suggestions in due course. Let us take the most feeble one now, that we should wind up the Road Passenger Executive to help us to cope with a loss that he quite rightly said is £20 million this year. The Road Passenger Executive last year cost £6,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-18", "file": "debates1950-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f7a100cbfa4327d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2160.3", "colnum": "2160", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "he £30,000 saving that would result from the bulk buying of paper. Does the right hon. and learned Member for West Derby think that is worth saving? He told us that we were centralising everything, without speaking of the great degree of decentralisation which has taken place. I really think that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is living in a different world from mine, if that is his picture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-18", "file": "debates1950-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f7a100cbfa4327d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2162.1", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "What I am dealing with is the situation as it exists, and whether the financial results of the Commission are likely to yield a result which will enable them to break even. If I may give my honest opinion whether I think they will break even, I am bound to say I do not think they will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-18", "file": "debates1950-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f7a100cbfa4327d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2162.1", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "er the financial results of the Commission are likely to yield a result which will enable them to break even. If I may give my honest opinion whether I think they will break even, I am bound to say I do not think they will. [ Laughter .] Hon. Gentlemen opposite think that is very funny, but I should like to ask them a question. There are wage claims to the various Executives totalling £25 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-18", "file": "debates1950-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f7a100cbfa4327d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2162.1", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "sk them a question. There are wage claims to the various Executives totalling £25 million. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"] Let me just deal with the facts. Those wage claims are there. How would hon. Members opposite, who find this so amusing, propose to give satisfaction to the railway workers who have put in these claims, assuming that they are met, and at the same time make a profit on the undertaking?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-18", "file": "debates1950-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f7a100cbfa4327d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2162.1", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "probably do the same thing. Substantial savings were made last year as a result of closing down branch lines. These savings were wiped out overnight by the increase in the price of rubber and the consequent increased cost of tyres to the Commission. There is the dilemma. What will they do about it? No one can claim that the Government are responsible for the rise in the cost of rubber or of tyres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-18", "file": "debates1950-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f7a100cbfa4327d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2162.1", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "t deploring these losses. The Amendment goes on to talk about the drain on the Commission's assets. What, in fact, do the Opposition mean by that? I thought the hon. Member for Monmouth meant that at the beginning of 1947 the Commission had £290 million in a stocking under the mattress, and that by the end of December that £290 million had dwindled to £200 million. I speak within a million or two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-18", "file": "debates1950-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f7a100cbfa4327d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2164.1", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "They are not, and the right hon. and learned Gentleman knows it very well. In so far as he is making any point, I think he knows that what the Commission have had to take over in the last 12 months in road haulage undertakings has not been exactly the cream of the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-18", "file": "debates1950-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f7a100cbfa4327d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2164.1", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "s between the Executives and the chief regional officers are very simple. The Executives leave the day-to-day policy to the chief regional officers. On the other hand, it is the job of the chief regional officer to see that the policy is carried out. He has considerable power. One chief regional officer has told me that he has more power now than a general manager had under the old administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-18", "file": "debates1950-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f7a100cbfa4327d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2166.1", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "rn Transport,\" a well-known transport paper, was at the beginning of nationalisation writing scathing articles about the set-up of the Executives and the Chief Regional Officers. I am sure the hon. Member for Monmouth remembers that. I had a conversation with this gentleman yesterday. He told me he had changed his mind. In his view, having seen the system in operation for three years, he believed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-18a.2166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-19", "file": "debates1950-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "70e4ae2d4df33c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2207.1", "colnum": "2207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "If it is necessary once again to do that I will certainly do it. We have never at any time sought to use the supply of newsprint as a means of controlling newspapers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2207.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-10-19", "file": "debates1950-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "70e4ae2d4df33c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2224.6", "colnum": "2224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HAMPSHIRE RIVER BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "Before taking this unusual step, did the Minister obtain a guarantee from the Hampshire River Board that the rivers would be treated in the manner recommended by the Garvin Report?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2224.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-19", "file": "debates1950-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "70e4ae2d4df33c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2229.5", "colnum": "2229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that the only help to these poor people that the Tories gave last year was to raise the salary of the town clerk from £53 to £67 a week when they took control of Glasgow?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2229.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-19", "file": "debates1950-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "70e4ae2d4df33c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2235.3", "colnum": "2235", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "With great respect, I thought it dealt with the point and gave a complete answer. Now the right hon. and learned Gentleman is asking that the Government should intervene in relation to the B.B.C. programmes and day to day management—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-19", "file": "debates1950-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "70e4ae2d4df33c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2235.3", "colnum": "2235", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " right hon. and learned Gentleman is asking that the Government should intervene in relation to the B.B.C. programmes and day to day management—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am sorry, but that is so, and if we start the policy of intervening and instituting inquiries on particular incidents of B.B.C. management, before we know where we are the Government will be having an undue influence with the B.B.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-19", "file": "debates1950-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "70e4ae2d4df33c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2245.1", "colnum": "2245", "heading": "MEMBER FOR BELFAST, WEST", "cue_speaker": "Rev. J. G. MacManaway", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. J. G. MacManaway", "preceding_text": "this afternoon. I have always heard that the classic definition of democracy is \"government of the people, by the people, for the people.\" I have been returned to this House by the will of the people in the biggest working-class constituency in the whole of the United Kingdom, but apparently their will is not to count for anything. It is to be brushed aside because of some archaic legal enactment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-19", "file": "debates1950-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "70e4ae2d4df33c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2249.3", "colnum": "2249", "heading": "MEMBER FOR BELFAST, WEST", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Rev. James Barr.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "and, the Presbyterian Church. But it has always been accepted that by the power which ministers of the Church of Scotland have of demission, they can by demission of their office free themselves of the prohibition and be elected to this House. I think I am right in saying that an hon. Member, again held in great affection on every side of the House, the Rev. Campbell Stephen, was in that position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-19", "file": "debates1950-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "70e4ae2d4df33c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2256.1", "colnum": "2256", "heading": "MEMBER FOR BELFAST, WEST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your party is in power now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "exploit his clerical character for the purpose of obtaining votes on that sort of issue. If hon. Gentlemen opposite wish to press their Amendment, let me ask them a question: Are they prepared or are they not, to give exactly the same exemption to Roman Catholic priests as they give to Protestant clergy? Would they introduce a Bill, if they were in power? Perhaps that is the test one should apply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-19", "file": "debates1950-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "70e4ae2d4df33c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2257.0", "colnum": "2257", "heading": "MEMBER FOR BELFAST, WEST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Strauss", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. This may well be very germane to the Debate as it continues. After reading the Motion and the Amendment before the House it occurred to me that it was not in order to discuss the law of Northern Ireland. If it is in order to discuss the law of Northern Ireland, then I see no objection to what the hon. and learned Member is saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2257.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-10-19", "file": "debates1950-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "70e4ae2d4df33c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2260.1", "colnum": "2260", "heading": "MEMBER FOR BELFAST, WEST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-19", "file": "debates1950-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "70e4ae2d4df33c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2260.4", "colnum": "2260", "heading": "MEMBER FOR BELFAST, WEST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "in this Debate offer this warning. It would be a good thing for the parties on both sides of the House to choose an opportunity to look into all these ridiculous disabilities, and to do away with a great many of them, because one never knows whom they will strike next and what injustices they will perpetuate. Now let me turn briefly, because I do not want to take up the time of the House too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2260.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-19", "file": "debates1950-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "70e4ae2d4df33c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2263.1", "colnum": "2263", "heading": "MEMBER FOR BELFAST, WEST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. and learned Member has just done so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect, I think it would be very wrong in this House to suggest that any Member of the judiciary held any political opinions at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-19", "file": "debates1950-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "70e4ae2d4df33c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2272.1", "colnum": "2272", "heading": "MEMBER FOR BELFAST, WEST", "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": " and history of the House. That is why I could not myself contemplate in any circumstances that this matter should be referred to a Royal Commission, as the Amendment asks us to do. I think it would be particularly difficult for His Majesty to find people to serve on a Royal Commission whose suspected political affiliations would not be canvassed very carefully by this House and by people outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-19", "file": "debates1950-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "70e4ae2d4df33c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2272.1", "colnum": "2272", "heading": "MEMBER FOR BELFAST, WEST", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nobody did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "preceding_text": "t, West (Rev. J. G. MacManaway). I under stand the stress under which he was speaking, but I regretted that he should have made some allusions which indicated that there was some party spirit about the action which has been taken. Let us be quite certain of this. No one can accuse the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of being actuated by any party spirit one way or the other in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-19", "file": "debates1950-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "70e4ae2d4df33c79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2344.1", "colnum": "2344", "heading": "COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harrison", "preceding_text": " the same road towards complete freedom as the peoples of India, Burma and Ceylon. The hon. Member criticised bitterly that contribution, asking how it could be possible that some of the African Colonies could be compared with India. In the African Colonies live a large number of backward people together with some very advanced whites. I would put two lines under the word \"advanced\" in some cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-19a.2344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-20", "file": "debates1950-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "3bfd1e3215a0b17e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-20a.2409.5", "colnum": "2409", "heading": "POST OFFICE STAFF (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "s to which the right hon. Gentleman apparently took exception are moderation themselves compared with the expressions of opinion in which Mr. Figgins, of the N.U.R., has on occasion referred to the Railway Executive. In that Debate the right hon. Gentleman continued: There is being encouraged in the Post Office by this political support a spirit of indiscipline, in some cases a spirit of sabotage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-20a.2409.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-20", "file": "debates1950-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "3bfd1e3215a0b17e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-20a.2437.1", "colnum": "2437", "heading": "POST OFFICE STAFF (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'Hear, hear.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "Let us refer to the Resolution: That this Conference, recalling with pride that it was under successive Conservative Governments that the trade union movement developed its vital place in our industrial economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-20a.2437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-20", "file": "debates1950-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "3bfd1e3215a0b17e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-20a.2441.2", "colnum": "2441", "heading": "POST OFFICE STAFF (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What a spokesman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "n that whilst the negotiations were going forward there would be no interference with their 40 per cent. A truce, in fact, was more to the advantage of E.O.(T.)A. than to the parent body. In his childish innocence the hon. Gentleman regards that as being a trick. It was a real contribution towards solving this problem. But now, for the first time, E.O.(T.)A. states a new case with a new spokesman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-20a.2441.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-10-20", "file": "debates1950-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "3bfd1e3215a0b17e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-20a.2451.0", "colnum": "2451", "heading": "POST OFFICE STAFF (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Wallace", "preceding_text": ". He said that, on the question of recognition, the Postmaster-General should apply existing practices or customs. The implication in the hon. Gentleman's speech was that, if some decision was reached at a conference, he was prepared to see the rule revised in the light of the finding of that conference. Will that conference reflect the opinion of the whole staff—250,000. not 4,000. Is that right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-20a.2450.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-10-23", "file": "debates1950-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f944eb5e13ddaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2475.3", "colnum": "2475", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "Since the areas concerned are all represented by Labour Members of Parliament, is not this a flagrant case of political discrimination?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2475.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-10-23", "file": "debates1950-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f944eb5e13ddaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2483.7", "colnum": "2483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " to be the most appropriate firm. The choice is very limited, and had we denied ourselves the services of this firm we should have been in difficulties. I repeat, I am perfectly certain that the Chief Planning Officer of the Government is the last person in the world who would be capable of any improper conduct and unless the hon. and gallant Member can follow up these implications and innuendoes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2483.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-10-23", "file": "debates1950-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f944eb5e13ddaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2486.5", "colnum": "2486", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY AND AUSTRIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Very careful consideration has been given to this matter and we have come to the conclusion that it would not be in the public interest to disclose this information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2486.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-23", "file": "debates1950-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f944eb5e13ddaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2489.2", "colnum": "2489", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY AND AUSTRIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "preceding_text": "When a man like this is known to have relations who are Communists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2489.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-23", "file": "debates1950-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f944eb5e13ddaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2490.2", "colnum": "2490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY AND AUSTRIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "In replying to my right hon. Friend the Member for Saffron Walden (Mr. R. A. Butler) the right hon. Gentleman seemed to indicate that, because this man was shortly leaving Harwell, the new, strict precautions for screening were not taken in this case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2490.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-23", "file": "debates1950-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f944eb5e13ddaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2494.4", "colnum": "2494", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) ACT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Short?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "six Motions on the Order Paper for Addresses relating to the continuance for one year of the Supplies and Services (Transitional Powers) Act, 1945, and the various Defence Regulations. I would propose, with the permission of the House and of you, Sir, to deal with the whole ground in my opening speech, because I think that it would help the House if at the beginning we have a short general Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2494.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-23", "file": "debates1950-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f944eb5e13ddaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2511.2", "colnum": "2511", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) ACT", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In 1941?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "been—and had been properly—agreed by Parliament when war was imminent. I think that the point should be made with regard to the war powers that, though we were engaged in a life and death struggle at that time, they had to be renewed each year, and from that fact it was possible to have a general discussion each year; and a discussion did take place in 1942, 1943, and 1944—and that at a time when—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2511.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-23", "file": "debates1950-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f944eb5e13ddaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2516.1", "colnum": "2516", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) ACT", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " regulations and to say which ought to be made at once a matter for legislation—some very important legislation, and some eminently suitable for Fridays—and which should be scrapped altogether. If there is no change at all in 12 months' time, then the House of Commons will be very critical of the administration. I think that the right hon. Gentleman brings to this House of Commons a point of view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2516.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-10-23", "file": "debates1950-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f944eb5e13ddaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2527.2", "colnum": "2527", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) ACT", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "hat there is delegated and entrusted to the Government of the day such authority, and no more, as is necessary to give effect to the general policy which the House of Commons wishes to see put into effect. Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman deny, that if his Amendment had been moved and carried, economic planning in this country would come to an end? Would it or would it not come to an end?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-23", "file": "debates1950-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f944eb5e13ddaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2533.6", "colnum": "2533", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) ACT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "e looks in the OFFICIAL REPORT tomorrow I have no doubt he will tender the apology for which his intervention calls—I do not mean to me, I mean to his right hon. arid gallant Friend whom he seems to be repudiating at the moment. That is what the right hon. and gallant Gentleman said—\"We will do it for war, we will do it for re-armament, but no matter what the necessities are\"—this is my inference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2533.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-23", "file": "debates1950-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f944eb5e13ddaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2542.1", "colnum": "2542", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) ACT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " Board of Trade say? They said, \"Go on, fill it in, get it done.\" Because they were conscientious men they preferred to be prosecuted for failing to comply with the requirements of that order. As I say, they were not like the other company. They were not a great company, they were small men—the modern equivalent perhaps of the village Hampdens —who preferred to be prosecuted under this regulation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-23", "file": "debates1950-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f944eb5e13ddaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2548.1", "colnum": "2548", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) ACT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "sitioning by the military authorities to the civil authorities with the consequence that there may be 14 years continuous deprivation of land or property suffered by the citizen. It is the duty of Parliament to recognise that hardship exists and face this situation squarely. We have to ask ourselves the question, how long are these powers required for and how long is it proposed to continue them?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-23", "file": "debates1950-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f944eb5e13ddaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2563.1", "colnum": "2563", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) ACT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "veloping in accordance with the requirements of this period of transition. I believe that the method by which this adaptation of Parliamentary Control is taking place is welcomed by the country. One other point. Hon. Members have said that, while they object in principle to the continuing of these regulations, they would not object to the substance of them if they were incorporated in legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-23", "file": "debates1950-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f944eb5e13ddaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2569.1", "colnum": "2569", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) ACT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "I will give the hon. Member the answer. I hope I am not wearying the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-23", "file": "debates1950-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f944eb5e13ddaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2570.5", "colnum": "2570", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) ACT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "I am sure the right hon. Gentleman is not trying to be unfair to me. I am not saying this involves the use of concentration camps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2570.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-23", "file": "debates1950-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f944eb5e13ddaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2580.1", "colnum": "2580", "heading": "SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) ACT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "The fact remains that the powers enshrined in the Act are to be granted permanently to Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-23", "file": "debates1950-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f944eb5e13ddaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2609.0", "colnum": "2609", "heading": "DEFENCE REGULATIONS (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": " an extreme use of power by delegated legislation, not to be justified by the general considerations that governed our general Debate this afternoon, should miss an opportunity of making representations about it. I do not think the House realises what powers a police inspector would have under this Regulation. Prima facie any 10 people playing cards are guilty of an offence against the Regulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2609.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-10-23", "file": "debates1950-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f944eb5e13ddaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2610.0", "colnum": "2610", "heading": "DEFENCE REGULATIONS (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "ve under this Regulation. Prima facie any 10 people playing cards are guilty of an offence against the Regulation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I think so. Subsection ( c ) states: Evidence that 10 or more persons were present at any party at which any game of chance or of chance and skill combined was played or intended to be played, shall be evidence that the party was an unlawful gaming party unless\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-23", "file": "debates1950-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f944eb5e13ddaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2630.0", "colnum": "2630", "heading": "DEFENCE REGULATIONS (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Jemmy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " learned Friend a little further. Under Regulation 88A no notice is required to be given if one of the competent or incompetent persons appointed by the competent authority can get a magistrate to issue a warrant. That apparently can be used at any time of the day or night, and force can be used to enter. Suppose somebody using a jimmy—I think that is what they are called in professional circles —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-23", "file": "debates1950-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "f944eb5e13ddaa8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2635.1", "colnum": "2635", "heading": "DEFENCE REGULATIONS (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fortunately.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I was prevented from being present earlier, but I was not, unfortunately, a Member when the Act of 1947 was passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-23a.2635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-24", "file": "debates1950-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "869d66c209030ee4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-24a.2675.1", "colnum": "2675", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did do it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that if a private landlord had done this sort of thing, there would have been a devil of a row?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-24a.2675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-24", "file": "debates1950-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "869d66c209030ee4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-24a.2677.2", "colnum": "2677", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "I hesitate to heckle the hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-24a.2677.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2774.2", "colnum": "2774", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALAYA AND SINGAPORE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Would it not be better to reduce the age of retirement so that many of the senior and less enlightened officers can be cleared away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2774.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2774.2", "colnum": "2774", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALAYA AND SINGAPORE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Would it not be better to reduce the age of retirement so that many of the senior and less enlightened officers can be cleared away—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—so that many of the less enlightened officers can be cleared away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2774.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2795.3", "colnum": "2795", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nationalised.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "tes the steps which have been taken to give effect to the responsibility to the community (including consumers and workpeople) of the socialised industries, and will welcome any further measures to increase their public accountability, consistently with the duty of the Boards to manage the industries with maximum efficiency in the public interest. This Motion, with regard to socialised industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2795.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2795.10", "colnum": "2795", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "is a free country and there is nothing to stop him doing it. I ought to say in the first place that there was a suggestion made that we might on this occasion also discuss—and, perhaps, this has some relevance to the last bit of humour—\"Party Manners\" and the British Broadcasting Corporation. I was asked to see if the Motion could be shaped so that that would be possible, but, on thinking over it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2795.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2795.10", "colnum": "2795", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "rs\" and the British Broadcasting Corporation. I was asked to see if the Motion could be shaped so that that would be possible, but, on thinking over it—[ Laughter .] I must say that on this last day in this Chamber the mood of the Opposition is somewhat hysterical. It is all very understandable, and only demonstrates what a human place the House of Commons is. But I did think, on reflection, that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2795.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2795.10", "colnum": "2795", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At odd times the right hon. Gentleman reflects.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "hat that would be possible, but, on thinking over it—[ Laughter .] I must say that on this last day in this Chamber the mood of the Opposition is somewhat hysterical. It is all very understandable, and only demonstrates what a human place the House of Commons is. But I did think, on reflection, that—[ Laughter .] What is the matter with hon. Members opposite? They are like a lot of giggling girls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2795.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2801.0", "colnum": "2801", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ron and Steel Corporation also proposes to act in the same way by calling in outside consultants from time to time and also to join the Institute of Management. I recommend a similar course to a good many private industries; it would be an improvement and an extension of their enterprise. Another element of public accountability is the operation of the consumers' councils and consumers' interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2801.0", "colnum": "2801", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "er on. In the meantime, we might get on as peacefully as we can. It is profoundly important that the rights of the consumer should be affirmed, ventilated and upheld. With publicly-owned industries we have by statute set up an organisation to which the consumers can complain. There are the consumers' councils or similar organisations. I do not know of any case in private industry where that is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2801.0", "colnum": "2801", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "rganisation to which the consumers can complain. There are the consumers' councils or similar organisations. I do not know of any case in private industry where that is so. [ Laughter .] This is where the bias comes out. Private industry, including industries that are rings and trusts with which some hon. Members opposite are very familiar, are perfect and public industry is bound to be imperfect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2801.0", "colnum": "2801", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ew development of British industry, and it is a proper development. It is right that the public should have somebody to whom complaint can be made, and if I have any criticism to make at all about the consumer it is that he or she is not loud enough in making his or her voice heard in relation not only to these undertakings but to all other undertakings both public and private. Anything we can do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2809.1", "colnum": "2809", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend says that it is in process of formation. Anyway, it is typical of the hon. Member for Monmouth (Mr. P. Thorneycroft), and is just the sort of point I would expect him to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2810.1", "colnum": "2810", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "rning. No doubt improvements can be evolved from time to time. It is of the most profound importance that the voice of the consumer should be increasingly heard in these matters and should be taken note of, and heard not only in these publicly-owned industries but in private capitalist industries too. The House can be sure that in due course His Majesty's Government will take care of that as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2810.1", "colnum": "2810", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "t tests of a public official, an official in a private company or an officer in one of these undertakings is whether when he encounters someone who is very annoyed, he can keep his temper; and it may be that the other will go away sweet. When I was a grocer I had an employer who taught me something about public relations. I will not say with what result, because I am not going to finish the story.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2810.1", "colnum": "2810", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": ". Do not do it again.\" I said, \"Very well, Madam.\" I knew that the customer was always right. The next week I sold the lady pure coffee again, and she came in with precisely the same complaint. The week after that I again sold her pure coffee and again she came in with the same complaint. The boss said, \"Herbert, there is only one thing to do. If you give her coffee and chicory she will be happy.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2814.1", "colnum": "2814", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about coal?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "t the earliest possible date to repeal the nationalisation of steel and to restore the Liverpool Cotton Exchange, and to restore progressively a measure of freedom to road transport. I am making that absolutely clear because, otherwise, in view of the right hon. Gentleman's amiable frame of mind—at any rate during the concluding part of his remarks—some of our attitude might well be misunderstood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2824.1", "colnum": "2824", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ct with the consumer council. I conclude by a reference to what the right hon. Gentleman said about the need for improved labour relations in the public corporations. It may be due to the lack of time that these boards have been functioning, but it is absolutely clear that the labour relations within the nationalised industries are less satisfactory at present than those within private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2831.2", "colnum": "2831", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Williams", "preceding_text": " straight away in asking him to resist this if the suggestion is pressed, particularly at the present time. For all his engaging manners and charming behaviour, it is clear from the observations of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Saffron Walden (Mr. R. A. Butler) that he was, to say the least of it, not very enthusiastic about the nationalisation schemes. He said that he did not like them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2831.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2831.2", "colnum": "2831", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Williams", "preceding_text": "gainst the attacks of those who were determined to discredit nationalisation whatever the circumstances might be. Then there is a further objection which I put to my right hon. Friend. It is that in those circumstances the Select Committee would necessarily be a fault-finding organisation. It would be there to concentrate upon the things which were wrong. That would be a very bad situation indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2831.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2853.1", "colnum": "2853", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Bartley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Bartley", "preceding_text": "sponsibility. We are attempting to introduce a system of democracy which has never been successful in any other country in the world. None has combined economic and political democracy successfully, but we are doing it. We are to a substantial extent succeeding. Whatever the Opposition may say, there is now in the nationalised industries a much happier relationship than ever there was in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2859.0", "colnum": "2859", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Perhaps.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "nity of changing masters. There may be examples, such as the one I have mentioned in the B.B.C., where there is simply no alternative accommodation for them in this island. If one is employed on a newspaper, one may quarrel with one's editor in a perfectly just quarrel, which is human and understandable and probably right on both sides, and one can get a job on another of ten or twenty newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2859.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2860.1", "colnum": "2860", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Champion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Champion", "preceding_text": "demand for nationalisation came from within that industry, particularly from people who felt frustrated in their jobs, who did not like their boss and who rather hoped that nationalisation would provide a way in which they could become their own masters. That was understandable in the circumstances, but it is these very people who now feel the greatest amount of disappointment and disillusionment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2862.1", "colnum": "2862", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Lancaster", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Lancaster", "preceding_text": "of the individuals whom they may be considering. It may well be that something like two-thirds of the possible occupants of positions on the national boards are ruled out on the score that they are not politically sound. That is quite understandable. We saw in the case of the Steel Board that something like 99 per cent. were ruled out. It adds to the difficulties of the setting up of a good board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2869.3", "colnum": "2869", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "The fact that there are the opportunities I have mentioned is to some extent an answer to the criticism that is made by hon. Members opposite that in this country the spirit of adventure, of pioneering and of wishing to go abroad and do things, is being lost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2899.1", "colnum": "2899", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Corpse, not horse!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " the Lord President has offered. Every seven years we shall find out why the patient died—and the inquest may be extremely unpleasant for reasons which I will not dilate upon at this hour. I really do not believe that any Debate upon the state of the stable door seven years after the horse has been stolen will be regarded as a satisfactory solution or as a proper discharge of our responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2909.3", "colnum": "2909", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Philip Noel-Baker)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Philip Noel-Baker)", "preceding_text": "al we were getting an output, in 1945, of 174 million tons a year, and everything—manpower and output—was going down. He knows that the O.M.S. has consistently improved since then. He knows that costs had been rising in a steady curve for 15 years. In 1948 they were checked, last year they fell, and this year they are again falling. I do not intend to discuss the merits of nationalisation tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2909.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2913.1", "colnum": "2913", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": " chairmen, are certainly Conservatives; some hundreds are Labour, and some scores are Liberal or Independent. Two-thirds of them, or very nearly, are elected members of local authorities. All of them have personal experience of public work. They know they have been appointed to be the mouthpiece of consumer opinion. If they behaved like stooges to the boards, it would be un-British in the extreme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-25", "file": "debates1950-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "0402576a8d465636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2913.1", "colnum": "2913", "heading": "SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "s. Does the right hon. Gentleman deny that those things were urgently required? The right hon. Gentleman said that the comparison between the Coal Board and other industries was very bad. What is spent on salaries in the Coal Board is four per cent. of the proceeds from coal. What is spent in other industries—manufacturing, building and so on—is, on the average, not four per cent. but 12 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-25a.2913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On salmon poaching?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "n looking industriously around—to find causes of quarrel and dispute. \"After all,\" they may say, \"we must have some. We cannot be doing everything the Tories wish us to do.\" Many years ago I sat in a Government which had presented to it problems in that guise. It seems to me that the right hon. Gentleman has been looking for causes of dispute between us when he proposes this extraordinary measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " I have seen before. This is not planned economy. This is a blank cheque. The Prime Minister is sailing back upon his course, to the position which he adopted some 17 or 18 years ago. He is going back on the reform that we thought had been achieved in his character and conduct, and which seems to have slipped off him now. In using this language, he has gone back to the days when he wrote, in 1933—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "e a fair, clean and equitable sweep. How easy to make it! These are the previous convictions of the right hon. Gentlemen opposite, and it seems very dangerous that the vain language used in this paragraph should be put into the mouth of the King by a party which in its root and origin is absolutely ready to go to the extremes of which the Prime Minister and the Lord President of the Council spoke.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ing about this state of affairs. All this rise is in spite of the vast sums which have been given or lent to this country by the United States and by our Dominions. Enormous assets have been liquidated. The precise Amendment to which we shall give precedence is, of course, housing. The utter failure of the housing policy of the Government must be brought home to the nation. The Minister of Health—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Target?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "The utter failure of the housing policy of the Government must be brought home to the nation. The Minister of Health—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"]—I should have thought that we were getting sufficiently controversial for the right hon. Gentleman to have shown up. The Minister of Health has stood between the people and the homes they so bitterly need. We have said that the target should be raised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.27.2", "colnum": "27", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "rtion. It shows the want of a sense of proportion to suppose that such a measure as building at the rate of 100,000 houses a year more, is an impossible task for this powerful, well-equipped country. Why should it be thought to be impossible? One hundred thousand houses at £1,500 apiece would cost £150 million a year. That ought not to be beyond our capacity if the priorities are properly arranged", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.27.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.27.2", "colnum": "27", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " more, is an impossible task for this powerful, well-equipped country. Why should it be thought to be impossible? One hundred thousand houses at £1,500 apiece would cost £150 million a year. That ought not to be beyond our capacity if the priorities are properly arranged [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"] I repeat, if the priorities are properly arranged and a reasonable time is given to collect the materials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.27.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.27.2", "colnum": "27", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ur new House. The House is not at its best when parties are so evenly balanced and on the verge of another appeal. The increasing rigidity of party discipline deprives debate of much of its value as a means of influencing opinion except out of doors. All kinds of uncertainties are created in every direction; all kinds of animosities and rancours are fed and worked up, on both sides, I fully admit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.27.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.28.2", "colnum": "28", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ith the responsibilities of the Prime Minister at this juncture, having regard to all that is going on, I would try to limit the uncertainty as much as possible. I would carefully consider whether I could not say, provided we had the control of events, that we should not have an election until a certain date. I think it is well worthy of consideration whether that might not be of general interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.28.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.28.4", "colnum": "28", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "preceding_text": "ouse of Commons. I never had that ordeal myself. When I first addressed the House there were not very many Members present. Now, it is much more an ordeal when, on a State occasion, hon. Members have to address a full House, and I think that hon. Members on all sides will agree that my hon. Friends the Members for Chorley (Mr. Kenyon) and Rugby (Mr. J. Johnson) have acquitted themselves very well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.28.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.30.3", "colnum": "30", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ecember. I do not think that that is a controversial Bill. It has the support of both sides of the National Joint Advisory Council. There is also the MacManaway Indemnity Bill, which, obviously, should be passed as soon as possible. We propose to introduce it very shortly. I am sure that the whole House is glad to know of the visit of the Queen of the Netherlands and the Prince of the Netherlands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.30.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "War no action was taken to improve the position of these key men, and that in the Second World War no advantage was taken of their key position? Yet we find that in some areas £7 15s. is to be the minimum wage, compared with £6 4s. for highly skilled pattern makers, tool fitters, and others engaged in the engineering industry. Those who work harder and faster are more and more feeling discouraged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.62.3", "colnum": "62", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We should have been at war today.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Peto", "preceding_text": "ago, in which he pointed out exactly what had to be done, I could not help feeling what a pity it was that his almost uncanny foresight had not had greater respect paid to it, instead of being somewhat ridiculed by Ministers and hon. Members sitting opposite. I have quoted that part of his speech many times in the country, and I believe that had we then adopted what he forecast as being necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.62.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "and a woman to save a few shillings every week and for them to have about £100 in the bank when they got married. When one had £100 before the war one could equip three rooms in a house without any trouble. One could provide not only the cutlery, crockery and furnishings of a house but could still have a few pounds left which one could put as a deposit on that little house which one wanted to buy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.94.3", "colnum": "94", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "nd I think I can safely say—I hope without offence to the occupants of the Government Front Bench—that it is the most colourless of all. When I say that, I do not, of course, include the first part of the Gracious Speech which deals with our foreign policy, or rather the foreign policy of the Government which, of course, should be the foreign policy of the whole country, as it was in the old days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.94.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.94.3", "colnum": "94", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "y allow the Administration to carry on for a time—we knew that the financial business of the country had to be put through—and that it would be almost impossible or at least indecent for the Government, after winding up the Session in July and avoiding the holiday and harvest months, not to come back for the opening of the new Chamber and then dissolve Parliament. That was the general expectation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.94.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.98.0", "colnum": "98", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "sian system at that time, which statement has never been contradicted. Quotations were made from that book at the time of the last election, and they caused a good deal of surprise even among Socialist members of the audience at meetings which I addressed, and I had a barrage of interruptions and interjections, which showed that they had been tickled up a good bit by the words of their own leader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.98.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.98.0", "colnum": "98", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "lines. I appreciate all that the Socialist Government have done in the last five years to ensure a good place in the economy of this country for the farming industry, but hon. Members will remember how we pointed out that the foundation for the greater prosperity which the industry has enjoyed in the last five years were laid in the years immediately preceding the outbreak of the Second World War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.98.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.98.0", "colnum": "98", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "cialist Government have done in the last five years to ensure a good place in the economy of this country for the farming industry, but hon. Members will remember how we pointed out that the foundation for the greater prosperity which the industry has enjoyed in the last five years were laid in the years immediately preceding the outbreak of the Second World War. [ Laughter. ] Of course they were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.98.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.106.0", "colnum": "106", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Communism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "h one of the worst housing problems among the small towns of the west of Scotland. I helped to work on the housing problem in that little town for all those years, and I am able to say that 80 per cent. of the people of that town now live in municipal houses. In fact, on one occasion, a Soviet diplomat came to visit the houses, and he said that there was more Socialism in that town than in Moscow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "e a disgrace; that at one time it was quite common to see the children of Liverpool running around the streets of Liverpool without any shoes on their feet. It is only fair to comment about these things, but if the hon. Gentleman were strictly accurate he would agree that most of these things, including the children runing around Liverpool without shoes to their feet, disappeared long before 1945.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "im refer to the importance of the Government providing homes for the people, because he and I know that governments cannot provide homes. They never have and they never will, not even a Conservative Government. The most they are able to do is to create the conditions under which houses may be provided for the people, but homes are made by the lives and conduct of the people who live in the houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.112.3", "colnum": "112", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "r co-operation on the part of science with industry, and that what was needed was more capital expenditure in order to make available to industry the benefits of scientific research. Again, I am glad to find that the hon. Gentleman holds these views. I do not doubt that he has held them for years, but they are comparatively new ideas to some of the hon. Gentlemen who sit with him on those benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.112.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.115.2", "colnum": "115", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is on record.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "I have known Lord Woolton for a number of years, and I am sure that he is far too sensible a business man ever to have made a statement such as that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.115.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.117.0", "colnum": "117", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "se on the opposite side of the House who want to draw the attention of the Government to the large number of things which have been omitted from the Gracious Speech. I want to keep to the question of housing, and I hope I have said sufficient to indicate to the House that high priority has not always been given because, when these cuts were introduced, housing was one of the first things to suffer", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.116.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.117.4", "colnum": "117", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "I do know that, but I am justified in drawing the attention of the House to the word \"continue.\" In fact the Government took steps in the latter half of last year to reduce the number of houses which would be permitted to be built, although it is true that they subsequently, and only subsequent to the General Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.117.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "on, legislation will be introduced…on a permanent basis but subject to appropriate Parliamentary safeguards, powers to regulate production, distribution and consumption and to control prices. This phrase about production and distribution has a familiar ring, but the last bit is rather different from the normal form. For years the boys have been saying, \"What we want is a system of society—\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elwyn Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elwyn Jones", "preceding_text": "ech. I am sure that all hon. Members on this side of the House will agree, at least to that extent, with the right hon. Gentleman. One hon. Member on the other side of the House referred to it as being sinister. I wish to address myself to two points on this matter. It seems to me that many of the comments which have fallen from hon. Members on the other side are rather disingenuous and insincere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. R. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. R. Bevins", "preceding_text": "as greeted by derisive laughter from the benches opposite, and during the last hour or so we have heard both from the lips of the hon. Member for Conway and from one or two other hon. Members the old, old question, \"If you are going to expand the scope of the housing programme, on what are you going to cut down?\" I ask hon. Members opposite to consider this thing apart from political partisanship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-10-31", "file": "debates1950-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "545add373405b22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. R. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. R. Bevins", "preceding_text": "he decision has ever been made. In this Debate an hon. Member tried to prod, if I may use the word, my hon. Friend the Member for Southend, East (Mr. McAdden) as to where a Conservative administration would make up for the increased capital cost of another 100,000 houses. There is any amount of scope, even in present circumstances, to economise in other sectors of the capital investment programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-10-31a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.156.6", "colnum": "156", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (PRECEDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "rstand that he has moved a Motion, but he has risen three times since without asking the leave of the House to speak again. The fact is that we are engaged on discussing this Motion and not on Questions. This is a very unusual Motion. The right hon. Gentleman speaks as if the Prime Minister had granted this concession. It is nothing of the kind, because the Standing Orders provide for this anyhow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.156.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (PRECEDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "I feel that in the last Session Private Members' Motions were very much wasted. What happened was that all Members put down their names for the Ballot, and when someone was successful in the draw the Member then went round to the offices of his or her respective Whips—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.160.3", "colnum": "160", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (PRECEDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I do not think so, although I am, of course, subject to your Ruling, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.160.3", "colnum": "160", "heading": "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS (PRECEDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Five minutes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " which have been raised are the presentation of other Bills and the so-called Ten Minutes Rule Bills. I will take note of what has been said. I will only say about the Ten Minutes Rule Bills that the House will no doubt keep in mind that under that rule one or more Bills could be presented. A ten-minute speech could be made for and a ten-minute speech against the Bill, and a Division might follow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "The point which the Prime Minister made was that the Leader of the Opposition, taking it on his own initiative at Strasbourg, indicated that there was time at the disposal of the Opposition and that they would utilise that time for this purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.166.3", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ey, \"100 Questions Asked and Answered.\" My attention was drawn to Question 17—\"How will you use parliamentary power?\" The answer is this: The first Act of a Fascist majority will be to confer on Fascist Government the power to act by Order, subject to the right of Parliament at any time to dismiss the Government by vote of censure if it abuses that power. That is the Reichstag method of governing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.175.0", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which people?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "erhaps they have not felt it in the country. I am convinced that hon. Members have felt this urge in their constituencies. Some of us M.P.s who hold what I call \"surgeries\" and meet our constituents at weekends, know that today by far the greatest pressure from the public upon us, whose duty it is to keep in touch with the public, is on the question of the production or more houses for the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.180.2", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman asked someone to interrupt him on this question, and I propose to do so. Surely in the four years before the war, when we were building 300,000 houses by private enterprise, we were in a state of mild inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.180.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.182.5", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "I am arguing at the moment that we have put forward a programme. When we have put forward programmes we have complied with them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.182.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.182.5", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "I am arguing at the moment that we have put forward a programme. When we have put forward programmes we have complied with them—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—the party opposite is trying to delude the electorate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.182.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.182.5", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "I am arguing at the moment that we have put forward a programme. When we have put forward programmes we have complied with them—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—the party opposite is trying to delude the electorate—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] They have put forward a blatantly fraudulent prospectus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.182.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.182.5", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "rammes we have complied with them—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—the party opposite is trying to delude the electorate—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] They have put forward a blatantly fraudulent prospectus—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am asking them to substantiate their prospectus, and tell us what they intend to do. It is not merely a question of money, it is a question of skilled labour. Builders are fully employed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.182.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.183.3", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "Are they to have more carrot, more incentive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.183.3", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "ey simply going to raise the wages? If so, how much will it cost? There is another question. If hon. Members opposite have no suggestions, and I can get none out of them, as to how they are proposing to make building operatives more productive, can they make the building owners, the master builders, more productive? I think there is a way to do that, and here I will make a constructive suggestion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Those were the days.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": " arisen. In 1906, Northampton occupied about a quarter of its present area and it had three-quarters of its present population. Then it had less than one house to six people; now it has one house to three people. In 1906 there was no housing problem in Northampton. In every street there were boards offering houses to let. Landlords offered houses rent free for one month to tempt tenants into them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Less than that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "preceding_text": "s and bonny women—naturally wanted to know why something was not done about utility clothes of their size. Probably the noble Lady the Member for Aberdeen, South (Lady Tweedsmuir), will know something about it. She is the only lady Member I see knocking about here. The fact is that any person who is reasonably slim can buy a utility garment, and get a reasonably good dress at about £3 or £4 or £5.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "preceding_text": "only lady Member I see knocking about here. The fact is that any person who is reasonably slim can buy a utility garment, and get a reasonably good dress at about £3 or £4 or £5. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Less than that.\"] Less than that. I do not want to exaggerate the point, but take somebody, if I may say so. of the size of one or two of our lady Members on this side of the House—that kind of customer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "ch makes an allusion—a very short one, a general one, which is perhaps unavoidable in a document of this character—to leasehold reform and to the continuance of ground leases, as well as to the question of tenancies of business premises in order to prevent hardship. These are all properties that are in existence. I should like to ask the Government, what about the houses that are not in existence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "al authorities who are habitually not building and completing their allocations. Let there be no doubt about that. Everyone who knows anything about housing knows that the allocations made by the Ministry of Health are less than the capacity of the councils rather than more. Nevertheless, they are not finishing their allocations. I know of a case where the 1948 allocations are still not completed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "anything about housing knows that the allocations made by the Ministry of Health are less than the capacity of the councils rather than more. Nevertheless, they are not finishing their allocations. I know of a case where the 1948 allocations are still not completed. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] I will tell hon. Members—in my own constituency. Private enterprise is absolutely to blame for the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.224.3", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell them who fought.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "bution to countries in backward areas. These are immense burdens. The hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Nigel Davies) made some comparison between productivity in this country and in the U.S.A. It is not very fair to this country, however, to say we can make the comparison between 1938 and 1950 and imagine that the Americans have had to face the same situation as have the British throughout that period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.224.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.224.3", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was not always the Tories who fought.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ns. The hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Nigel Davies) made some comparison between productivity in this country and in the U.S.A. It is not very fair to this country, however, to say we can make the comparison between 1938 and 1950 and imagine that the Americans have had to face the same situation as have the British throughout that period. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell them who fought.\"] There is a good deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.224.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.224.3", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " U.S.A. It is not very fair to this country, however, to say we can make the comparison between 1938 and 1950 and imagine that the Americans have had to face the same situation as have the British throughout that period. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell them who fought.\"] There is a good deal—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It was not always the Tories who fought.\"] No, we do not want any sneers from hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.224.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.224.3", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Make it clear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "s country, however, to say we can make the comparison between 1938 and 1950 and imagine that the Americans have had to face the same situation as have the British throughout that period. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell them who fought.\"] There is a good deal—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It was not always the Tories who fought.\"] No, we do not want any sneers from hon. Gentlemen opposite. [ Laughter. ] The British people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.224.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.229.3", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "hen there are still plenty who have more than they need. In the past five years a certain amount of redistribution of income, quite an appreciable amount, has been carried through, but it has left almost untouched the distribution of property in this country. That is almost untouched, indeed it may be that private accumulations have more than kept pace with the burden of Death Duties and the rest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.229.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Smiles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Smiles", "preceding_text": "10,000 men, and the 10,000 join up with the others without a fight. The population of China is so great that these armies are going over the country eating all that is in it. Now the new Government in China say, \"We cannot dissolve these armies at once. If you have got to eat or loot do it in some other country, not in China.\" So they start in Korea. They are trying to get into Indo-China already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.249.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "n field and in our home affairs, but we are now at a most critical stage because, in strengthening our armed forces we are in grave danger of destroying any gains we have made in the last five years. I do not want to argue with hon. Members opposite about what they have done in the past and what we have done in the last five years. The point is, what are we going to do in the years that lie ahead?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.257.3", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "I want now to deal with a few aspects of home affairs which I think are important. Very great play has been made with housing. The Opposition intend to build 300,000 houses a year if they have the opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.257.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "We have nothing to be ashamed of about the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.263.5", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": " P. Thorneycroft) described it, of one nationalised industry spitting at another. Coal goes up in price so, of course, it costs more to run the railways, and as soon as it costs more to run the railways freight charges are put up and it costs more to transport the coal, so coal goes up. Ninepence is put on the cost of a gallon of petrol in order to pay for the Health Service, amongst other things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.263.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.263.5", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "power in the hands of too few men. These men had only learnt how to act in the interest of their own bureaucratically-run … monopolies which may he likened to totalitarian oligarchies within our democratic State. That was the description in \"Let us face the Future\" of life in this country after the First World War and, with hardly any alteration, it just about describes the last five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.263.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "Certainly not. I am trying to be practical, and hon. Members on both sides of the House know that I am speaking the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Exactly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "Of course, there was no security before the war because there was great unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nationalisation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "Of course, there was no security before the war because there was great unemployment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Exactly.\"] But it is incontrovertible that although there was widespread unemployment in all industries before the war, the Socialist Party had not the slightest idea how to get rid of it. This point needs to be rammed home throughout the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Armada? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "preceding_text": "who have come back with the same opinion as I am putting forward now, but they remain silent. Let them support my suggestion that we should do the generous and gracious thing towards Spain and back her for entry, not only into the United Nations but also into Western Union. After all, we should remember that years ago Spain fought with us under Wellington in order to defeat the Napoleonic scourge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.274.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "They never bombed our seamen, for one thing.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Rayner", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Berwick and East Lothian (Mr. Robertson) is not quite right. Take Portugal, which has been our ally for many years. What is the difference between the government of Portugal and that of Spain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "ural workers on the Scottish side of the Border. There are many other points with which I should have liked to deal in connection with the Gracious Speech. I think the Government would be well advised to have a look at the administration of some of our nationalised industries in order to see that there is the maximum amount of de-centralisation and also the maximum amount of Parliamentary control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-01", "file": "debates1950-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "59fdeeacb483f474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.293.5", "colnum": "293", "heading": "ELECTRICITY UNDERTAKINGS, SCOTLAND (RESERVE FUNDS)", "cue_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": " area boards in whose areas they were originally formed. So far, after many months of correspondence, the Minister has refused to intervene in favour of the board's claim, although, of course, the Act explicitly gives him the right of intervention. Before examining the Minister's case point by point and destroying it—it will not be my advocacy that will do that but the facts themselves—I must ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-01a.293.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.307.0", "colnum": "307", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "As I have indicated, we are feeling in a kindly and accommodating mood. However, I would say to the right hon. Gentleman that he should be a little careful at Strasbourg not to give sweeping assurances as to what he will do out of Opposition time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.310.6", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": " Atlantic and then merely nod our heads. I am sure that we could exercise a far greater moral influence upon the trend of affairs than we are doing. It is quite obvious that close co-operation is needed. I am grateful to that very kind man Mr. Dean Acheson, and to President Truman—and I am sure that everyone in the House and in the country will congratulate the President upon his escape yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.310.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.310.6", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "nsider the tremendous capital expenditure. There is huge capital expenditure on new buildings of all kinds. Of course, a great number of them are necessary—do not let the House think that I say they are unnecessary. All I am pointing out is that they are all coming at one and the same time. Buildings, factories, houses—I see the Minister of Education is present—huge new school building programmes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.310.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.310.6", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We want them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "hink that I say they are unnecessary. All I am pointing out is that they are all coming at one and the same time. Buildings, factories, houses—I see the Minister of Education is present—huge new school building programmes—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am not criticising or saying that any one of them is not necessary, not a bit. All I am pointing out is that they are all coming at the same time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.310.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the remedy of the right hon. and learned Gentleman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "nd the high moral attitude of the country is something we ought to commend. But, more important than the housing question is the question of the cost of living. Controls will not stem the rising tide in themselves. The pound is being devalued in this country; it is purchasing less. Articles are the same but we have to give more money for them, which means that the value of the pound is going down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.321.0", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "arguing that, and if the hon. Member has listened with his usual attention, he would have found that is precisely my argument. Sir Stafford Cripps always answered the question by saying that the present Government were attempting to do something which had never been done before, and this, of course, is a graceful circumlocution for saying that they were trying to do something which cannot be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.321.0", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "really what we mean. We would like to get away with it without having to make an unpopular Budget because, Sir Edwin, it may not have escaped your attention that the political parties are nearly in equilibrium and there might be electoral effects if we had to place too many restrictions upon the consumer.\" I must say that with those terms of reference, which I admit are products of my imagination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.321.0", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "es other than the one I have mentioned; first, devaluation; secondly, excessive Government expenditure. I said that the bad effects of devaluation are slow to make themselves felt. This is because there are stocks of goods in the warehouses and raw materials in the pipe-line of considerable extent bought when the pound was worth four dollars, and bought at lower prices than those which now obtain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "the houses. The Government are concerned with human beings and not with economic man. Once again, planned economy has got this thing all wrong. It has no relation to the human needs and has placed economic theories far in front of them. Of course, if we are to have another 100,000 houses when this party is in charge then—and do not let us make any mistake about it—something else will have to wait.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "y which professes to project its mind into the future and professes to know that the output of mackintoshes is socially more desirable in 1953 than the output of motor bicycles in 1953, then no wonder that the national priorities get into a muddle. The only people who could be good judges of this are the manufacturers of mackintoshes and motor bicycles, and the rate at which they can borrow money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Government offices.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "extra houses are to be obtained it is not a matter of stopping the building of a few technical colleges or a few schools, though, heaven knows, there is a shortage of school accommodation, with which, I should have thought, hon. Members opposite would have been familiar from their own constituencies. It is a matter of stopping power station construction, of stopping the building of oil refineries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.340.4", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "d, since then, another increase of one point has taken place. The rise in retail prices over the last 12 months has been two points and this, surprising as it may seem to all of us, contrasts with a rise of four points in the previous year and seven points in the year before that. It is, therefore, quite clear that in these last 12 months the rise in prices has, in fact, slowed down substantially—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.340.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ise in the United Kingdom of two per cent. has been the same as the rise in the United States of America, despite the increase in import prices here following devaluation, while in Australia the rise has been 9 per cent., in South Africa 6 per cent., in Denmark and New Zealand 5 per cent. and in Canada 4 per cent. If we take food prices, the comparison is even more striking. Between 1945 and 1949—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of coal?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ig hole in our pockets. We say, \"Look, this is a very good instance of the way the cost of living has gone up.\" But the fact is, of course, that we only buy things of this sort every few years, and the change, regrettable as it is, is slight compared with what happens to the prices of the things which we buy every day and every week—of bread, of meat, of butter, of margarine, of coal, of clothing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.345.2", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I am deeply interested—everyone is—in the argument of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Would he, before he leaves it, come to the question of the purchasing power of the pound sterling?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ther or not the subsidies were to be continued to the airways. He did not, of course, tell us just how the management of the airfields was to be conducted. No doubt, on some future occasion, we shall have more light on this subject. Even if the Ministry were abolished and no extra corresponding expenditure were made elsewhere, including the subsidies, the total saving would be £14½ million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ng carefully to the right hon. Member for Aldershot (Mr. Lyttelton) and to the hon. Member for Chippenham (Mr. Eccles). One sentence in the speech of the right hon. Member rang true. He talked of \"the wreckage of human hopes.\" For five years the Tory Party have hoped and expected that Socialist finance would be the destruction of this country, and for five years they have confidently predicted it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osbert Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osbert Peake", "preceding_text": "ink it is 19 years since I sat on this side of this House, though not so long since I sat upon the other. I should like one of my first observations here to be to say how much we regret the enforced continued absence of my right hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, West (Mr. Stanley). His unchallengeable integrity has earned him the respect, I think, not only of his colleagues but of his opponents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "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": "ish and river pollution. He had seen those matters in many a Gracious Speech for many years. The right hon. Gentleman should have realised, after his experience of the last five years, that when we put proposals before this House, as when we put them before the electorate, we proceed to carry them out. That is the reason why he has seen these matters so many times in past speeches from the Throne.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.437.0", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "Mr. Braine rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.437.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.437.2", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Private enterprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "phesied that the most dismal failure in our export policy would come immediately unless we abandoned that policy and relied for our exports on the overspill from a larger home market. Since then, as the House knows, production in this country has increased by something like 25 per cent., and exports have increased by some 70 per cent. by volume over those three years, in spite of those prophecies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.437.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.438.3", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": ", we lead Europe. Last year British production per man employed was 18 per cent. more than in the average of the four pre-war years. In Sweden, where there is also a Socialist Government, it was 18 per cent., in Ireland it was 13 per cent. and in France 2 per cent. above pre-war. No other European country had got back to the pre-war figure. In agricultural production Britain again headed the list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.438.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.438.3", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was Sweden in the last war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " Interruption. ] If the gentlemanly party will kindly allow me, I shall continue my speech. Or if we take the level of real income per head, which measures the total value of everything produced in the country, once again Socialist Britain and Socialist Sweden led the way—18 per cent. above pre-war. In Norway it was 17 per cent. above prewar and Denmark came fourth, with 6 per cent. above pre-war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.438.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.440.0", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "taken quickly enough to have its full effect, the Government of the day must be able to rely on the support and co-operation of the public in applying the principles of an agreed national policy. What does that mean but the acceptance of some degree of State economy both to prevent inflation and to maintain full employment? That is completely thrown overboard by what the right hon. Gentleman said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "self the Secretary of the National Tyre Distributors Association. In that capacity he must know perfectly well that the increase in the price of tyres is entirely due to the increase in the world price of raw rubber. That was a fact which could easily have been made clear to the House. We have had many suggestions that the cost of living could be reduced if there was a change in Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-02", "file": "debates1950-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea907bfb4057dfae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.443.6", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not what the Chancellor said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " Member for Kingston-upon-Thames (Mr. Boyd-Carpenter) addressed an angry meeting at the Central Hall, and, as the \"Manchester Guardian\" said, added fuel to the flames, or sparks or some such thing. We all recognise, and I think the more responsible speeches on both sides of the House this afternoon have recognised, that the situation is a most serious one as far as the cost of living is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-02a.443.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-03", "file": "debates1950-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c259395dfa49404f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-03a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "There are now three.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I draw attention, Sir, to the fact that on the whole of the Government benches there are only two Members present?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-03a.496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-03", "file": "debates1950-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c259395dfa49404f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-03a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give the facts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Really! I am not going to embark on that elementary lesson of economics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-03a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-03", "file": "debates1950-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c259395dfa49404f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-03a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ing price levels. Whoever is asked to tighten their belt in this situation, it must not be the people at the bottom, who do not have another notch to which to tighten it without serious danger. But what is the answer of hon. Gentlemen opposite? As we have heard it developed, both here and outside, their answer is to have less controls, less Government trading and bulk buying, and less fair shares.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-03a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-03", "file": "debates1950-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c259395dfa49404f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-03a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spence", "preceding_text": "ied and unmarried women they will clear up a good deal of loose living. I pass now to the question raised by the hon. Member for Blackburn, East (Mrs. Castle) who was speaking on expenditure. The impression I gained from her speech was that no economies could be made or were even desirable, and that she was satisfied that the Labour Government are running every Department with complete efficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-03a.551.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Since when?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour is responsible for industry, he makes the arrangements for load shedding in industrial concerns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.586.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.603.0", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA AND TIBET", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "preceding_text": "Will the Government make it clear to the Chinese Communist Government that we could not support their joining the United Nations, nor continue our efforts to establish diplomatic relations with them, so long as this invasion of Tibet continues?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.609.1", "colnum": "609", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "ities in whose areas there are brickyards, because mobility of labour is grievously affected by lack of housing. I make the suggestion because it is easier and cheaper to build a house next to a brickyard, than to build it elsewhere. A brick doubles in price if taken 100 miles. Therefore, it would be reasonable that houses should be built next to brickyards in order that the workers can be housed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about before the war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I am not responsible for the wage freeze and the hon. Member should put that question to his Front Bench. Secondly, there is the question of lack of confidence in the industry generally. The hon. Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross) will agree with me that the industry has had a difficult time in the last 10 years. During the war it was concentrated and after the war there was tremendous expansion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.614.3", "colnum": "614", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "case, an ordinary bricklayer, who is perhaps a master builder, with some other people can build a house, using his own initiative. That is the main difference. If the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire wants to know another difference, I will tell him. When a contract builder for a local authority starts to build a house, it is when it is politically desirable, not when it is economically desirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.614.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.619.3", "colnum": "619", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "ve in places, but I do not care on which side the vested interest is, whether it be on the employer's or employee's side, or on the landlord's or the tenant's side. What I am saying is that we should be unanimous on both sides of the House in abolishing some of these restrictions. If we stop the lavatories and outside toolsheds it would mean we would have a row of 13 houses instead of a row of 12.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.619.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "Yes. I want to make it quite clear that it applies to anything—Government offices, cinemas or anything taking materials which should be used for housebuilding. It includes Labour Clubs, Conservative Clubs, Liberal Clubs or whatever they may be. These should be cut out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "ebuilding. It includes Labour Clubs, Conservative Clubs, Liberal Clubs or whatever they may be. These should be cut out. [ Laughter .] When hon. Members opposite ask for constructive sugestions apparently they do not want them. We are asked to make suggestions and when we give chapter and verse, hon. Members opposite jeer and criticise. What we on these benches want is not any violent controversy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.622.2", "colnum": "622", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "preceding_text": "is a vote of censure. Hon. Members opposite would like the country to believe that they could do this extra building without impinging upon vital building operations in other directions. It is essential, therefore, that the country should know what has already been done. The impression which it is attempted to create in this debate is that very little has been done to build houses in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.622.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.622.2", "colnum": "622", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In how many houses?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "preceding_text": "empted to create in this debate is that very little has been done to build houses in this country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Apparently there are Members of the Opposition who agree with that. The facts were put into the hands of hon. Members only a few days ago in the Housing Returns for September, which showed that in Great Britain since the end of the war 1,259,729 families had been housed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.622.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "preceding_text": "n-laws,\" with all the family troubles which that brings for most young families. There are still many families overcrowded. No one with any knowledge of the housing problem would dispute that. But there are very many people on the waiting lists who are there because they want something better than the house in which they are living now and not because they are overcrowder or living with \"in-laws.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.632.5", "colnum": "632", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "nable them to accelerate to an enormous extent the amount of building. Despite favourable conditions of those pre-war years, the Tory Party say that they could build to within 60,000 houses of that target in the conditions of today. There was one thing which the hon. Member for Wallasey never mentioned, from the beginning to the end of his speech, and that was the international situation of today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.632.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "I said, \"subject to the strategic requirements of today.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.633.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "preceding_text": " there is no plan, if there are no licences, if there are no controls, house building becomes a marginal capital investment. It has always been so. As my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget) said, in a very able speech last week, it has always been the experience that capital has never flowed into house building until it has failed to find profitable employment elsewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "preceding_text": "stantial period of small house building until we reached the end of a boom in other forms of construction. The question that remains is: Is this the policy of the Conservative Party? Is the use of our capital resources to obey the rate of profit? Because that is what the right hon. Member for Aldershot said last week. He said that he believed it was not possible to have planning in a free society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "cribed his own speech. He suggested that we should have more piece rates and bonuses in the building industry. We have been saying it for three or four years, and we have had them in some cases. Let hon. Members opposite tell us how to get them. Do we make them? Hon. Members opposite have just been talking about a free society. How do they propose to make the building industry have a bonus system?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " which is going on, although I agree it is very difficult to avoid that happening on occasion. As I was saying, then the hon. Member went on to make his real suggestion, although it was blurred, which was that we should set the private builder, the speculative builder, free to build houses for sale to the local authorities. But we have done that. That suggestion has come up in debate after debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "programme and let people with the longest purses buy the houses. Obviously, if the licensing system is abandoned, and if there is to be no discrimination in favour of the rented house built by the local authority, then the house-building resources will go to building those houses on which the highest profits are going to be made. Therefore, I really must ask, for the sake of the nation as a whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.652.3", "colnum": "652", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "d come along with this demagogic statement. We hope that the international situation will ease, that the demands it makes upon our resources will decline, that our productivity will increase, and then we shall look at the target of 200,000 houses again. In the meantime, it represents what we consider it should be. It represents a better housing programme than that of any other nation in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.652.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.652.3", "colnum": "652", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "S: Nonsense.\"] The figures are there. Although it has been admitted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe that Great Britain has devoted more of its national income to capital development than any other nation in Europe, it is also true that inside that capital investment programme Great Britain has devoted more to house building, with the exception of three other nations in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.652.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.652.3", "colnum": "652", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Holland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "onomic Commission for Europe that Great Britain has devoted more of its national income to capital development than any other nation in Europe, it is also true that inside that capital investment programme Great Britain has devoted more to house building, with the exception of three other nations in Europe—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"] Yes, two of them Socialist nations—not France, nor Belgium, not Italy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.652.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Captain Soames", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Soames", "preceding_text": "way, for the right hon. Gentleman said that the building industry was the most inefficient of them all. If that is his opinion of the building industry, I do not wonder that he does not think they are capable of producing more houses. The same old taunts came tumbling out; the Tory Party was irresponsible in even mentioning that they consider that the house building programme should be speeded up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": " possible?\" He then replied, as he did today, that it was due to increased production. That is a perfectly fair answer, but in May he said something more. He said that we had decided not to import the petrol which the wicked Opposition wished us to import; we have decided to import the timber instead. That was a debating trick, no more and no less. A few days afterwards petrol went off the ration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Gentleman dealt with great vigour with the question of the fate of the licensing programme. Like other Members, I tried to think out the position for myself, and I shall speak for only myself on what I think the position should be. I believe that our objective should be to do away with the licensing system, if and when there is an amplitude of materials, but not before, and even then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "in his place—of his own promise. I confidently expect that before the next Election every family in Great Britain will have a separate house. That is what the Minister said on 24th May, 1946. That goes far beyond 300,000. It goes to the ideal, to the millions of houses that are needed, and I think that the Conservative Party is to be congratulated on bringing a breath of fresh air on the position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It can.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "preceding_text": "merous occasions that next year we would have a reservoir of unemployed. That is but one of the many wild statements that have been made. None of them has caught on. It is cruel, diabolical, and low-down hypocrisy to play upon the people in the way the Tories are doing on the question of building more houses, particularly when the majority of Members opposite know full well that it cannot be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "preceding_text": "ority to a Tory majority, decided to issue an advertisement asking how many of the 60,000 on the waiting lists would like to buy their houses. They wanted some information to put before the Minister to prove that private enterprise could build the houses. I am making a statement which will appear in the Birmingham Press tomorrow, and if I am not speaking the truth, the facts will soon be revealed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Central Office brief!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "I am arguing seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "Probably the hon. Member is not aware that the report he is quoting was a misprint—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member for Pollok had second thoughts and wrote a letter to \"The Times\" saying what he thought he had said at the conference, but as \"The Times\" and many newspaper reports, all said he said \"to sell and not to let,\" I can only assume that the recollection of the hon. and gallant Gentlemen was at fault.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "refore, we would have a minimum of four years from now until we could create a force of bricklayers capable of improving the present rate of house-building if we are to rely on resources within the industry. As to bricks, in spite of what the hon. Member said, the figures are available in the Digest of Statistics and we are run- ning on the lowest stock of bricks this country has ever experienced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "eresting points in the course of his speech. Of course, one quite realised the strength of feeling behind his condemnation of vote-catching in any form. That is certainly greatly to be deplored. On the other hand, we must not forget what votes are. Votes are the means by which the poorest people in the country and all people in the country can make sure that they get their vital needs attended to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "connected with the present housing shortage, are now presented to us by the Government as bound to continue, so far as can be seen, indefinitely. Sir, that situation is obviously intolerable. Take the argument about comparing what was done in the five years after the First World War. There is this great difference between them. The first is that after the First World War there was no American aid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " destruction by bombing in the First World War. Thirdly, the local authorities were virtually without experience of building in 1918. This time they had all the practical experience gained by the prewar slum clearance and other municipal housing schemes. And finally, far more preparations were made by the war-time Government on this at the end of this war than were ever thought of in 1917 or 1918—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "e purpose may, to some extent, have to be taken from others. The Government supporters naturally seek to obtain from us a list of reductions or economies which we would make in order to use these for electioneering purposes. That is quite natural in the unhappy conditions in which we have lived for a year and which seem likely to continue. I have no intention of making any piece-meal propositions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "hese two processes. In order to make sure that nobody who was well-to-do could get a house, he has in fact prevented large numbers of houses being built for the ordinary wage-earners. I listened to the speech of the right hon. Gentleman tonight with sorrow, because—here I make an admission—I do not believe he is as bad as he makes himself out to be. But I will say this to him. Hate is a bad guide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "present unhappy plight that he is in. It is not only a question of building houses, not only a question of numbers but the cost has risen to a point which, despite subsidies on an enormous scale, involves rents which many of those in most need of houses cannot afford. The rents charged to the tenants have risen remorselessly. Before the war the average rent of a local council house was 7s. a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "No, I really cannot give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "No, I really cannot give way. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"] I do not want to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.696.6", "colnum": "696", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Yes. As representatives of local authorities who saw me the other day will confirm—and there are hon. Members now sitting on both sides of the House who were present with the deputation—the average rentals in Great Britain upon which the subsidies are based are rents of between 14s. and 15s., including the repair allowances, as against the net—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.696.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "n within that limit. There is no trade in the country which can more readily adapt itself to a static condition than the building trade. They would like a progressive condition but they are quite ready, after the rough time which they have had in the last generation—I have seen it: the first to be called up for mobilisation and so on and the first to be turned off when building slackens and so on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "on our horizon—\"forward again\" must be the policy and the order. So much for the Government's policy and the Prime Minister's statement. I am sure that the Prime Minister's statement represents the rigid attitude of planners who understand only about half of what is really going on. Now I come to the question whether the proposal we make is possible and practicable, or whether it is all moonshine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "tim for so prolonged a personal attack by the Minister of Health. I really thought that the Minister would have done himself much more good—though he is the judge of that—if he had devoted himself to the merits of the question, and tried to give the House the feeling that his heart was burning to conquer in this struggle to find homes for the British people. I shall not attempt to go into details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " resourceful than management by State officials. We are sure that the completion of the Socialist aim of substituting State industry for every form of private industry would reduce our standard of life and would reduce the present number of our population. In the United States, where a capitalist competitive system prevails and where war-time regulations were practically swept away until recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.702.3", "colnum": "702", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "tional houses, both for sale and to let. So long as the housing shortage continues, the Government must restrict the ceiling on price or size of houses built for sale, and this must be dependent upon the prevailing, and sometimes upon the local, conditions. We shall take steps to prevent the diversion to any kind of luxury building, whether public or private, of the resources of men and materials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.702.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.702.3", "colnum": "702", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ling, and sometimes upon the local, conditions. We shall take steps to prevent the diversion to any kind of luxury building, whether public or private, of the resources of men and materials—[ Interruption ]—a great deal is being taken for public building—which could be devoted to the housing of the people. I listened to the speech of the noble Lady the Member for Anglesey (Lady Megan Lloyd George.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.702.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Megan Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman, but when I was informed that that was not the case, I withdrew the statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Honour is completely satisfied on both sides. We say that the emphasis should be placed upon new houses. In 1935 new housing absorbed 48 per cent. of the building industry's output. In 1947 the figure was only 34 per cent., and in 1948 31 per cent. We have no later figures, but I am informed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ont door. Outside is the great. bewildering, tumultuous world; inside, the family can plan what is best for themselves, what it is best to aim for, what it is wisest to give up. And in so deciding they create at once the foundation and the motive power without which all the super planners are only chasing shadows. Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. McNeil)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Accommodation units.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. McNeil)", "preceding_text": "t is quite true that all of us can have figures brought against us. I remember a White Paper—which, let me confess, impressed me—issued by the Coalition Government, of which the right hon. Gentleman was the head, when he, with many others, pledged themselves on a programme of 750,000 houses. We are a long way past that. We have had provided since that Government departed about 1,200,000 dwellings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "over England like mushrooms in a damp meadow. The right hon. Gentleman was then displaying his expert knowledge about housing and was talking about the Portal house! There would be no reward to any of us in going over this old story, where we have all made mistakes but where we have constantly and continuously put forward a passionate desire and co-ordinated effort to meet the needs of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The houses were there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "tell the people on these benches, or those who send us here, anything about the passion of their hopes in the miseries they endure. These are curious crocodile tears from a party which had power unchallenged for 25 years and which permitted and encouraged the building industry of this country fully to occupy itself, not for those most inadequately housed, but for those who could pay most for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.707.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.708.2", "colnum": "708", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "—and no one opposite has offered any evidence to the contrary. I listened carefully to the speech of the hon. Member for Wallasey (Mr. Marples), and I shall be putting some points to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": " will be most carefully studied. But it is really a little exasperating to be treated by the Opposition as a pack of fools when they have not even taken the trouble to examine what is happening. The hon. Member for Wallasey said in his modest way that he had a valuable suggestion to offer. He told us the story of his relative, and I have every sympathy with his relative. I am not criticising that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": " on the fact that there are at least three essential questions which not only have not been answered but at least one of which the Opposition, including the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford, have taken great care to avoid answering. The right hon. Gentleman waved aside the question of labour in, I think, one sentence. The hon. Member for Wallasey would not address himself to it either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "circumstances of offering higher wages; but he did not tell us what that would mean in the cost of the house, and the cost concerns the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford greatly, as he has already confessed. If the present proportion of operatives to houses completed is to be maintained in this programme of an additional 100,000 houses, then about 115,000 more operatives will be needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Softwood\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman told us about timber. I must say that I am really distressed to hear such a cavalier dismissal of this subject. If the hon. Member for Wallasey means that there is now a greater overall availability of all kinds of woods sawn, then he may be right. I do not know. I never thought it one of my jobs to try and visualise how I should build houses with mahogany walls and walnut roofs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-06", "file": "debates1950-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "b633527ad643a712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "nderstand that he means that he would rather see school building come to a standstill if that were a necessary condition for increasing house-building. But none of the hon. Members opposite tell us that. We are offered this one idea, which is again taken up by the right hon. Gentleman, that we should create valuable power houses which are essential, and leave them open to the four winds of heaven—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-06a.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-07", "file": "debates1950-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "728f75a0792d1974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.761.9", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "It is a needs test, which is different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.761.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-07", "file": "debates1950-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "728f75a0792d1974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.761.9", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "It is a needs test, which is different. [ Interruption .] If I may supplement that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.761.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-07", "file": "debates1950-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "728f75a0792d1974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.763.7", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is as right in that assumption as in most others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.763.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-07", "file": "debates1950-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "728f75a0792d1974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.794.3", "colnum": "794", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It fell more in the last five years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "into the 'thirties and the period of \"Tory recovery\"—the period of the boom in the late 'thirties of which we are now hearing so much in connection with housing, and when things were at any rate somewhat better than at the worst of the slump—we had what the right hon. Member for Woodford now calls \"the money cheat.\" Between January, 1933, and January, 1939, the pound fell from 14s. 3d. to 12s. 8d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.794.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-07", "file": "debates1950-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "728f75a0792d1974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir David Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir David Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "ere is, first of all, the incidence of taxation; and I calculate that direct and indirect taxation means a total payment to the State on the average of £2 10s. out of the average worker's income of £6 10s. per week, and, in the case of a married man, where the P.A.Y.E. goes down, there are corresponding increases in articles subject to indirect taxation. The second point is a perfectly simple one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-07", "file": "debates1950-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "728f75a0792d1974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "My memory of the Loan is quite clear. The right hon. Gentleman himself abstained and advised his hon. Friends to abstain in the division that was taken in the House on that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-07", "file": "debates1950-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "728f75a0792d1974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "GOVERNMENT CONTROLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has been given in another place.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "y great matters, I mean things like the direction of labour. We should find it intolerable if the Government were to ask for permanent powers to direct labour in peacetime. That is a thing which we think should not be tolerated, and in that I think we are supported by the overwhelming majority of the British people. I ask the right hon. Gentleman, therefore, to give the House an assurance on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-07", "file": "debates1950-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "728f75a0792d1974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.851.2", "colnum": "851", "heading": "GOVERNMENT CONTROLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member, who, I know perfectly well, really agrees with what I am saying, has made an amazing answer, which I do not wish to deal with because I do not desire to take any part in party politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.851.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-07", "file": "debates1950-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "728f75a0792d1974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.856.5", "colnum": "856", "heading": "GOVERNMENT CONTROLS", "cue_speaker": "Lord Dunglass", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Dunglass", "preceding_text": "to get their grievances considered in any reasonable time. Further, they are beginning to doubt whether their trade union leaders can properly represent their needs and claims in a nationalised industry. Let me present to hon. Members opposite the very real dilemma which already exists in the early days of nationalisation. We have the Trades Union Congress which is affiliated to a political party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.856.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-07", "file": "debates1950-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "728f75a0792d1974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.874.1", "colnum": "874", "heading": "GOVERNMENT CONTROLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "ch they will give their supporters for the halt, if not the retreat, on the road to the Socialist State. In spite of the enthusiasm of the last speaker and in spite of the tremendous dishes which were served up to us in the last Parliament, this is a very Lenten fare indeed—salmon and white fish. One great claim Ministers may make: during these five years there has been full employment in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-07", "file": "debates1950-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "728f75a0792d1974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.874.1", "colnum": "874", "heading": "GOVERNMENT CONTROLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two-thirds.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "with their usual fortitude. They even put up with a capital levy—once for all, never to be repeated—unless, of course, Socialist promises are to be nothing better than the Kaiser's \"scrap of paper.\" But even this complete reversal of policy led to another sudden and dramatic crisis. In September of last year the pound sterling was reduced to a little less than one-third of its international value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-07", "file": "debates1950-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "728f75a0792d1974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "GOVERNMENT CONTROLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Look at the price of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "with stockpiling and re- armament, the proceeds of these sales are becoming increasingly great. Indeed, even before this later development, the dollar earnings of Malaya equalled the entire dollar exports from the United Kingdom. There is, of course, a certain irony in this which must make the gods chuckle. For tin and rubber are the fruits of private enterprise of a particularly speculative kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-07", "file": "debates1950-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "728f75a0792d1974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "GOVERNMENT CONTROLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "essary to improve the service to the customer, that is to the public as a whole. Instead, at a most critical moment of our national affairs when parties and public opinion are so nicely balanced, Ministers have decided to press on with the nationalisation of iron and steel. What for? To increase exports? To help rearmament? To raise steel production? To increase industrial harmony in the industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-07", "file": "debates1950-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "728f75a0792d1974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "GOVERNMENT CONTROLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " win a by-election anywhere, and most of all in a steel centre, then I will give it to the right hon. Gentleman. Meanwhile, the Iron and Steel Act is on the Statute Book and the Government will carry out the law. Moreover, I am informed that, apart from one or two of the mandarins of Steel House, who still keep up the battle—many of whom have very little knowledge of steel making as practical men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-07", "file": "debates1950-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "728f75a0792d1974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "GOVERNMENT CONTROLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ok and the Government will carry out the law. Moreover, I am informed that, apart from one or two of the mandarins of Steel House, who still keep up the battle—many of whom have very little knowledge of steel making as practical men—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] We could go through them and their qualifications: here an accountant, there a lawyer and somewhere else an ex-university lecturer in philosophy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-07", "file": "debates1950-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "728f75a0792d1974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "GOVERNMENT CONTROLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In peace time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ere will not—but if we were again in some very tense situation, such as that in which the right hon. Gentleman and some of us on this side have been associated, we should, of course, consider it again, because the life of the country would be at stake. Of course we should. But we have no intention of introducing, in this Bill or in any other Bill, a provision providing for the direction of labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-07", "file": "debates1950-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "728f75a0792d1974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.892.3", "colnum": "892", "heading": "GOVERNMENT CONTROLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "made of these very scarce and necessary things, building labour and building materials. We should have power over export and import trade in the interests of our balance of overseas trade, and, finally— and here I think the right hon. Gentleman did agree, and I was surprised at it, but delighted—we must keep our exchange control and our control of new capital issues. I think that he agreed on that", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.892.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-07", "file": "debates1950-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "728f75a0792d1974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.894.0", "colnum": "894", "heading": "GOVERNMENT CONTROLS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " three of them here. But I will say that I think Lloyd George would have thought, in these conditions, that it was very necessary that the general public should be safeguarded against small sections of society, against whom he so powerfully inveighed, by these protections. The Bill on permanent economic controls, which we shall introduce, will be subject to full democratic discussion in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.894.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-07", "file": "debates1950-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "728f75a0792d1974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.894.2", "colnum": "894", "heading": "GOVERNMENT CONTROLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "nt are satisfied that the Bill effectively maintains the national interests which I have indicated—the essential public interests —there is, of course, plenty of scope for amendment and discussion. But, those who vote tonight for this Amendment will be voting for retaining the annual renewal, as distinct from the permanent statutory renewal, and they are, therefore, voting to enable another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.894.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-07", "file": "debates1950-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "728f75a0792d1974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL AREAS (NOISE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "I have taken the opportunity afforded me to make certain about the facts. I understand that there are six hammers. One is a five-ton hammer, only used on the six-to-two shift and, as occasion demands, on the two-to-ten shift. Unfortunately, that is not all; there is a three-ton hammer, two 15 cwt. hammers, and two of 10 cwts., going throughout the 24 hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-07a.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.939.5", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "This is a very complicated subject and it is quite impossible to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.939.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (PRIVATE MEMBERS' TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was stolen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ree to the phraseology of the right hon. Gentleman when he says that the Government are restoring time to Private Members. That is not really the case. What has happened is that the Government have at last deferred to the wishes of the House expressed repeatedly since the Report of the Select Committee in 1946 and the Government are abandoning their use of Private Members' time, because this time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (PRIVATE MEMBERS' TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "oon as possible after the war. It is just as well to put it in the right perspective. The House itself is asserting its own rights. I hope the right hon. Gentleman does not think I am cavilling at his action, but I think that he was slightly inaccurate in the way he put it. He said that Private Members will now have the privilege of introducing Bills. It is not a privilege—it is an inherent right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (PRIVATE MEMBERS' TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "However other people may feel about this, I think it would be ungracious for the House not to express its appreciation of the fact that the Government have indeed given up a claim on the time of the House, which the House could not have refused to give if the Government had insisted on retaining it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.964.3", "colnum": "964", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (PRIVATE MEMBERS' TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "r Torquay was anxious to preserve the rights of Private Members in this House, because I remember the days when he functioned in a capacity other than that of a bank bencher in this House. I seem to remember that in those days the greater part of my Parliamentary life was spent in fighting for the rights of back benchers against the objections of the hon. Gentleman when he was occupying the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.964.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.971.2", "colnum": "971", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (PRIVATE MEMBERS' TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ts rights under Standing Orders, but the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary, who functions as Deputy-Leader of the House, the Chief Whip and I have considered this in a most sympathetic manner, and I thought that we had gone a very long way to assist the House. The other point is a practical point. What is the advantage of the Ten Minutes Rule? It is not an advantage for the presentation of Bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.971.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.971.2", "colnum": "971", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (PRIVATE MEMBERS' TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "he other point is a practical point. What is the advantage of the Ten Minutes Rule? It is not an advantage for the presentation of Bills. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I shall come to the advantages in a minute. In the net result, it is not an advantage, because under the Rule as to presentation, if an hon. Member presents his Bill, the fact is that he has presented it and he has got it, up to that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.971.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (PRIVATE MEMBERS' TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ut legislation in a most shameful manner. The hon. Gentleman is entitled to make his boast, and I congratulate him, but he had better be careful lest the country gets the idea that Parliament passes legislation on the nod—although in this case we might think it was pretty innocent. But if the hon. Gentleman had brought in his Bill on presentation, he would have had just as good a chance, I submit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOLICITORS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "preceding_text": "on the articles, of clerkship, and, in addition, the articled clerk or his parents had to be prepared to pay a premium to the solicitor to whom he was articled. Then, in spite of this burden, there was only a limited field for him when he qualified, whereas today the solicitors' branch of the profession has been thrown open to the community, largely due, if I may say so, to this Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1005.3", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "r there is no appeal to anybody. The point is important because when dealing with that situation Lord Justice Denning went on to give his view. He said: How then is this independence\"— that is, the independence which we all agree should attach to these tribunals— to he achieved? The answer is by giving a right of appeal on a point of law to a superior court which is itself known to be independent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "say that the matter which is important is that the public should be made aware of the purpose of these Acts and should utilise them to the fullest and best extent, we should have not merely these 26,000 reductions of rent, but, in the opinion of the chairman of the tribunal in my constituency and of many other people on the tribunals, hundreds of thousands of cases in which the exorbitant rentals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Spens", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Spens", "preceding_text": "I am not going to give way, for I promised to be brief—during the weeks before the matter comes before the tribunal. With the tribunal in my area, it takes several weeks and when the case comes before the tribunal, if the tribunal makes an order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Spens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Spens", "preceding_text": "ribunal. With the tribunal in my area, it takes several weeks and when the case comes before the tribunal, if the tribunal makes an order—[ Interruption ]—I know there are powers, but, believe me, the landlord finds himself with a bad debt, which is extremely hard on some landlords. The other matter which, to my mind, is much more serious, is that it is breeding a type of regular swindling tenant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1020.2", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Always.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ut, is not some legal matter on which lawyers can guide the tribunals—and, indeed, if a lawyer tried to do so he would have nothing to go upon. What the tribunals are trying to decide is what is a reasonable rent, having regard to all the circumstances that they know about; not merely the district but all the circumstances of the household and so on. Quite often these tribunals visit the premises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1020.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "se, the tenant had not asked for a reduction of his rent. All he had done was to say that he wanted a period of security. He was not interested in rent, but only in security. The tribunal, without allowing the landlord to call any evidence at all or to put up any case, said, \"We will reduce this rent.\" When they were taken to the High Court they were told that they had exceeded their jurisdiction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1034.3", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "re is another case—and the Attorney-General will appreciate the legal reference here. May I ask what a tenant would make of these expressions if they were put to him, as in fact they were put to one tenant when he said he had left some clothes behind in his lodgings: Good gracious! Then you were in manciplum … Your clothes are still hypothecated? That is the sort of language which was used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1034.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1044.3", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Raton Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Raton Beamish", "preceding_text": " the ballot, raise this matter on the Adjournment. From my very heavy mailbag since I have asked these Questions and drawn attention to these matters, it has been clear to me that it is worth while going on with the work that I am doing. Some of the letters I have had from school teachers all over the country have been of the utmost interest, and a number of them significantly have been anonymous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1044.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1044.3", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Raton Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Raton Beamish", "preceding_text": "ficantly have been anonymous. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] What is the matter with hon Members opposite? The reason I mention that, is because I think it is a most unhealthy sign that schoolmasters and school mistresses should be afraid of giving their names to a Member of Parliament in case they might be mentioned in public. At the back of their minds is the possibility of victimisation in future years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1044.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1044.3", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Raton Beamish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear. It is a very good book.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Raton Beamish", "preceding_text": "the war in 11 countries in Europe which have a total population of 133 million. I have studied in utmost detail the moves by which Communists penetrate into the teaching profession, thereby preparing the ground and carrying out what some people call a softening-up process. I have studied this matter sufficiently to be able to write a book, which may be mediocre but is the best effort I could make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1044.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "e it from all non-Marxist influences. That is the view of the Bishop of Chichester, given in his sermon on Easter Day this year. Those brief quotations, which I could multiply a hundredfold, show that to accuse all Communist teachers in this country of subversive activities and gross disloyalty to the democracy which employs them, is not an attack upon the professional integrity of those teachers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1048.3", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is no proof at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "Not evidence? Never mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1048.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1049.5", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "luence young minds. Those Communist teachers are not fools, and they are where they are for a purpose. It so happens that last Sunday in a calendar which my family has produced for many years—there is a quotation for each day—I noticed these words by Florence Nightingale: Give me the schools of a country and I care not who makes its laws. I commend that most seriously to the Minister of Education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1049.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1049.9", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "ersonal view, and I do not see why that should get under the skin of hon. Gentlemen opposite to the extent that it seems to have done. I am expressing not a party view but something which is very much in the minds of all parents in the country, for they are deeply anxious about the present situation. Can the Minister when he replies tell us anything about the organisation called the Woodland Folk?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1049.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1050.6", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "hing but straightforward Communist propaganda. When I pointed out in my letter that this had been circulated to school masters and school mistresses all over the country, asking them to take it for their current affairs lectures, the Minister replied: I really do not think there is much danger that any teacher would be tempted to make use of this particular material for teaching purposes. Why not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1050.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1050.6", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of course you do not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "nd school mistresses all over the country, asking them to take it for their current affairs lectures, the Minister replied: I really do not think there is much danger that any teacher would be tempted to make use of this particular material for teaching purposes. Why not? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"] Why take it in if they are not going to use it in their current affairs lectures? I do not understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1050.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1051.6", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "Another example is the \"Bureau of Current Affairs,\" a biased, Left-wing organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1051.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1051.6", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "Another example is the \"Bureau of Current Affairs,\" a biased, Left-wing organisation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Oh, yes. It was the successor of A.B.C.A. which did so much to get the party opposite into power. I know all about the A.B.C.A. During the war I did not allow anyone in my company to read some of their literature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1051.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": " G. T. Hankin. I have checked up on these things and have read them. Are we really to be told that it is more important to protect grown-up soldiers against partisan and biased publications than it is to protect children in our schools? Everybody knows that the Bureau of Current Affairs is one of the main sources by which teachers of our schools brief themselves for their current affairs lectures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1051.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1053.1", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way any more. I want to make my speech in my own way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1053.7", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give us the evidence of that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "Yes, proscribed by the Labour Party. In other words, it is wrong for a member of the Labour Party to belong to it; it may result in his being sacked, as I believe it has done in some cases yet it is quite all right for teachers to use this document with which to teach his children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1053.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1054.2", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "I will give some evidence now. One textbook to which I have previously called attention is called, \"Life in the U.S.S.R.\" This was first written in 1943 and originally Sir Bernard Pares was commissioned to write it, but, by a fluke, because he was unable to take it on, it was written by Mrs. Beatrice King. It was reprinted in 1944, 1945 and 1948, and is pure Communist propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1054.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1054.4", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which school?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "I am not saying that that was not the case, but that this document is Communist propaganda and anyone who reads it must agree with me. The Minister went a large part of the way to agree when I drew attention to it. I do not mind particularly what happened in 1943, but this is in use in schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1054.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1054.4", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "I am not saying that that was not the case, but that this document is Communist propaganda and anyone who reads it must agree with me. The Minister went a large part of the way to agree when I drew attention to it. I do not mind particularly what happened in 1943, but this is in use in schools—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Which school?\"] 25,000 copies have been sold already—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1054.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1054.4", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What education authority bought it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "hat that was not the case, but that this document is Communist propaganda and anyone who reads it must agree with me. The Minister went a large part of the way to agree when I drew attention to it. I do not mind particularly what happened in 1943, but this is in use in schools—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Which school?\"] 25,000 copies have been sold already—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"] It is a school textbook—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1054.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1054.6", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is a Tory council there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "That is what happens in East Sussex; I do not know what happens elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1054.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1058.6", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "I have been challenged to give an example. I will tell the hon. Gentleman that the Sheffield peace Congress is about to take place, and the Chair- man of that Congress, or the Chairman of the Executive Committee, claims that 500 million people in the world have signed the Peace pledge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1058.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1070.0", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will agree that if a teacher teaches Socialism, Conservativism or Liberalism it is not dangerous to the same degree as Communism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1070.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1071.0", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, reactionary\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "Since the hon. Member has done me the honour of describing me as ridiculous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1071.3", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": " far nearer to Communism than to Socialism. I think the Minister will agree with me. We want an assurance from the Minister of Education. We obviously cannot ban all Communists from the teaching profession. I do not think that it can be done or even considered in that way. We want an assurance that men who belong to the Communist Party or have strong Communist views are not appointed to headships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1071.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "We know that the Communists are very patient and prepared to wait a long time, but I am happy to leave that in the hands of the Minister. If a man is to be made a head master, enough is known about him over a period of years to determine what his real political views are. My concern is that the Communist Party is making a dead set at the youth of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "May I interrupt the hon. Member? Do I understand that he is saying he would tolerate the appointment of a Fascist as headmaster?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1086.0", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I know precisely the period during which the hon. Gentleman was, in point of fact, a candidate for that constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1086.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-08", "file": "debates1950-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8e137657b7c5768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1088.2", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "TEACHING PROFESSION (COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "No, it is in the Psalms.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Jeger", "preceding_text": "Would not the point be met by the substitution of the words: Put not thy trust in princes, which is also a Shakespearean quotation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-08a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-09", "file": "debates1950-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c36b903dac7132d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1108.8", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that some hospital management committees are very anxious to get rid of the names by which the hospitals are called, because under Public Assistance the hospitals had a very bad reputation for the treatment of patients?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1108.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-09", "file": "debates1950-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c36b903dac7132d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1156.5", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "ge amount of capital invested and accruing from certain industries. It is suggested that the Chamber of Mines and the Chamber of Commerce should be represented on the Legislative Council. Well, one seat has been offered to the Chamber of Mines and one seat to the Chamber of Commerce in the Gold Coast. Both the Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Mines think that quite inadequate representation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1156.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-09", "file": "debates1950-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c36b903dac7132d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "tative of the Chamber of Commerce to be adequate representation for them, considering the enormous amount of interests which those Chambers represent in the Gold Coast. It was eventually agreed by the Select Committee that they should have further representation. But what has happened! They have been allowed three members each, making six members in all, only one of whom is allowed to have a vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-09", "file": "debates1950-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c36b903dac7132d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1169.4", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": "I shall come to the question of profits in a moment. In the meantime, I hope the House will allow me to develop my argument. We spent £60 million on the Singapore Base in 20 years, and there was never any question where the money was to come from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-09", "file": "debates1950-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c36b903dac7132d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": "e preached Communism and how Malays should be governed on Communist lines after the war. We have to break down that anti-British feeling. If we win the tin and the rubber and the profits but fail to win the peoples of the Colonies, we shall lose the Colonies altogether. We cannot disregard the rising aspirations of these peoples. There is also the question of the fitness of these people to govern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-09", "file": "debates1950-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c36b903dac7132d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1178.5", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Leslie Hale), last Friday, on the question of Dominion status for Rhodesia. He said: I am afraid, with the utmost firmness, that, as long as the colour bar is written right across the flag of Southern Rhodesia, we would not support any proposals for the creation of a new Dominion there.…\"—[OFFICIAL, REPORT, 3rd November, 1950; Vol. 480, c. 473–4.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1178.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-09", "file": "debates1950-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c36b903dac7132d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1180.4", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "In 70 or 80 years we have stopped slave trading and we have taught the people hygiene, and in 25 years we have doubled their population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1180.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-09", "file": "debates1950-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c36b903dac7132d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1181.0", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": ", if they wished, have a cup of tea together. That is what the Minister of State said. At the same time that he was sowing this discontent, there was a large meeting of the British Medical Association in Nairobi, which was attended by 20 Indian doctors and their wives; and two days later, in the New Stanley Hotel, 11 Indians, four Africans, and, I believe, 25 Europeans sat down to dinner together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1180.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-09", "file": "debates1950-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c36b903dac7132d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1183.4", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "What was said on the other side was that we could not afford this sum of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1183.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-09", "file": "debates1950-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c36b903dac7132d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1212.2", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "g must be done about the question of the population in the West Indies. I want only to say that I hope that this Parliament and the British electorate will never tolerate the introduction of birth control in the West Indies. The hon. Member for the Isle of Wight (Sir P. Macdonald) talked about white men meeting black men in hospitality at dinners, and gave the impression of how disgraceful it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-09", "file": "debates1950-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c36b903dac7132d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "ery human problem, but this is the way the men themselves speak to me about it. They say: \"What are we to do? We are illiterate. We cannot read. We cannot write. We cannot play cricket because we cannot afford a bat. We cannot even afford to buy a ball to throw in the air and catch it. What are we to do after we have finished work?\" The answer, put to me quite politely, is, \"Develop our homeland.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-09", "file": "debates1950-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c36b903dac7132d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1220.2", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakefield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "use the word \"realism,\" I find it difficult to explain exactly what I mean. Perhaps I can put it in this, way. As Christians we believe that all men are equally valuable in the sight of God. That is our faith. We believe in the individual sanctity of the human being. That is true, but it is not true to go on to say, as many of us do, that because men are equal in value, they are equal in capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1220.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-09", "file": "debates1950-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c36b903dac7132d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "), who opened the Debate for the Opposition, and the hon. Member for Hornsey (Mr. Gammans) referred to the fact that the principal object of the Bill was to increase by £20 million the existing sum of £120 million because of the fall in the value of money. Then they added a party crack to say that the fall in the value of money was due to the fact that we in Britain had introduced social services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-09", "file": "debates1950-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c36b903dac7132d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1232.3", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A chip of the old block.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": " demands that we should press on with this task all the more urgently, but let us not forget the more positive consideration by which our policy in this matter is inspired. In my submission, the development of the Colonies and the welfare of their peoples remain the justification of direct British rule just as they are also the condition of all ordered progress towards responsible self-government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-09a.1232.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-13", "file": "debates1950-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e138b69ee52b48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1415.3", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "COUNCIL OF EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I have no difficulty with that. If His Majesty's Government, after expert study, feel that they do not wish to see included in the Convention on Human Rights the right to free elections, it is far better, far more honest, and franker if they would say so. There may be some very good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1415.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-13", "file": "debates1950-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e138b69ee52b48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1416.6", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "COUNCIL OF EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A twist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman feels that it was a useful thing for the Assembly to spend time on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1416.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-13", "file": "debates1950-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e138b69ee52b48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1416.6", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "COUNCIL OF EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman feels that it was a useful thing for the Assembly to spend time on it. [An HON. MEMBER: \"A twist.\"] It would be fitting for the Government to try all the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1416.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-13", "file": "debates1950-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e138b69ee52b48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1421.1", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "COUNCIL OF EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Including the United States.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "Would those powers include also that of calling on separate States for their quota of the armed forces of one kind and another, including finance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-13", "file": "debates1950-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e138b69ee52b48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "COUNCIL OF EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": " is inevitable. We have to ask ourselves whether it will be a voluntary union on democratic lines, or a compulsory union on totalitarian lines. I have said before that some kind of union must come in Europe either by voluntary agreement or by compulsion. It very nearly came by compulsion, under Hitler's empire, as it nearly did under Napoleon's empire, and as it may yet come under Stalin's empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-13", "file": "debates1950-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e138b69ee52b48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1440.2", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "COUNCIL OF EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. We are not in power.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": " into the earth. I quite agree with those who say that there is that danger, and that we must prevent German rearmament being a danger to Europe. Of course, there is that danger, but will that danger be lessened if we reduce German participation for the time being to battalions or brigade groups? Let us go further into the military structure. The Opposition, apparently, are committed to divisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-13", "file": "debates1950-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e138b69ee52b48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1462.3", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "COUNCIL OF EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "The proposal made by our party was fundamentally the right to be there as observers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1462.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-13", "file": "debates1950-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e138b69ee52b48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1462.5", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "COUNCIL OF EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am not trying to wriggle out of it. Our attitude was perfectly clear. We have only to re-read the terms of the Motion. Our Motion was not describing what the Government of France were saying. The hon. Gentleman is dragging in a red herring. The Dutch intended to go there on specific terms. Those terms did not include a supra-national authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1462.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-13", "file": "debates1950-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e138b69ee52b48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1482.1", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "COUNCIL OF EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "If my hon. and gallant Friend will allow me, the hon. Member for Reading, North (Mr. R. Mackay) proposed the resolution stating that the Assembly was in favour of that political authority with limited functions but real powers, and that resolution was accepted unanimously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-13", "file": "debates1950-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e138b69ee52b48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1494.1", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "COUNCIL OF EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "ualities. We had great difficulty, as hon. Gentlemen will remember, with regard to the rights of property and the rights of parents with regard to the education of their children. As Chairman of the Legal Committee I appointed a subcommittee consisting of a Belgian Socialist, a French Catholic, a Free-thinking French Radical and a Dutch Protestant. That Committee achieved solutions of the problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-13", "file": "debates1950-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e138b69ee52b48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1496.1", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "COUNCIL OF EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has done nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "ituation to pull Europe together as a whole, had to proceed as best it could. We proceeded with our aim and we announced it to the House in January, 1948. I am not ashamed of the work of the Brussels Treaty Powers since 1948. I think that there again the other controversy which has gone on with the Council of Europe has rather put in the shade the practical work that the Brussels Powers have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-13", "file": "debates1950-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e138b69ee52b48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1503.2", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "COUNCIL OF EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "No, we have not undertaken to sign that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-13", "file": "debates1950-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e138b69ee52b48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1506.2", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "SAUSAGES (MEAT CONTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "ence to sausage skins; but there was a reference to brisling, of which £857,000 worth were imported. I know that brislings are a painful subject with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food; therefore, I have no doubt that will stimulate him to ask the President of the Board of Trade to correct the index of Trade Returns. I find that \"skins, sausage\"—the other way round—are on page 34.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1506.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-13", "file": "debates1950-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e138b69ee52b48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1506.2", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "SAUSAGES (MEAT CONTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A fall in price.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "f sausages of all kinds, although what \"all kinds\" means I have not quite discovered. The average price per cwt.—I do not buy them by the cwt., but I have deduced this from the Board of Trade returns—is £16 12s. The imports for the same nine months last year were £571,000 worth, and the average cost per cwt. was £19 10s. The price of imported sausages per cwt. has dropped from £19 10s. to £16 12s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1506.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-13", "file": "debates1950-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e138b69ee52b48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1520.3", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "HEALTH SERVICE (DOCTORS' LISTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "een hanging fire since the vesting date. I ask the Parliamentary Secretary tonight to give a sensible reason why there should be this necessity for seven days—why not seven weeks? Why the urgency? It is this sort of handling that is bringing the Health Service into disrepute. I would reinforce the point made by the hon. Member for Bexley by giving an example of the way in which hardship is caused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1520.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-13", "file": "debates1950-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e138b69ee52b48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1520.3", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "HEALTH SERVICE (DOCTORS' LISTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "ke myself to hardships which have been caused by faulty and soulless administration. These few lines give, more or less, an example of the type of case which has infuriated people in my area, and I ask the Parliamentary Secretary why on earth the Minister should support a letter of the type to which I have referred; it is a circular letter, and is giving only seven days—\"or else!\" That is inhuman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1520.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-13", "file": "debates1950-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e138b69ee52b48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1523.1", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "HEALTH SERVICE (DOCTORS' LISTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "row was to be certain that we did not rule out the families of patients already on the lists. It is obviously highly desirable that the members of one family should be on one doctor's list. Most hon. Members would agree about that, even if the hon. Member for Luton (Dr. Hill) is cogitating on the point at the moment. Dr. Green, I understand, was, in fact, asked if he would refuse further patients.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-13a.1523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1533.5", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is Question nine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "I thought the hon. and gallant Member's Question was on refresher training to Class Z reservists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1533.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1544.10", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I therefore challenged the hon. and gallant Gentleman to produce the information he had. That was on the 24th October, and on the 25th the Press gave wide publicity to this matter. Since then—and not before the 24th—four doctors out of many thousands have come to the help of the hon. and gallant Gentleman, and he has sent me their letters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1544.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1545.1", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The right hon. Lady has entirely misinterpreted the original Question. My original Question asked her if she was aware——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1557.0", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. As the right hon. Gentleman has not told us that he has been asked to reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1557.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1558.7", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whiteley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a British festival.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whiteley", "preceding_text": "I was under the impression that the House would like the Festival to be a success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1558.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1559.4", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Welsh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "English and Scottish things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1559.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1559.4", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Northern Irish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "English and Scottish things. [HON. MEMBERS: \"And Welsh.\"] And Welsh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1559.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1590.3", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CALF REARING SCHEMES (VARIATION OF PAYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "e will have to agree, there have been cases of considerable hold-up of payments to interested parties. Those of use who have been engaged in agriculture—and I would say this even if the hon. Member for Wednesbury (Mr. S. N. Evans) were present—have had a good deal for which to be thankful in the years gone by in the way of assistance we have received from the Government, but there have been cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1590.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1592.3", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CALF REARING SCHEMES (VARIATION OF PAYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member for Pollok (Commander Galbraith) asked whether the figures I had given were strictly comparable with those given by my hon. Friend the Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture. My hon. Friend gave the figures for the United Kingdom as a whole. He did not give figures for England and Wales and for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1592.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1628.7", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY AND GAS UNDERTAKINGS (SEVERANCE COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "iding scale recommended by the Urban District Councils Association\" and if subsequently I were to produce that in this House, we should have another Prayer. But on that occasion the Members taking part would be representing the large local authorities, and they would be saying precisely what hon. Members have been saying tonight on behalf of the urban district councils, but in a different context.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1628.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1628.7", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY AND GAS UNDERTAKINGS (SEVERANCE COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "ng part would be representing the large local authorities, and they would be saying precisely what hon. Members have been saying tonight on behalf of the urban district councils, but in a different context. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It is no use hon. Members saying \"No\" at this stage. If, in fact, that formula was adopted, they would receive the same letters as the Urban District Councils Association.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1628.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1628.7", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY AND GAS UNDERTAKINGS (SEVERANCE COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "tuency which has a small undertaking, then, of course, the sliding scale is the formula for favouring the smaller undertakings to the disadvantage of the larger undertakings. I repeat that if we were to change this round, we should have another Prayer, and this time the big guns would be brought to bear. There may be some exceptions, but by and large I am certain that would be the trend of events.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1628.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1630.3", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY AND GAS UNDERTAKINGS (SEVERANCE COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "stry after consultations with some of the local authority organisations. It has moved a long way from there. Hon. Members have produced very good evidence and figures as to the effect upon their particular local authority undertakings; but, of course, they will obviously produce the figures that suit the case, and I am always chary of accepting figures because I do not think they ever prove cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1630.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1631.0", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY AND GAS UNDERTAKINGS (SEVERANCE COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "Of course, I have picked out the exceptional councils. Before I produced the figures I said I was going to produce the exceptional ones, because those which have been produced in this House tonight have been exceptional ones.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1631.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1648.2", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONGRESS, SHEFFIELD (ADMISSION OF FOREIGNERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "ich the House was invited to make precisely the distinction between British subjects and aliens in matters of liberty which my right hon. Friend sought to make this afternoon and on which his whole justification depends in the administrative action taken over the past few days. It was in 1938, when the Ten Minutes Rule was still in operation and it was a Bill introduced under the Ten Minutes Rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1648.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1655.0", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONGRESS, SHEFFIELD (ADMISSION OF FOREIGNERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Dean.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "preceding_text": "I did not say the Archbishop of Canterbury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1656.3", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONGRESS, SHEFFIELD (ADMISSION OF FOREIGNERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"According to their harmlessness.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " he let in? Are we now to understand that there were a lot of distinguished people who genuinely believed in this Congress? If the Home Secretary says \"I am keeping out those who are wrong,\" he lays himself open to simple people like myself who infer that those he lets in are not wrong. Therefore, he has given all those whom he has let in a testimonial by the British Government to their integrity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1656.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1661.1", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONGRESS, SHEFFIELD (ADMISSION OF FOREIGNERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are you doing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "off names indiscriminately in a list, and say, \"We will allow these people to come in.\" I think that would be beyond his powers as Home Secretary. I think that, perhaps, a great deal of unnecessary publicity has been given to this matter. I listened to a large part of the speech of the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne, and I believe that the publicity he gave to the conference did not do any good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1662.1", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONGRESS, SHEFFIELD (ADMISSION OF FOREIGNERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman) put up a very sound theoretical case for the ordinary conception of the right of a person to propagate anything in which he believes. His speech was very capable, but I disagree fundamentally with some of his conclusions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1670.3", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONGRESS, SHEFFIELD (ADMISSION OF FOREIGNERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "preceding_text": "w as a Liberal, one of the struggles of this century has been the attempt between the wars to regain the liberty of the individual. The fight went on between 1919 and 1939 and now it is on again. The individual is nearly abolished in a free country, controlled here and controlled there, and the fight is on again. What is the argument for controls in a free country? It is, \"Look at Eastern Europe.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1670.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1679.1", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONGRESS, SHEFFIELD (ADMISSION OF FOREIGNERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": " rights of those people to say those things. There is one other point which I should like to mention before I close. I personally regret very much the coincidence of dates, that when the \"grillings\" and so on were taking place at the ports they took place on Armistice Day, a day when we all think back of the great losses and suffering which this country and all other countries have endured in war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-14", "file": "debates1950-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "c6eaffddcc55befa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1692.2", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONGRESS, SHEFFIELD (ADMISSION OF FOREIGNERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "he cause of liberty without having a very careful hearing, but although I agree it is a balanced argument, I come down on the side of the noble Lord the Member for Dorset, South (Viscount Hinchingbrooke). I am making one protest. The hon. Member for Shettleston (Mr. McGovern) has thought fit to infer that anyone who stands for liberty in this House is something in the nature of a fellow traveller.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-14a.1692.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-15", "file": "debates1950-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "667a4f5326e31477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1759.3", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Clause 1.—(AMENDMENT OF 3 & 4 GEO. 6. C. 40, S. 1 (1).)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "w as possible. Let us put it this way. Could the Government indicate as narrowly as you, Sir Charles have ruled, what part of these sums they would allot to new housing, roads, health, education, and what part to new schemes such as the development of agriculture, industry, fishing or things of that kind. If that could be indicated, we might then be able to assess the intentions of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1759.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-15", "file": "debates1950-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "667a4f5326e31477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1770.0", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Clause 1.—(AMENDMENT OF 3 & 4 GEO. 6. C. 40, S. 1 (1).)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "There are only two points which I want to raise. Referring to what was said by my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent, North (Mr. Edward Davies), I should like to know what has been done about the Island of Zanzibar and the disease to the cloves from which they are suffering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-15", "file": "debates1950-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "667a4f5326e31477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1775.1", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Clause 1.—(AMENDMENT OF 3 & 4 GEO. 6. C. 40, S. 1 (1).)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Weight of intelligence\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harrison", "preceding_text": "Well, the words \"predominantly Conservative\" can have several interpretations. I always felt that in that Government to which the hon. Gentleman was alluding the influences were not predominantly Conservative. I am not counting the numbers. I am counting the weight of influence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-15", "file": "debates1950-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "667a4f5326e31477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1776.0", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Clause 1.—(AMENDMENT OF 3 & 4 GEO. 6. C. 40, S. 1 (1).)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John McKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John McKay", "preceding_text": " am to make my few remarks without transgressing against the rules of order. However, I feel that the business with which we are dealing at the moment comes simply to the question whether the money which is to be allocated under the Clause is thus wisely allocated. That brings me to the whole question of what need there is at the moment in the Colonies. Is there any great need to spend more money?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1776.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-15", "file": "debates1950-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "667a4f5326e31477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1779.4", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "Clause 1.—(AMENDMENT OF 3 & 4 GEO. 6. C. 40, S. 1 (1).)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. James Griffiths)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. James Griffiths)", "preceding_text": "o have a really solid foundation upon which they can be sustained and upon which they can be expanded, because there is an enormous need for them. I do not want to enter into a long discussion about the C.D.C. and its future except to say that this £140 million is not the only provision we have made. General provision was made when hon. Members on the other side and we were together in government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1779.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-15", "file": "debates1950-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "667a4f5326e31477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1816.1", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "EXPERIMENTAL FARMS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenyon", "preceding_text": "er. We can produce the sheep and the beef calves in the spring, and we can run them through the summer without difficulty, but we are totally unable to carry that stock through the winter because we have not got the fodder to do it. How shall we obtain this fodder? The main stand-by, of course, is hay, and, although it may seem a strange thing to say, we want more experiments in the making of hay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-15", "file": "debates1950-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "667a4f5326e31477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1824.1", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "EXPERIMENTAL FARMS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must not take himself so seriously. He cannot see himself as we see him from these benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1824.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-15", "file": "debates1950-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "667a4f5326e31477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1837.6", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT STAFFS (TRADE UNION MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "Do not throw out too many challenges, you might hit something! If the hon. Member's belief in combination for the worker is so strong, why is he a member of the party which consistently throughout its history has tried to stop that combination?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1837.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-15", "file": "debates1950-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "667a4f5326e31477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1841.1", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT STAFFS (TRADE UNION MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "I am not asking for individual freedom for one or two individuals; I am arguing that it should be spread over everybody. Hon. Members opposite talk about freedom of the individual as if freedom of the individual were everything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-15", "file": "debates1950-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "667a4f5326e31477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1844.1", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT STAFFS (TRADE UNION MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The man himself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "d over him in that respect, is something which hon. Members opposite certainly ought to deprecate. I have attempted to put forward my view on the basis that there was no insistence on a particular union. The phrase used in the letter quoted by the hon. Member was \"the appropriate trade union.\" I can well see complications arising in that respect. Who is to determine which is the appropriate union?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-15", "file": "debates1950-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "667a4f5326e31477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1850.1", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT STAFFS (TRADE UNION MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": "How can the hon. Member reconcile the two things? For almost a century the Tory Party objected to men joining trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-15", "file": "debates1950-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "667a4f5326e31477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1855.0", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT STAFFS (TRADE UNION MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I accept the first part of the hon. Member's statement, but not the second. Trade unions were certainly organised in order to obtain rights and, incidentally, their ability to be so organised was brought into law by the Tory Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1855.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-15", "file": "debates1950-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "667a4f5326e31477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1855.6", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT STAFFS (TRADE UNION MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "Dr. Morgan rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1855.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-15", "file": "debates1950-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "667a4f5326e31477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1855.7", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT STAFFS (TRADE UNION MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member did mention me by name. I think the hon. Member is misrepresenting everything I said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-15a.1855.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-16", "file": "debates1950-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "e3f6a3efcb2c0c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1878.9", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1878.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-16", "file": "debates1950-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "e3f6a3efcb2c0c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1884.0", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the anxiety of some hon. Gentlemen opposite to do all they can to damage the Festival of Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-16", "file": "debates1950-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "e3f6a3efcb2c0c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1884.6", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "While there is no hostility whatsoever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1884.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-16", "file": "debates1950-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "e3f6a3efcb2c0c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1884.10", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awbery", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend say whether the Opposition are for or against the Festival?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1884.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-16", "file": "debates1950-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "e3f6a3efcb2c0c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1898.3", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is this a Second Reading speech?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "fies the issue, as the right hon. Gentleman and I knew during the war on the question of Sunday opening under a Defence Regulation. The issue on the Second Reading is that if the Bill were rejected none of the Festival activities, however innocent, could be opened although the body of Christian churches has taken the view that it is all right for them to be opened excepting the amusements section—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1898.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-16", "file": "debates1950-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "e3f6a3efcb2c0c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1902.0", "colnum": "1902", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "Does the Lord Festival—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1902.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-16", "file": "debates1950-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "e3f6a3efcb2c0c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1902.1", "colnum": "1902", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "I am not clear as to the procedure on Thursday. If we vote for the Second Reading of the Bill, obviously we are committed to all that is in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-16", "file": "debates1950-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "e3f6a3efcb2c0c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1909.3", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "KOREAN OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": "Reports received by some hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1909.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-16", "file": "debates1950-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "e3f6a3efcb2c0c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1950.1", "colnum": "1950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN PAYMENTS UNION (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"False?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "at in that six months the prices of both raw materials and foodstuffs have increased considerably, so that if we were to try to replace the physical volume of the stocks we had six months ago it would cost us a great deal more? Therefore, to say to the workers that our position has improved enormously, that our gold and dollar reserves are up by x millions, is to give a false and \"phoney\" picture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1950.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-16", "file": "debates1950-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "e3f6a3efcb2c0c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1993.3", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "ST. PAUL'S CRAY ESTATE (DOCTORS)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I am not in the habit of getting away from any case. When it comes to getting away from a case there are few more adept than the hon. Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Emrys Hughes) in getting away from a case. I say this, that my hon. Friend then said that this led, in practice, to the selection of undesirable persons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1993.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-16", "file": "debates1950-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "e3f6a3efcb2c0c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1998.5", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "ST. PAUL'S CRAY ESTATE (DOCTORS)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "he did not deal in his speech with the grave charge made by my hon. Friend the Member for Chislehurst, but that it required the second intervention of my hon. Friend the Member for Luton, to bring this charge to his notice. I sympathise with him in that and I pity him in that, but I cannot resile from my position that he did not deal with it in his first speech. What we would like to know further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1998.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-16", "file": "debates1950-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "e3f6a3efcb2c0c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1998.5", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "ST. PAUL'S CRAY ESTATE (DOCTORS)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh no, go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "on. Friend the Member for Chislehurst, but that it required the second intervention of my hon. Friend the Member for Luton, to bring this charge to his notice. I sympathise with him in that and I pity him in that, but I cannot resile from my position that he did not deal with it in his first speech. What we would like to know further—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"] Has the hon. Member any remark to make?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1998.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-16", "file": "debates1950-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "e3f6a3efcb2c0c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1999.4", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "ST. PAUL'S CRAY ESTATE (DOCTORS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.1999.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-16", "file": "debates1950-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "e3f6a3efcb2c0c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.2026.1", "colnum": "2026", "heading": "HOUSING, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Fifty per cent.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "—because that was the attitude of the Conservative Party at Blackpool. They said, \"We will increase the housing target by 33⅓ per cent.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-16a.2026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.12.6", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that some Socialist miners have admitted to me that the reason why they left the pits was because they could not stand nationalisation at any price, and will he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.12.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.29.3", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that General MacArthur has overtly disobeyed his Commander-in-Chief over Formosa, and has had to be publicly rebuked for it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.29.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.29.4", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I cannot possibly accept the statement made by my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.29.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Of course he was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Donnelly) referred to General MacArthur as being rebuked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.30.3", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "In view of the very remarkable successes which General MacArthur has achieved, would not it be best to leave this matter to his discretion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.30.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (PENSIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wife.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "ty of making provision for his family. The hon. and learned Member for Daventry asked for some specific example as to how the proposals would work. I will take such an example. Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, who was a very distinguished Lord Chancellor, became entitled to a pension under the 1832 Act. In 1837, he married again. He is reported as having lived happily for 25 years with his second widow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.82.2", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (PENSIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "at matter, the more so as that general position was discussed in a fairly non-controversial atmosphere by most of the speakers who succeeded him. But the position is particularly acute as regards the northern Kingdom. The Attorney-General said that some of the judges did not entirely agree with the proposals which are now brought forward. My information is that all the judges disagreed except one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.82.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (PENSIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "agreement with the High Court of Scotland than the position which we now find? My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Northants, South, has said that it might be a good thing in the case of the other judges if a continuing right of option were allowed. It certainly seems it would be very necessary in the case of Scottish judges because actually in some cases their remuneration is to be reduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.112.5", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENTS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "port they will see that on 13th November a letter was addressed to them by the Principal Assistant Solicitor of the Treasury Solicitor's Department, Ministry of Fuel and Power Branch. That is a new one on me. Apparently the Ministry of Fuel and Power are not entrusted with a solicitor, and they have the Treasury Solicitor and a special branch. I think that if any Department needs a special branch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.112.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENTS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Under our Rules I have a right of reply. The Parliamentary Secretary said that someone had called him \"Casabianca\" and he reminded me of Casabianca when he stood alone on the burning deck. The rest of the words I will not repeat, but he read his brief with great vitality. I wish that I were satisfied that he understood it as clearly as did the gentlemen who prepared the written document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENTS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I have never seen an hon. Gentleman who was not reading his speech have his eyes so fixed on the Despatch Box the whole time he was speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENTS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member should take off his glasses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I have never seen an hon. Gentleman who was not reading his speech have his eyes so fixed on the Despatch Box the whole time he was speaking. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"] I am not going to be suppressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.127.4", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENTS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "preceding_text": "aximum of 14 houses to the acre is now permitted by the Ministry. For several years I was vice-chairman of my local authority housing committee and during that period I was faced with difficulties which, though perhaps not so bad as present difficulties, were certainly very bad. In 1928, 1929 and 1930 we had permission to increase the density per acre and in those years built up to 26 to the acre—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.127.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.138.3", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENTS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "That is the very point I was making. It appears to me, therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENTS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "nd I want to put forward one or two details which have been suggested to me. It is not an easy problem at the moment to deal with the question of reducing housing costs, because it is partly outside the control of the Government. Building materials are in the hands of private enterprise; bricks, cement and practically everything necessary for building houses are in the hands of private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENTS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "t. The debate on housing convinced me that if I had any responsibility in the Government I would take up the Opposition's challenge to build 300,000 houses, because everything which would be necessary to build the extra 100,000 houses would be against the policy of the Opposition. There would be more bulk buying than there is at present. But we are getting away from the question of reducing costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENTS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And prams.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "The outside lavatory could be left out until we are in a better position to provide it for the houses. Space could be left for all these things until such time as they can be provided. I understand that under a Ministry of Health regulation an outside shed, 7 ft. by 5 ft., must be added to every house. I am told that in the majority of cases these sheds are little used, except for gardening tools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENTS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "es. Space could be left for all these things until such time as they can be provided. I understand that under a Ministry of Health regulation an outside shed, 7 ft. by 5 ft., must be added to every house. I am told that in the majority of cases these sheds are little used, except for gardening tools. [HON. MEMBERS: \"And prams.\"] Prams are not usually put outside, but are left standing in the hall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENTS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "or advising that that can be done quite comfortably. That is the height in the prefabricated house, and no one in a prefabricated house has ever yet complained about the height of the ceiling. Slightly to reduce the height would save two or three layers of bricks and would save stairs and electrical equipment. That may not be right, but when we are in an emergency we ought to look at every aspect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENTS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hospitals and schools?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "ortar and cement. It ought to be possible for the Ministry to say that the very minimum of other work is to be done while we need to supply so many additional houses. Picturedromes—in fact, I would say every type of building—should stop completely for a period of two or three years, with the exception of factories for the purpose of getting full employment and houses for the housing of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENTS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "ail than was necessary, but these points are of desperate interest. I think that from whatever side of the House a suggestion comes, nothing should be left undone to help us to meet in the cheapest possible way, in the shortest possible time and without lowering our standard, what I consider to be the number one priority problem of this country. The building trade worker has no security of tenure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENTS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmayne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmayne", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member for Liverpool, Exchange (Mrs. Braddock), for putting so clearly so many of the arguments previously put by my right hon. and hon. Friends on this side of the House. She must of course have her political blows, that is well understood but I am certain that she has put the thing in a nutshell and I hope the points she has made will at least be given attention by the Minister of Health—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.156.4", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENTS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": " the Chinese Government from being able to attend the Security Council until this present aggression against Tibet has come to an end. After all, of all the harmless countries in the world, surely Tibet is the most harmless. It is a country the population of which is mainly composed of Buddhists and, for the most part, of Buddhists who accept the original doctrine of Gautama and who are pacifists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.156.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-20", "file": "debates1950-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "09e1ad607493fa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENTS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "f Munich we were not arguing while Hitler's forces were invading Czechoslovakia. If His Majesty's Government now parley with the Chinese Communist Government they will be doing what Neville Chamberlain himself would never have done—parleying with the aggressors at the very moment that aggression is taking place. It is almost as if one were remonstrating with a man while he was raping one's sister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-20a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-21", "file": "debates1950-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4da5c90709994d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-21a.190.3", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "I cannot agree at all that my right hon. Friend misled the House in this respect. If hon. Members want an impartial witness of what has reached the troops in the front line, I quote from today's issue of the \"Daily Express,\" in which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-21a.190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-21", "file": "debates1950-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4da5c90709994d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-21a.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I do not know about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-21a.196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-21", "file": "debates1950-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4da5c90709994d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-21a.199.8", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In view of the unsatisfactory nature of the reply, I beg to give notice that I shall raise the matter on the Adjournment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-21a.199.8"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-21", "file": "debates1950-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4da5c90709994d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-21a.200.9", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Perhaps that Question might more fitly be put down by a Scottish Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-21a.200.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-21", "file": "debates1950-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4da5c90709994d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-21a.205.5", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When will that be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "As I have already explained, in the case of owners of small plots of land, they will be paid 100 per cent. when the £300 million comes to be distributed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-21a.205.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-21", "file": "debates1950-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4da5c90709994d84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-21a.242.4", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Clause 2.—(PAYMENTS INTO AND OUT OF THE INTRA-EUROPEAN PAYMENTS ACCOUNT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "preceding_text": "r of the Executive. If the Executive has £125 million pocket money which it can use for a year without coming back to this House, evil things may result. And evil things have in tact resulted, because no less a man than the Minister of Health, who is sitting on the Front Bench opposite, borrowed £55 million from this Fund which enabled him to conceal his maladministration until after the Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-21a.242.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.341.6", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Can we have an answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.341.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.341.7", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer it, then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is mistaken. I have not refused to answer the question at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.341.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.342.2", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I do not accept the right hon. Gentleman's judgment of what is wriggling. I have given a straightforward answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.342.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.345.7", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.345.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.345.8", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "This matter would also fail, in my opinion, as a matter of urgency. It was answered by the Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.345.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "e some kind of estimate. I realise there are all kinds of imponderables and uncertain factors in the situation, such as the allocation of capital expenditure, defence requirements and so on, and I know that every person on the waiting list has a different priority, but there must be an average and there must be something in the mind of the Minister about the probable shape of things in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Full employment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ly keep under review, but into which we should import some sense of urgency in the minds of hon. Members opposite. I suppose we shall hear about the difficulties the Minister is experiencing in the provision of telephones and I quite agree that they exist. One knows there is a six years' back log from the war and that the population has gone up, and I am sure the demand for telephones has gone up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Admirable consistency.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ssential in the national interest. Consequently, we are compelled to keep over 5,000 people in the Oxford area waiting for telephone service, and it will be some considerable time before\"— and so on. The letter goes on: Much as I regret it, these conditions will continue until a larger share of the national income and manpower can justifiably be devoted to the development of the telephone service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": " that, even apart from the arguments about equipment and shortage of labour, a situation in one area—even if it is peculiar to that area—in which the non-priority list has stopped altogether, is a situation which ought not to be accepted by the House five and a half years after the end of the war. I ask him to pass on to his right hon. Friend, who is not here tonight, the message I have given him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Lang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lang", "preceding_text": "ld have to do, the larger expenditure of time and the general sense of frustration we should experience. I know we get it in other ways too. Telephones are by no means an unmixed blessing, but they are almost indispensable. I use the telephone as little as possible except when I am here, and then every night I spend 6d. a minute to make love to the same little lady, and I wish that everybody else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.390.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.424.3", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR MATERIAL (SALE TO EGYPT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is hardly fair.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "ime today I thought that the Opposition also considered it to be urgent and important. Their opinion as to its urgency seems to have since evaporated. Indeed, so little urgent do they consider it that their Member, the hon. Member for Basingstoke (Mr. Donner), who had this Adjournment and had the opportunity to raise this question in my place, did not, apparently, consider it worth while to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.424.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.424.7", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR MATERIAL (SALE TO EGYPT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. R. W. Low", "preceding_text": "Have not the Ministry of Defence given an assurance to the House that these tanks will not be exported until this matter has been fully debated?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.424.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.431.3", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR MATERIAL (SALE TO EGYPT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "The House has just listened to what I am sure all hon. Members will agree was a remarkable speech, well informed as to the facts and inspired by deep sincerity of purpose. For that very reason I regret that the hon. and learned Member mixed it up with some very cheap party stuff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.431.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.432.0", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR MATERIAL (SALE TO EGYPT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What decision?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member will permit me to interrupt, may I say of course I recognise that there are people in the party opposite who care profoundly for their country, but the party organisation today, instead of coming now when they can get this decision altered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR MATERIAL (SALE TO EGYPT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "No, we have had enough. We have raised the issue. We have stated our position. We have stated our desire for a debate with a Division at the end of it. Then the hon. and learned Gentleman comes here and spoils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR MATERIAL (SALE TO EGYPT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Immediately.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Member fails to see that he and his colleagues have laid themselves open to precisely that charge. They went to very considerable trouble this afternoon—and I confess at once that I thought they were right—to persuade Mr. Speaker that this was a definite and urgent matter of public importance that must by all means be raised this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR MATERIAL (SALE TO EGYPT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "d there would have been many times 40 hon. Members ready to do so—it did mean that all business would have been adjourned tonight at seven o'clock and we would have debated it. Does the hon. Member remember what his colleagues were doing at seven o'clock? I do. They were spinning out the Debate on Post Office telephones in order to prevent this Debate from coming on at all; and doing it by design.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.436.5", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR MATERIAL (SALE TO EGYPT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ecause it won on the Division, but was morally defeated and had to resign. He has said he voted against the Government, and I remember that he did and one honours him for that act. He voted against his Government while taking part in a great Parliamentary trial. But that was on just such on occasion as this. It was an ordinary Adjournment Debate such as we are now having. It was not a special one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.436.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR MATERIAL (SALE TO EGYPT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "Churchill), and Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Eden). It has been said that they ought to have taken up this matter on the Adjournment. It has also been said that this is a matter of the greatest possible importance. Yet Members opposite would appear to think that the proper time to discuss a matter of first importance is on the Adjournment, when no one can tell when the Adjournment might take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.447.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.455.4", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR MATERIAL (SALE TO EGYPT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.455.8", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR MATERIAL (SALE TO EGYPT)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "May I pursue the question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.455.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.455.9", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR MATERIAL (SALE TO EGYPT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "May I pursue the question? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] The hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.455.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.456.5", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR MATERIAL (SALE TO EGYPT)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.456.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.456.6", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR MATERIAL (SALE TO EGYPT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The hon. Gentleman said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.456.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.456.11", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR MATERIAL (SALE TO EGYPT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I was careful in the words I used. I said that Cabinet Ministers and senior Ministers would have been present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.456.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR MATERIAL (SALE TO EGYPT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "It is true that this statement put an end to discrimination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR MATERIAL (SALE TO EGYPT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "at the question of avoiding war is an international affair, not solely for this country or any other country but for mankind to devote themselves to works of reconstruction and to organise themselves for that purpose. On occasions in the complete absence of the Liberal Party I have drawn attention to these matters, and if I may now rely upon their support in my endeavours I shall be very grateful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-22", "file": "debates1950-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a48157324c371d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.466.5", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR MATERIAL (SALE TO EGYPT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " that there was some special occasion which made it undesirable for the Opposition to raise this matter tonight. In any event, the Opposition have not been here. I counted something like 29 hon. Members on the opposite side of the House once at the height of the Debate, and the hon. Member for Basingstoke (Mr. Donner), who gave notice of his intention to raise this matter has not been here at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-22a.466.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.481.5", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "It has become clear from the review which the Electricity Sub-Committee of the National Joint Advisory Council is now conducting that the problem of avoiding electricity load shedding during the peak hours this winter has assumed serious proportions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.481.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.481.7", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "I cannot go into all the points in that supplementary question at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.481.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.503.3", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "This is an operational matter for Festival Gardens Ltd. As I explained in a reply to the hon. and gallant Member for Macclesfield (Air Commodore Harvey) on 21st November, I must ask the House to be so good as not to expect me to answer this type of Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend to state quite definitely whether the House will have an opportunity of discussing the proposal before any definite arrangement is made about sending any further armaments to Egypt? May I also, on another subject, and in order to save time, ask with regard to the Leasehold Properties (Temporary Provisions) Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.515.7", "colnum": "515", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": "It would be helpful to us, Mr. Speaker, if we could have your guidance on this point. I understand that we are having a statement on the business for next week. With great respect to the right hon. Member for Warwick and Learnington (Mr. Eden), I found some difficulty in following in the early stages of these questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.515.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.515.7", "colnum": "515", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": "helpful to us, Mr. Speaker, if we could have your guidance on this point. I understand that we are having a statement on the business for next week. With great respect to the right hon. Member for Warwick and Learnington (Mr. Eden), I found some difficulty in following in the early stages of these questions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not a point of order.\"] I had some difficulty in following exactly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.515.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.515.7", "colnum": "515", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nally", "preceding_text": "dance on this point. I understand that we are having a statement on the business for next week. With great respect to the right hon. Member for Warwick and Learnington (Mr. Eden), I found some difficulty in following in the early stages of these questions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not a point of order.\"] I had some difficulty in following exactly—[ Interruption. ] I had some difficulty in following—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.515.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.516.2", "colnum": "516", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "iven with so much alacrity and agreement, Mr. Speaker. To return to the point, are we to understand that the Government changed their policy between the statement by the Minister of Defence in the afternoon and the statement made by the Under-Secretary at the end of the debate, and if so, can the right hon. Gentleman tell us, for our guidance, what were the new facts and circumstances which arose?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.516.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.516.4", "colnum": "516", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "affect the life and safety of our troops and affect wide matters of policy on defence, and that we should like to have an assurance, before making up our minds about the Motion which we have put on the Order Paper, that due weight is being given to those facts and that matters are not swayed to and fro merely because of some gust of feeling in debate? These are matters on which our safety depends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.516.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.517.1", "colnum": "517", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Several Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Several Hon. Members rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.517.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.517.4", "colnum": "517", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I do not under-estimate the importance of this matter at all, but, if I may say so, I think that the right hon. Gentleman is very much exaggerating the observations of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Defence in the afternoon and the observations of my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State in the evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.517.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.517.8", "colnum": "517", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "It really is too bad. Here am I trying to behave myself. The right hon. Gentleman is being needlessly provocative. The Minister of Defence said yesterday afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.517.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.517.8", "colnum": "517", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "It really is too bad. Here am I trying to behave myself. The right hon. Gentleman is being needlessly provocative. The Minister of Defence said yesterday afternoon—[ Interruption. ] Ought I to have this cross-examination? Did I not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.517.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.517.9", "colnum": "517", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "It really is too bad. Here am I trying to behave myself. The right hon. Gentleman is being needlessly provocative. The Minister of Defence said yesterday afternoon—[ Interruption. ] Ought I to have this cross-examination? Did I not—[ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.517.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.517.11", "colnum": "517", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "May I express the hope that the Lord President will soon recover sufficiently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.517.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.518.3", "colnum": "518", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "In response to that appeal, let me say that I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman was at all hampered in what he was saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.518.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.519.2", "colnum": "519", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has not quoted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is arguing the merits.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Apparently it is a rather long pursuance of an argument in which the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition wants to maintain the position of his party with regard to the Motion that they have on the Order Paper. He is entitled to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "If a may say so—I am not making any scoring point about this—the hon. Member has not been here very long, and really, 2.30 in the afternoon of the same day is not adequate notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.526.2", "colnum": "526", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "May I revert for a moment to the question of leasehold reform?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.526.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "re that Sunday should be different from other days, a day when we get away from the rush and bustle and endless distractions of the ordinary weekday and have at least an opportunity to apply our minds to more fundamental things. Quite apart from the religious basis of this, there is much to be said for a break in the week, for a rhythm in life, in which one day in seven is different from the rest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "whatever may be said in favour of a common informer system operating against private persons, it would be intolerable and absurd for a national public activity of this kind to have to run the gauntlet of the common informer on a law, of the meaning of which nobody in this House can be sure. The Board are also extremely troubled about the financial implications of closing the amusements on Sundays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Corbet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is profit making.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Corbet", "preceding_text": "much about it. But I am concerned about this Festival of Britain. I want it to be a success, and I want the Festival Gardens to be a success. I think, therefore, that we ought to pay proper attention to the considered opinions of the Festival Gardens Company when they say that they feel they will not be able to open those gardens on a Sunday unless they are also able to open the amusement section.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Corbet", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Corbet", "preceding_text": " when they say that they feel they will not be able to open those gardens on a Sunday unless they are also able to open the amusement section. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It is profit making.\"] It may be profit making, but to open the gardens we have to have attendants; they have to be paid wages and it is doubtful whether, without the amusements section, enough people will go to make it a paying proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Corbet", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Corbet", "preceding_text": "Yes—if the hon. Gentleman comes to my husband's shop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Corbet", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not all of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Corbet", "preceding_text": "as been suggested, only the fun of the fair that will attract them, but also they will wish to enjoy the whole of the gardens, which comprise so much more than roundabouts, switchbacks and \"Dodgems\"—which last, I must confess, I find quite fascinating myself. I imagine, too, that our continental visitors who are used to having opportunities of this kind on Sundays may also wish to enjoy them here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member suggested that. At any rate, the hon. Mem- ber for Dagenham went to considerable pains to find out how many people attended church, and he came to the conclusion that they were a minority of the total of the population. I do not wish to be unjust or unfair in this matter at all, but he gave me the impression that they could very well afford to be overlooked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Astor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Astor", "preceding_text": "hose hon. Members? These circulars create the impression that there is an upsurge of feeling—call it the Nonconformist conscience or what you like—coming from all parts of the country, demanding that action be taken in a certain way. May I say where all this starts, who puts the idea into people's heads, and the source from which it emanates? It emanates from an office in or just off Fleet Street.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "opening to cover a new field and adding to the amount of labour to be employed on Sundays. I must make it quite clear that it is not only my view, but that it is set out in Erskine May that the main principle of the Bill should be considered at this stage. Anyone who supports the passage of this Bill through the House tonight must support those principles, which to my mind are the main principles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "ut that is a view I must express and a view I fairly and sincerely hold. Equally, I want to make it quite clear in a negative sense, in order to clear away any doubts, that I have no desire in any way to attack the Festival of Britain; very far from it. From the moment this House decided that the Festival of Britain in principle should be undertaken I and many of my hon. Friends have supported it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.595.0", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They would not go to Weston-super-Mare.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "ncessionaires, something in the nature of 2,000 people. It is estimated that the minimum attendance of the public would be something in the nature of 75,000 people. So we have 2,000 people employed and 75,000 people who would have to be moved about who otherwise would not be moved about—from one end of the country to the other, maybe. They have at least to be taken by bus, boat or tram or somehow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.596.3", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Sunday labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member may be interested in greyhound racing tracks, or he may not. I am interested in the Festival of Britain, and I am talking about the police in connection with the Festival of Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.596.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the bar?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "I do not belong to a golf club, and the number of people employed in a golf club on Sunday is very small if a player does not use a caddie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "I am speaking, and I believe that it would be the most eloquent speech of the debate; but I am sure that my father would take the view of the Nonconformists that it would be quite wrong for me or for any other hon. Member to cast his vote in this debate on account of any pressure which had been imposed. He would believe that it was the duty of everyone to cast his vote according to his conscience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "e their view on other people as to how they should spend their Sundays. That is the issue; either the State must decide what a person must be allowed to do on a Sunday, or the individual shall decide it. If the Bill is defeated, or if the proposal to allow those who wish to do so, to go to a fun fair on a Sunday is defeated, I believe it would be an interference with the freedom of the individual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Hartley Shawcross)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Hartley Shawcross)", "preceding_text": " I shall come. But it is also true to say that if the Bill is eventually passed into law, at least so far as its most controversial provisions are concerned—those relating to the fairground—it will only permit that to be done at the Festival of Britain which, in practice, is being constantly done all over the country, and in London as well, without any question at all arising as to its illegality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-23", "file": "debates1950-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d425a778c3c2328b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.631.3", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I am assured that that statement is wholly inaccurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-23a.631.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-24", "file": "debates1950-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "93a4af9673faee5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-24a.660.2", "colnum": "660", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (SPEECH, WEST BELFAST ELECTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Amendment. The point has been made that this was said during the heat of an election. The Attorney-General of Northern Ireland, however, was not a candidate, and what a candidate says in the heat of an election is one thine, but what his supporters say in the heat of an election is another. I think that that is quite a fair point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-24a.660.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-24", "file": "debates1950-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "93a4af9673faee5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-24a.673.3", "colnum": "673", "heading": "PAPER AND BOARDS (SHORTAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member has made a statement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "Had I expected to be challenged on this I should have had the evidence with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-24a.673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-27", "file": "debates1950-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "cbf6497eb20a95d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-27a.780.4", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware of the very deep concern which is felt all over the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-27a.780.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-27", "file": "debates1950-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "cbf6497eb20a95d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-27a.780.4", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware of the very deep concern which is felt all over the country—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"]—irrespective of political allegiance, that at this pleasant luncheon the Minister of Health committed a major indiscretion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-27a.780.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-27", "file": "debates1950-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "cbf6497eb20a95d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-27a.781.0", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend did not commit any indiscretion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-27a.781.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-27", "file": "debates1950-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "cbf6497eb20a95d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-27a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister now accusing the Press representatives in question of dishonourable conduct?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-27a.781.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-27", "file": "debates1950-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "cbf6497eb20a95d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-27a.782.4", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What edition is that?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ntary Practice\" lays it down on page 334 that: Questions addressed to Ministers should relate to the public affairs with which they are officially connected, to proceedings pending in Parliament, or to matters of administration for which they are responsible. Rule (26), on page 338, excludes Questions …repeating in substance questions already answered or to which an answer has been refused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-27a.782.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-27", "file": "debates1950-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "cbf6497eb20a95d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-27a.881.3", "colnum": "881", "heading": "RIVERS (PREVENTION OF POLLUTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "ropose to make, and I am sorry to have to introduce a note of party controversy about it—but I should be hypocritical if I did not—is that we are paying not merely for defence, but also in a big way for Socialism. And the £80 million needed to be spent on sewerage schemes might have been found out of the approximately £80 million which is the net total loss, so far, on the nationalised industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-27a.881.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-27", "file": "debates1950-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "cbf6497eb20a95d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-27a.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "RIVERS (PREVENTION OF POLLUTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "epted by others who are concerned with this problem. For example, we have had the view of the Secretary of the National Federation of Anglers, who has a natural and proper interest in the matter. Commenting on the Bill, he has said in a letter that its provisions should, in the main, prove satisfactory to angling interests; but he considered that Clause 4 of the Bill called for some clarification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-27a.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-27", "file": "debates1950-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "cbf6497eb20a95d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-27a.904.5", "colnum": "904", "heading": "RIVERS (PREVENTION OF POLLUTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "It seems to me that the Greater London area is in a special position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-27a.904.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "I appreciate and accept the first part of that supplementary question. All those points must have consideration. I cannot readily accept the suggestion of genuine dissatisfaction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.933.4", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "As this Question has been on the Order Paper for several days, why is the Joint Under-Secretary not able to give the House a proper answer instead of saying simply that he is making inquiries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.933.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.946.7", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept that it has ever been our policy to put in counterclaims.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.946.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.948.2", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "I have read the document. I do not agree that it is in any way impartial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.948.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.957.6", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "alised enterprise, because we cannot ask questions about what it is doing, because the Lord President of the Council is not responsible for its activities. The Lord President is only a part shareholder in this connection, with the Treasury and the London County Council, so he is well and truly protected, and it becomes one of those nationalised industries outside any democratic control whatsoever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.957.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "e way to arrive at a conclusion. If I were running the fun fair I should arrange that, as a great many ships conveying coal pass Battersea, two piers would be erected from one of which we could ship British coal abroad and at the other we could unload American coal coming into this country. That is a new thought for the Lord President to consider. I have many friends in the entertainment industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.962.1", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "by the destruction of the flower beds which he used to have pleasure in seeing before the Festival Gardens were thought of. Perhaps the Committee will decide to carry my Amendment, or the reverse may happen. If my Amendment is defeated, then another Amendment will be proposed which will be limited to the amusements park alone. I hope I have succeeded in giving substantial reasons for upholding it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Toleration.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "eople to agree by means of argument. That is what this question here really comes to. We proclaim ourselves a freedom-loving people. We ought to be prepared to try to persuade people by argument not to go to amusement parks on Sundays if we do not want them to go, but we ought not to coerce them by law. As long as we are not in favour of persuasion we are siding with repressive totalitarian ideas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.974.2", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "A good fair worthy of the name, like Barnum's, can be heard a mile away, especially on a Sunday afternoon when there is no competing traffic", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.974.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " proper for me to do so on a point of order, that it would be convenient if we could confine our discussion now to the Festival Gardens and concentrate later on the fun fair. It is true, of course, that if this Amendment were passed, it would be the end to the fun fair, but there are many hon. Members who want to see the Gardens opened on Sunday afternoons, but an end put to the fun fair. My Lord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "This is my Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.983.3", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "I suggest that that is the whole argument of the mover of the Amendment. I suggest that it is legitimate for us to say that as we want the Festival to succeed we believe that the Festival will be injured if it is not opened On Sunday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.983.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "ill earn very much less money. The experience of private enterprise fun fairs all over England is that they earn almost as much on Sunday as in the whole of the rest of the week. A lot of people who have the weekend off will want to come to London to see the Festival during the week-end. The Amendment would prevent them from seeing a part of it. Really, this is the children's part of the Festival.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": " off will want to come to London to see the Festival during the week-end. The Amendment would prevent them from seeing a part of it. Really, this is the children's part of the Festival. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] These fun fairs are for children. People can take their families during a week-end and let their children enjoy these gardens and amusements. Of course this Amendment will injure the Festival.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.984.5", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "c legislation for everybody. An hon. Member opposite is bringing forward a Private Bill to this end, and I shall give him my wholehearted support. However, in practice, we are not today raising an exceptional restriction placed upon public enterprise. We are, in practice, putting this public fun fair in exactly the same position as all the other private enterprise fun fairs throughout the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.984.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": " (Mr. Heald) will have succeeded in passing his Bill—I believe it will have support from all sides of the House—and that these fun fairs will be authorised. What I regard as one of the most important aspects of this matter is the active lobbying by Sabbatarians who have organised a flow of letters to hon. Members. I believe a lot of hon. Members are voting simply because of that minority pressure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.985.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "No, I interrupted the hon. Lady the Member for Peckham (Mrs. Corbet), to ask her where cigarettes were sold on Sunday because I wanted to indicate the great change which has come over Sunday trading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.990.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.990.2", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "an injustice, but I certainly thought the hon. Member favoured the opening of tobacconists on Sunday. It is not likely to influence the Committee either way whether he favours it or not, but the extract I have here is: Perhaps the hon. Lady will tell me where I can find a tobacconist open in London on a Sunday. I have been looking for one.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 23rd November, 1950; Vol. 481, c. 566.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.990.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.993.2", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I really must protest against the satirical remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.993.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.993.3", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Monday newspapers\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "th the facilities for buying our tobacco. Do we complain, any of us, about the people who have to work—and on a Sun day morning, too—when some of us are at church, in order to prepare our meals for later in the day? Do we complain because others have to work to provide us with travelling facilities on a Sunday? Do we grieve over the people who have to prepare the Sunday newspapers we want to read—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.993.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " will be. They will extend over 30 acres, and if 3,000 people are there the Gardens will be crowded. That being so, I fail to appreciate the idea that the people of, say, St. Helens will hurry to see in the Gardens what they can see much better free of charge every Sunday in St. James's park. I know that a lot of people want to talk about \"Dodgems,\" so I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.999.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.999.3", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Is it the wish of the Committee that the Amendment be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.999.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1000.4", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "to be closed. This is not in any sense a party issue. It is one which, I believe, will gain support from all parts of the Committee. Hon. Members may ask why we take exception to the fun fair and to nothing else. There are people, Members of this Committee and constituents outside, who feel that we are inconsistent in objecting to the fun fair but not objecting to the other part of the Exhibition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1000.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1000.4", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "hear.\"] I invite hon. Members who said that, to walk up Charing Cross Road and to see some of the fun fairs there. I invite them to walk down the Strand to see the type of people who hang around some of these fun fairs. They will then have their answer. So far in this Committee, the fun fair is being interpreted as an innocent hurdy-gurdy where the happy voices of healthy children should be heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1000.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1000.4", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " type of people who hang around some of these fun fairs. They will then have their answer. So far in this Committee, the fun fair is being interpreted as an innocent hurdy-gurdy where the happy voices of healthy children should be heard—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—at ten o'clock at night. Hon. Members are forgetting that this is not for the afternoon only. This provision is also for the evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1000.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1000.4", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "he Chamber, I believe for the first time since the debate started. The arguments in favour of having fun fairs on Sundays are along the lines, first, that the liberty of the subject is offended by people who object to fun fairs and try to prevent them. It is said that the liberty of the subject is taken away. I submit that my hon. Friends are not arguing for liberty but for licence in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1000.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1007.3", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtie", "preceding_text": "To reinforce the argument of the hon. Member for Blackpool, North (Mr. Low), I understand from a Scottish colleague of mine that fun fairs are open in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1007.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": " extreme view one way or the other. I agree that much has been said about liberty and license, if we are to take the full import of some of the remarks of the opponents to opening the fun fair on Sundays. It seems to me that what we are asked to do tonight is to decide whether we shall draw the line, for the purpose of the Festival of Britain, one side or the other for the opening of the fun fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1009.3", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Saturdays?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "nday.\" I say frankly that I should not allow my children to go to the fun fair on a Sunday, for the very good reason that in the circumstances in which they are they can go any other day of the week. But I am not prepared to use my vote in the House of Commons to prevent other people from taking their children to the fun fair on Sundays when they have no other opportunity of going to the fun fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1009.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1009.3", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "ek. But I am not prepared to use my vote in the House of Commons to prevent other people from taking their children to the fun fair on Sundays when they have no other opportunity of going to the fun fair. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Saturdays?\"] It is a common delusion of many hon. Members that people will come to this Exhibition for two days. Where will they stay if they do come up for two days?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1009.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "That, I believe, is another matter, but were we to go into the question of economic affairs I should say that I believe that men are much freer when they control the economic machine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1021.3", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "preceding_text": "ch better than I did the others. I agree with the definition which we have heard today that we must do nothing to offend people or to hurt their consciences. No one wants to do that. On the other hand, I do not want to be more episcopal than the bishops. That would be a foolish attitude for a layman to take. As I understand it, all the Churches have said that they want these amusements to be open—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1021.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1021.3", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "preceding_text": "nothing to offend people or to hurt their consciences. No one wants to do that. On the other hand, I do not want to be more episcopal than the bishops. That would be a foolish attitude for a layman to take. As I understand it, all the Churches have said that they want these amusements to be open—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—wait a minute—in so far as the park is concerned, without the so-called fun fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1021.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1023.0", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is denied.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "e Second Reading by my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham (Mr. Parker), that if there were any honesty in the Lord's Day Observance Society, for years past they would have directed their attention to this question of Sunday opening. They have not done so. I heard my hon. Friend say that they got certain subscriptions from the brewing interests. I do not know about that, because I cannot prove it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1023.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Black", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Black", "preceding_text": "the mass of the people of the country were concerned. It was a day in which, speaking generally, God and His Day were honoured by our people. During the first half of the present century, we have seen a decline in the fortunes of our country and Empire, and that decline has gone hand in hand with a decline, unfortunately, in the moral and spiritual standards observed by a great many of our people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1040.0", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gooch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gooch", "preceding_text": "ements park on Sunday would cause people to be employed unnecessarily on Sundays and thus prevent them from having the opportunity of attending public worship. The second point is that the effect on foreign visitors would not enhance the prestige of our country abroad. Their third point is that there was no such opening of the amusements ac the 1851 Exhibition or at the Wembley Exhibition in 1925.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1040.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1061.1", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Mr. Crossman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " the Day of Rest. The second, which I did not quite understand, was a question of good manners, that the Government should not organise a fun fair. The third was an appeal for a spirit of compromise which would not push the sabbatarians too far. It is worth noticing that an argument of principle has nothing to do with this Amendment, because the principles were accepted in the passing of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1062.2", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "t push the sabbatarians too far. It is worth noticing that an argument of principle has nothing to do with this Amendment, because the principles were accepted in the passing of the Bill. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I do not expect the people who voted against the entire Bill to be impressed by my argument, but I do say that anybody who did not vote against the Bill as a whole has not a leg to stand on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1062.4", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "whole Festival open all the week. It is all very well for my hon. Friend the Member for Rossendale (Mr. Anthony Greenwood) to say that although the majority of people are for Sunday opening, we must give way to the minority. Frankly, in the Midlands it simply means that on one of the two days at the weekend no one will go to London for the Festival, because people will want to see the whole thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1062.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1064.3", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "the Sabbatarian lobbying got in rather early and made a rather undue impression on certain people. The view of public opinion expressed a few days ago was in great distinction from the trend of today's debate. The talk a few days ago was as though most people were opposed to Sunday opening. Today, a week later, it is said that although probably, the majority want it, we must consider the minority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1064.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1064.3", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the 'Sunday Pictorial'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "go was in great distinction from the trend of today's debate. The talk a few days ago was as though most people were opposed to Sunday opening. Today, a week later, it is said that although probably, the majority want it, we must consider the minority. [ Interruption. ] I have heard speech after speech which said that it may well be that the majority want it but that we must consider the minority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1064.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1067.2", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN (SUNDAY OPENING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lionel Heald", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lionel Heald", "preceding_text": "cal and convenient, to adopt one form of ticket rather than another, that there is any need for anybody to be worried about this matter. I ask the Committee to bear that in mind. Under the law today there can be two men on the same roundabout on a Sunday. The only difference between them is that they have two different types of ticket. One is breaking the law and the other is not. That is the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1067.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "MEAT RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " the distribution of meat in due course. Of the total imports of meat to this country, by far and away the biggest supplies came from the Argentine, but as a result of a disagreement between the British Government and the Argentine Government, Argentina said that they would not export any meat to this country after July of this year, which is the new contract year which continues until June, 1951.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "MEAT RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " home. In Canada there has been trouble, and in December, 1949, Canada's Minister of Agriculture said: We do seem to be at or near a cross road where a plan based on Government to Government sales cannot be continued. Within the great British Commonwealth we look at New Zealand. In New Zealand the Federated Farmers Meat and Wool Council announced in February of this year that the Ministry of Food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1083.2", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "MEAT RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Come over to this side.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": "t of meat, when the home grown meat was coming off the grass. We do not put that meat in cold storage but send it straight out to the consumer. It was well understood—it was announced at the time—that we are giving you a 1s. 7d. ration so long as we can, but in a week or two it will come down to 1s. 6d. again.'Then he will go on to say, \"How very foolish it is of the Opposition to take this line.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1085.3", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "MEAT RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At what price?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": "spapers, and it is open to every hon. Member to see a newspaper. Just recently the Government increased that offer to £97 10s. f.o.b. a long ton, and the Argentine Government has refused it. That is the position we are in today. I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Eastbourne (Mr. C. S. Taylor) that everyone on all sides of the House must want resumptions of meat supplies from the Argentine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "MEAT RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": "he Empire, and I am most anxious that sources of supply of meat should be developed, as they are being developed, in Queensland and in the northern territory of Australia and in other similar places, but unfortunately it will be at least four years before we can get a worthwhile supply of meat from those sources. There are no places in the world where we can quickly get sufficient meat to replace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-28", "file": "debates1950-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "642b33a5577a56da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1110.3", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "MEAT RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": " I do not want to turn this short debate on a Prayer into a long argument on meat production at home but we say that is the first charge we bring against the Government in this matter. Secondly, after all the hopes they have held out of greater Empire production, the results of imports from the Empire this year have been very disappointing. From Australia we have had 13,000 tons less than in 1948.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-28a.1110.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-29", "file": "debates1950-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a52d2ce8e7a5176f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1161.4", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have got to win the war first.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "administration rests with the Unified Command who will be advised by the United Nations Commission. One of the major tasks of the Commission will be the supervision of elections. The constitution of the Republic of Korea, that is to say South Korea, provides only for elections at fixed intervals. The question then arises, what sort of elections are to be held under the General Assembly resolution?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1161.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-29", "file": "debates1950-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a52d2ce8e7a5176f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1161.4", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "victory and sacrifice which gave us our freedom. The Amir, Government and people of Cyrenaica will always cherish, as nation to nation, this precious friendship, forged in the field and proved in peace. We look forward to a long period of close friendship and co-operation with the future State of Libya and I am sure the House will join with me in expressing good wishes to them in their endeavours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1161.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-29", "file": "debates1950-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a52d2ce8e7a5176f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "rea. It may be that the Prime Minister will do that tomorrow. After all—and I think I understand the pressure under which the Foreign Secretary has inevitably been working, in the last few hours in particular—after all, the Supreme Commander of the United Nations in that area has himself declared that decisions are now, at this stage of the conflict, in the hands of the chancelleries of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-29", "file": "debates1950-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a52d2ce8e7a5176f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "preceding_text": "We are all entitled in this House to speak our minds, but considering that the United States are carrying the burden in Korea and suffering the bulk of the casualties, I am bound to say that I thought the repeated criticisms of United States policy in the Far East in the speech of the hon. Member for West Ham, South (Mr. Frederick Elwyn Jones), were ill-timed, unwise and ungracious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-29", "file": "debates1950-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a52d2ce8e7a5176f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "preceding_text": "I am using notes to try to save the time of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-29", "file": "debates1950-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a52d2ce8e7a5176f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "preceding_text": "I am using notes to try to save the time of the House. [ Laughter. ] I come to my last observations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-29", "file": "debates1950-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a52d2ce8e7a5176f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "preceding_text": "No, not at all. The sales to which I referred were the sales which took place in September, 1946, and March, 1947. They were the sales of the Rolls Royce Nene jet engine and the Rolls Royce Derwent V jet engine—an invention which revolutionised aerial warfare. That was my point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-29", "file": "debates1950-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a52d2ce8e7a5176f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1250.2", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All the officers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "preceding_text": "I did not say that. The right hon. Gentleman intervened before I had time to finish my sentence. I was about to say that the officers in the R.A.F. who were in a position to know and whom I consulted on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1250.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-11-29", "file": "debates1950-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a52d2ce8e7a5176f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1260.2", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "Member that I think that, whatever opinion he may hold about General MacArthur, it is a little unfair to accuse him of negligence—that is what the hon. Member's remarks amounted to—in not having photographed from his aeroplanes the Chinese concentrations, because in order to do that, obviously he would have had to have those aeroplanes flying over the Chinese frontier. It was an unfair accusation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-29", "file": "debates1950-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a52d2ce8e7a5176f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1260.5", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": " other side of the House. I think that they have repeated very neatly—and, I hope and believe, unintentionally—Russian propaganda, and that refers par- ticularly to the speech of the hon. Member for West Ham, South (Mr. Frederick Elwyn Jones). His speech might have been made at the Warsaw bogus peace conference the other day. It was complete Russian propaganda of appeasement from beginning to end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1260.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-29", "file": "debates1950-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "a52d2ce8e7a5176f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I have not time to go into all the details, and I am dealing with the question of the hon. Member for Hertford (Mr. Walker-Smith). What we wish to prevent is warfare, or the spread of ideas, or the attempt to spread them, by armed force, whether in Malaya or anywhere else. We on these benches know, if hon. Members opposite do not know, how to deal with the ideological war with Communism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-29a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-30", "file": "debates1950-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b83013071a88237", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-30a.1350.3", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A British general.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "the initial steps are taken. An hon. Friend behind me stated yesterday that these steps would be followed by the creation of Panzer divisions and that they would then roll across Europe again, and that the Luftwaffe would be flying again, and I believe that a distinguished German general who participated in the control over Germany after the 1914–18 War was quoted in support of this theory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-30a.1350.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-30", "file": "debates1950-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b83013071a88237", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-30a.1387.1", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, but what is to be done now? What is the answer now?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "We should not have gone so far north. That is the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-30a.1387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-30", "file": "debates1950-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b83013071a88237", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-30a.1423.0", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is it not a fact that the President of the United States, according to the Rules of the House, should not be attacked?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-30a.1423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-30", "file": "debates1950-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b83013071a88237", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-30a.1424.1", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": ", New York, at a far higher level than it has been made hitherto. If the Prime Minister were to respond to this request by my right hon. Friends, if he were to consider that a senior Member of the Government, no less, perhaps, than himself, were to go to Washington or to New York at this time, he would, I am convinced carry with him the good will and good wishes of a great section of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-30a.1424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-30", "file": "debates1950-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b83013071a88237", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-30a.1424.1", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "ime Minister an assurance that our troops who are fighting there have their needs met at the present time. Our hearts are with them in their present struggle. They have been, as we have seen in the newspapers, sent \"into the gap,\" and we all know what that may mean. We know what it may mean in casualties, and we know how many hearts in England—and, indeed, in Scotland—are thinking of them tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-30a.1424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-30", "file": "debates1950-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b83013071a88237", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-30a.1436.1", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "sed zone, of a halt so that one could get discussion. But should the Chinese prove ready—I hope they will—to act by peaceful means rather than by force, I think a suggestion of that kind is just one of the things that might form part of the negotiations, and I welcome suggestions of that kind. I think we are all conscious today of the very great burden that the United States of America is bearing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-30a.1436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-30", "file": "debates1950-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b83013071a88237", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-30a.1436.1", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t of the negotiations, and I welcome suggestions of that kind. I think we are all conscious today of the very great burden that the United States of America is bearing. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] They are bearing the heaviest share in fighting for the principles and ideals of the United Nations, and I think we ought to have the very greatest sympathy with the American families who are bereaved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-30a.1436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-11-30", "file": "debates1950-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b83013071a88237", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-30a.1436.1", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ays be reinforced as far as possible with personal contacts, and it has been present to our minds that a renewal of personal contact between the President of the United States of America and myself might at this stage be useful. I have, therefore, proposed to President Truman that I should visit him in order that we might, in an intimate way, take a wide survey of the problems which face us today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-11-30a.1436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-01", "file": "debates1950-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "8ce78619c0180ece", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-01a.1476.0", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FRAUDULENT MEDIUMS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not tolerance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether my hon. and learned Friend recognises that the vote of those who opposed the opening of the fun fair on Sunday was out of respect for religious convictions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-01a.1476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-01", "file": "debates1950-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "8ce78619c0180ece", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-01a.1476.0", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FRAUDULENT MEDIUMS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Intolerance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether my hon. and learned Friend recognises that the vote of those who opposed the opening of the fun fair on Sunday was out of respect for religious convictions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not tolerance.\"]—and for religious tolerance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-01a.1476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-01", "file": "debates1950-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "8ce78619c0180ece", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-01a.1523.3", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "HILL FARMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major McCallum", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major McCallum", "preceding_text": " grant. They have been modernised, and therefore there is nothing that I can now ask from this Bill by way of benefit. I want to make that quite clear, because, in the last three days, I have received a most extraordinary bombardment of letters. I have been receiving them from an organisation which the hon. Member for Norfolk, North (Mr. Gooch) will know—the National Union of Agricultural Workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-01a.1523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-01", "file": "debates1950-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "8ce78619c0180ece", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-01a.1534.3", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "HILL FARMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "That was a record of the number of houses completed, but not a record of the number of houses included.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-01a.1534.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.7.3", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "preceding_text": "Does not the Minister think that it is an awful thing that, for the sake of £350, children's milk at school should be stopped when their fathers are producing the milk?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.7.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.12.6", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that the Labour Party's policy of centralised slaughterhouses is the cause of all this trouble?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.12.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.14.2", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the Chairman of the British Transport Commission is himself the principal star of one of these films?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.14.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.14.3", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the Chairman of the British Transport Commission is himself the principal star of one of these films? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] Is he further aware that this gentleman is not a very good film actor, and will he kindly advise him to stick to the transport job which he is supposed to be doing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.14.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.14.7", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "Are we to understand that, as this is a matter of day-to-day administration, in the opinion of the Minister, he exercises no control over how many films they produce and at what cost?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.14.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.17.2", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will read the reply I have given to him he will find it perfectly clear. He is not entitled to put his own construction on the answer I have given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.17.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.20.2", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "May I ask in which part of the Report is the information relating to this Question to be found?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.20.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.24.2", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I think that is possible, but I think the House would be wise to leave it to the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.24.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.26.8", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "It is not for me to comment on the speeches of right hon. colleagues of mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.26.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—SUNDAY OPENING OF EXHIBITIONS AND GARDENS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "endment we should be in great difficulties about the Ship Exhibition, where I understand the administrative and staff difficulties are much more acute than with the Exhibition in the four cities that have been named. I am told that the staff are recruited on a permanent basis, and will travel aboard ship in cabin and lifeboat accommodation which will not permit any increase in the permanent staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—SUNDAY OPENING OF EXHIBITIONS AND GARDENS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "ity decision last Tuesday might consult Mr. Martin for example, as to whether the new set of proposals which apparently we are willing to accept as doing no violence to our decision last Tuesday, and as doing no violence to our Sabbatarian conscience, would be within the general will and desire of the organisation that has had so much to do with pushing us into the decision that we took last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—SUNDAY OPENING OF EXHIBITIONS AND GARDENS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "ing no violence to our decision last Tuesday, and as doing no violence to our Sabbatarian conscience, would be within the general will and desire of the organisation that has had so much to do with pushing us into the decision that we took last week. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] Hon. Members may call out \"Rubbish,\" but we are all very well aware of the nature of the pressure that has been exercised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.66.0", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—SUNDAY OPENING OF EXHIBITIONS AND GARDENS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why should he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": "I ask the hon. Member to read what I said last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.66.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—SUNDAY OPENING OF EXHIBITIONS AND GARDENS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "preceding_text": "fter going to church on a Sunday morning, we should go and ride on a roundabout. Other Members take an entirely different view. We should not leave it to my right hon. Friend to have to interpret whether or not a body of religious feeling will or will not be shocked by a Punch and Judy show, which attacks the sacred British institution of matrimony, which encourages recourse to violence at a time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—SUNDAY OPENING OF EXHIBITIONS AND GARDENS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "an's observations are not to be taken seriously. We have been told again and again by the Lord President that this Festival is a national occasion. That has been repeated I think at least weekly, and now we have the right hon. And learned Gentleman standing at that Box telling the Committee that one of the features of the Poplar exhibition is to be a deliberately conceived bit of party propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.83.4", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—SUNDAY OPENING OF EXHIBITIONS AND GARDENS.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I should be very sorry to occupy the time of the Committee, Sir James—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.83.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.84.0", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—SUNDAY OPENING OF EXHIBITIONS AND GARDENS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has sat down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. and learned Gentleman sits down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.84.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.126.3", "colnum": "126", "heading": "1.—(REDUCTION OF PENSION IN RETURN FOR BENEFITS UNDER S. 2.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "om future judges will be recruited in Northern Ireland. My right hon. and learned Friend the Lord Advocate will speak about the position of those in Scotland. There is no doubt at all about those from whom future judges will be recruited in England and in Northern Ireland, that the silks are unanimously in favour of this Bill. I wrote to the Attorney-General of Northern Ireland only the other day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.126.3", "colnum": "126", "heading": "1.—(REDUCTION OF PENSION IN RETURN FOR BENEFITS UNDER S. 2.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In a full year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ld be subject to Income Tax and Surtax at the full rate. I hope I have satisfied the Committee that this Amendment is really not in the best interest of the great majority of judges. There may be one or two here or there who would be better off under the existing scheme. That is quite possible. On balance the judges who participate in this scheme are going to benefit to the tune of £40,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.126.3", "colnum": "126", "heading": "1.—(REDUCTION OF PENSION IN RETURN FOR BENEFITS UNDER S. 2.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Without contributions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "o benefit to the tune of £40,000 a year. [An HON. MEMBER: \"In a full year?\"] Starting at £10,000 and rising to £40,000. They are going to be £10,000 better off as soon as the scheme comes into operation, and after 30 years £40,000 better off. Not only that. They are going to enjoy what most people regard in these days as something very important—a not insignificant lump sum free of tax altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "1.—(REDUCTION OF PENSION IN RETURN FOR BENEFITS UNDER S. 2.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "Surely it is agreed on all sides of the Committee that the position of the judges ought to be better?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.143.2", "colnum": "143", "heading": "1.—(REDUCTION OF PENSION IN RETURN FOR BENEFITS UNDER S. 2.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member, if I may say so, does not seem to me to be applying his mind to the really difficult point. The really difficult point was well put by the late President Roosevelt when he spoke of \"malefactors of great wealth.\" It is not the drunk and disorderly person who is the chief problem to a State and more particularly to a Socialist State; it is the wealthy man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "1.—(REDUCTION OF PENSION IN RETURN FOR BENEFITS UNDER S. 2.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I am perfectly willing to take up that challenge. Is it not the case that the judges of the Court of Session in Scotland, by 13 out of 14, have said that they do not want the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-04", "file": "debates1950-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "496dd706f8ab8b66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Clause 3.·(POWER TO GRANT WIDOWS' AND CHILDREN'S PENSIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "s specified in the First Schedule. There are, however, one or two points to which I draw the attention of the Committee, while welcoming this provision. In the first place, I think it is clear—and the right hon. and learned Gentleman will correct me if I am wrong—that under this provision there is no possibility of any kind of pension being received by the widower of the woman who has held office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-04a.152.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-12-05", "file": "debates1950-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "10b831f7940fe623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-05a.181.5", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "Is that not a continued evasion, since the answer I extracted from the right hon. Gentleman last week showed that the majority of workers in nationalised industries are dissatisfied with their working conditions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-05a.181.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-05", "file": "debates1950-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "10b831f7940fe623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-05a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Those elusive things.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " less successful. There have recently been great developments. The hon. Member for Coatbridge and Airdrie (Mrs. Mann), who is very interested in nylons, would be delighted if she travelled in a motor car in South Wales and found a great nylon spinning works. They make only the yarn there. Somewhere else, I think, they are making those things which seem essential to the comfort of the modern woman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-05a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-05", "file": "debates1950-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "10b831f7940fe623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-05a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There were many curious people.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "English constituencies, I retain my affection for Wales and I go there very frequently. They seem to like me when I go there. The other evening I had a meeting at Brecon. The population is only 6,000, yet the number at the meeting was 1,500, which seemed an undue proportion of the total population. I understand some had come in buses from elsewhere, but that does not matter; it was a good meeting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-05a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-05", "file": "debates1950-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "10b831f7940fe623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-05a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "y in Scotland, and the similar characteristics of Wales, to know it must be so. That is why I have always resisted proposals for making Wales separate. I regard them as completely reactionary. We have got half the world trying to federate Europe and the other half of the world trying to de-federate the United Kingdom. It seems to me that there is something to be said for leaving some things alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-05a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-05", "file": "debates1950-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "10b831f7940fe623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-05a.250.3", "colnum": "250", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "ssion unless he succeeds in his appeal under the procedure. We all know that we want trees, but, on the other hand, there ought to be a balance in these matters. I see the Postmaster-General on the Front Bench. He is not getting any wrong numbers today, but he is here to defend the interests of Wales. He is a Welsh miner. I shocked a lot of miners when I was speaking in Swansea some two years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-05a.250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-05", "file": "debates1950-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "10b831f7940fe623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-05a.302.5", "colnum": "302", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I wish to turn to my own speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-05a.302.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-06", "file": "debates1950-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeecfb54feb63be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "Does not the Minister honestly regard his reply as completely unsatisfactory?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-06", "file": "debates1950-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeecfb54feb63be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.364.2", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "I am in complete sympathy with the object of my hon. Friend, but in this matter I am the agent for the Service Departments. The proposal for one concessionary parcel has been put to them, but I would point out that at present £140,000 is required to subsidise this service. To send one special parcel to each soldier in Korea would cost a very considerable sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.364.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-06", "file": "debates1950-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeecfb54feb63be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD PROPERTY (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ent time. As I said, the cause is two world wars, the interruption of house building and the redistribution of population. I see that the Attorney-General agrees, but I do not expect him to nod his head when I say that, added to those causes, is the Government's failure to do as much as they could for the provision of houses—the mess, muddle and maladministration of the present Minister of Health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-06", "file": "debates1950-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeecfb54feb63be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.401.3", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD PROPERTY (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In which paragraphs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "\"Scarcity value\" is a technical term, and I think that this is a Committee point, and that we had better discuss it in greater detail when we have the opportunity on the Committee stage; but there is, according to my recollection, a difference between the definition in the interim Report and that in the final Report. The one I was putting forward was the one in the final Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.401.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-06", "file": "debates1950-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeecfb54feb63be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.407.0", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD PROPERTY (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "t be disputed that, in law, such a tenant is at the mercy of his landlord at the present time, so far as renewal is concerned. If the tenant has to go—and as I say it is a very exceptional case—it might literally mean that that tenant is going on to the streets, because in many parts of the country it is impossible to get on to a housing list unless one is actually without a home in which to live.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-06", "file": "debates1950-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeecfb54feb63be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.407.0", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD PROPERTY (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "tment on this question of failure to take action to do something to help these people. There has been a lot of talk about the Hammersmith case recently. I do not know the rights and wrongs of it, but I know that had this proposition, put forward in November, 1948, been carried out by the Government, there would have been no anxiety on the part of anyone in connection with the Hammersmith property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-06", "file": "debates1950-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeecfb54feb63be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD PROPERTY (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wade", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wade", "preceding_text": "I hesitate to speak for the whole of the Liberal Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-06", "file": "debates1950-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeecfb54feb63be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.448.3", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD PROPERTY (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. West", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. West", "preceding_text": "ding lease, he extracted from the building lessee the highest rent he could obtain. Hon. Gentlemen who are members of the legal profession and who have been in practice as solicitors will know full well—and let us have no humbug about this—that when they have acted for building lessors or building lessees, the building lessor always extracted the best rent he possibly could for the land he leased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-06", "file": "debates1950-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeecfb54feb63be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.450.3", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD PROPERTY (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. West", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. West", "preceding_text": "ners were monopolists and could impose what terms and conditions they pleased. In a speech which I made in the debate on the Address, I stated that I had seen leases in which the building lessor imposed a condition that if the building lessee at any time embraced the Roman Catholic religion, the property was to be forfeited. Can anyone suggest that such a system should be operated in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-06", "file": "debates1950-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeecfb54feb63be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD PROPERTY (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where did he put them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "ill. It is one thing to protect the kind of tenant to whom I have been referring—the man who has occupied a house or a shop for a long time; it is another thing to extend the provisions of this Measure to all and sundry—to the five categories specified by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Wirral. I think that he has summed it up very well, except that he put the lawyers in the wrong place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-06", "file": "debates1950-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "eeecfb54feb63be9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD PROPERTY (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Frank Soskice)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Frank Soskice)", "preceding_text": "gant and ill-thought-out statements. Having made them and spent a lot of time in doing so, he crushed into a few minutes at the end of his speech those criticisms which I think he intended to voice about the Bill when he began to speak. Some of the things he said seemed a little bit hard to take seriously. He said we had to make up our minds whether we believed in the sanctity of contracts or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-06a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nationalised industries.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has the making of a first-class Hyde Park orator. I never did very well at that myself. The responsibility of the Minister in relation to the annual report is to lay it. To make the Minister responsible for everything that appears in the annual report would make him responsible for every detail of the management of the socialised industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.525.2", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIALISED INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Socialisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend recall that when the nationalisation Bills were passing through the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.538.0", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "Does the concession we have heard of—a complicated and illusory concession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.538.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.538.9", "colnum": "538", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "DAY, 11TH DECEMBER—Second Reading of the Livestock Rearing Bill, and Committee stage of the necessary Money Resolution: Remaining stages of the Administration of Justice (Pensions) Bill; Motions to approve the Agriculture (Special Directions) (Maximum Area of Pasture) Extension of period Order, and a similar Order for Scotland. TUESDAY, 12TH DECEMBER—A debate will take place on the Coal situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.538.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.544.4", "colnum": "544", "heading": "INDIA, PAKISTAN AND CEYLON (STERLING BALANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snow", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is that language which we have had from the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.544.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.549.3", "colnum": "549", "heading": "KOREA (OPERATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware as Minister of Defence that, in this report in \"The Times\" today, headed \"A Stassen Plan for Korea,\" high Commonwealth officials are expressing surprise that Mr. MacArthur seems to be defying the Administration by making statements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.549.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.549.3", "colnum": "549", "heading": "KOREA (OPERATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "ce that, in this report in \"The Times\" today, headed \"A Stassen Plan for Korea,\" high Commonwealth officials are expressing surprise that Mr. MacArthur seems to be defying the Administration by making statements—[ Interruption. ] The shouts from the other side of the House do not matter to me. I am putting my point of view. May I express, here and now in this House through the Minister of Defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.549.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.556.3", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(SUNDAY OPENING OF EXHIBI- TIONS AND GARDENS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "mple fact. Having tried to look at the matter from the moral point of view, I have to try to look at it from the constituency point of view as well. My constituents, working five and five-and-a-half days a week, will have no chance of visiting the Festival of Britain Exhibition except at weekends. They cannot travel from Oldham to London and back in a day and see anything of this great Exhibition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.556.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(SUNDAY OPENING OF EXHIBI- TIONS AND GARDENS.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " to see the Amendment passed in order to give guidance to the Lord President; but I think that anything like that which is a permanent and standing part of this Exhibition, and the illuminations will be, of course, is legal. If they were all turned out, I suppose there would be more or less complete darkness in the Festival Gardens on Sunday evenings, which might be an extremely undesirable thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.571.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.575.5", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(SUNDAY OPENING OF EXHIBI- TIONS AND GARDENS.)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "But he is learning.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": "I am not \"learned.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.575.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.579.6", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(SUNDAY OPENING OF EXHIBI- TIONS AND GARDENS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is relying on logic as a number of other hon. Gentleman have been relying on logic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.579.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(SUNDAY OPENING OF EXHIBI- TIONS AND GARDENS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keenan", "preceding_text": "There is a certain amount of agreement here, because those who so vigorously opposed the Sunday opening of the fun fair seem strangely absent today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.584.2", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(SUNDAY OPENING OF EXHIBI- TIONS AND GARDENS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "With the permission of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.584.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.584.2", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(SUNDAY OPENING OF EXHIBI- TIONS AND GARDENS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "With the permission of the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"] I want to make two points. The first is that I believe that the majority of hon. Members who voted four to one against this inclusion last week would feel if they were here now, that we were trying to do by Amendments and by a back-door", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.584.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.584.5", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(SUNDAY OPENING OF EXHIBI- TIONS AND GARDENS.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman is queer, in any case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.584.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.586.0", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(SUNDAY OPENING OF EXHIBI- TIONS AND GARDENS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I can quite understand that some hon. Members wish to get away and catch early trains—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.586.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.586.2", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(SUNDAY OPENING OF EXHIBI- TIONS AND GARDENS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I bow to your Ruling. Mr. Deputy-Speaker. I shall not put that argument forward now, but shall try to make my point on Third Reading. I would, however, say that I feel that we are trying to do by Amendment what the House said last week it would not permit to be done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.586.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.592.2", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(SUNDAY OPENING OF EXHIBI- TIONS AND GARDENS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in page 2, line 26, at the end, to insert, \"or any children's zoo.\" I am informed that it is intended to have what is called a \"pets' corner\" in the Festival Gardens. It will be completely operated and staffed from the London Zoological Gardens and I am told there would be no savage beasts of any kind and that the only animals there will be of a semi-domesticated nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.592.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(SUNDAY OPENING OF EXHIBI- TIONS AND GARDENS.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "I hope that this Amendment will be accepted, but once again I rise to draw on the good temper—if it still exists, as I hope it does—and the knowledge of the Attorney-General. We have always to be careful in drafting an Act of Parliament. Are the words, \"children's zoo\" all right from the legal point of view?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (PENSIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "hocked horror at the idea that we should attempt to depart from the general principles of taxation law to meet a special case such as this. I am bound to say that I cannot regard that shocked horror as being in the least genuine when I recollect that in the last Budget the Treasury brought all their ponderous machinery into play to make a special taxation for two particular people in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.618.7", "colnum": "618", "heading": "ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (PENSIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "I had anticipated that the Attorney-General was going to make that obvious point, but there is no substance in it whatever. Everybody knows perfectly well that the whole purpose of that legislation was aimed at two particular people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.618.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-12-07", "file": "debates1950-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "dead42c8b2ee4f90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Clause 11.—(PERSONS ALREADY SERVING.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "heir handkerchiefs to do a weep for the Scottish judges. In giving the facts, I am indebted in some way to the hon. and learned Member for Northants, South (Mr. Manningham-Buller), who elicited this information from the Attorney-General. A judge of the Court of Session gets £70 per week, or £10 per day, and under this scheme there is to be a lump sum of £4,050 and another death gratuity of £4,050.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-07a.643.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-08", "file": "debates1950-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5ba577140e5278d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-08a.716.3", "colnum": "716", "heading": "COST OF LIVING (INDEX)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Therefore, from practical experience, I know that it is of vital importance that this figure should be reliable and that people should have confidence in it. If the figure is not reliable, it can be one of the greatest causes of industrial unrest. I think that the Motion today is of very great importance, and one that ought not to be treated with the levity with which at times it has been treated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-08a.716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-08", "file": "debates1950-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5ba577140e5278d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-08a.716.3", "colnum": "716", "heading": "COST OF LIVING (INDEX)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "aid that there were certain facts that he would like to put on record. There are some facts which I should like to put on record from this side. I think that, in addition to this being of great importance, the Government are guilty in regard to the way they have handled this problem. For the past five years they have treated it as though it were a piece of hot coke which they were afraid to touch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-08a.716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-08", "file": "debates1950-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "5ba577140e5278d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-08a.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "COST OF LIVING (INDEX)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "e we have been in office, because they have been a great saving for our people. Those who cannot protect themselves need the most protection. I think the time has come when we ought to say again and again to the middle class that what they have done is to help the working class. There should not be a class warfare which we have been accused of carrying on by representing one class against another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-08a.754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-11", "file": "debates1950-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "748c1e822e14055c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Surely that would be a great abuse of Parliamentary procedure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-11", "file": "debates1950-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "748c1e822e14055c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.798.4", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman appreciate that it is almost impossible to make any sense out of that reply?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.798.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-11", "file": "debates1950-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "748c1e822e14055c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. Revenue has been obtained from the distribution of this film both on a commercial basis and otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-11", "file": "debates1950-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "748c1e822e14055c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVESTOCK REARING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "rfering with the balance of nature, and the question of the feeding and re-feeding of nature is one of the fundamental sciences. The Government are to be congratulated upon the splendid contribution which they are making by the establishment of the Nature Conservancy Board and the many agricultural colleges and research stations with their agricultural advisory committees. With regard to the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-11", "file": "debates1950-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "748c1e822e14055c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVESTOCK REARING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "ey are foolish enough to build a service cottage to which a man will not go, that is their responsibility. The Forestry Commission and the National Coal Board have tied cottages, and to say that they are better landlords than the farmer or the ordinary country landlord is nonsense, because they are the worst landlords, as has been proved time again. Although I am not one who agrees with subsidies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-11", "file": "debates1950-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "748c1e822e14055c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVESTOCK REARING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says \"More that that.\" I am glad that at long last the Ministry are taking the advice I gave them five years ago. I hope they will acknowledge the inspiration from which this Bill has sprung. This country has come to realise that it has to return to production from the land of this country, which has been neglected—I know this will please hon. Members opposite—for 80 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-11", "file": "debates1950-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "748c1e822e14055c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVESTOCK REARING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "spiration from which this Bill has sprung. This country has come to realise that it has to return to production from the land of this country, which has been neglected—I know this will please hon. Members opposite—for 80 years. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I thought I would get that applause. It has been neglected because this country opted for an industrial age, and b agriculture did not matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-11", "file": "debates1950-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "748c1e822e14055c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVESTOCK REARING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "It is only a step in the right direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-11", "file": "debates1950-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "748c1e822e14055c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVESTOCK REARING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "re trying to make our people believe that some day cheap food will come back and subsidies will not be necessary. That day will never come. What is the position we are in at present? Wheat in America is worth £30 a ton. We are buying it to bring to this country to make into bread which we sell here at 4d. or 4½d. a lb., whereas in the United States, where the wheat is grown, it is 1s. a lb.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.905.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-12-11", "file": "debates1950-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "748c1e822e14055c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVESTOCK REARING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Thomas Fraser)", "preceding_text": " a little further down the hill, they say, \"You ought to go further.\" The farmers must be wondering what stopped the Tory Party from distributing largesse when they were in power. They never thought of doing anything of this kind, and when we discuss the need for the Hill Farming Bill in 1946 and this Bill just now we should consider from what it arises. It arises out of the neglect of past years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-11", "file": "debates1950-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "748c1e822e14055c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVESTOCK REARING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "riterion. Even for the Hill Farming Act altitude is not the criterion. Near where I live we have first-class dairy farms 900 feet above sea level, but in other parts of Scotland we have hill farms which run right down to sea level and which are included in the Hill Farming Act. Altitude as I say is not the criterion. We have said clearly that the stock rearing farm may very well produce some milk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-11a.928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.968.5", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "preceding_text": "Since 1946 the number of pensioners receiving the supplement has risen from 6,800 to 17,500, including 10,000 of the 1914 war. The expenditure on the supplement has gone up in the same period from £440,000 to £1,524,000. With regard to the qualifications for unemployability supplement, I would refer hon. Members to paragraph 143 of the 25th Report of the Minister to Parliament which says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.968.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.968.7", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am not able to say whether they were prepared or not, but I am bound to say that these very long answers giving a lot of figures do look a bit odd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.968.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.969.8", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that my reason for asking this question is that for 28 years I have been a mem- ber of the Birmingham War Pensions Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.969.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.969.8", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that my reason for asking this question is that for 28 years I have been a mem- ber of the Birmingham War Pensions Committee—[ Interruption. ] Is my hon. Friend aware that my reason for asking this question is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.969.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "preceding_text": "I beg your pardon, Mr. Speaker. I was saying—is my hon. Friend aware that, for 28 years, I have been a member of the Birmingham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "preceding_text": "I beg your pardon, Mr. Speaker. I was saying—is my hon. Friend aware that, for 28 years, I have been a member of the Birmingham—[ Interruption. ] In view of the statement made from the other side of the House, my reason for asking this question is that, having been a member of the Birmingham War Pensions Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "preceding_text": " pardon, Mr. Speaker. I was saying—is my hon. Friend aware that, for 28 years, I have been a member of the Birmingham—[ Interruption. ] In view of the statement made from the other side of the House, my reason for asking this question is that, having been a member of the Birmingham War Pensions Committee—[ Interruption. ] I shall call the hon. Member something in a minute. Is my hon. Friend aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.979.0", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Lord Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.979.0", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Lord Festival.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Lord Chancellor—[ Laughter. ]—I mean the Lord President—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.979.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.985.3", "colnum": "985", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "Not only is this an occasion upon which we should congratulate the right hon. Gentleman upon his safe return, but is it not also an occasion upon which we can express our deep gratitude to the Prime Minister for undertaking this very heavy duty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.985.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ticism, but owing to the Standing Orders of the House a great deal of the information which we would like to get we are not allowed to get, because we cannot put Questions down which refer to the day-to-day working of the Board. It is perfectly true that the annual report of the Coal Board contains masses of facts and statistics, but no answers to the questions that are worrying the country today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "esults of blind economic forces and compelled, instead of refusing to import coal, to decide to do it. The next question that requires to be investigated and answered is the relations in the industry. We have been told on numerous occasions by the Parliamentary Secretary and the Minister, as well as by Members representing mining contituencies, that the relations inside the industry have improved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": " is overall. In September the average overall O.M.S. was still 3.4 per cent. above the level of 1949. We expected that in October there would be the autumn upsurge which happens every year. We called on the miners for the autumn drive. They made an autumn drive, but in the middle of October the rate of increase in O.M.S. began to flag. Why that was is anyone's guess. Discontent about a wage award—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, Communists.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": " industry, but I suggest that a national appeal on the radio, to be made either by The Prime Minister or the Minister of Fuel and Power, would have a good result. May I remind the House, and especially hon. Members of the Opposition, that the shortage of manpower is not confined to the mining industry in this country alone, In Hungary, and I do not think that country is run by a Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "We shall deal with that question in a moment when we come to the question of output at the coal face per man-shift.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hubbard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hubbard", "preceding_text": ", but the mining industry is so important that every assurance ought to be given to miners to encourage them to continue to be miners. If we do not overcome either the short-term or the long-term crisis, and if the Opposition were successful tonight in defeating the Government on a Motion which is more than a question of bringing down the Government, but is a question of bringing down the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1053.1", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Colegate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Colegate", "preceding_text": "an inquiry comes in, because in my opinion the key to the whole position is the position of the pit manager. Complaints which I have received—and I have had many—is that the manager today has not sufficient scope to do what he wants to do. He is not allowed to exercise his initiative, and he has to go through a whole series of references to other people before he can undertake what he wants to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1054.0", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "preceding_text": "I never said anything about the pits. I said that I was responsible, as a director of a colliery, for attracting men to the pits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Houses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "preceding_text": " in his community. If he enjoys his home life and enjoys the community life and comradeship of his village or town, we shall keep him there. Therefore, I hope that when we are discussing mining life we shall remember that these men we are discussing are not machines, and that there is a lot that we have not yet done about wage adjustments, working conditions, pensions and other such obvious facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "preceding_text": " we do not want to go too much back into the past —and I cannot at this hour—we might remember that irresponsible men in public life have talked, as the leaders opposite talk, of half a million steel houses, without the slightest reference to the material for making those houses, and I think that it is about time that we have either an explanation or an apology from them for misleading the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "preceding_text": "n. ] As usual hon. Members opposite are anxious to shoot but they are not good in their aim. I shall take one minute more to say that it is about time that we had either an explanation or an apology from hon. Members opposite for telling the people of this country that if we build 750,000 houses, every family can have a separate home, because I find this is breaking the temper of many good people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "preceding_text": "this is breaking the temper of many good people. [ Interruption. ] That happens to be an objective statement of fact. Hon. Members opposite know that housing is one of the most serious problems not only of our economic life but of our social and domestic life. You talk very cynically and in an irresponsible manner about half a million steel houses in 1945. You talk about better homes for everyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "preceding_text": "in point. I know that I promised not to take very long, but since I have obviously not made myself clear to interrupters opposite, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, I shall take just one minute more. I have been sidetracked from this solemn issue of providing, not only homes, but social amenities in the milling areas to a greater extent than is being done at present. When Members opposite cheat on this subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Minister of Health?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "preceding_text": "I have obviously not made myself clear to interrupters opposite, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, I shall take just one minute more. I have been sidetracked from this solemn issue of providing, not only homes, but social amenities in the milling areas to a greater extent than is being done at present. When Members opposite cheat on this subject—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] When Members opposite cheat on this subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "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": "alter. In point of fact, the changes were made. The only flexible part of the coat budget is, of course, the export trade. We cannot, obviously, cut down the amount of coal to industry—to the power stations and the gas works. It is impossible to reduce the amount of coal for the domestic consumer, because it is already 15 million tons less than it was pre-war. There is a limit to what can be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "se, that I had said that it was not the Government's intention to import coal. Subsequently, at my request, he read the whole of what I said, and I think he will agree that I said \"unless a change in the circumstances necessitated it.\" What I did say in September was that we were not, at that stage, going to import coal, but, if there were a change, then, obviously, it would have to be considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "it a very spirited defence of the Board's organisation. Sir Eric Young was a member of that Board, and was thus a party to the report. I go further and say that I understand that no proposals for changing the structure of the Board's organisation have ever been put forward by Sir Eric Young to his colleagues on the Board. I do not propose to say anything more about the controversy, and I am sorry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "isation. Sir Eric Young was a member of that Board, and was thus a party to the report. I go further and say that I understand that no proposals for changing the structure of the Board's organisation have ever been put forward by Sir Eric Young to his colleagues on the Board. I do not propose to say anything more about the controversy, and I am sorry—[ Interruption. ] I could say a good deal more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "ersistent nonattenders and warning them to do better. I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Neal) who said it was quite wrong to blacken the character of hundreds of thousands of first-class, decent, honest citizens who are miners, for the sake of a small percentage who may be persistent absentees. I am very sorry indeed that I have to turn over the pages of my notes so quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1100.0", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "in point of fact, the miner is as much interested in the conditions under which his wife and children live as he is in the conditions in which he works in the pit. Miners, generally speaking, do not grumble very much about the geological conditions in which they work. They are prepared to take that. But they are not prepared to go on living in the hovels in which they have been housed in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1100.0", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "rk. They are prepared to take that. But they are not prepared to go on living in the hovels in which they have been housed in the past. [ Interruption. ] This noise, of course, comes from hon. Gentlemen who want to keep this debate on a high tone. I do not think some of them have got as far as the sixth form in point of manners. In my constituency—and this is the case in all mining constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1100.0", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "COAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "o on living in the hovels in which they have been housed in the past. [ Interruption. ] This noise, of course, comes from hon. Gentlemen who want to keep this debate on a high tone. I do not think some of them have got as far as the sixth form in point of manners. In my constituency—and this is the case in all mining constituencies—[ Interruption. ] It is not the problem of the Minister of Health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1109.6", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "BRITISH ELECTRICITY AUTHORITY (ADVERTISING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No ice cream? No oysters?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ourport was opened on 26th September last. It represents an addition of 60,000 kilowatts to a power station which had previously been generating 180,000 kilowatts. It is a 33⅓ per cent. extension only, which is nothing very remarkable. Now we have the piquancy of the situation. This station was opened with a champagne luncheon, and a great flourish of trumpets, symbolic of the arrangements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1109.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1117.0", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "BRITISH ELECTRICITY AUTHORITY (ADVERTISING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was over-loaded.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "eman said that the Stourport Station had broken down, hon. Gentlemen roared with laughter. It seems to be the funniest thing in the world if a power station breaks down. Why they should laugh at the failure of the private makers of a set which has gone into a power station and which they decided to take out because it might develop some trouble, I do not know. I should think that was very serious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-12", "file": "debates1950-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "8fd93f794c07ea05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1117.0", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "BRITISH ELECTRICITY AUTHORITY (ADVERTISING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "t hon. Gentlemen do not like these posters. I like them, and my opinion is as good as theirs on this matter. There will be people who like them and there will be people who do not like them. I do not agree that it is a good thing that a Member of Parliament can write to an electricity board and say, \"Give me the answer to any questions I ask.\" He might ask how many letters they send out every day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-12a.1117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-13", "file": "debates1950-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "266a7e169750b430", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1153.4", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "We must wait for an official statement coming from headquarters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1153.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-13", "file": "debates1950-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "266a7e169750b430", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1162.6", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "MARSHALL AID (SUSPENSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Gaitskell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Gaitskell)", "preceding_text": "d to see so prominent an example of the success of the European Recovery Programme at this early date. His Majesty's Government desires to express on behalf of the whole nation its deepest gratitude to the Government and people of the United States for their unprecedented generosity in giving freely to Britain at a critical moment in history the means to regain her economic independence and power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1162.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-13", "file": "debates1950-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "266a7e169750b430", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1162.6", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "MARSHALL AID (SUSPENSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Gaitskell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Gaitskell)", "preceding_text": " to the sentiments expressed in the last paragraph. We are not an emotional people and we are not always very articulate. But these characteristics should not be allowed to hide the very real and profound sense of gratitude which we feel towards the American people, not only for the material help they have given us but also for the spirit of understanding and friendship in which it has been given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1162.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-13", "file": "debates1950-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "266a7e169750b430", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1171.6", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "MR. OLIVER STANLEY (TRIBUTES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This week the House has lost one of its most distinguished and well-loved Members, Oliver Stanley, and I believe that we should all wish to express our sorrow and our sense of loss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1171.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-13", "file": "debates1950-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "266a7e169750b430", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1179.3", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALMON AND FRESHWATER FISHERIES (PROTECTION) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. McNeil)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Private enterprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. McNeil)", "preceding_text": "ided, because I think that it has already been conceded that this Bill is essentially designed to preserve and improve an asset which is not only valuable to Scotland, but is an asset which is, in many ways, typically Scottish. The Scottish salmon fisheries are an extremely valuable economic asset. It is estimated that last year they produced some 1,800 tons of fish valued at just over £1 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1179.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-13", "file": "debates1950-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "266a7e169750b430", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALMON AND FRESHWATER FISHERIES (PROTECTION) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "ill shows quite clearly that those who have resorted to violent means have raised in the public mind such a resentment at the destruction of the fish in our rivers that the Bill will be universally welcomed. This is only one of many Bills which the Government have introduced to safeguard food resources. Salmon is an important and desirable food. It is assumed by some to be a food only of the rich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-13", "file": "debates1950-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "266a7e169750b430", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALMON AND FRESHWATER FISHERIES (PROTECTION) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macdonald", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is the hon. Member speaking for both?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "onel Boles). I feel that there can be very few people in this country who know as much about the salmon and its ways as the hon. and gallant Member, and therefore I must feel very ill-informed, as an enthusiastic but very unsuccessful novice at this sport, in following such a knowledgeable Member. I have in my constituency on the Tweed a large number of very keen anglers, both lawful and unlawful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-13", "file": "debates1950-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "266a7e169750b430", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1213.3", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALMON AND FRESHWATER FISHERIES (PROTECTION) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Thorp", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Scottish Sea.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Thorp", "preceding_text": "iles south of the Border. It is also going to have an effect on the English net fisheries on the River Tweed, which is the major point. The hon. Member for Berwick and East Lothian (Mr. J. J. Robertson) represents, I believe, about six nettings on the River Tweed, and I represent between 20 and 25. As I say, this is a Scottish Bill which is going to take action on English ground and English water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-13", "file": "debates1950-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "266a7e169750b430", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALMON AND FRESHWATER FISHERIES (PROTECTION) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "preceding_text": "I listened very carefully to the speech of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-13", "file": "debates1950-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "266a7e169750b430", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1220.3", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALMON AND FRESHWATER FISHERIES (PROTECTION) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "preceding_text": "I have read it. If we fish with artificial minnow, will that be legal?. If we fish with the otter by rod and line, will that be legal? If we fish with the witch by rod and line will that be legal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1220.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-13", "file": "debates1950-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "266a7e169750b430", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1225.1", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALMON AND FRESHWATER FISHERIES (PROTECTION) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "s working for gain for a gang, using the most inhumane and revolting methods to achieve his purpose, and on whom I would impose any penalty that could be devised. Apart altogether from the destruction of food, to use poison and electrical devices on the salmon, the most beautiful of fish, is a sin which should receive the utmost punishment. The other day I was talking to a poaching friend of mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-13", "file": "debates1950-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "266a7e169750b430", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALMON AND FRESHWATER FISHERIES (PROTECTION) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacMillan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacMillan", "preceding_text": "r it is bought. It is expensive in the shops. It is true to say that the mass of the ordinary people have very little interest in the protection of an expensive commodity held as the exclusive property of private landowners. I am sorry to have to say it; but, really, what the ordinary person thinks about it is that the Bill amounts to protecting, by legislation, one set of \"spivs\" against another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-13", "file": "debates1950-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "266a7e169750b430", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALMON AND FRESHWATER FISHERIES (PROTECTION) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The river boards.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "te prosecutions do take place, that we have law, institutions and customs which recognise the right of the Public Prosecutor to prosecute, and in recent times we have seen the removal bit by bit of the right of private interests to prosecute. I could not accede to the suggestion of the noble Lord who wound up for the Opposition that some rights in some cases should be given to private individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-13a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1362.1", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "osition, once established, as it would have been possible to do, about 100 miles long, presents a very different obstacle to the advance and infiltration of masses of enemy infantry, from a moving front in hilly, rocky, scrub-covered country, then broadened to about 300 miles. I am speaking only of what has happened in the past. I do not attempt to say anything about what may happen in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " is harmful to our national strength. The responsibility lies in the first instance upon the Government and in a special degree, of course, upon the Prime Minister. They decide the movement of our affairs. We respond to the action which they take in these matters. The Prime Minister has taken marked steps to increase the differences in home politics. I ask him, even now, if he will not reconsider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1370.3", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "l in his duties to the country as a whole. Although we approved of the visit of the Prime Minister to the United States, although we lent him full support on his mission, although the results have been helpful so far as they go, we cannot in these circumstances feel confidence in the loyalty of the Government to the people of this country. The Prime Minister is counting on our support, which will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1370.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1371.8", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "If there is any one man in this House who should hang his head in shame—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1371.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1371.10", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Mr. Silverman rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1371.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1372.6", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "—to draw his attention to the very different sentiments which have been put forward today. I regret very much that the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1372.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1372.8", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I am quite determined to utter my last sentence if I have to stand here half an hour. What I say is that I very much regret that the Prime Minister has not risen to the heights of his national responsibility, and I predict that he will encounter misfortunes and reproach on the discordant course to which he has devoted himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1372.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1379.4", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is not that a serious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1379.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1390.1", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about unity?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way. There are so many hon. Members who want to speak that I do not think it would be fair if I yielded too much, and I do not think I have said anything very provocative so far, although I do not mind if I have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Laugher.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "n the hands of one side. The position is one of the utmost gravity, and therefore I say that the time has come now—not next week, or next year, but now—for the Prime Minister, having met President Truman, to seek in some way or another, to meet not only Stalin, but Mao Tse-tung. I include China because, if we seek to isolate China, we shall make her more suspicious and more difficult to deal with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "process. We must try to get these budgets and armaments down. The first point on which there ought to be discussion is the reversal of that procedure and the limitation instead of a continual building-up of armed forces I have suggested a limitation in armaments. I know there are some who suggest complete disarmament. I am not going that length, because I believe that the world is not ripe for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1403.1", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ole tendency of the speech of the hon. Member for Tradeston was to deny that that is the situation? To deny that that is the situation and then to go on to do what is the worst of all things in considering international affairs, where some kind of war is already in existence and a worse kind of war is clearly threatening, by arguing that in any case we and any possible allies of ours are impotent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read it out\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "Those men are being discouraged to the point where, whether colonial authority can be carried on, becomes extremely doubtful. Neither are those the only key men who are being discouraged. I have here a letter from a Chinese, a man of great courage and great abilities. He was writing, not with politics in mind, though he began about the Socialist Government having done their best—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1411.5", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I do not think that is worth a laugh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1411.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1425.1", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I hate to refuse to give way, but there is not much time and there are many hon. Members who wish to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1427.3", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "nt. On that I am bound to say that some hon. Members who support, or at any rate appear to support, the Government do an ill-service by some of the speeches they make. It is possible that we might get an even higher degree of consultation if hon. Members and supporters of the Government would refrain from some of the speeches and actions which excite apprehension on the other side of the Atlantic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1427.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1427.3", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "ve. In saying that, may I give the House two very quick instances to show what I mean? One is from ancient history, from which it is well known that Sparta, Athens, and Thebes went on persevering in their own conflict long after, in the eye of history, it became clear that the real menace was Macedon. The other more recent and perhaps more obvious example is, that of our own relations with France.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1427.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1432.1", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "required in 1938 until the Government made greater efforts to urge them on. Are we realistic about the influence of the European in Asia? The Asiatic man refuses any longer to stand on the sidelines of imperialism. For the hon. Member for Carlton (Mr. Pickthorn) to say to the House that the Government have not considered the colonial problem is untrue. The Colombo Plan was a constructive approach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1443.1", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orbach", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orbach", "preceding_text": "strial potential, that she has the largest mercantile fleet, the major proportion of the world's gold and a wealth of raw materials, that she is a land untouched by the ravages of war, and that while she has a buoyant people, she has politicians who are adolescents and who refuse to work their apprenticeship. Although everyone will accept that the majority of Americans are a good and kindly peope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"7th October.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ording—again, I think I am right—that United Nations forces did not cross the Parallel until a decision had been voted by the United Nations Assembly, although they were militarily in a position to do so. I want this to be corrected if I am wrong, because it is important that we should follow the sequence of events, but I understand that this decision was implicit in the resolution of 4th October.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": " that in the relationships between the soldiers of the United States and ours there is not consultation of the sort where one makes representations and then walks out. It is a question of always attempting to agree. It is one of those unwritten things. It is pretty effective, and there are many incidents I could cite to show how courses which have been adopted have been those which we had advised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1463.1", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "Well, there was no war with us. There was no position similar to that in Korea. This transfer was made in an orderly manner,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-14", "file": "debates1950-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09726cea41e3588f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1463.1", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "Well, there was no war with us. There was no position similar to that in Korea. This transfer was made in an orderly manner, [Laughter.] Hon. Gentlemen can go on laughing at India—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-14a.1463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1950-12-15", "file": "debates1950-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "0b8ac0041be6e8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-15a.1482.3", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "RAW MATERIAL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "I agree that when we are at war or approaching war, they are somewhat different. I understand that hon. Members opposite are prepared to agree to a measure of strategic planning only when there is either a war or the prospects of a war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1950-12-15a.1482.3"}