{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-24", "file": "debates1956-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "96b3623b4ae7fe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.11.0", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Yes, but when may we have a detailed statement with regard to this continuing high rate of expenditure? Is my hon. Friend aware that I have been asking Parliamentary Questions since last July about this matter? Why is he treating his own supporters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.11.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-24", "file": "debates1956-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "96b3623b4ae7fe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.16.0", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How old is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "I say again that this man is a bandsman and not a drummer boy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.16.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-24", "file": "debates1956-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "96b3623b4ae7fe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.38.2", "colnum": "38", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that, since the debate is on the Adjournment, it is our intention—as I made clear to the Prime Minister—to raise certain matters connected with the Middle East generally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.38.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-24", "file": "debates1956-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "96b3623b4ae7fe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "SURPLUS WAR MATERIAL (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " very friendly to the Prime Minister recently, but I am sure he will not hold that against them in this instance. On 28th December, the Daily Telegraph made this rather remarkable statement: Through this port, Antwerp, since September there has been shipped in the holds and on the decks of three Egyptian ships enough reconditioned British Army material to equip several Egyptian armoured divisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-24", "file": "debates1956-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "96b3623b4ae7fe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.69.3", "colnum": "69", "heading": "SURPLUS WAR MATERIAL (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That Foreign Secretary has gone now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison) said exactly the opposite. He said: The right hon. Gentleman is perfectly right in saying that we should try to maintain a balance of arms.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 22nd November, 1955; Vol. 546, c. 1264.] What is the world to make of this when the Foreign Secretary says one thing one day and the Prime Minister another thing the next day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.69.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-24", "file": "debates1956-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "96b3623b4ae7fe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.69.3", "colnum": "69", "heading": "SURPLUS WAR MATERIAL (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For observation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "frontier, because that, after all, is the danger spot, to have small international forces at two or three points on that frontier. We cannot, I think, police the whole 400 miles of frontier. It is impracticable to talk in those terms. I hold the belief myself, and my right hon. Friend will tell the House what he heard from General Burns on the spot, that quite small forces might be of great value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.69.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-24", "file": "debates1956-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "96b3623b4ae7fe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.75.6", "colnum": "75", "heading": "SURPLUS WAR MATERIAL (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "ch emphasis upon an aspect of the situation with which, this afternoon, he has been particularly careful to avoid dealing in detail. It is significant that at the beginning of our proceedings the right hon. Gentleman should have talked about the reticence of the Foreign Secretary in speaking on these matters. I think that reticence was a particular feature of the right hon. Gentleman's own speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.75.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-24", "file": "debates1956-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "96b3623b4ae7fe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "SURPLUS WAR MATERIAL (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "preceding_text": " a firm stand in the Buraimi Oasis affair, thanks to the present Prime Minister. I believe that for any policy of building up positions of strength the present Government, and the present Prime Minister, deserve not only credit but support. What I ask, however, is whether these successive endeavours to build up positions of strength do really form a related policy and, if so, whither do they tend?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-24", "file": "debates1956-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "96b3623b4ae7fe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.104.3", "colnum": "104", "heading": "SURPLUS WAR MATERIAL (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "people will finally go out of the Empire because they will hate us for holding them, whereas we can keep them in as friends if only the principle is granted.\" I have spoken of the four areas: the Bagdad Pact, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Cyprus. What a gorgeous record of a policy of strength. Added to that, there has been the tipping of the balance to one side deliberately in the Arab-Israel conflict.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-24", "file": "debates1956-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "96b3623b4ae7fe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "SURPLUS WAR MATERIAL (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, you did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member reads HANSARD, he will find that I said no words of abuse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-24", "file": "debates1956-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "96b3623b4ae7fe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "SURPLUS WAR MATERIAL (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not even that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "First Battalion the Warwickshires. The latter came in as a normal trooping relief from the Canal Zone and the Wiltshires came out by sea. I have put down a Question on the Order Paper asking how many of these battalions are up to strength, and what drafts went to them just before they were posted. A considerable proportion of the number of lads going out by sea have only done their basic training.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-24", "file": "debates1956-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "96b3623b4ae7fe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "SURPLUS WAR MATERIAL (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "the Government's Middle East policies. I do not want to be unduly polemic in reply, but hon. and right hon. Members opposite really have rather short memories. They should just think of the situation which they bequeathed to us in 1951. The attempt to bring the countries of the Middle East into a defence arrangement has just been turned down; the situation over Suez was as bad as it ever had been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-24", "file": "debates1956-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "96b3623b4ae7fe1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.161.4", "colnum": "161", "heading": "SURPLUS WAR MATERIAL (EXPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I referred earlier to the reason why a restricted supply of arms was a means of keeping some sort of control, but the spares to which the hon. Lady has referred were, of course, delivered pursuant to contract made many years ago. The point made by the right hon. Gentleman was: \"Why did not we immediately discuss the matter?\" I have indicated that the matter was discussed by the signatories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-24a.161.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-25", "file": "debates1956-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "1255f62e7a7008a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.187.0", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "Will not the Minister, whom we are glad to congratulate on his promotion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-25", "file": "debates1956-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "1255f62e7a7008a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Medlicott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Medlicott", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that women are very much better drivers than is generally conceded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-25", "file": "debates1956-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "1255f62e7a7008a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INTRODUCTION OF NEW HOUSING SUBSIDIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Italians.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "t, with an ageing population, the output per miner has been raised. The problem of the mining industry is not—and hon. Members ought to think about this with some sense of responsibility—merely the problem of increasing the efficiency of the miners. This has been done better in Britain than in any other part of Europe since the war. The problem in the industry is getting more bodies into the pits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-25", "file": "debates1956-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "1255f62e7a7008a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INTRODUCTION OF NEW HOUSING SUBSIDIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under the authority of what Clause?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with the question of discretion when we come to Clause 3. I have said about four times what I mean by a higher subsidy. It is £24 as opposed to £22 1s. at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-25", "file": "debates1956-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "1255f62e7a7008a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.271.3", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INTRODUCTION OF NEW HOUSING SUBSIDIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What a hope!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": " done on the housing front because that would require legislation, and the Parliamentary programme is full to the brim.\" I am not prepared to accept that. This is the moment to act. I say straight away that I have written to the Prime Minister, and I have put to him the case of the small fixed income groups. He has promised me that he is examining it point by point, and I am expecting some result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-25", "file": "debates1956-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "1255f62e7a7008a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.271.3", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INTRODUCTION OF NEW HOUSING SUBSIDIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": " think is of paramount importance, I am not so interested in allowing other areas to have all this additional finance for which my area has to pay in taxation, because in my area I cannot get the Coal Board to build, with subsidy, a single house specially for the miners. It said that we were not an area which was expanding in coal production. My right hon. Friend has not a clue about what goes on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-25", "file": "debates1956-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "1255f62e7a7008a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.271.3", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INTRODUCTION OF NEW HOUSING SUBSIDIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "nt to leave all these matters in the hands of the local authorities, I know that in my area we are interested in the small fixed income groups. Indeed, one of my local authorities—and we have about the average number of retired people—is very interested in how these people are to live in the future. I think we can bring them some hope. I do not want my right hon. Friend to give me an answer today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-25", "file": "debates1956-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "1255f62e7a7008a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.277.0", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INTRODUCTION OF NEW HOUSING SUBSIDIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Blenkinsop (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, East)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Petticoat Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Blenkinsop (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, East)", "preceding_text": "Many of us on this side of the Committee have been in some doubt as to who was chiefly responsible for the governmental changes over the last few months. Now we have it quite clearly from the hon. Lady the Member for Tynemouth (Dame Irene Ward). I am sure, therefore, that in future her remarks will be treated with even more consideration and anxiety than perhaps they have been treated in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-25", "file": "debates1956-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "1255f62e7a7008a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.305.0", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INTRODUCTION OF NEW HOUSING SUBSIDIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Collins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the hon. and gallant Member now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Collins", "preceding_text": "fresh demands… He did not know the answer to the problem, but he hoped his audience would go home and think deeply about it. Perhaps then a solution would be found. In other words, he did not know the answer to the problem. He did not know what possibly could be done, but he felt that, after hearing him speak, if the audience went home and thought deeply about it they would find a solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-25", "file": "debates1956-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "1255f62e7a7008a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.313.0", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INTRODUCTION OF NEW HOUSING SUBSIDIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To hear you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, South-West (Mr. Dye) can remember with satisfaction that the attendance on the Tory benches rose by many hundreds per cent. while he was talking. It rose from three to its present number, at twenty minutes past nine. I wonder why Government supporters have come in now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-25", "file": "debates1956-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "1255f62e7a7008a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INTRODUCTION OF NEW HOUSING SUBSIDIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "No, I want to improve the situation. What is to the everlasting credit of the Labour Government is that they took housing, water, sanitation and electricity to the rural areas which had until then been deprived of those amenities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-25", "file": "debates1956-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "1255f62e7a7008a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INTRODUCTION OF NEW HOUSING SUBSIDIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which areas?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": " What is to the everlasting credit of the Labour Government is that they took housing, water, sanitation and electricity to the rural areas which had until then been deprived of those amenities. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It is all very well hon. Members opposite saying \"Oh,\" but whole rural areas were deprived of water, sanitation and electric light until the Labour Government came into power in 1945.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-25a.316.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-26", "file": "debates1956-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "c46d645be2c7a00c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-26a.373.3", "colnum": "373", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "attempted to take their part in the discussion during the two and a half hours of debate this morning? There is a further point for the Leader of the House to consider. His party made it clear in Scotland that the return of a Conservative Government would mean that Scottish matters would be more and more in the hands of Scottish Members. With the decision that was taken before the Committee stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-26a.373.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-27", "file": "debates1956-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "a1421540ffc76990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-27a.512.3", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(CONSTITUTION AS SEPARATE COLONIES OF LEEWARD ISLANDS PRESIDENCIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "It is not in the Sales Office or the Vote Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-27a.512.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-30", "file": "debates1956-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "200ddbb3963a14a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-30a.589.2", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE (ATHENS RADIO BROADCASTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Murder.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman answer one question with a view to clearing up the general question of principle? Is it the view of Her Majesty's Government that a Government has the right to jam broadcasts from a foreign country when those broadcasts are directed to inciting disaffection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-30a.589.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-01-30", "file": "debates1956-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "200ddbb3963a14a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-30a.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Very true.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llewellyn", "preceding_text": "he great parties in Wales, but always we have run up against a series of stone-walling tactics which have got none of us anywhere. I make the direct charge in this House of Commons that there is a distinct bias on the Welsh Region of the B.B.C, in favour of Welsh Nationalism and Plaid Cymru, in favour of the Parliament of Wales Campaign and in favour of the individuals who support those movements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-30a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-30", "file": "debates1956-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "200ddbb3963a14a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-30a.698.3", "colnum": "698", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Hughes", "preceding_text": "t gratifying to learn from the Report that the level of employment is very high. I wish to ask the Minister one question on employment. In paragraph 22 of the Report it is stated: It is estimated that 35 per cent. of the insured employees in Great Britain are women whereas in Wales the percentage is only 28. Why is that? We are as richly endowed with the fair sex as any part of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-30a.698.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-31", "file": "debates1956-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "1dfbc1a4d6de8244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "Is it not utterly immoral to send lads of 18, too young even to have a vote, to kill and to be killed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-31", "file": "debates1956-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "1dfbc1a4d6de8244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "Is it not utterly immoral to send lads of 18, too young even to have a vote, to kill and to be killed—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and, as in the case of Cyprus, not to defend their own country but to deny freedom to others?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-31", "file": "debates1956-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "1dfbc1a4d6de8244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.739.5", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nairn", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that a great many National Service men prefer to do their service overseas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.739.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-31", "file": "debates1956-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "1dfbc1a4d6de8244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.740.7", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the National Service man.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "This is a very old question. Very briefly, I would say that the Regular who is going to make the Army his career must be prepared to serve anywhere overseas or at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.740.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-31", "file": "debates1956-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "1dfbc1a4d6de8244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.741.3", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "I have not noticed whether it is the twentieth time or not: I very much doubt it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.741.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-31", "file": "debates1956-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "1dfbc1a4d6de8244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that Private Crutchley went absent without leave six times in order to be with his mother, but that his release was still refused?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-31", "file": "debates1956-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "1dfbc1a4d6de8244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.745.2", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.745.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-31", "file": "debates1956-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "1dfbc1a4d6de8244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.745.5", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The hon. Member for Farnham was asking a question about the reputation of one of the regiments concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.745.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-01-31", "file": "debates1956-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "1dfbc1a4d6de8244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.746.2", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What is the hon. Member for Dudley (Mr. Wigg) afraid of?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I really do not see how that supplementary question arises out of this Question. It is not right that aspersions should be made but, on the other hand, we must have some regard to the Question which is before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-31", "file": "debates1956-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "1dfbc1a4d6de8244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.761.7", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "preceding_text": "line 32, in the names of the hon. Member for Dulwich (Mr. Robert Jenkins), the hon. and gallant Member for Rochdale (Lieut.-Colonel Schofield), the hon. Member for Oldham, East (Sir I. Horobin) and the hon. Member for Solihull (Mr. M. Lindsay), all members of the party opposite. That Amendment is very much on the lines of ours. I certainly hope that later in the debate we shall have their support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.761.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-31", "file": "debates1956-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "1dfbc1a4d6de8244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.780.4", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "preceding_text": "I was saying that local authorities will find themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.780.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-01-31", "file": "debates1956-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "1dfbc1a4d6de8244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Or leave it where it is.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "argument for dealing with slums ahead of meeting general housing needs. We end with an admission that those whose circumstances are worst are to be dealt with last. The right hon. Gentleman shakes his head. He has already said that it is undesirable—and no local authority would do it—to pick out houses in isolation, leaving gaps. The only alternative to doing that is to redevelop the area as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-31", "file": "debates1956-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "1dfbc1a4d6de8244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I should like to clear up this point. The effect of this Amendment would be to encourage local authorities to give priority to the pulling down of fit houses in these redevelopment areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-31", "file": "debates1956-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "1dfbc1a4d6de8244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.793.4", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "d not a slum clearance area implies that the houses in the main are not slum houses. A slum clearance area invariably contains a certain number of houses which are fit and have to be pulled down, but a redevelopment area is an area not primarily a slum area but which no doubt contains a proportion of slum houses. Therefore, by the very definition it is not such a bad area as a slum clearance area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.793.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-31", "file": "debates1956-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "1dfbc1a4d6de8244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.795.0", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "preceding_text": "I want to raise one question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.795.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-31", "file": "debates1956-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "1dfbc1a4d6de8244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.817.5", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I do not know what the hon. Gentleman is referring to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.817.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-31", "file": "debates1956-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "1dfbc1a4d6de8244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.819.2", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "upon the Minister the duty of reviewing the position and reporting to Parliament whether a reduction was desirable. The first such review had to take place in December, 1946, namely, in the same year as that in which the Act was passed. That all showed a fairly good intention on the part of the Government to make quite sure that if any reductions were justified the opportunity would not be missed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.819.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-31", "file": "debates1956-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "1dfbc1a4d6de8244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.824.0", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Harriet Slater", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Harriet Slater", "preceding_text": " carefully to watch this Clause and particularly this Amendment. There is no doubt about the difference between the Bill and Act of 1946, which the Minister has cleverly brought into the debate. They show a difference of approach between the Government and ourselves towards subsidies. We have been told repeatedly by the Tory Party that it is against subsidies when they affect working-class people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-31", "file": "debates1956-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "1dfbc1a4d6de8244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.861.3", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "s without schools or other appurtenances and without necessarily getting the drainage and water system into action. It is a completely unplanned and un-thought-out piece of enterprise. It will mean in the end that in many cases charming old towns and villages will be added to by an aggregation of houses resulting in the most hideous develop- ment the United Kingdom has seen throughout her history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.861.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-31", "file": "debates1956-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "1dfbc1a4d6de8244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Jack Spot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "g, fairly static in the last twenty years. I cannot see an appreciable reduction of, say, a million people sufficient to satisfy this idea of decongesting the population being achieved in a comparable time. Who is to stop people coming from Jamaica to throng the congested areas of London at their will? Who is to stop people creating new flats in mews and crowding Soho and living where they please.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-01-31", "file": "debates1956-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "1dfbc1a4d6de8244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "s to be nepotistic or he has to assist nationalisation. What an awful dilemma for a Conservative Minister. We have there an encouragement on our part to nationalise more industries, and then the right hon. Gentleman will be able to have a sensible housing policy. Until industries are nationalised, we cannot go any further. Take steel, for example. Hon. Members opposite are dismantling the industry", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-01-31a.877.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-02-01", "file": "debates1956-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a5727e142ee58de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-01a.936.2", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "man wants to have it both ways. He wants to say that the local authorities have a duty to build. If it is their duty to build then the Minister has the duty to see they perform their duty. Many local authorities, before the war, built no houses for general need. Does he, therefore, say that his predecessors before the war neglected their duty to make the local authorities do their duty? I ask him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-01a.936.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-01", "file": "debates1956-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a5727e142ee58de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-01a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "thority to provide for itself the houses it needs at the higher subsidy rate by neglecting to build houses for its own people at the general needs subsidy level, and then to get round the whole provision by drawing a subsidy of £24 for additional houses. That is what the right hon. Gentleman is suggesting. If it did that, the additional houses would be exclusively for incoming people from outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-01a.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-01", "file": "debates1956-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a5727e142ee58de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-01a.968.0", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell that to the Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "Harvey). We are all associated, in these boroughs, in this joint venture whereby our local authorities have acquired property outside our boroughs in Essex, and a great deal of thought and imagination has been put into it. One cannot represent a constituency in that part of outer London for very long without becoming aware that the need for houses is still the greatest social need in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-01a.968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-01", "file": "debates1956-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a5727e142ee58de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-01a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"HOW?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "We were getting 200,000 a year until the Tory Party came to power and upset the whole economy of the country for purely party political purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-01a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-01", "file": "debates1956-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a5727e142ee58de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-01a.1028.1", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "There is no question of spreading. This is placing on houses that have already been built a charge over and above the normal charge in respect of houses yet to be built.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-01a.1028.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-02-01", "file": "debates1956-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a5727e142ee58de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-01a.1028.3", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I will give way if the Parliamentary Secretary or the Minister can show the justification for spreading part of the increased subsidy given on houses built after 1945 over houses built prior to that date in order to deal with houses which are to be built with less subsidy and at 5½ per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-01a.1028.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-01", "file": "debates1956-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2a5727e142ee58de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-01a.1042.1", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are owned by Worsley.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "cluding those houses under the provisions of Clause 5. In this connection I should like to say just a word, in passing, about the example, given by the hon. Member for Farnworth, of Worsley. It is often a good thing to consider precise and not merely abstract examples. The houses in the scheme at Worsley are owned by Salford. I think that they are built by Worsley for Salford and owned by Salford.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-01a.1042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-02", "file": "debates1956-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "3d76f2bb39079e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-02a.1086.0", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "In view of the right hon. Gentleman's admission a little while ago that jamming of broadcasts in Jordan is now taking place with the technical co-operation of the British Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-02a.1086.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-02-02", "file": "debates1956-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "3d76f2bb39079e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-02a.1115.2", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " that is what he intends, then he means to take over a very important part of local government administration. Will the right hon. Gentleman be frank with the Committee? Will he tell us that he considers that a differential rent or rebate scheme should be operated before he is called upon to exercise his powers under Clause 5? I will sit down and give him the opportunity of answering if he wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-02a.1115.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-06", "file": "debates1956-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "4c40fe6b77c220cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-06a.1406.1", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Chicken farmers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "ies in the County Palatine are regarded as the spokesmen of industry, of cotton, coal and engineering, but I should like to remind the House that Lancashire is still one of the greatest agricultural counties in the country and that there the standard of husbandry is second to none. Even in the southern counties, where nature is kinder, the farmers cannot better our Lancashire men in some respects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-06a.1406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-06", "file": "debates1956-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "4c40fe6b77c220cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-06a.1434.3", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "preceding_text": "in his power, and in the power of the Secretary of State for Scotland, to fix the rate of interest on the net amount of money paid by the landlord in providing the fixed equipment. I think that would be better than relying on Section 8 of the 1949 Act. I welcome the Bill as a small but important Measure which carries further a programme of Conservative and Unionist progress throughout the century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-06a.1434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-06", "file": "debates1956-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "4c40fe6b77c220cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-06a.1472.0", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT PLAN, SHEFFIELD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I think probably the hon. Member has asked enough questions now for me to take not only the remaining 90 seconds in answering but some little time afterwards. I hope I have cleared away the misapprehension that the delay in the approval of the development plan holds up either the planning authority or the would-be private developers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-06a.1472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-07", "file": "debates1956-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "8e557903250d25be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-07a.1484.5", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "My hon. and gallant Friend will appreciate that this matter was dealt with by the Prime Minister in his speech at Bradford.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-07a.1484.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-02-07", "file": "debates1956-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "8e557903250d25be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-07a.1486.7", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-07a.1486.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-07", "file": "debates1956-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "8e557903250d25be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-07a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "LICENSING (AIRPORTS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I am not quite sure what point the hon. Gentleman wants to make. Does he mean that these people will also be able to obtain these facflities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-07a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-07", "file": "debates1956-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "8e557903250d25be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-07a.1555.3", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "LICENSING (AIRPORTS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Harvey", "preceding_text": "er for Barking (Mr. Hastings), and also his undoubted medical experience, but I would point out to him that my right hon. Friend clearly stated that the Bill is a very limited one and is concerned only with those who are actually travelling. I felt that in some of the hon. Gentleman's observations there was a suggestion that the Bill would affect the people who were actually piloting the aircraft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-07a.1555.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-07", "file": "debates1956-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "8e557903250d25be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-07a.1568.1", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "LICENSING (AIRPORTS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril W. Black", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril W. Black", "preceding_text": "hich I have just read expressing its concern about, and its opposition to, the Bill. It has been said in this debate that this is a little Bill dealing with a very limited point. I concede that to be true but I believe that nevertheless it reveals the false scale of values of the Government on this matter. During the past ten years, drunkenness in this country has increased by nearly 200 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-07a.1568.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-02-07", "file": "debates1956-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "8e557903250d25be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-07a.1575.5", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "LICENSING (AIRPORTS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede (South Shields)", "preceding_text": "I was the Minister in charge of licensing in this country and I never heard of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-07a.1575.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-07", "file": "debates1956-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "8e557903250d25be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-07a.1576.1", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "LICENSING (AIRPORTS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Nicolson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Nicolson", "preceding_text": "kes one's reactions slower. That argument is heard constantly from temperance people in connection with the consumption of liquor by the drivers of cars. I ask those hon. Members who apply the same argument to aircraft, are they talking about the passengers or the pilot? In the first speech we heard from the Opposition benches the hon. Member for Barking (Mr. Hastings) constantly confused the two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-07a.1576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-07", "file": "debates1956-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "8e557903250d25be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-07a.1576.1", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "LICENSING (AIRPORTS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Nicolson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Nicolson", "preceding_text": "d because he cannot get a drink. Therefore, it is right that, because airports have this special atmosphere and conditions, a special law should apply to them. Passengers are apt to remain at an airport for hours if the aircraft has been delayed by weather or mechanical trouble. That applies to no other form of travel. Normally, one does not wait in a railway station or in a bus station for hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-07a.1576.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-02-07", "file": "debates1956-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "8e557903250d25be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-07a.1599.4", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "LICENSING (AIRPORTS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, but I do not accept that interpretation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-07a.1599.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-08", "file": "debates1956-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "74c7cb11da66ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-08a.1674.4", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "But surely, if the right hon. Gentleman has said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-08a.1674.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-08", "file": "debates1956-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "74c7cb11da66ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-08a.1683.1", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Clause 13.—(REGULATIONS AS TO FOOD HYGIENE.)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross) asked me to clarify the expression \"home-going shipping.\" It might be out of order to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-08a.1683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-08", "file": "debates1956-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "74c7cb11da66ec58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-08a.1729.1", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Clause 58.—(INTERPRETATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mackie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mackie", "preceding_text": " the hon. Lady coming back into the Chamber. I shall not repeat what I have said, or I shall be reproved by Mr. Speaker for tedious repetition. No doubt her right hon. Friend will tell her what I have said. The substance of my remarks really was that I thought that the hon. Lady was a little unfair in her criticism of Government back benchers. I made a speech in the last Parliament on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-08a.1729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-09", "file": "debates1956-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "dbecd8a11f5f3d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1783.7", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So is the Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that this Question is a hardy annual?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1783.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-09", "file": "debates1956-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "dbecd8a11f5f3d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1811.1", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "HUNTER AIRCRAFT (CRASHES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "ter satisfied that flying should have taken place in the weather conditions which were reported yesterday? Was that fair to the pilots of this type of aircraft? Thirdly, will he inform us about the whole ground control system of the two airfields—both the airfield from which they flew off and that to which they were diverted, the reports from ground control having broken down altogether? Fourthly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-09", "file": "debates1956-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "dbecd8a11f5f3d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1817.3", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (DISPOSAL OF ROAD HAULAGE PROPERTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Hugh Molson)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Horror comic.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Hugh Molson)", "preceding_text": "ort problem and taking it, as I hope, outside party conflict. I shall not have time to go into the various Clauses in detail. Owing to the structure of the 1953 Act, they are somewhat complicated, but I hope, at any rate, to make the purposes of the Bill perfectly plain. Let me, first, deal with the background. In 1951, before the Election, the Conservative Party issued, \"Britain Strong and Free.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1817.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-09", "file": "debates1956-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "dbecd8a11f5f3d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1819.1", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (DISPOSAL OF ROAD HAULAGE PROPERTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "Speaking, if I may, for a moment with complete detachment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-09", "file": "debates1956-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "dbecd8a11f5f3d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1819.1", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (DISPOSAL OF ROAD HAULAGE PROPERTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "age seem to me to underestimate the importance of small units and flexibility in local and feeder services, while I also feel that those who advocate whole-hog denationalisation often underestimate the value of a co-ordinated system in the case of the trunk services. The disposal of the B.R.S. vehicles under the 1953 Act began, and proceeded until last spring, with a very large measure of success—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-09", "file": "debates1956-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "dbecd8a11f5f3d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1821.3", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (DISPOSAL OF ROAD HAULAGE PROPERTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "Once we had decided to maintain the trunk services and had found that private enterprise was unwilling or unable to take them over as going concerns, there was no satisfactory alternative to leaving them in the hands of B.R.S. This new policy involves a substantial Amendment of the 1953 Act, but it is a change of degree and not of principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1821.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-09", "file": "debates1956-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "dbecd8a11f5f3d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1821.5", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (DISPOSAL OF ROAD HAULAGE PROPERTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": " Clause 1, which provides for the taking over of this number of vehicles by companies under the control of the B.T.C. This figure was arrived at by Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve, who was asked to make an estimate of the number of vehicles needed to preserve the trunk services in being. The number of special A licences which B.R.S. will retain as a right will be 7½per cent. less than that number.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1821.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-09", "file": "debates1956-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "dbecd8a11f5f3d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1827.0", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (DISPOSAL OF ROAD HAULAGE PROPERTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "is because of the inevitable failure of an unworkable policy, forced through this House under the Guillotine at the relentless insistence of the road hauliers for purely party political reasons. In spite of what the Parliamentary Secretary has claimed, that policy, in my view, has been thoroughly discredited, and so have all those who were responsible for implementing it. This Bill is unnecessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1827.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-09", "file": "debates1956-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "dbecd8a11f5f3d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1831.6", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (DISPOSAL OF ROAD HAULAGE PROPERTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ir case for further disposals on the alleged inefficiency of British Road Services. The hon. Member for Shipley (Mr. Hirst) has burnt his fingers in the House when he has quoted an occasional instance of dissatisfaction; but the hon. Member is quite unafraid and has returned to the fray. The hon. Member has sent out a letter to a large number of customers of B.R.S. soliciting complaints from them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1831.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-09", "file": "debates1956-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "dbecd8a11f5f3d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1875.3", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (DISPOSAL OF ROAD HAULAGE PROPERTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your party did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "much. The fact that something happened after something else, does not mean that the first caused the second. I want in a general sort of way to support one thing which the hon. Member for Canterbury said and to which the Parliamentary Secretary referred. It was about taking transport out of politics. In general I would agree with that and I would go on to ask, who brought transport into politics?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1875.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-09", "file": "debates1956-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "dbecd8a11f5f3d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1890.1", "colnum": "1890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (DISPOSAL OF ROAD HAULAGE PROPERTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "be in a very powerful position and will start with some enormous advantages, first, in purchasing. When it buys a thousand vehicles a year—because it will be buying about that, and going perhaps to only three or four manufacturers for those vehicles—it will be in a very strong position. In my view, therefore, it will be able to buy those vehicles more cheaply than the ordinary haulier can buy his.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1890.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-02-09", "file": "debates1956-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "dbecd8a11f5f3d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1898.1", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (DISPOSAL OF ROAD HAULAGE PROPERTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which gas industry?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "Did not the gas industry make a substantial profit under private enterprise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-09", "file": "debates1956-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "dbecd8a11f5f3d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1909.1", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (DISPOSAL OF ROAD HAULAGE PROPERTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "We have been treated to a dissertation on dialectical materialism of which the relevance was only related to the remarks you made earlier, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, when you said that we should not discuss gas. It was a speech of which twenty minutes or half an hour was irrelevant from beginning to end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-09", "file": "debates1956-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "dbecd8a11f5f3d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1913.1", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (DISPOSAL OF ROAD HAULAGE PROPERTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "ive use of trailers. Thirdly, and this is most important, let us have some business methods in the B.R.S. in future. I want to make three points. First, let us hive off B.R.S. and make it into a separate concern from the British Transport Commission. Let us hive it off as a quite separate corporation which, in future, may make a great name for itself and I wish to give it the opportunity to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-09", "file": "debates1956-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "dbecd8a11f5f3d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1915.1", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (DISPOSAL OF ROAD HAULAGE PROPERTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr, G. R. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, G. R. Strauss", "preceding_text": " to the Government that they are being exceedingly illogical. It is now said that in view of two circumstances the B.R.S. is to be permitted to maintain its trunk network. They are that B.R.S. is doing well—everyone has said that it is doing well—and it is popular. Secondly, that it is very difficult to sell the lorries. Those arguments apply equally to the parcels service and to the meat service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-09", "file": "debates1956-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "dbecd8a11f5f3d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1920.2", "colnum": "1920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (DISPOSAL OF ROAD HAULAGE PROPERTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "ey have had to be maintained in separate organisations and companies. But there is enormous scope for integrating the parcels service with the general haulage service and for trunking many of the parcels in containers. It would be exceedingly economic and efficient and would save a great deal in overheads. One can only imagine why the Government are doing this—and here I exercise some imagination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1920.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-09", "file": "debates1956-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "dbecd8a11f5f3d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1920.2", "colnum": "1920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (DISPOSAL OF ROAD HAULAGE PROPERTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "will be able to make good profit—they are undeniably loading it with handicaps. In this Bill the Government are making it easier to sell to private interests for private profit two very important public services. We believe that is a wrong outlook. We believe that behind it is the Conservative Party's inherent dislike for any incursion by the Government or the State into business on a large scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1920.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-09", "file": "debates1956-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "dbecd8a11f5f3d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1926.1", "colnum": "1926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (DISPOSAL OF ROAD HAULAGE PROPERTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "they admitted it when they were taxed with this by my hon. Friend the Member for Bedfordshire, South (Mr. Cole)—that they spent a lot of time today looking backwards and saying \"I told you so.\" It is a quite proper political exercise. All I shall say—and I am sure this is nowhere more welcome than in the transport industry—is that we are concerned with the future of this industry and not its past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-09a.1926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-10", "file": "debates1956-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "38bbeeeec501dd75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-10a.2015.1", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "FILM INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "eaving £24 to the producer, which includes such costs of distribution as prints. The best estimate I have seen suggests that the producer gets a bare £15 out of the £100 at the most, plus whatever he gets from the film production levy. Therefore if the Chancellor of the Exchequer were to reduce Entertainments Duty by, say, £5 million—I do not know what is in his mind, and I do not suppose he does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-10a.2015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-13", "file": "debates1956-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "9c1c578362251a78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-13a.2058.5", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "There is no distinction between industrial coal and domestic coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-13a.2058.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-02-13", "file": "debates1956-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "9c1c578362251a78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-13a.2063.4", "colnum": "2063", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Honourable.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "All I can say in reply to my right hon. Friend——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-13a.2063.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-13", "file": "debates1956-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "9c1c578362251a78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-13a.2066.4", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "I cannot be aware of what my predecessor has said on that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-13a.2066.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-02-13", "file": "debates1956-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "9c1c578362251a78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-13a.2090.2", "colnum": "2090", "heading": "WASHINGTON AND OTTAWA (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about a debate?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ue our declaration at all. Of course, he must reserve his own judgment on the matter. It is strongly opposed, I may tell him, to the judgment, publicly expressed, by Mr. Adlai Stevenson, for instance, and a great many other people of liberal opinion throughout the world. I am sorry that he should take that view. For my part, I think that we state too rarely what are the things in which we believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-13a.2090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-14", "file": "debates1956-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ef473e922953f8cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-14a.2148.4", "colnum": "2148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Set the people free.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "This has been going on a long time. Why do the Government cling so tenaciously to this last relic of rationing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-14a.2148.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-14", "file": "debates1956-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ef473e922953f8cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-14a.2171.7", "colnum": "2171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INFLATION (CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quoting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware of the fact that in that diagnosis the Chancellor stated that during 1954 retail prices rose 1½ times as fast as in the previous year, that imports rose by 15 per cent., which was three times as much as exports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-14a.2171.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-14", "file": "debates1956-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ef473e922953f8cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-14a.2172.3", "colnum": "2172", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES (PRICE STABILISATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The investment requirements of the nationalised industries have, quite properly, been discussed with the heads of the nationalised industries, like other investment requirements. Although I understand the motive behind my hon. Friend's Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-14a.2172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-14", "file": "debates1956-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ef473e922953f8cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-14a.2186.2", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "What we are concerned with is comprehensive development, by which we mean development which consists not exclusively of housing but also of shops and industry, and perhaps offices, or something of that kind. I think that the right hon. and learned Gentleman said that even if the whole of Salford went out it still would not constitute a new town.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-14a.2186.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-14", "file": "debates1956-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ef473e922953f8cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-14a.2247.1", "colnum": "2247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I think that is entirely consistent with what I said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-14a.2247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-14", "file": "debates1956-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "ef473e922953f8cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-14a.2288.1", "colnum": "2288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Slums.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "preceding_text": "r those Acts in order to provide a better layout of our old towns and cities and so that in appropriate cases we can go upwards but, at the same time, provide open spaces as well as putting industry in the proper location. Today our towns and cities are completely built up and before we can talk about putting up 15-storey blocks of flats something has to be knocked down. What will be knocked down?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-14a.2288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-15", "file": "debates1956-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "5974e0815384d962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2338.3", "colnum": "2338", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I know, but may I ask the Minister whether he remembers the debate on National Service? Was it not made clear then that there is no reason why we should not reduce the period of National Service now, and is he aware that there is a deep suspicion in the minds of most people that the Government are playing politics in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2338.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-02-15", "file": "debates1956-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "5974e0815384d962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2372.0", "colnum": "2372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. J. Enoch Powell)", "preceding_text": "re? He continued: Any Labour Group, especially those in a majority, which answers 'no' to this question when they have persons living in overcrowded conditions in their area, is in effect saying to the families on their housing list, 'We are not even going to try to meet your needs.' We must surely do our best as a Party at all levels to help the homeless and overcrowded families in the country\"——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2369.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-15", "file": "debates1956-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "5974e0815384d962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2385.3", "colnum": "2385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "They will do more, but it will be proportionately less if one takes into account what would have happened if it had not been for the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2385.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-15", "file": "debates1956-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "5974e0815384d962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2393.0", "colnum": "2393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "at was What I had in mind. I do not think, therefore, for these reasons and for a number of others, that the Bill will mean the end of building for general need. I turn now to another argument that was put by the hon. Member for Wellingborough, one of which we have heard much during these debates. It is that the Bill and the increase in interest charges, and so on, is some sort of \"bankers' ramp.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-15", "file": "debates1956-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "5974e0815384d962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2394.10", "colnum": "2394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "n. I am certain that the ordinary man in the street, when faced with this whole question of housing subsidies, will have considered a figure of £107 million a year to be rather in excess of what we ought to pay. The Government are at present under pressure from a number of quarters to reduce Government expenditure. The Bill limits an increase in subsidies. We are not making substantial reductions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2394.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-15", "file": "debates1956-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "5974e0815384d962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2431.1", "colnum": "2431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That lets the cat out of the bag.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett", "preceding_text": "all the order lists of car dealers. As far as motor cars were concerned, it will be remembered that by what seemed to the ordinary layman to be a miracle, the shortage vanished overnight. I do not suggest that any such happy outcome will follow the housing shortage after the passing of the Bill, but I suggest that there is a very close relationship between the Bill and the future of rent controls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-15", "file": "debates1956-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "5974e0815384d962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2442.1", "colnum": "2442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. W. Gibson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not 4d.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. W. Gibson", "preceding_text": " showed the very large sums of money spent on drink. He suggested that the working people of this country spent £800 million on drink last year. Had he studied the footnote at the bottom of that page, he would have seen that the consumption of beer had gone down and that of wines and spirits had gone up, so that it was not the workmen's fourpenny pint that caused the increase in total expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-15", "file": "debates1956-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "5974e0815384d962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2452.1", "colnum": "2452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And will send up the cost of living.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if I misunderstood the hon. Gentleman. I tried to write down what he said, and if I have misinterpreted what he said I apologise. I think the hon. Gentleman also said that the Bill would result in an increase in the rents of council houses, and was, to that degree, an attack on working-class standards.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-15", "file": "debates1956-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "5974e0815384d962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2452.3", "colnum": "2452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osbome", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osbome", "preceding_text": "If it is said that he would pay a rent of up to £3 a week out of an income of only £10 a week, I should say that that was scandalous. But I do not think that it is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2452.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-15", "file": "debates1956-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "5974e0815384d962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2465.1", "colnum": "2465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "is to raise rents all round. What do they think industrial organisations will do? I want to know from the Minister whether he really believes that at the end of this Measure he will have saved a brass farthing. If it is a fact that the present Measure is intended, as the Parliamentary Secretary said it was, to raise rents to the point where it would pay private enterprise to build houses for rent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-15", "file": "debates1956-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "5974e0815384d962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2468.1", "colnum": "2468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "it may be. He went on: Or, to put it another way\"— so there will be no misapprehension— that they cannot or will not demand decent accommodation for themselves and their families, and that the building industry and the existing stock of houses are not capable of complying with that need and that demand. To make doubly sure, he goes on: We on this side of the House\"— he meant hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-15", "file": "debates1956-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "5974e0815384d962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2468.1", "colnum": "2468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "should be undiminished? We should like to know. The right hon. Gentleman has his opportunity, is that what he means? Has the right hon. Gentleman consulted the Chancellor of the Exchequer? We should like to know whether one part of this Government knows what the other part is doing. Again I repeat that there can be no misunderstanding because the hon. Member for Louth (Mr. Osborne) is quite clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-15", "file": "debates1956-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "5974e0815384d962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2471.1", "colnum": "2471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "on between him and his right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and not only this Chancellor but the last one as well. What has been happening, of course, is that since these measures were framed and since these intentions were gestated, a change has taken place. The Conservatives have discovered that the free-for-all to which they pin their faith is now bringing the country to disaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-15", "file": "debates1956-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "5974e0815384d962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2471.1", "colnum": "2471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ught about. So it would be very much better if the Government were really clear about it, because it really is not good enough to face a crisis of these dimensions by such legerdemain as that. It would be much better for the country to know how many houses the local authorities are expected to build; in other words, it would be much better if the resources of the nation were applied intelligently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-15", "file": "debates1956-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "5974e0815384d962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2471.1", "colnum": "2471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"TWO hundred thousand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "uch legerdemain as that. It would be much better for the country to know how many houses the local authorities are expected to build; in other words, it would be much better if the resources of the nation were applied intelligently. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members may laugh, but it is perfectly true, and I have been chided on more than one occasion when we stated the number of houses which we thought —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-15", "file": "debates1956-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "5974e0815384d962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2477.3", "colnum": "2477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "ession \"nonsense,\" which the hon. Member used. Nothing has been said in the course of the ten days' debate to disprove the contention which I made. It has been said, although I notice that it has been said less and less as the debates have proceeded, that as a result of the Bill local authorities will stop building houses. That is not only an absurd, but, I think, a thoroughly unworthy suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2477.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-15", "file": "debates1956-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "5974e0815384d962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2482.1", "colnum": "2482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In Committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I am extremely surprised at the right hon. Gentleman's point of order considering the extent to which HANSARD is filled with his own remarks on the subject of differential rents during the course of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-15", "file": "debates1956-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "5974e0815384d962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2482.5", "colnum": "2482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am told that one effect of the Bill is that it will lead to these things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2482.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-15", "file": "debates1956-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "5974e0815384d962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2482.5", "colnum": "2482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am told that one effect of the Bill is that it will lead to these things—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—or will lead people to consider them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2482.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-02-15", "file": "debates1956-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "5974e0815384d962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2483.1", "colnum": "2483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "vening, we have been in the hands of Mr. Deputy-Speaker and on several occasions when hon. Members have gone outside the terms of the Bill they have been called to order. This is the last speech. There is no mention of differential rents in the Bill whatsoever. I respectfully submit, Mr. Speaker, as one with some experience of the House of Commons, that this is entirely out of order at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-15", "file": "debates1956-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "5974e0815384d962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2484.0", "colnum": "2484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "what is in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-15a.2484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-16", "file": "debates1956-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3cc732edc01e10b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2520.5", "colnum": "2520", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "I asked how these figures compared with those for the last full year before the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2520.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-02-16", "file": "debates1956-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3cc732edc01e10b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2530.14", "colnum": "2530", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "With regard to the debate on the economic situation, it will be for the convenience of the House to know beforehand the further disinflationary measures upon which the Government have decided. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer will, therefore, make a statement about these measures at the start of business tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2530.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-16", "file": "debates1956-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3cc732edc01e10b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2541.1", "colnum": "2541", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "I am not complaining, but I am afraid that the hon. Member has not got the point. I am simply saying that all these various institutions have not only to make a mistake but the same mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-16", "file": "debates1956-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3cc732edc01e10b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2541.1", "colnum": "2541", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Undoubtedly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": " a capital case it is the Home Secretary's duty to review all the evidence, if necessary in consultation with the judge who conducted the trial, and if he is in any doubt at all, he can cause further inquiries to be made. It is suggested—and I know that this is in the minds of many people—that if, in a recent case, the policeman who had been attacked had died, three innocent men would have hanged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-16", "file": "debates1956-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3cc732edc01e10b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2542.2", "colnum": "2542", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Eighteen years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": " must be as effective a deterrent as possible and must be acceptable to public opinion. In certain cases of murder the only possible alternative is a long and indefinite term of imprisonment. What I think hon. Members do not realise is that it is rare at present that a reprieved murderer stays in prison more than nine years. That is the average time during which reprieved murderers stay in prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2542.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-16", "file": "debates1956-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3cc732edc01e10b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2552.3", "colnum": "2552", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "Then why did the hon. and learned Gentleman take the trouble to get up and ask the question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2552.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-16", "file": "debates1956-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3cc732edc01e10b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2560.1", "colnum": "2560", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "At any rate, the right hon and gallant Gentleman has not mentioned any help that he has received from the right hon. and learned Gentleman and his associates, and I hope that before he does accept their Report as a suitable way of dealing with this matter he will consider the devastating letter which appeared in The Times on Monday morning last from Professor Goodhart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-16", "file": "debates1956-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3cc732edc01e10b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2570.1", "colnum": "2570", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "needs to be said, because there are people outside—there may be some here—who think that there is an element of brutality about the Home Office, who think that it is perhaps a little sadistic and gets pleasure out of these things. Believe me, it is not true. It would not be fair to believe it. I wanted to pay that tribute to men with whom I worked and men who do not always receive justice outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-16", "file": "debates1956-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3cc732edc01e10b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2610.0", "colnum": "2610", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicolson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So is the crime.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicolson", "preceding_text": "e of all and that it quite outclasses any possible crime which can be committed by one human being against another. I wonder whether that is true. I wonder whether the crime of rape against a small child is not as bad, or even worse. I wonder whether we have got it in proportion when we say that this crime should be punished with this punishment, which is different not only in degree, but in kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-16", "file": "debates1956-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3cc732edc01e10b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2610.0", "colnum": "2610", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicolson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicolson", "preceding_text": " system. I believe that on this point alone the lack of differentiation between an attempted murder which succeeds and an attempted murder which does not is sufficient basis for the abolition of this penalty. The final decision of this House, which will be expressed in a few hours' time, rests upon very few of us. I understand that the Labour Party as a whole is unanimously in favour of abolition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-16", "file": "debates1956-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3cc732edc01e10b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2614.1", "colnum": "2614", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-16", "file": "debates1956-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "3cc732edc01e10b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2637.3", "colnum": "2637", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr, Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is out of date.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, Butler", "preceding_text": "that to deprive the criminal of the life to which he has proved himself to be unworthy … is the most appropriate, as it is certainly the most impressive, mode in which society can attach to so great a crime the penal consequences which, for the security of life, it is indispensable to annex to it. That singularly impressive view of John Stuart Mill is the view taken by the Government today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-16a.2637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-17", "file": "debates1956-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "128e45f8c9039c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-17a.2673.0", "colnum": "2673", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-17a.2673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-17", "file": "debates1956-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "128e45f8c9039c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-17a.2674.0", "colnum": "2674", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan", "preceding_text": " think that the rise in the price of bread or milk by 1d. or 2d. in either case—0·6 of a point in one case and 0·4 in another—introduces another theoretical argument over which, I agree, there is a difference. If it is right to keep down prices by subsidies, then we ought to subsidise everything, and it is just that policy which has proved to be a failure. It is because we know that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-17a.2674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-17", "file": "debates1956-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "128e45f8c9039c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-17a.2722.1", "colnum": "2722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Kershaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Kershaw", "preceding_text": "or Mansfield thought it very desirable that one set of men should not acquire some advantage over another set. I think that the Bill, however good the spirit behind it—and it is a good spirit—falls into that very error. It would set one section of a community, however deserving—and one section of people who are covered by industrial injuries provisions—at a temporary advantage over other sections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-17a.2722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-17", "file": "debates1956-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "128e45f8c9039c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-17a.2730.1", "colnum": "2730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (Miss Edith Pitt)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But we do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (Miss Edith Pitt)", "preceding_text": "It may be for the convenience of the House if I intervene now, although I do not want to preclude any hon. Members from either side from contributing to the debate later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-17a.2730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-17", "file": "debates1956-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "128e45f8c9039c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-17a.2738.2", "colnum": "2738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "hether intermittent spells of lower paid employment qualify, especially when they may occur long after the accident? What was the real reason that the man changed his employment? Did his accident influence him in making the change? What is the real loss in earnings, especially when overtime complicates the picture? Those are the sort of questions which he has to answer before coming to a decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-17a.2738.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-17", "file": "debates1956-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "128e45f8c9039c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-17a.2742.3", "colnum": "2742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "—that some kind of work is being found for those suffering from this disease. If the field were extended for the industrially disabled, the position of war pensioners obviously would have to be considered. Have the supporters of the Bill taken that into account?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-17a.2742.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-17", "file": "debates1956-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "128e45f8c9039c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-17a.2745.3", "colnum": "2745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "on I do not intend to go into any of the details of the Bill, but merely to concentrate quite briefly on one point which, I think, is the main point. The right hon. Gentleman need not fear that anything I say this afternoon will prevent his hon. Friends from having a chance of dividing upon the Bill. We have had a very interesting debate upon a subject which should not be one of party controversy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-17a.2745.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-02-17", "file": "debates1956-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "128e45f8c9039c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-17a.2748.0", "colnum": "2748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We know all that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "duced, not because he is earning more—indeed he may not be earning at all—but because his notional income has increased. We know how this provision causes men to be reluctant to undertake training for new occupations, even though his training would be of great help towards the mental and physical rehabilitation of the disabled men.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 10th October, 1945; Vol. 414, c. 274–5.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-17a.2747.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-17", "file": "debates1956-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "128e45f8c9039c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-17a.2748.2", "colnum": "2748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "down from 60 per cent. and, as I say, a man 60 per cent. disabled would be in exactly the same position as if he were 100 per cent. disabled. That is what is proposed under the Bill. It is, in fact, washing away the whole of the principle of the 1946 legislation, and to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Llanelly who asked for the debate to be closed, I say that his work is being washed away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-17a.2748.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.14.1", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GAS AND ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Would it not be possible to say something on Mr. Randall's behalf?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.14.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.15.3", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GAS AND ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Nabarro.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.15.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.18.7", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "The rate of disposal of surplus at the present time is very much less than it was under the previous Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.18.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.41.4", "colnum": "41", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Look at your own side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "d say, \"Oh, unemploy- ment has fallen again.\" What they really mean is that there is far too high a pressure of demand for labour and that there are now more vacancies for men at the employment exchanges than there are men unemployed. Nevertheless, such phrases give one a jar. There is a great deal of talk about the need artificially to create unemployment. I for one will never be a party to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.41.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.41.4", "colnum": "41", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "there are now more vacancies for men at the employment exchanges than there are men unemployed. Nevertheless, such phrases give one a jar. There is a great deal of talk about the need artificially to create unemployment. I for one will never be a party to that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Look at your own side.\"] This does not, of course, mean that full employment implies a complete rigidity in the structure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.41.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "y well on the diagnosis. Indeed, judging from the Socialist Amendment, the Opposition doctors cannot even find words of their own for the purpose. I do not complain of plagiarism—I rather welcome it. Everyone knows that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Of course, the Opposition will argue that the difficulties which confront us for the moment are the result of Government mismanagement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.42.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "anagers' Magazine, an admirable publication but not, I would suppose, unduly biased in favour of the Tories. I would quote from its last month's issue. This is what it says: When one remembers that only six brief years ago we were still living in austerity, it should stifle any wish for complaint that we might have. That is very good. That is the Co-ops. People are far better off, and they know it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.42.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "al authority agencies, with the complications of the sponsoring Departments, was so intricate and difficult as to be really unworkable. I do not think that either side of the House was very much enamoured of the building control. But I have not ruled it out of my thoughts. It is quite true that it would need a Bill, but I have no doubt that the House would pass such a Bill if the Government asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.42.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "first Friday in Lent. I think that that is rather good going. Then there is the control of the authorities over the supply of credit and capital. Apart from hire purchase, this is exercised through the banking system and through the control of borrowing and capital issues. So far as the banking system is concerned, there has been one notable result from the timely measures taken by my predecessor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "The hire purchaser is buying something which has a very short life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "The hire purchaser is buying something which has a very short life—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"]—and, as I have just observed, the man who buys a house buys a lasting asset which he can hand on to his children. If the hon. Gentleman had ever bought a Ford motor car he would know the difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ints, that is, by 6 per cent. Food prices rose by 7½ per cent. So excited was the Chancellor of the Exchequer on hearing that the cost of living had actually fallen by one point in January that he immediately introduced measures to see that that trend was reversed. Why are these increases taking place when world prices over the period have been falling? One reason is the end of bulk buying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Defence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "13;54—we have no later figures—the annual rate of increase in Government expediture was £273 million, against £127 million during the four years from 1947 to 1951. In other words, although our period of office included the period when the Welfare State was established in this country, which cost a lot of money, Government expenditure rose less than half as fast as it did under the Tory Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "ming autumn and winter. As I have said previously, the Government have talked themselves into such a position that they could not use consultation and exhortation with big industry because they were against any form of physical limitation. The Government say that only the monetary mechanism, indirect measures, the hidden hand as it used to be called, must be used. Well, the hidden hand is rearing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.99.3", "colnum": "99", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "compete in price with goods manufactured in other countries. I now turn to the speech of the right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson). Anyone listening to the right hon. Gentleman might have thought that the situation into which we have got ourselves was something entirely new, and that we have had, not merely periodical crises, as we seem now to be having, but annual crises from 1945 onwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.99.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.99.3", "colnum": "99", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " enormously since then. There have been combines and price restrictions of all kinds. What is happening? It has been known that their effect is to restrict competition and to keep others out of the market. Prices have been agreed which can be obtained without any fresh effort. The Labour Government thought this was wrong and introduced an Act of Parliament in 1948, which they now admit was futile.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.99.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "oing more than the average amount of work being done by his mates, and matters of that kind? I am sure that all hon. Members would say it is time that such practices were done away with, in order that we might be able properly to compete with other countries. All these practices are dictated by fear—the fear that there may come a slump, and unemployment. I cannot see any grounds for any such fear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which ones\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glover", "preceding_text": "e engine—marked \"The British Economy\"—is blowing off steam. The cow marked \"Trade union restrictive practices\" is saying to the other: It's you, dear, they want to move. That indicates the complete answer to the problem. It is not much use getting one cow off the line if another remains on it. I think that greater thought could be given at this moment to the removal of those restrictive practices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.133.3", "colnum": "133", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Roberts", "preceding_text": "ty if he were to devalue the £ now, but God forbid that he should do so. The consequences, in two or three years' time, would be devastating. I believe it was when the right hon. Gentleman was at the Board of Trade that we devalued the £. We obtained a temporary benefit and then, as soon as trouble came along. hon. Members opposite said, \"What shall we do? Let us get out from under,\" and they did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.135.3", "colnum": "135", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Roberts", "preceding_text": "It is difficult to cease making a speech when hon. Members interrupt. I believe I speak for most of the Conservative Party when I say that we are not against controls as such.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.135.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "preceding_text": "ime limit on it? I go a bit further and ask whether anybody has ever told that to the Prime Minister. The House may recall that as recently as the by-election at Taunton the message which the Prime Minister sent to the Tory candidate was in these terms: Under Conservative policies the nation has thrived and come to a state of prosperity greater and more widespread than ever before in our history\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.135.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Horobin", "preceding_text": "site did. It is sometimes said—it has been said in this debate—\" It may be true that you were fairly successful at the beginning.\" It is all too often forgotten or not admitted that we were completely successful for a year in the middle. It is sometimes said, \"While it may be true that you were fairly successful at the beginning, it was all luck. The terms of trade have been so fortunate for you.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "xport. Put those two figures together—and if I am wrong it is urgent that I should be corrected tomorrow—if the inflationary pressure is about £300 million a year, if the real new wealth coming forward out of our united efforts is between £500 million and £600 million, all we need to do to get out of this trouble is to hold back our demands—all of us, for wages, profits, investment—on real wealth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "ur of further steps in the restriction of hire purchase. I speak as a social worker in saying that the extent of hire purchase in this country is a great social problem which was well due for consideration, quite apart from the part which its restriction can play in dealing with inflation. I also feel that the Chancellor has served us all well, in taking the steps which he has done, in his timing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-20", "file": "debates1956-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "9a775d734ad6b86c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "ontinued for any length of time, the results might be too serious to contemplate. Certainly, nothing will be said by me to lead any honest trade union official concerned with the living standards of his people to feel—as was suggested by the hon. Member for Newton—that the workers were not getting a square deal and must embark upon industrial measures against the democratically-elected Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-20a.150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-21", "file": "debates1956-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "863efe832f3f008a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.178.3", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "Of course, 1938 was not a year of great unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-21", "file": "debates1956-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "863efe832f3f008a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.187.4", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport:", "preceding_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.187.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-02-21", "file": "debates1956-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "863efe832f3f008a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.190.1", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "The additional rise in the Bank Rate should not have an appreciable effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-21", "file": "debates1956-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "863efe832f3f008a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Sir Edward Boyle)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Sir Edward Boyle)", "preceding_text": "e got back to power, fortunately, in October, 1951, we discovered that the losses of gold and dollars in October alone amounted to 320 million dollars, and for the last quarter of that year 940 million dollars. I think that, on the whole, that was not perhaps the happiest advertisement for \"purposive steering.\" Yesterday afternoon, after the brilliant speech of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-21", "file": "debates1956-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "863efe832f3f008a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "I shall have something to say about the monetary policy towards the end of my speech. I say to the right hon. Gentleman that I think that a priori it would be unreasonable to expect monetary policy to have exactly the same effect on stocks in 1955, when we started the year with pretty low stocks, as in 1952 when we started the year with very high stocks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-21", "file": "debates1956-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "863efe832f3f008a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is planning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": " to our economy in the next twenty years, on the one hand, than keeping some sort of balance between increased consumption and increased investment and, on the other, between increased investment in our basic industries and increased investment at the finishing end of industry. That is a most important internal economic objective today, however much we may disagree as to the means of attaining it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-21", "file": "debates1956-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "863efe832f3f008a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "to obtain are slightly different from his. My information is that £4 million of work was done on petrol stations in 1954 while licensing was still in force, and £7 million in 1955. Hon. Members may well feel that taking into account the value of the work licensed in 1954, a very considerable proportion of the £7 million would have been licensed even if building control had still remained in force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-21", "file": "debates1956-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "863efe832f3f008a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "which restrict trade. I welcome the Measure that my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade has brought in with that intent, especially its provision for judicial decisions, but I suggest that this form of restriction is not the most urgent or the most serious. The most urgent and most serious restriction today is not restriction by the employers, but restriction by the trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-21", "file": "debates1956-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "863efe832f3f008a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.247.2", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Elaine Burton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Elaine Burton", "preceding_text": "ile because it goes to Surtax payers and to poor people alike. I should have thought that there was no hon. Member in the House or any person in the country who does not know that all politics apart the higher we go in the income scale the less money we find is spent on bread. It just so happens that the people who are higher up in the income scale for one reason or another, eat very little bread.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.247.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-21", "file": "debates1956-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "863efe832f3f008a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Lady said that last year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "re us, indicates any firm action or any action at all about this problem of the cost of living. I have here a very short cutting from the News Chronicle of 16th December last year, from which it seems that this Government never learn. I agree that if we had a General Election next week, the Government would have a very long time in which to learn, but, unfortunately, we are not likely to have one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-21", "file": "debates1956-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "863efe832f3f008a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.280.3", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not surprised.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": "ply those territories with goods and with investment, we can abdicate as a great Power in the world. This is something that we must solve ourselves. We can solve it by many methods, but with one fixity of purpose. No one factor will be sufficient. I have been all too surprised during this debate to hear no defence from these benches of the policy of my right hon. Friend who is now Lord Privy Seal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-21", "file": "debates1956-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "863efe832f3f008a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Chancellor took last February and again in July has had its effect. By the time it came to the Bradford speech, only a month ago, all that gaiety had evaporated. The Prime Minister said then: There is no slick or swift solution to our difficulties. We would like to know, after this new development in Government policy, what he would have to say to us tonight, but, alas, he will not commit himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-21", "file": "debates1956-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "863efe832f3f008a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.313.3", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "rtime? Would he tell us exactly how he thinks that the credit policy and the restriction of demand generally will produce the cut in imports which is so necessary? My right hon. Friend said he thought there was some danger of the Chancellor walking backward into unemployment. I would put it a little differently. I think that the greater danger is that he walks forward towards it, but in his sleep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.313.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-21", "file": "debates1956-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "863efe832f3f008a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman is urging us to go towards that figure. The right hon. Gentleman made one other point which I should like to mention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-21", "file": "debates1956-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "863efe832f3f008a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman is urging us to go towards that figure. The right hon. Gentleman made one other point which I should like to mention. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] The answer is that I am aware of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-21a.322.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-22", "file": "debates1956-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8ecbf172a3394885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-22a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member wishes me to explain everything that appears in page 67. These are small points and I thought it was unnecessary to go into them, but I shall gladly do so. The Committee will see, in page 67 the items: \"C.2.—Superannuation of Teachers (Grant in Aid) £163,000 C.3.—Milk in Schools (Grant) £20,000.\" The total of those two figures has to be deducted from the £720,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-22a.427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-22", "file": "debates1956-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8ecbf172a3394885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-22a.447.2", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "It is general policy, of course. I was asked what was meant by the circular which was issued recently to local authorities and by the Chancellor's recent statement. They mean that we have no intention of holding back any school building in Scotland that is essential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-22a.447.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-22", "file": "debates1956-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "8ecbf172a3394885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-22a.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Hooley was Terence Hooley. Hooley had a secretary named Ellis. Mr. Marshall Stevens, whom you remember, Mr. Speaker, as a Member of this House for a very long time, and who played a great part in this area, sent word to another man named Ellis that Trafford Park was likely to be for sale. Instead of that Ellis receiving it, Hooley's Ellis received it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-22a.496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-23", "file": "debates1956-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "0cda95c4a8a0188c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-23a.553.2", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Advertise for him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "I am always full of hope, and I am perfectly satisfied that in due course the police will get him, but, as the hon. Gentleman no doubt realises, there is nothing to prevent a prisoner, either through the post—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-23a.553.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-23", "file": "debates1956-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "0cda95c4a8a0188c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-23a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hyde", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not decisive.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hyde", "preceding_text": "In view of the decisive vote of this House that capital punishment should be brought to an end forthwith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-23a.558.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-23", "file": "debates1956-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "0cda95c4a8a0188c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-23a.578.3", "colnum": "578", "heading": "DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Can we be assured that the Government, on this occasion, will not advise the House against my hon. Friend's Measure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-23a.578.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-27", "file": "debates1956-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e5332ac7e30ab8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-27a.837.8", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "preceding_text": " had recognised last July to be necessary. They receded from the United Nations Charter to the balance of power, which in my view the hydrogen bomb had made futile. Having agreed that we must join with the Russians in organising the whole of Europe for peace, we insisted in these proposals that a European security organisation would be completed only when a united Germany decided to enter N.A.T.O.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-27a.837.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-27", "file": "debates1956-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e5332ac7e30ab8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-27a.848.1", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "ews on how to unite Germany through free elections—and we must always insist on free elections. Instead of following up what was begun a: Geneva by a fresh United Nations approach to the conjoint problem of German unification and European security, the Government made deadlock certain in October by insisting on the inclusion of a united Germany in the Western military alliance as an end in itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-27a.848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-27", "file": "debates1956-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e5332ac7e30ab8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-27a.942.3", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Younger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Younger", "preceding_text": "eldom can such heavy losses have been needlessly incurred to so little purpose. We ought to say to our Portuguese Allies—and I acknowledge that they have been our Allies for a very long time and that they have always stood by us—quite frankly that by their policy in Goa they are doing more damage to the Western cause in Asia than can be made up by the contribution which they are making to N.A.T.O.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-27a.942.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-28", "file": "debates1956-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3aa89017fc7b7639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.998.0", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "The solitary difficulty is that of Parliamentary time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.998.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-28", "file": "debates1956-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3aa89017fc7b7639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1004.3", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. and gallant Gentleman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "Although the right hon. Gentleman admits to only three mistakes in ten thousand—many of us think that there are more than that—why are so many \"crocks\" passed fighting fit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1004.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-28", "file": "debates1956-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3aa89017fc7b7639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1005.3", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT (POLICY DECISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "To take the first of the hon. Member's points, which, I agree, is important, it has been under review since 1949, including two and a half years of Labour Government.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-28", "file": "debates1956-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3aa89017fc7b7639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1028.2", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Monckton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The same story.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Monckton", "preceding_text": "I hope I was not being complacent. I said that there were modifications which had to be made, and these modifications ought to be made before the Hunter is in the condition in which we should like it to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1028.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-28", "file": "debates1956-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3aa89017fc7b7639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So was he.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "preceding_text": "rs, and if ever there were a job in which a Minister ought to stay put I should have thought it was the Ministry of Defence. I suspect that what we have been witnessing in the last four years is not a Ministry of Defence at all but only a Minister, and that, therefore, it does not very much matter who he is. As for the Minister himself, I am bound to say that I was surprised when he was appointed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-28", "file": "debates1956-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3aa89017fc7b7639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "preceding_text": "years is not a Ministry of Defence at all but only a Minister, and that, therefore, it does not very much matter who he is. As for the Minister himself, I am bound to say that I was surprised when he was appointed. [An HON. MEMBER: \"So was he.\"] I do not mean that in any offensive way whatever. An eminent legal brain was turned on to this job when what we really want is a hard-headed business man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-28", "file": "debates1956-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3aa89017fc7b7639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. R. Stokes", "preceding_text": "in any offensive way whatever. An eminent legal brain was turned on to this job when what we really want is a hard-headed business man. [ Laughter. ] I said hard-headed. I have come to the conclusion, after listening to the right hon. and learned Gentleman, that he is really a screen more than a probe, whereas a probe is needed. I am bound to admit to a certain amount of perplexity in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-28", "file": "debates1956-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3aa89017fc7b7639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1043.0", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "n the pipeline by air. That must be a considerable saving. I welcome that. As our Amendment complains, there is no real indication of the Government's policy on National Service. Over the years we on this side of the House have repeatedly asked for an inquiry. In the light of events we now know that had there been such an inquiry there would have been a reduction of the two years' period long ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1043.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-28", "file": "debates1956-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3aa89017fc7b7639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1044.1", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ed there. There should be a much more comprehensive scheme of barrack building, so perhaps the Government could interfere slightly and transfer manpower from some of those glorious blocks of offices and swell flats which are going up. In that way not only would we get more barracks, but also more steel for industry. Make no mistake about it, my trade is suffering severely from a shortage of steel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1044.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-28", "file": "debates1956-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3aa89017fc7b7639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1046.0", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ith the H-bomb—I do not know enough about it to speak with authority. I know that we are behind, for reasons into which I need not now go. I am not disputing our right to make, or the correctness of making, the H-bomb, but unless we hurry one of these frightful scientists will find something worse than the H-bomb and we shall have a state of disparity once again and negotiation will be impossible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-28", "file": "debates1956-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3aa89017fc7b7639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "ea a moment longer than is necessary. By the end of June or sooner, the whole of our forces in Egypt and the Suez Canal area—about 80,000 troops—will have been evacuated. What is the Secretary of State doing with them? He does not tell us, and we obviously cannot expect an answer from the Minister of Defence, because he has been in his present office for only two months, and would not know anyhow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-28", "file": "debates1956-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3aa89017fc7b7639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Grossman) may well say, \"Hear, hear.\" He knows, from personal experience, the potency and powerfulness of that weapon during the war. He was engaged in operating it. I hope that if he speaks in this debate he will reinforce the remarks which I am about to make. Where is that psychological weapon now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-28", "file": "debates1956-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3aa89017fc7b7639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "I can only go by what I read, and I try to read between the lines. Cyprus is a small island, and we have control of it, yet fourteen major British units have to be kept there to maintain law and order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-28", "file": "debates1956-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3aa89017fc7b7639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1085.6", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "ates Ambassador in the Soviet Union, explained in some detail in September, 1954, in a book he published on \"The Realities of American Foreign Policy,\" that to the best of his knowledge the Soviet Government had never used war as an instrument of national policy but that it relied on other means for the spread of Communism in the world. In the Readers Digest of March, 1950, he expanded this a bit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1085.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-28", "file": "debates1956-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3aa89017fc7b7639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1089.1", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "preceding_text": "d do the same thing here. We have never had that kind of party committee system trying to control the policy of a Minister. I wonder whether, instead, it might not be a good thing to revert to the suggestion which was made more than once by my right hon. Friend the Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill) when in opposition, that we should have a secret session of this House on questions of defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-28", "file": "debates1956-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3aa89017fc7b7639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1142.3", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is for the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "That may be, but it does not give a clear-cut answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-28a.1142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-29", "file": "debates1956-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "760208fa66dcf1ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1190.4", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "TECHNICAL EDUCATION (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. I. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have not read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. I. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that it will give very great satisfaction in many quarters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1190.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-29", "file": "debates1956-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "760208fa66dcf1ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1223.5", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "bers—one reads in newspapers of someone having 1,000 heavy bombers or 500—but I would ask the House to consider what the cost of that would be. A big bomber may cost from £500,000 or well over that amount. How can this country possibly afford to have forces on the scale that it is sometimes suggested we should have? The limit to the amount of weapons we can have is an economic and financial limit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1223.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-29", "file": "debates1956-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "760208fa66dcf1ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "we have been too slow in development or because we have tried to do too much? I think that probably the second is the truer answer. It must be remembered that in 1949–50, with the Korean situation and so on, an enormous push was put behind defence production and development. I think I shall have support here. Probably we took on programmes bigger than the economy of the country could carry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-29", "file": "debates1956-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "760208fa66dcf1ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1237.1", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ply on the Ministry of Supply Vote or on the Air Estimates. I do not say it had no bearing on the subject of defence, but it was remote from the substance of defence strategy and defence organisation. It was bad enough yesterday when several hon. Members—on both sides, I admit—departed from the subject of defence and discussed economics and foreign policy and quite a number of irrelevant subjects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-29", "file": "debates1956-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "760208fa66dcf1ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1237.1", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "way, has it occurred to hon. Members that some of the aircraft carriers and cruisers have a complement of 2,000 or 2,500 men? That is where the men are absorbed. In peace time there is no question of naval operations because they are not used to deal with colonial disturbances, as is the case with our ground forces. Therefore, I think the time has come when the admirals must be put in their place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-29", "file": "debates1956-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "760208fa66dcf1ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1243.0", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Charm.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ech, something was said about integration of the Services, and it was suggested that it was very difficult to do that, because of the inadequate powers of the right hon. and learned Gentleman. I do not agree. I know all about the functions of the Ministry of Defence. I was very fortunate, because I had the co-operation of all my Service colleagues. What I lacked in power, I gained in co-operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-29", "file": "debates1956-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "760208fa66dcf1ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1264.3", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has this to do with the White Paper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "ing? They cannot be exaggerated. Some important unions have passed rules which bar Communists from becoming union officials. There has been a great deal of argument in the Labour Party about whether that is right or wrong, but if it is right to do that, is it really wrong for local authorities to say that they will not knowingly appoint Communists as headmasters or headmistresses in their schools?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1264.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-29", "file": "debates1956-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "760208fa66dcf1ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1277.1", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A very good one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "now the greatest debtor nation. It seems to me that we must give our constituents the answer to the question whether the time has not come when we should recognise as a nation that Britain has come down in the world, that we are no longer the great Power we were, and that we should not try to carry burdens beyond our capacity. That is the first of the questions which my constituents are asking me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-29", "file": "debates1956-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "760208fa66dcf1ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "r or I should sack him. I am convinced, from what I know at second-hand from my friends in the engineering industry that we have not been getting value for money. It is a scandal to read of the enormous profits made by certain sections of the industry which have produced for us what are admitted on both sides of the House to be failures. There is no punishment for failure in the aircraft industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-29", "file": "debates1956-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "760208fa66dcf1ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I would not say that it is a \"fiddle,\" but it is not the sort of thing that a Tory Government, at least, should allow. I could go on for a long time, but I see that I have only three more minutes left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-29", "file": "debates1956-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "760208fa66dcf1ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "enough as a representative of the taxpayer? Ultimately, I am speaking for the taxpayer. In this defence debate I have so far not heard anybody plead for the men and women who have to pay the bill. We all say that we are over-taxed, but it is no good our saying that and then spending £1,500 million a year and not have a proper check on the spending. I wish that there was time to develop this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-29", "file": "debates1956-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "760208fa66dcf1ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1281.1", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member for Louth (Mr. Osborne) will have observed from the enthusiastic applause of the Opposition that the questions he asked could not have been more embarrassing to his hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-29", "file": "debates1956-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "760208fa66dcf1ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": " should be expected to accept so much on trust from these Ministers who flip so quickly from the Ministry of Supply to the Foreign Office and from the Exchequer to somewhere else and back again until it is difficult to keep track of them. Indeed, we might start a quiz soon: \"Who were the last five Ministers of Defence?\" It would be difficult to name them. Also, \"What jobs do they hold at present?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-29", "file": "debates1956-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "760208fa66dcf1ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": " you did in nine months we cannot amend in the next 4½ years.\" I would only say to hon. Gentlemen opposite who tell us that the programme of 1951–52 was badly planned, and that too much was crammed in, that we were advised in 1951 of the apprehension of the Chiefs of Staff that war was likely in 1953 or 1954. If war had come then, all these projects, and more, would have been needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-29", "file": "debates1956-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "760208fa66dcf1ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "the economic side, so that the generals can be told to make do with the men they have. In the next twelve months the Minister should decide to cut National Service. I agree with the analysis that the purpose of the Government is eventually to try to abolish National Service. I understand that the Secretary of State for Air wants to start speaking at 9.25 p.m., so I will curtail what I have to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-02-29", "file": "debates1956-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "760208fa66dcf1ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1318.1", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": " many capital ships we shall build, etc. He is responsible for all those big decisions, and the Service Ministers are responsible for the administration of their Departments. Even in that administration there are certain co-ordinating functions which are performed by the Ministry of Defence, and performed with some success. In effect, the Minister of Defence is a deputy Prime Minister for defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-02-29a.1318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1343.11", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that I agree. As I have mentioned, black magic is an offence at common law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1343.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1343.11", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Black magic?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "EMBER: \"What is it?\"] It is the opposite of white magic. I cannot go further than to say that this is magic performed without the aid of the devil; therefore, I assume that the other kind is with his aid. In any case, it would not be under that, I should have thought, that action would be taken, but under the Fraudulent Mediums Act of 1951. The fact is that there was a 999 call sent to the police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1343.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1353.0", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman and, I regret to say, the National Union of Teachers have misrepresented very seriously what I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1357.5", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "In view of the situation in Bechuanaland, where a large section of the Bamangwato tribe is uneasy, and in a condition of discontent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1357.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1365.5", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT STORES (PURCHASE AND DISPOSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": " the method by which this vast quantity of paint has been disposed of, at prices substantially below the current cost of production, and that it has had a serious effect upon the industry as a whole? It distorts the production programme of very large numbers of firms. It is generally felt that better, more efficient and up-to-date methods could have been found to dispose of this quantity of paint.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1365.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1366.4", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES (WAGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "May I express the hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1366.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1370.4", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I must say at once that I think it would be misleading the House if I suggested that we should be able to allot two days. The difficulty will be to find one day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1370.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1384.1", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "em to go on a world-wide inquiry would not be realistic. I hope that the inquiry will be finished by the summer, and, as I have said, the report will be published. There is another matter concerning National Service to which I wish to refer, because it is always being put forward. We have been trying to do what we can about it, but I am not entirely happy about it. It is what soldiers call \"bull.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1385.5", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "f boots and burnishing the tops of tins of boot polish. The letter further states that the laying out of beds can well be done more in accordance with the civilian manner, and goes on to say that we are also issuing modern labour-saving devices, such as electric floor scrubbers and dryers and polishing machines. A new type of barrack table is being provided with a top that does not need scrubbing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1385.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1410.1", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "It is a little unfair of the right hon. Gentleman to say that. He has not even mentioned the word \"standardisation.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1431.1", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " lord lieutenant asked me how much money I had, because one was expected to keep up a position when one had a commission. These men, as I have said, have not very much money. In my case, I had to give up practically every other Saturday to attend battalion drills or to fire my appropriate number of rounds at Bisley. One cannot keep one's place in the cricket team in summer when one has to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1431.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1442.3", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ORGANISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "preceding_text": "to the end of the Question and to add instead thereof: this House, whilst placing on record its appreciation of the outstanding services rendered to this country by the Army, believes that the requirements of modern warfare call for drastic and far-reaching changes in the defence structure and urges the appointment of a committee to examine the organisation of the Army and to make recommendations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1442.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1446.1", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ORGANISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "ative economies. At the moment we have the R.A.S.C, the R.A.M.C. and the R.E.M.E., to mention three bodies concerned with maintenance; why not form them into one quartermaster corps? I know quite well that changing the cap badge does not do away with the job but some saving in administrative overheads might be made by merging those three Services into one and so reducing the danger of overlapping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1446.1", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ORGANISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "do away with the job but some saving in administrative overheads might be made by merging those three Services into one and so reducing the danger of overlapping—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] We must examine staff establishments, starting with the War Office. This has been done before. I know from my experience as a staff officer that I could always find a reason why I should have a certain staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1446.1", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ORGANISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "e and so reducing the danger of overlapping—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] We must examine staff establishments, starting with the War Office. This has been done before. I know from my experience as a staff officer that I could always find a reason why I should have a certain staff. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] We may have to do with staffs what we have done with vehicles, impose an arbitrary cut.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1483.1", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ORGANISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "go into the Division Lobby in support of the Amendment. I certainly think we should have a committee appointed, but I should like to know what kind of a committee it is to be. It is to be an all-party committee, but I think we should have some reservations about that. We should exclude from it all garrulous brigadiers and all ex-Ministers and Privy Councillors. It would be an impartial, objective—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1485.3", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ORGANISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shop steward.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "me. I do not mind the wage rates of soldiers going up for the lower paid ranks, but when we say to the average worker, \"Do not ask for more wages because it will result in inflation,\" how are we to justify the increase in pay of the brigadiers? I do not quite know how to compare brigadiers with the other ranks in industry. It is difficult to assess exactly where the brigadier would be in industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1485.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1486.1", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ORGANISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ten shilling widows.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "heir members, if they asked for anything like this the Chancellor of the Exchequer would say, \"For goodness' sake, stop. That is encouraging inflation and ruining the country.\" Therefore, I am not at all keen about the rates of pay for the higher ranks. I believe that they are inflationary. I believe that if we had a committee of businessmen, with a sprinkling perhaps of well-informed journalists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1507.1", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ORGANISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "pposite who seem to think that there is something very immoral in the Labour Party standing for the nationalisation of certain industries, while themselves having no scruples about taking over young lads. Why should they object to the State taking over, for instance, the aircraft industry, or the chemical industry, but make no objection to taking over the lads of the nation? I cannot understand it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1510.0", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ORGANISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman admits that, I am prepared to go on and argue. The hon. Member has, unfortunately, made me lose my couple of cuttings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1510.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1510.0", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ORGANISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": " man than the cutting out of a lot of the stupid, unintelligent and wasteful things that he is compelled to do. I hope that the new electric sweepers and cleaners that are to be introduced will remove, once and for all, the idea that an officer who has had a row with his wife in the morning can make a man scrub the guardroom with a toothbrush, and cut the grass of the lawn with a pair of scissors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1510.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1550.1", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ORGANISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ell ventilated and sufficiently lit, and adequate arrangements are necessary for warming. How can that injunction be carried out in this 150 feet deep shelter underneath the railway station at Goodge Street? Important questions of principle are involved. They relate not only to the selection of recruits, but to the maintenance of satisfactory environment for soldiers and the prevention of disease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-01", "file": "debates1956-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "f5d4c5e39246a643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1628.2", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ORGANISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not cut?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "As the Prime Minister has said this week that it is the intention to abolish National Service as soon as circumstances permit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-01a.1628.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-05", "file": "debates1956-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "e44b478fc2a62271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "I agree with that. At any time I shall be glad to arrange for the hon. and learned Member to go on one of my fisheries research vessels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-05", "file": "debates1956-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "e44b478fc2a62271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1712.4", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "JORDAN (DISMISSAL OF BRITISH OFFICERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " has been given to both these matters. Our units in Jordan are either at the two air bases, which the right hon. Gentleman knows about, or at Aqaba. I should not like to say anything more at the moment in public except that we have naturally taken into consideration all that and also that we should take into account the assurance in this respect which the Jordanian Government have repeatedly made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1712.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-05", "file": "debates1956-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "e44b478fc2a62271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1713.1", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "JORDAN (DISMISSAL OF BRITISH OFFICERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Abadan.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e to my right hon. Friend the Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell) about the security of the scattered British forces that still exist in Jordan and which must cause a considerable amount of anxiety, in view of the excitement which exists in that country? Does he not think that this indicates another important incident which rather reflects the growing collapse of British policy in the Middle East?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-05", "file": "debates1956-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "e44b478fc2a62271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1715.4", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "CYPRUS (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "or as long as he thought necessary.\" He also made it clear that he required the composition of the elected majority to be defined to his satisfaction in advance of the recommendations of the Constitutional Commissioner. The full correspondence will be published in a White Paper, which will be available this afternoon. As to the future, the first and most important duty is to restore law and order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1715.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-05", "file": "debates1956-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "e44b478fc2a62271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1715.4", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "CYPRUS (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "e have the resolution and the forces, and it will be done. In the constitutional field our objective remains the same, that is to reach agreement with the communities in Cyprus, in accordance with the principles that I have indicated. It is difficult to find words in which adequately to express the admiration of Her Majesty's Government for the skill shown by Sir John Harding in these discussions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1715.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-05", "file": "debates1956-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "e44b478fc2a62271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1719.0", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "CYPRUS (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " statement about that part of the world, and that unfortunately it is because a statement was made about Egypt at the same time as a statement was made about the future of Cyprus that language was used from that side which is very largely responsible for the situation in Cyprus? Will he, therefore, bear in mind that he ought not to allow himself to be influenced too much by what occurs behind him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1719.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-05", "file": "debates1956-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "e44b478fc2a62271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1722.2", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "CYPRUS (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which is the foreign country?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend not refute the implication of the right hon. Gentleman's question that whenever there is a dispute between this country and a foreign country it is always this country which is mistaken?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1722.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-05", "file": "debates1956-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "e44b478fc2a62271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1753.3", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "ve had a Royal Air Force. He had to fight hard to maintain it as a separate Service. Generals and admirals kept trying to get it away from him. That country owes him a great debt for what he did. At his memorial service, I thought that the turnout of many officers was quite deplorable—particularly in the case of the air marshals. Some of their greatcoats were the shabbiest things I have ever seen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1753.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-05", "file": "debates1956-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "e44b478fc2a62271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1836.5", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "icism can be applied to these visits by the Air Force. How much money was consumed, and could it not have been put to a better purpose? I am certain that it could. The Minister would do well to note what the French Foreign Minister has had to say about these useless military displays at a time when a great mass of people are looking, not for further displays of militarism but for more food to eat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1836.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-05", "file": "debates1956-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "e44b478fc2a62271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1844.1", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will at least agree that if they were not travelling comfortably the journey did not last very long. At the time of Abadan, when the Labour Party was in power, men were packed like sardines in an aircraft carrier on a journey which took nine days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1844.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-05", "file": "debates1956-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "e44b478fc2a62271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1854.0", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Over the North Sea.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Yates", "preceding_text": " its continuation. The Minister, in his opening speech, did not give me much assurance on how, through the strategy that he is advancing, we are to be secure. One of my hon. Friends referred to a remark the Minister made, and which I noted. He said that in the nuclear age it is no use shooting down bombers over one's own country. Perhaps the Minister will tell us where we ought to shoot them down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-05a.1852.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.1902.7", "colnum": "1902", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "preceding_text": " it not the case that, although the Minister speaks of vacancies, these are for relatively unskilled men, whereas the men made redundant are highly skilled engineers? Is the right hon. Gentleman further aware that although the Chancellor of the Exchequer pays lip-service to full employment, through his policy of deflation he is deliberately and wilfully creating unemployment in the motor industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.1902.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.1911.1", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Stuart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Stuart", "preceding_text": "For this purpose, fresh eggs are eggs which are not preserved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.1911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.1929.0", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I ask for your guidance, Mr. Speaker, on the fact that the right hon. Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade, although he is dealing with a complex subject—I feel that I must nevertheless take up the point—is manifestly reading his speech?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.1929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.1943.1", "colnum": "1943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": "t human labour is not a commodity. The fundamental truth behind that dictum is that collective action benefiting human labour normally has a desirable effect on the distribution of incomes and wealth, while action to raise prices and profits normally has a bad effect. Let us also remember that collective bargaining on salaries and wages is conducted publicly and openly between two organised sides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.1943.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.1945.0", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "In what year was this written?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": " was an outmoded relic and that the whole of British industry should be regimented into private monopolies. In that book, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said: Intense competition will lower prices to an unprofitable level and thus spread ruin and dislocation in ever-widening circles. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was very sweeping. He said: The period of positive or effective expansion is over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.1943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.1964.1", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Padley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Criminal practices?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Padley", "preceding_text": "produce goods which range from aspirin to motor cars, the amount of case law will be negligible. There will be lay members, but if the British tradition counts for anything, some of them are likely to look after one set of interests and others will look after another set, and in the end the decision will be taken by the judge. I cannot see valid objections to the Majority Report of the Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.1964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.1987.1", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Darling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Darling", "preceding_text": "ms opening up, or to fix prices or conditions of sale to suit the least efficient firm in a trade or industry, or to prevent new inventions and new machines being adequately developed, is an obstacle to enterprise. It is true that this view can apply to some trade union practices as well, but all that we need say in this debate about trade union practices is that they are not covered by this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.1987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2009.0", "colnum": "2009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bull.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "It is difficult, of course, to answer the hon. Lady in the barnyard terms that we would employ in Somerset, but I can assure her that many farmers have the means of supplying the fertilisers they need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2017.3", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": " Parliament which was going to be the master of this legislation and the judiciary only the servants. I put it to the President that he should look at this matter again honestly and fairly. How can he reconcile that dictum of his about Parliament being the master with the unlimited powers that the Bill gives the court to deal with the matter? Take two examples. There is not a lawyer in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2017.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2021.8", "colnum": "2021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "court will put the case for the public? Where will the evidence be obtained? The suppliers, of course, will very easily give a hundred and one different reasons to justify any restrictive agreement, and that is all that will be before the court. The traders will in the main back this procedure because the suppliers will make it pay them to do so. It is no use people talking about honesty in trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2021.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2021.8", "colnum": "2021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, it does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": " and to the parties, as they are called, the opportunity of using legal obstruction and technical refinement. Not only is there the question of going to court, but there may be an appeal to the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords. Clause 2 (3) lays down that the decision of the court is to be enforced as … an order of the High Court. Very carefully, the Bill says not a word about appeal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2021.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2021.8", "colnum": "2021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": " High Court. Very carefully, the Bill says not a word about appeal—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, it does.\"]—nor did the President of the Board of Trade say anything about the delays that appeals may cause. Years may elapse before these matters are decided. First, there must be the decision whether a restrictive agreement should be registered. That can be taken to court. That, too, can take years to decide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2021.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2030.1", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "eme is a matter for the Board of Trade. The Board of Trade decides that the scheme is in the national interest and on that ground, amongst others, it approves the scheme. But here we have a restriction necessary to a scheme which the Board of Trade says is in the national interest, subjected to a decision of the court, for the court, if it wishes, to decide that it is not in the national interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2030.1", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "al interest. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Certainly—to decide that a scheme may be to the detriment of the public, which is the obverse of the public interest. This is dealing with a restriction which is necessary to the scheme. I am not dealing with the scheme itself but with a restriction necessary to the scheme. Alhough the restriction is necessary to the scheme it can be done away with by the courts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2034.1", "colnum": "2034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. Derek Walker-Smith)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. Derek Walker-Smith)", "preceding_text": "mative contributions to the debate. My hon. Friend the Member for Rye cast his speech in a more interrogative vein and put to me a series of questions, in particular about Clause 16. He asked me why unemployment was taken as the test in paragraph ( f ), rather than employment. The reason is that it is not intended to be a defence or a good plea if the workers in a factory get employment elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2034.1", "colnum": "2034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. Derek Walker-Smith)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. Derek Walker-Smith)", "preceding_text": "Friends that this is one of the matters on which the Government are in principle adjured, in the very important and authoritative leading article in The Times this morning, which has been referred to in the debate, to leave the Bill as it is. A number of points have been put about procedural and other matters, and they are perhaps more in the nature of Committee points. We can return to them then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2038.3", "colnum": "2038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I must get on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2038.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2038.3", "colnum": "2038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " to leave these matters with the great body of retailers—to the private contract between the manufacturer and the retailer—it would not be possible to single out this particular type of transaction for different treatment in law. I venture to suggest, however, that the Co-operative Societies will find that they get the benefit of the abolition of collective enforcement of resale price maintenance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2038.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2041.1", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Examples.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "here must still be an extensive inquiry of individual cases. There is, therefore, no conflict between the Parliamentary solution and a judicial solution. It just is not true to say that Parliament alone is concerned with economic and social matters and that the court has no part in them. The courts deal with many social and economic matters under the guidance of principles laid down by Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2041.1", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A strange doctrine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "of principles laid down by Parliament. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Examples.\"] There are many examples in the spheres of landlord and tenant and of public health. The distinction is not between the kind of subject dealt with. The true distinction is between the level at which that subject is dealt with. Parliament is not in a position to examine, control or to judge the individual levels of economic activity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2044.0", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " did when they were in office. Consider the pattern of events. In July, 1945, the Labour Party came into power. In July, 1948, it passed the Monopolies Act. By 1951 only three Reports on the whole range of restrictive trade practices had been laid before Parliament, and one of those was on the very day before the Dissolution in 1951. It is veritably a tortoise come to judgment when the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-06", "file": "debates1956-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ef473defb1feaf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2069.3", "colnum": "2069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (RESEARCH STUDENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Mulley", "preceding_text": "ates. There is abundant evidence that many of the people now called upon to pay extra are receiving more direct supervision as post-graduate students than they received as undergraduates. Another flimsy point made has been that to qualify for a higher degree one has to do original work, and that that therefore cannot be instruction. It has been known for original work to be done by undergraduates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-06a.2069.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2082.7", "colnum": "2082", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "So far from congratulating the Parliamentary Secretary, may I ask him what on earth possessed the Board of Admiralty ever to introduce such a farcical distinction, which is unworthy of a great Service?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2082.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2089.0", "colnum": "2089", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "he coming years? Is he not aware that it is nonsense in these days, when everyone preaches full employment, to claim that it is clever to take people out of the labour market when they want to stay in it? Is it not monstrous to refuse extended employment to a man of 60, solely on the ground that he has a disability—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—I did not know that this was something at which to jeer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2088.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2093.5", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDEPENDENT TELEVISION AUTHORITY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "It is not my responsibility to monitor programmes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2093.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2096.1", "colnum": "2096", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDEPENDENT TELEVISION AUTHORITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that when advertising is associated over a long period with programmes which are known beforehand, that in itself is bound to affect the nature of the programme?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2111.2", "colnum": "2111", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Nutting)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Nutting)", "preceding_text": "ory but have been aggravated by the bitterness of Arab hostility towards Israel. We shall not find a quick remedy for these ills, more especially as there are third parties pouring poison into the wounds and doing their best to increase hostility against all that we stand for. In face of this, our best and wisest course is to show ourselves reliable, consistent, patient but yet firm in the policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2111.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2111.2", "colnum": "2111", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Nutting)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Nutting)", "preceding_text": "cation and the peaceful uses of atomic energy. It is the declared intention of these countries to increase the efficiency of this development through economic co-operation, the sharing of technical knowledge and the improvement of technical education. We recognise that we have an important part to play in all this development, and this is fully understood and welcomed by our Middle Eastern Allies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2111.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2111.2", "colnum": "2111", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Nutting)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Nutting)", "preceding_text": "r Allies under the Bagdad Pact. I noticed that the right hon. Member for Blyth, in the same speech the other day, said that the Bagdad Pact—and I quote his own words— …provoked, as might have been expected, the equally mischievous and dangerous Soviet intervention in the Middle East.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 27th February, 1956; Vol. 549. c. 853.] This, of course, is complete and arrant nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2111.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2116.1", "colnum": "2116", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "ipartite Declaration is not enough and that we must give a treaty guarantee to Israel within her present borders. That proposition has come many times from the benches opposite. But I often wonder whether hon. Gentlemen, when they suggest this, have fully thought out the implications of such a step. It would be committing this country to the permanent recognition of a frontier which is not agreed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2118.0", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "I say that the Government cannot be expected to follow a course and to give a guarantee which would amount, in effect, to recognition in perpetuity to the existing armistice line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2119.1", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "What I cannot follow is this. If the Tripartite Declaration so to speak protects these frontiers, or whatever we may like to call them—including the frontier of Jordan, as I presume it does—why did we need the special Treaty with Jordan to supplement that guarantee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2119.2", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has asked me why we concluded the Anglo-Jordan Treaty in 1948—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2119.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2119.2", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has asked me why we concluded the Anglo-Jordan Treaty in 1948—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—And why we did not conclude a treaty with Israel. He was in power in those days and not us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2119.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2121.1", "colnum": "2121", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "I put forward some suggestions as to what might be done. I will only mention them briefly, because there are other aspects to the debate. We believe that the Tripartite Agreement must be upheld, and I was very glad to hear the right hon. Gentleman today specifically mention it. I must say that on the last three or four occasions we have had to drag out of the Government a declaration of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2136.3", "colnum": "2136", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "ition of Leader of the Opposition, and an ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, should make that remark. I believe that our Forces are adequate for our responsibilities if they are properly used. The right hon. Gentleman spoke about the revival of nationalism. I agree that there is a revival of nationalism, but most of us will agree, too, that nationalism is a force which can be greatly over-emphasised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2136.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2152.3", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ld speak in the clearest and most definite language to the Egyptians and the others concerned. I would say to them, \"We are just about as tired of this affair as we can possibly be.\" All this tension may touch off a war which at any cost we must try to prevent. It might lead to the loss of our oil supply, at any rate temporarily, and it could put this country out of action for a considerable time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2152.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2185.3", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "The only difference between the Commonwealth and the United Nations is that the Commonwealth works and the United Nations does not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2185.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2185.4", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "rds a very serious situation in the Middle East. I do not know whether the Joint Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs would disagree with that. I gathered that it was the view of the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. I am suggesting—though it may fail—that under Article 34 of the Charter, the Security Council again should seize itself of this problem of Israel and her Arab neighbours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2185.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2194.1", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "I agree. I think it may have been the hon. Gentleman who asked one of my hon. Friends exactly the same question. He was referring to the Cyprus question. I do not propose to get involved in that question, because we have enough to discuss tonight without it. I think it is necessary to have troops available somewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2223.1", "colnum": "2223", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "re doing about the United Nations observers. Why did we not get going and produce some results? Why did we only have thoughts which were produced by the Opposition long ago? If the right hon. Member and his colleagues want to have a monopoly of thoughts for increasing the United Nations observers, gladly I give it them with any other thoughts they like to produce. The right hon. Member complained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2225.3", "colnum": "2225", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Make your own speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "asington, and, let me add, to those who supported the Pact when we first introduced it into this House. If this was such a wicked business, what a pity it is that the right hon. Gentleman, with the remarkable foresight about which he has told us this evening, did not think of voting against it when it was produced. I have quotations from a number of speeches that were made at the time, notably by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2225.3", "colnum": "2225", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "is that the right hon. Gentleman, with the remarkable foresight about which he has told us this evening, did not think of voting against it when it was produced. I have quotations from a number of speeches that were made at the time, notably by—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Make your own speech.\"]—Mr. T. Reid, who was the Member for Swindon in the last House, strongly and emphatically endorsing the Bagdad Pact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2226.1", "colnum": "2226", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is your view.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I was only pointing out to the House, as I think I am entitled to do, that there has been a whole series of divergent statements from hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2227.1", "colnum": "2227", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is obvious.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ut doubt the most powerful factor militating against Jordan joining the Pact when General Templer was there was that they knew that one consequence of the Bagdad Pact was that its members might be thinking of other things as well as of getting back again to Israel, or a future conflict with Israel. I have not the slightest doubt that that factor played its part in the decision that was then taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2227.1", "colnum": "2227", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s a treaty with Jordan before the hostilities began, that after the hostilities had begun there was a statement in respect of that treaty which was very similar to the 1950 Declaration, and that since the Declaration of 1950 all the policies of successive Governments have been based on that Declaration and no further treaties have been made with any parties to the dispute in any part of that area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2231.0", "colnum": "2231", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e or threat of force or of preparations to violate the frontier or armistice lines… Let hon. Members notice how close this is to the Jordan language. It goes on: We are bound to recognise that there is now increased danger.\"— and I endorse the view of the Leader of the Opposition that the danger has been further increased by the events in Jordan in the last few days; I entirely accept that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2232.1", "colnum": "2232", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "f countries have voluntarily come together for mutual help one with another, the only example of this kind that exists at all, both politically and economically. Moscow Radio calls it the \"Colonial Pact.\" I hope that when the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition was speaking earlier and talking about semi-colonial arrangements, ho was not a milder echo of Moscow Radio in that respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2232.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2234.2", "colnum": "2234", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "In view of the utterly unsatisfactory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2239.2", "colnum": "2239", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "rnment themselves will be spending £50 million a year more through the increase in the Bank Rate? Another Conservative argument is that subsidies in general distort the economy, and that it is a good thing to get rid of all subsidies. Does not the Minister realise that this leads to a worse distortion of the economy than leaving the subsidy as it is now? Of course, it at once puts up wage demands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2245.2", "colnum": "2245", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "ng days. They wanted to say, in 1956, what hon. Members opposite used to say in the 1920s and to indulge in talk about Conservative Governments as hard-faced Tories who are not interested in ordinary folk. They, the Socialist Party, want to set themselves up as the only champions of the people. When they said this in the old days it was always a myth, and now it is an exploded myth, because today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2245.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2246.3", "colnum": "2246", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2246.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2253.5", "colnum": "2253", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "ut\", he said, \"we are providing increased family allowances.\" What a callous thing; now there is no provision of family allowances. The hon. Gentleman knows and the Government know, because they said so last time, that this increase falls unfairly upon the large family unless some compensation is made. Large families proportionately eat more bread than small families, so they will contribute more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2253.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2253.5", "colnum": "2253", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": " is given back. This increase is iniquitous, because it puts the heaviest burden on the family man. The Chancellor conceded that this Order would not save in the consumption of bread, which is inelastic. Those with large families eat more bread per head than other people. The poorer a man is the more bread he eats. If he is made poorer by this increase in the price of bread he will eat more bread.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2253.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2253.5", "colnum": "2253", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "ch is inelastic. Those with large families eat more bread per head than other people. The poorer a man is the more bread he eats. If he is made poorer by this increase in the price of bread he will eat more bread. [ Laughter. ] It is all very well for the Economic Secretary to the Treasury to laugh. What about the old-age pensioners? Why are they not to get compensation? They are on fixed incomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2253.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2253.5", "colnum": "2253", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "ple. The poorer a man is the more bread he eats. If he is made poorer by this increase in the price of bread he will eat more bread. [ Laughter. ] It is all very well for the Economic Secretary to the Treasury to laugh. What about the old-age pensioners? Why are they not to get compensation? They are on fixed incomes. [ Laughter. ] It is all very well to laugh about poor people with fixed incomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2253.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2262.2", "colnum": "2262", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": " highly valuable part of social policy—we agree—and that, therefore, to take it away was to destroy part of social policy. That is a reasonable argument. He said taking this £18 million away would destroy the social well-being of the poorest of the poor. On that ground, he and his hon. Friends would vote against the Order. Therefore, I remind the Leader of the Opposition and his future Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2262.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-07", "file": "debates1956-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "fca7fd779ad6e9ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2267.3", "colnum": "2267", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "preceding_text": "rd trend on these islands and on many other islands all round the coasts of Britain. I ask the Government to consider action under three heads. First, will they give assistance over the basic needs of these islands? I am not laying down tonight exactly how it should be done, whether by rebate of taxation, grants or loans, but it must be particularly directed to the matter of transport and freight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-07a.2267.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-08", "file": "debates1956-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "a3df0d4a9ff61abe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-08a.2314.3", "colnum": "2314", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND PARLIAMENT (DISQUALIFICATION OF MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman consider whether it might not be more expeditious to give the Parliament of Northern Ireland power itself to deal with these matters?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-08a.2314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-08", "file": "debates1956-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "a3df0d4a9ff61abe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-08a.2322.1", "colnum": "2322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "lem when he pointed out that the provision of good shore accommodation is almost entirely a matter of money, whereas afloat there is the additional and intractable question of the space that is available and the amount of weight that can be put into it. I should like to develop this further, because the improvement of living conditions in our ships is one of the reforms most urgently needed today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-08a.2322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-08", "file": "debates1956-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "a3df0d4a9ff61abe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-08a.2429.1", "colnum": "2429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL DOCKYARDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Stevens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Stevens", "preceding_text": "ed whether he was the first speaker in this general debate on the Navy Estimates who had not served in the Royal Navy. If that was the case, I am the second speaker to suffer from that disability, if indeed it be a disability. It may be entirely out of order in a debate on the Navy Estimates to say this, but I served for six years in what is rapidly becoming the senior Service—the Royal Air Force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-08a.2429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-09", "file": "debates1956-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "afe494bc3a73eeb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-09a.2487.6", "colnum": "2487", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": " of which are evaded, ignored or treated with complete contempt. That is a terrible thing to have to say in this honourable House. We who are responsible for legislation know that many Acts of Parliament are being deliberately violated. That is known and accepted. My hon. Friend the Member for Enfield, East (Mr. Ernest Davies) pointed out when he introduced his very fine Bill, which is now an Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-09a.2487.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-09", "file": "debates1956-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "afe494bc3a73eeb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-09a.2487.6", "colnum": "2487", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He loses it all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": " hard-working dockers, such as my hon. Friend the Member for Bermondsey knows well. I believe that they are grand people. Rightly or wrongly, if a docker has a pound to spare at the end of the week, after giving most of his wages to his wife, as any good docker should, and he happens to go to West Ham greyhound track and place a £1 bet with the totalisator, he immediately loses 10 per cent. of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-09a.2487.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-09", "file": "debates1956-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "afe494bc3a73eeb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-09a.2487.6", "colnum": "2487", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sir Bernard Docker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "at when he places his bet and pays that 10 per cent. the docker knows that he takes the risk of losing it. It is true that he hopes to win, but he certainly knows that he will lose the 10 per cent. Perhaps there are hon. Members in this House and certainly a good many people outside who do not know that that man loses 10 per cent. of his bet immediately. Let us now take a different type of docker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-09a.2487.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-09", "file": "debates1956-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "afe494bc3a73eeb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-09a.2487.6", "colnum": "2487", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "an can see where my thoughts are leading, because I was just going to mention him. Sir Bernard Docker is very interested in cutting down Government expenditure by one per cent., though he spends a lot of his time in touring on the Riviera and sailing the seven seas in his yacht. I think he has come back recently, or it may be that he has gone away again. We do not know whether he is here or there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-09a.2487.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-09", "file": "debates1956-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "afe494bc3a73eeb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-09a.2496.1", "colnum": "2496", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ld bear in mind that Wembley exists, and the Cup Final is able to be held there largely because greyhound racing is also held there. The same could be said with regard to the White City and Harringay. I see that the hon. Member for Brentford and Chiswick (Mr. Lucas) is here. I hope he can supply some more detailed facts and figures upon this aspect of the matter. Everyone decries greyhound racing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-09a.2496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-09", "file": "debates1956-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "afe494bc3a73eeb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-09a.2496.1", "colnum": "2496", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "able to be held there largely because greyhound racing is also held there. The same could be said with regard to the White City and Harringay. I see that the hon. Member for Brentford and Chiswick (Mr. Lucas) is here. I hope he can supply some more detailed facts and figures upon this aspect of the matter. Everyone decries greyhound racing—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Not in the House but in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-09a.2496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-09", "file": "debates1956-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "afe494bc3a73eeb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-09a.2517.1", "colnum": "2517", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Humbug.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "preceding_text": "s, will not receive hundreds and thousands of coupons putting these suits in a certain order and that they can possibly examine each one and choose the most skilfully worded to be awarded the £1,500 prize? If ever there was a lottery, that is a lottery. Yet, because there is supposed to be skill involved in choosing the order, and the prizes go to the most skilful choice, this is considered legal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-09a.2517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-09", "file": "debates1956-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "afe494bc3a73eeb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-09a.2522.3", "colnum": "2522", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "n the other hand, for bookmakers who engage in the legitimate profession of credit betting to collect from their defaulters. My informant insists that there are today a very large number of defaulters and that there is no redress against them. He suggested that the bookmakers have a black list, and I was shocked to hear that on that black list are a number of clergy and some Members of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-09a.2522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.26.6", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS CATERING", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Steward", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did it cost the country?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Steward", "preceding_text": "Our accountants calculate that last year's General Election cost the Refreshment Department over £6,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.26.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WEST BERLIN (KIDNAPPINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman tell us how many people kidnapped in Berlin were archbishops? Are not we in a very weak position to raise the question of kidnapping, anyway?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.32.3", "colnum": "32", "heading": "CYPRUS (DEPORTATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I beg the right hon. and learned Gentleman's pardon. It is, of course, our hope and belief that when freedom to think and speak for themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.32.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.32.5", "colnum": "32", "heading": "CYPRUS (DEPORTATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "The action was taken by the Governor and Her Majesty's Government acting in full agreement and, at the same time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.32.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "CYPRUS (DEPORTATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I think the House of Commons would be reasonably dissatisfied with any Government that did not make its position plain before a Parliamentary debate. In the view of Her Majesty's Government, it was now abundantly and distressingly clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "CYPRUS (DEPORTATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "mmons would be reasonably dissatisfied with any Government that did not make its position plain before a Parliamentary debate. In the view of Her Majesty's Government, it was now abundantly and distressingly clear—[HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"]—that the Archbishop did not intend to come to an agreement with Her Majesty's Government and the decision to take that action was taken at the appropriate moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.33.3", "colnum": "33", "heading": "CYPRUS (DEPORTATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I have no intention whatever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.33.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.34.4", "colnum": "34", "heading": "CYPRUS (DEPORTATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I had long consultations with the Governor on the need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.34.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.41.1", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "n the United States of America which have abolished the death penalty with those which have not, but it is just that that makes the quotation so telling. Let the hon. and gallant Member understand it. This is the U.S.A. There is no question of differences of social, economic or political background. So far as one could have uniformity or integrity of social background, we have it in that one area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.41.1", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "es—but how any honest man, applying his intelligence to the facts, can say that there is no doubt of it, I really cannot understand, especially when, in the very same speech, the right hon. and gallant Gentleman said that if those three unfortunate men who were wrongly convicted of attacking a policeman, and who, fortunately, did not die, had been convicted of murder, he would have reprieved them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.41.1", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "een convicted of murder, he said, he would have reprieved them. It seems to me that, whereas until very recent times the vast majority of people in this country would have accepted confidently the proposition that the risk of a substantial miscarriage of justice was negligible, today the great majority of people no longer believe that the risk of a substantial miscarriage of justice is negligible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.43.5", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " or reasonably adequate implementation of a decision which the House has already taken, and to begin with, I think I ought to deal with what the Bill does not contain. First, it deals only with the penalty for murder. It does not deal, for instance, with the death penalty for treason or under the Treachery Act. Hon. and right hon. Members may think that there is some logical inconsistency in that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.43.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "rtaking to invite the House to pass the Bill. Whether the Government do that or not, I hope that the House will stand by its decision. There is to this Motion an Amendment on the Order Paper which asks us, in the old form, to defer consideration of the Measure for six months. I hardly think that there is an hon. Member in this House who does not in his heart believe that this reform is inevitable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " that or not, I hope that the House will stand by its decision. There is to this Motion an Amendment on the Order Paper which asks us, in the old form, to defer consideration of the Measure for six months. I hardly think that there is an hon. Member in this House who does not in his heart believe that this reform is inevitable—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—that if it does not come today it will very soon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": ", in the old form, to defer consideration of the Measure for six months. I hardly think that there is an hon. Member in this House who does not in his heart believe that this reform is inevitable—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—that if it does not come today it will very soon—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—that it is in accordance with the prevailing opinion and what is rapidly becoming the almost universal opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.70.5", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": ". I agree. After all, it is very difficult to compare the situation in various countries which have different degrees of murder. The case of Belgium has been mentioned. One has to realise that in Belgium the death penalty had been abolished for a great many years in practice before it was abolished in law. Therefore, to talk about the abolition of the death penalty in Belgium is a little off-side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.70.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.71.0", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The average is nine years.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "ily to put out of commission a night watchman or a servant who may appear on the scene unexpectedly? I understand that the maximum detention which a burglar can expect, even if he has committed violence, is fourteen years' preventive detention. If he commits murder and is reprieved he will receive a life sentence, but that sentence, as was stated in the last debate, cannot be more than nine years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.70.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not armed burglary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "ractice; he is not a beginner—will be, \"What shall I lose if I commit murder?\" So far as I can see, nothing whatsoever will be added to his sentence. Not only that, but he will get rid of the one person who could identify him and bring the crime home to him. In future, instead of there being any reluctance for people to undertake armed burglary at the rate of 14,000 cases a year, as at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.81.0", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary has the right of closing the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.81.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.87.5", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "I am stating a proposition, which anybody who knows anything about prison conditions knows to be a serious one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.87.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.87.5", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Broad-moor.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "e about 250 in the first category and about 100 in the second in prison. These men—let us make no mistake—could not be kept in an open prison, with opportunities to go out to work without an escort outside the prison. They would have to be kept under conditions of maximum security. I wonder how many hon. Members have really considered what very long periods of detention in such conditions involve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.87.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Logan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Logan", "preceding_text": "ed. The point has been definitely settled, that what we are to discuss and what is before the House is the question of murder and the abolition of the penalty for murder, which is hanging. Therefore, it means that we are discussing doing away with hanging. In other words, in plain English, that the man in the street can understand, it means that now we shall have liberty to kill without a penalty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.107.3", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "No. I have waited all day, and I am going to get ahead now. I have had enough interruption and want to get on with what I want to say. I do not want any pats on the back, and I do not expect to get them. I wish to turn the attention of the House to something practical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.107.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.108.3", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "of the Government. If the matter was of such importance and if the Government agreed, then their back benchers should have supported them to a man on this Motion. I am against it. I think it is a most fallacious and most abominable thing in regard to the liberty of the people that has ever been brought before the House of Commons. It proposes to give people the licence to kill without any penalty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.109.3", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "—to sit in judgment and to pass sentence according to the law. Hon. Members must know that there are no better courts in the world than the judges' courts, nothing purer and less corrupt. Therefore, every sane man would be tried according to the law of the land. But now it is proposed that sane men should not be convicted. I do not know where we are getting to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rawlinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"May be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rawlinson", "preceding_text": "n. and learned Gentleman what is stated in a summary of the conclusions of the Royal Commission on page 274 of its Report. Presumably we are entitled to have regard to the fact that these people, to whom the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne paid such high tribute, and to whom we would all pay high tribute, came to the conclusion that there may be this increase which may be short or may be lasting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "e Home Office was in no way a party to them. Its sole intervention in the matter was in response to a Question in the House of Lords, to clear up the mistake which had been made. In those circumstances I think that I am quite justified in saying that. We may have—and if it is due to us I am sure we shall have it—an expression of contrition from my hon. Friend the Member for Southgate for the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "to four quite separate groups. The first is some quite objective evidence, the evidence of people who have been deterred. My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kensington, South (Sir P. Spens) gave an example in the last debate. My hon. Friend the Member for Antrim, South (Mr. Knox Cunningham) gave a personal example, which I am quite sure anyone who heard it must have found very moving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.137.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.139.0", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "s a deterrent. Lastly, there is the final summing up of the Royal Commission on this matter after it had considered all the evidence. The Royal Commission said: Prima facie the death sentence is likely to have a stronger effect as a deterrent to normal human beings than any other form of punishment. There is some evidence (though no convincing statistical evidence) that this is in fact so;…", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "good end. He said \"Depend on it, Sir, nothing concentrates a man's mind so well as the prospect of being hanged in a fortnight.\" There is a great deal of truth in that, and I at any rate believe that there is more chance of repentance for a man under the certainty of death than in the living death of a life imprisonment. What, then, should we do? There is a great deal we can do to improve the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "ws room. It was an exciting scene. The whole of England had been moved by this terrible thing which had happened. Those men told me that what had happened at the execution was too terrible to describe. It may have been that they were suffering from hysteria. That is quite possible. I formed the opinion that they were two warders who had taken part in the execution. Apparently, I was wrong in that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "th Thompson case, and yet what I am now going to say has something in it of very great importance to us all. There was another person present at the execution, and of that there is no doubt—the executioner himself, a man called Ellis. He committed suicide. The Rochdale correspondent of the Daily Express was a close personal friend of this man. He wrote an article from which I should like to quote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "y great importance to us all. There was another person present at the execution, and of that there is no doubt—the executioner himself, a man called Ellis. He committed suicide. The Rochdale correspondent of the Daily Express was a close personal friend of this man. He wrote an article from which I should like to quote. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] This is from the Daily Express of 21st December, 1932.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": " is it true of those who want to retain hanging. I must confess that when I look at Western Germany—a country great in bestial cruelty—where not so long ago we had the terrible exhibition of the concentration camps—and somebody says, \"No, it is not true of Nazi Germany, history is a liar\", yet I find that Western Germany finds it possible to do away with hanging. Are we so debased in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "o do away with the sordid glamour of the murder trial and the mediaeval horror of the gallows. I am trying to apply logic now and, as I said before, it is the others who are emotional. We want to close the doors for ever to the hall of fame that is created by the murder trial. Once a man commits murder and is tried on that charge, if he cannot hang that is the end of all the sordid sensationalism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.145.5", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Baxter", "preceding_text": "I was describing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.145.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.145.5", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Baxter", "preceding_text": "I was describing—[ Interruption. ] Mr. Speaker, I am sorry if you cannot hear me. I should like to make my case. The other side must have a pretty poor case if—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.145.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sentiment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "groan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "be inflicted upon industry if we were compelled to devalue, as the previous Government were, and that unless we take adequate and proper steps to protect the £, that might well come upon us. Industry understands these difficulties and problems but it would welcome an indication from the Government as to whether we have reached a position from which it can begin to plan again. I am anxious to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": " for us to consume at home less of what we produce, but they cannot understand why at the same time we are expected to consume more of what is produced abroad. We find that the retained imports of receivers of all types rose from 15,677 in 1954 to more than 54,000 in 1955. In 1954 only 444 chassis of radio receivers were imported, but in 1955, 7,637 were imported, of which 7,612 came from Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": " cannot understand why at the same time we are expected to consume more of what is produced abroad. We find that the retained imports of receivers of all types rose from 15,677 in 1954 to more than 54,000 in 1955. In 1954 only 444 chassis of radio receivers were imported, but in 1955, 7,637 were imported, of which 7,612 came from Germany. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] The number of units imported in 1955—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "us hon. Gentlemen have referred, notably in the Midlands where my constituency is situated, is by any means as serious as the newspapers and others would have us believe. For instance, in this Order reference is made to floor coverings, which include carpets. It is true that in the principal carpet-manufacturing centre of the United Kingdom, namely, in Kidderminster, there are at the present time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "us as the newspapers and others would have us believe. For instance, in this Order reference is made to floor coverings, which include carpets. It is true that in the principal carpet-manufacturing centre of the United Kingdom, namely, in Kidderminster, there are at the present time—[ Interruption. ] I hope that the hon. Member for Enfield, East (Mr. Ernest Davies) in his ignorance will not sneer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.162.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wake up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "ld find of workers having transferred to other work were examples of furniture trade skilled operatives who had transferred to labouring work. What good does this do to our present economic difficulties? I ask the Parliamentary Secretary and the Minister of Supply these questions. I think it is probably kinder to allow the Minister of Supply to slumber, but I would ask the Parliamentary Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-12", "file": "debates1956-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "932de4c18cc145e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.175.3", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE PURCHASE AND CREDIT SALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "e to claim complete rigidity of structure and a pattern precisely and inflexibly fixed. Such rigidity, the House will appreciate, is illogical and impossible. If we are to freeze the status quo, the question arises, at what point of time should we freeze it? Should we have frozen it in 1953 or 1955? If we had frozen it in 1953 we should have prevented all those people from coming in this industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-12a.175.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-13", "file": "debates1956-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5ddeab7acda9892a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-13a.197.3", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I think it monstrous to suggest that because there are said to be certain defects in England they should also apply in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-13a.197.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-13", "file": "debates1956-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5ddeab7acda9892a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-13a.198.3", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "e allegations of the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) extremely unfortunate in that they are based on no information or solid facts at all? Is the Secretary of State for Scotland not directly responsible for these bodies, and has he not supervision over their activities? Is it not therefore an attack upon his right hon. Friend to suggest that there is gross inefficiency in those bodies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-13a.198.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-13", "file": "debates1956-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5ddeab7acda9892a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-13a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "There is no evidence whatever that this has been received with disgust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-13a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-13", "file": "debates1956-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5ddeab7acda9892a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-13a.224.0", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ST. JAMES'S PARK (BRIDGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan-Hepburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan-Hepburn", "preceding_text": " catch the first part of my hon. Friend's supplementary, but I think it was something about office buildings. This is in a different category from office buildings; if the money is accepted, it will be a present. I realise how attractive are bridges of timber construction, and I will bear the suggestion in mind, but the difficulty is that a timber bridge might need constant repair and maintenance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-13a.224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-13", "file": "debates1956-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5ddeab7acda9892a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-13a.294.4", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (No. 2) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. M. F. Vane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. M. F. Vane", "preceding_text": "there is a manufactory of combs which was founded in 1704, and I believe, is the oldest coal mill in Europe. It still uses water from this river for power and there are natural apprehensions about the disturbance to that business if power is not available at certain times of the year. There is a new milk factory and one need not expand on the importance of a good supply of water to a milk factory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-13a.294.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-13", "file": "debates1956-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5ddeab7acda9892a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-13a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (No. 2) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant-Ferris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In a what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant-Ferris", "preceding_text": "nished and the hon. Member will, no doubt, hear more about the other aspects shortly. I should very much like my right hon. Friend the Minister to undertake to press the Commission to get the eastern end of the canal into use again. I hope he will manage to do this. I remind the House that more than 80,000 people signed the petition, which was brought into my right hon. Friend's office in a canoe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-13a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-13", "file": "debates1956-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5ddeab7acda9892a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-13a.333.3", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (No. 2) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": "arly for and on behalf of the three million men in this country who go angling. It may be said that there are plenty of rivers and other places for them, but that is just nonsense. Every man driven from the canalside is a menace to those who already go to the overcrowded riversides. More and more men today go angling, because there are more and more people seeking peace and relaxation in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-13a.333.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.357.7", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alport", "preceding_text": "It was not the impression which I understand that I did give in any way. The right hon. Gentleman was mistaken in his terminology. He said that I would not offend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.357.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.394.3", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Opposition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "r. The soldiers in Cyprus have the most difficult task that soldiers can ever have to carry out. There is nothing more difficult, nothing more delicate, nothing more distasteful, for a soldier than to have to keep the peace among a dissident civil population. It is the duty of all of us not to add to his anxieties. It is the duty of the Government to make his task as short and as easy as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.394.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.409.0", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "icy statement as a bilateral agreement—and the House must understand that we have not asked him to do that—and though he had reservations to make with reference to self-determination, he nevertheless accepted the invitation to cooperate with the Governor in framing a constitution, but he went on to ask for an explanation of the meaning of the wide measure of self-government which was now proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.408.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I want in a moment to say something of a complimentary character about the hon. Member for Swindon (Mr. F. Noel-Baker), so I will not be too controversial now. In reply to him, I can only say that the Archbishop's original demand was just for self-determination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.412.3", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "do with self-determination, no matter what else it may have to do with. In respect of the amnesty, my right hon. Friend had first proposed that when law and order had been re-established there should be an amnesty for all those convicted of offences under the emergency regulations except those involving violence or incitement to violence or the illegal possession of arms, ammunition or explosives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.412.3", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " order had been re-established there should be an amnesty for all those convicted of offences under the emergency regulations except those involving violence or incitement to violence or the illegal possession of arms, ammunition or explosives. [ Interruption. ] Perhaps hon. Gentlemen opposite will have a little patience. That was the first' offer. There were other offers, and I am coming to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "o to be reserved to the Governor, as we have said, for as long as he thought necessary. Control over all other departments—I ask the House to note this; no exceptions were made—would be handed over to Cypriot Ministers. The Archbishop demanded a time limit for the reservation on public security. A period of one year was mentioned, or until law and order was established. We could not agree to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I only gave my own impression to the House. I do not think there need be any dispute about this. I merely told the House, after months of watching these negotiations and seeing their course, that my own impression was that had we been able to yield on these points other demands would have followed upon them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.419.3", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. K. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unfettered.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. K. Robinson", "preceding_text": "The unrestricted use of Cyprus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.419.3", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. K. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. K. Robinson", "preceding_text": "er the Greek Cypriots. I think that the Archbishop was perfectly entitled to ask Her Majesty's Government what they meant by \"a wide measure of self-government.\" The fact that he received no satisfactory assurances on this point obviously appeared highly suspicious to him. It certainly leads me to the conclusions that these negotiations were not conducted in good faith by Her Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.419.3", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. K. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. K. Robinson", "preceding_text": "re made were based on information which the Governor claims to have possessed for some time, in other words, information that we had while we were proceeding with our negotiations in apparent good faith. What will happen next? Are the negotiations at an end sine die ? If not, with whom are we to negotiate? The leaders of the trade union movement are all in gaol. All the elected mayors are in gaol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.428.3", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "sense of union with the German Reich. We cannot ignore altogether the facts of geography or the obligations that we have in the Middle East, under the Bagdad Pact and the Tripartite Declaration; and to our own people in respect of oil. They would go very hungry without the oil. Cyprus is the only base remaining to us in the Eastern Mediterranean from which British influence can still be exercised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was the answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I will give the hon. and learned Member the answer which was given by Sir Austen Chamberlain, who was respected by hon. Members opposite. I would say the same as he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I will give the hon. and learned Member the answer which was given by Sir Austen Chamberlain, who was respected by hon. Members opposite. I would say the same as he said. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What was the answer?\"] I am giving the same answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.438.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.441.0", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Lagden", "preceding_text": "e offshore islands. Now we have trouble in Cyprus. There is one reason, and one reason alone, why we have them. Fresh troubles are created as soon as one is cured, and they are created by the U.S.S.R. and by nobody else. It would seem to me that the present outbreak in Cyprus is partly, if not wholly, caused by the action of the Archbishop, who is nothing more or less than an agent of the U.S.S.R.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.440.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.441.2", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "So what?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lagden", "preceding_text": "country. That is due to the fact that our party guides the mighty Soviet State, which plays a big part in international policy and is exercising an increasingly decisive influence on the course of world events. It is also due to the fact that the 20th Congress is meeting at a new and major stage in the building of Communism, in which the Soviet people are engaged under the leadership of our party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "d which must lead, as I would have thought, although I may be proved wrong, to a continuation of the bloodshed on the island which every one of us wishes to avoid. If that is the case, the right hon. Gentleman should have the courage to try to get himself and ourselves out of the mess in which he has placed us, because really the party opposite has dragged the name of this country through the mud—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "say that there will be no nominated members. If he will not do that, are we not entitled to assume that the reason why the party opposite has got us into this mess—and, indeed, got the whole N.A.T.O. alliance into this mess—is because they have taken such smacks in the last few weeks and months in this House that they have said to themselves, \"We simply must show that we are men, and not cissies.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.463.0", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "uite impossible to conduct any further negotiations along the lines which have been adopted so far until that basis has been re-established. I am quite certain that my right hon. Friend has been right in taking this action. I want to refer once again to the attitude of hon. Members opposite, who have dismissed completely from the picture the significance of Cyprus, first, in the sphere of defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.463.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.481.2", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "I think I have answered my hon. Friend. I deplore the violence which was used but I think I have made it clear that the Archbishop, in anticipation of a full agreement, could not have committed himself. He could not have committed himself to take part with the Governor in a campaign of pacification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "estion. If that was the position, in our view—and, having listened to the Prime Minister's reply this afternoon, our view remains completely unchanged—the three outstanding points should not have been the cause of a breakdown in negotiations, with all that follows from it. Of these three outstanding points, the crucial one appears to me to be the difference which exists about the elected majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.497.3", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rising.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "s \"some time\" before—some new leader will arise—and the right hon. Gentleman knows that that is a vain hope. Apart from that there is no suggestion at all about the future. The House and the country therefore are to understand that we are just to go on holding the island down, with the people becoming more embittered, the relationships between us and our Allies strained, our prestige in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.497.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.497.3", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " There is now no one left with whom to negotiate and discuss the situation. It is my belief that eventually, before a settlement is reached in Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios will have to come back to the island. I beg of the Government to bring him back now and resume negotiations while there is still time, for unless we resume negotiations and arrive at a settlement the only alternative is to go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.497.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.503.0", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "It is not the hon. Member's fault. I do not think he knows all the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I will send the hon. and learned Member a copy of the Emergency Regulations. He asked, as did a number of other hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-14", "file": "debates1956-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f7ccd980bc21a4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.511.3", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "onsequences for all of us of our failure to reach agreement. Many—indeed, I think, all—of the points raised by the right hon. and learned Member for Montgomery could have been discussed calmly and dispassionately had only the Archbishop agreed to call off violence and to accept our suggested basis for discussions. But the Archbishop did not so agree. We have to face a future of immense difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-14a.511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-15", "file": "debates1956-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "22fd400832a09a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-15a.542.6", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "May I inform the firm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-15a.542.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-15", "file": "debates1956-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "22fd400832a09a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-15a.559.5", "colnum": "559", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. D. Heathcoat Amory)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. D. Heathcoat Amory)", "preceding_text": "on of milk, pigs or eggs. The net output of the industry in 1955–56 is forecast at 55 per cent. above pre-war as against 51 per cent. for last year. Falls in the tillage area and in pig production have been offset by record yields of cereal crops, a better hay harvest and more milk and eggs. I am sure the House will agree that this reflects credit on everyone concerned during the past year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-15a.559.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-15", "file": "debates1956-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "22fd400832a09a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-15a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that he has made his statement against a disturbing picture of British agriculture in that, despite the good weather last year, we have suffered a further decline in agricultural production?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-15a.563.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-15", "file": "debates1956-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "22fd400832a09a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-15a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "e appreciating what the right hon. Gentleman said about the spirit in which the Government will approach the further stages of the Death Penalty (Abolition) Bill, may I ask him whether the Government's influence would be used, without derogating from the principle of a free vote, in restraining any attempt to produce what one might without disrespect call a prolonged filibustering Committee stage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-15a.568.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-15", "file": "debates1956-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "22fd400832a09a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-15a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1955–56; ARMY, AIR AND NAVY ESTIMATES, 1956–57, AND NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1955–56, AND CIVIL EXCESSES, 1954–55.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Iron rations.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Maclean", "preceding_text": "I will deal first with the remarks of the hon. and gallant Member for Brixton (Lieut.-Colonel Lipton). I am afraid that he is out of order, because horseshoe nails are not rations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-15a.610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-15", "file": "debates1956-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "22fd400832a09a4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-15a.638.0", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1955–56; ARMY, AIR AND NAVY ESTIMATES, 1956–57, AND NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1955–56, AND CIVIL EXCESSES, 1954–55.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "tringency, how far can this nation go in for vast expenditure of this kind? This is a question that is being discussed in articles in the papers by ex-Service men and authorities. I have with me an article written by Rear-Admiral G. P. Thompson (Rtd.). I do not know exactly what sort of authority he is, but I assume that he has some authority, otherwise he would not be writting in the daily Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-15a.638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-16", "file": "debates1956-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "82d84bebc1fc65cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-16a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "preceding_text": "individual Members on both sides of the House will fully agree with my view. I am sure that the majority of the House sympathises with this view—I should not be surprised if the Government did—but we never seem able to make any real progress towards this end. No doubt we shall be told that, on the reconstruction and reorganisation of local government finance, this matter may be taken into account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-16a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-16", "file": "debates1956-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "82d84bebc1fc65cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-16a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It will be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "preceding_text": " told that, on the reconstruction and reorganisation of local government finance, this matter may be taken into account. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Will be.\"] Perhaps I expressed myself in the wrong way. I meant that this will be taken into account, but we may not be able to get an assurance from the Government that the de-rating of industry, as such, will be altered from its present 75 per cent. concession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-16a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-16", "file": "debates1956-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "82d84bebc1fc65cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-16a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrecking?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "I will come to that point—although I am no crystal gazer—when I conclude my remarks. I hope that I shall be able to put the point of view held by myself and my hon. Friends without too much wrecking interruption because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-16a.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-16", "file": "debates1956-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "82d84bebc1fc65cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-16a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finlay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finlay", "preceding_text": "I was saying that contracts can be made, and, in fact, are made, between the local authority and the industries concerned to recover, in respect of services of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-16a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-16", "file": "debates1956-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "82d84bebc1fc65cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-16a.759.3", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We know all these things.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I am not raising this point as an argument against re-rating; am merely inviting the House to follow the matter to its conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-16a.759.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-16", "file": "debates1956-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "82d84bebc1fc65cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-16a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "e a little courage and do what even every hon. Member opposite who has spoken has, in one form or another, admitted to be right, and that is, remove derating now? Do not let us wait until the Parliamentary Secretary and his right hon. Friend have made up their minds which foot to put first, when to put it and how, and have consulted enough people about it. There is a General Election coming along—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-16a.766.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-16", "file": "debates1956-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "82d84bebc1fc65cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-16a.785.10", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which programme?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "I rise now, Mr. Speaker, to ask the question of which I inadvertently gave notice a few moments ago, namely, what are the intentions of the Government in view of the severe and ignominious defeat which they have just suffered on a major Measure—the Industrial Rating Bill—which, in fact, embodies one of the proposals in the Labour Party programme?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-16a.785.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-19", "file": "debates1956-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d18dd73e7b30af49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-19a.801.4", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARAB-ISRAELI DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I have never sought to give any inference that I supported national contingents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-19a.801.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-19", "file": "debates1956-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d18dd73e7b30af49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-19a.802.4", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARAB-ISRAELI DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I am not certain exactly what the word \"contingent\" is meant to mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-19a.802.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-19", "file": "debates1956-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d18dd73e7b30af49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-19a.820.0", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "I have no reason to suppose that this juice was not fit for human consumption. It was unsuitable for welfare use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-19a.820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-19", "file": "debates1956-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d18dd73e7b30af49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-19a.831.2", "colnum": "831", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (FREIGHT CHARGES AND FARES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "That is the point, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-19a.831.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-19", "file": "debates1956-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d18dd73e7b30af49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-19a.832.4", "colnum": "832", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION (FREIGHT CHARGES AND FARES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then let the right hon. Gentleman answer it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "That is a quite proper question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-19a.832.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-19", "file": "debates1956-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d18dd73e7b30af49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-19a.877.0", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "I have the figures before me. The consumption has not gone up; it has remained stable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-19a.877.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-19", "file": "debates1956-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d18dd73e7b30af49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-19a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": " find how much hill land is waterlogged, but, once the water has been adequately and efficiently removed, it is also surprising how, with good husbandry and the application of lime and fertilisers, additional crops can very quickly be grown. Since this matter affects my own area, I would, in particular, like to congratulate the Avon & Stour Catchment Board for the excellent work which it has done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-19a.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-19", "file": "debates1956-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "d18dd73e7b30af49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-19a.906.0", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "Possibly the point does not arise strictly within the Supplementary Estimate, but I hope, Mr. Speaker, that you will allow me to say how very glad we have been to notice, until just a moment ago, the presence with us again of the hon. Member for Norfolk, North (Mr. Gooch), after his severe illness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-19a.906.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MR. BULGANIN AND MR. KRUSHCHEV (VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend say what all this is going to cost?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.999.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.999.3", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MR. BULGANIN AND MR. KRUSHCHEV (VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Very much less than one-millionth part of one hydrogen bomb.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.999.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does that include Northern Ireland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "sures were announced. I have now preliminary figures for March, although the final result of the March count, which was taken on 12th March, is not available. The indications seem to be that there will be in March a slight decrease of unemployment of about 7,500 people to a figure of 268,000. That includes nearly 6,000 who are unemployed, one hopes temporarily, as a result of the printing dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1029.3", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Slackness?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "me workers have been affected. As the right hon. Gentleman has said, there has been a falling off in the pottery industry. That started in the autumn, and is, I think, only partially attributable to the increased Purchase Tax, because the pottery firms have been meeting particularly severe competition from abroad. It is equally true that there is a good deal of slackness in the furniture industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1029.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "coming into force, but the Government should not sit back and do nothing. It is my guess that the Atlantic Convention is composed not only of the ship owners of this country, but of other parts of Europe, also, which probably have dollar problems as we do. I have always felt that the Tory party, which is, naturally, in favour of capitalism, is the political end of a conspiracy to keep people poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1051.2", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "We have seen all this before. The Tories had a completely free hand for twenty years between the wars. What did they do? Nothing. They may be very nice to their wives and to their children, and they may be pleasant people so far as sport is concerned, but they are the political representatives of an organised capitalist society which is designed to make profits out of exploiting the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1051.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1060.2", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear. hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": " the credit squeeze, call it what we will, is now seen to be an article of faith with Toryism, and the very centre column of the whole of their economic thinking. The fact that we have full employment is purely incidental to that. If we had 2 million unemployed and a balance of payments problem, they would still use it, because they have no other economic policy to put in its place. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1060.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1068.1", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. C. M. Spearman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. C. M. Spearman", "preceding_text": "ar conditions. I believe, however, that there is no chance at all of falling back into the mass unemployment that we had before the war, for the reasons that we had it then; namely, that there was a glut of goods and insufficient purchasing power to take them up. I think that Maynard Keynes has taught us what neither Conservative nor Socialist Governments knew before—how to deal with this problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1068.1", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. C. M. Spearman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. C. M. Spearman", "preceding_text": "e the war, for the reasons that we had it then; namely, that there was a glut of goods and insufficient purchasing power to take them up. I think that Maynard Keynes has taught us what neither Conservative nor Socialist Governments knew before—how to deal with this problem. [ Interruption. ] If hon. Gentlemen say they knew, why did they have larger unemployment than was ever known in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "preceding_text": " that was 1953–54, and then we had stable prices. Coming back to the interruption of the hon. Member for West Houghton (Mr. J. T. Price), I do not admit that the present Government believe in laissez faire. We believe that we must plan the balance between resources and demand. I profoundly believe that it is the first duty of the Government so to plan that balance between demand and supply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "earts and not let up on the credit squeeze although we know perfectly well that it is a very unpopular measure. I suggest to hon. Members opposite, who have approached this debate very fairly and sensibly, that they are not doing any good service to the country when trade unionists from the motor trade come to see them and they pledge themselves to all-out efforts to get the credit squeeze lifted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": " not doing any good service to the country when trade unionists from the motor trade come to see them and they pledge themselves to all-out efforts to get the credit squeeze lifted. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] If I am wrong, of course I withdraw, but I read a statement issued to a newspaper about ten days ago, after the shop stewards made one of their visits to the House, which made that very statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1099.3", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " great deal of pressure from Midland workers, during the last two or three weeks, on Members on both sides of the House. I am not complaining of that. The more fuss people kick up when their livelihoods are at stake, the better it is for them immediately and the better for the country in the long run. My criticism of our own Lancashire workers is that they are altogether too quiet and too patient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1099.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over to this side of the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "The Government. It is time that we said to our American friends, \"This shoe is pinching us proportionately at least five times as hard as it is pinching you. We have got the resources at our command that you have.\" I am pleading that the Government should do all they possibly can to get the list revised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1108.3", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "at she bought raw materials from other parts of the Commonwealth, but there is still a large balance in her favour. When I was in Moscow last September I asked at the Ministry of Foreign Trade why they did not use this money. They replied, \"These are the things we want to buy and here you see a list of what you want us to buy.\" We must sell these people what they want and what we want them to buy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twenty pounds a week?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "er is in power will have these very awkward facts to face. I discovered—this is the tragic side of it—that the knitters in Holland, working the same type of machine, have been earning between £10 and £11 a week. In this country, £25 has been a common wage and men have been earning up to £30 a week making these nylon stockings. Not only will profits come down, but they will come down with a wallop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1116.1", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "t happened at the meeting. He knows perfectly well that I stated to the body of trade unionists and some of his hon. Friends who were present at the meeting what the Government's policy was, and I added a reference to questions asked by him and the right hon. Member for Vauxhall (Mr. G. R. Strauss). The hon. Member should treat the House candidly and tell the House that his account is not correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. G. Bottomley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. G. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "e economist and the impartial person will recognise that the Korean war violently upset our economy. But that war ended, and the result of a fall in world prices has been estimated at about £500 million a year additional income. What did the Government that inherited that do with it. They squandered it—independent television, denationalisation of services, giving gifts to their well-to-do friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1149.1", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "Let me put it like this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1150.3", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to have caused that interruption. I was, in fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1151.3", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": ", but it highlights the importance of our manufacturers being competitive. The question of East-West restrictions has been mentioned by several hon. Members on both sides of the House. With the exception of the contribution from the hon. Member for Northfield, the discussion has rather concentrated on the China list. The House knows what is happening about the China list, and I will not repeat it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1154.1", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Low", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Low", "preceding_text": "the firms with good export order books are still waiting for more labour and more materials. I should like, briefly, to deal with the question which has been asked, and which will no doubt be asked again, namely, \"How far will the Government go with their measures; how long will we go on?\" That is a fair question for hon. Members to ask, but a question to which no one will expect a precise answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iorwerth Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iorwerth Thomas", "preceding_text": "e to the conclusion—some have already done so—that it is these orphans in the Development Areas, these people attached to the great commercial and industrial empires, who must be detached from the tail. The boards do everything to consolidate the position at the head. The Minister of State indicated that the position in Wales was very satisfactory and that Wales is better off now than ever before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iorwerth Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iorwerth Thomas", "preceding_text": "British economy cannot stand. It is wasteful that the resources of British labour and of the material resources that we have to import and produce at home should be directed—or, rather, dissipated—into the car industry in order to maintain that industry at the present standard. What are we to do with people who are and are likely to be displaced as a result of the measures taken by the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " in the way that Charlie Chaplin did in \"Modern Times.\" These skilled craftsmen should have been retained in the highly-developed engineering industries engaged in the manufacture of capital goods for which the world will be crying out for the next fifty years. I am not prepared, as a miners' representative in this House, to ask the miners of this country to work harder, longer and more regularly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-20", "file": "debates1956-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8c6cff04202a98cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1184.5", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Poor old Dick.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman) asks which one. I thought he had sufficient political sagacity to know which one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-20a.1184.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-21", "file": "debates1956-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "faf72b417f5085d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1219.2", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "The aircraft to which the hon. Member refers, with that number of hours life, is useful for the purposes for which we are using it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1219.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-21", "file": "debates1956-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "faf72b417f5085d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1298.1", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SERVICES (SECURITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend says, that would be a very drastic step to take. Then we come up against the question of character defect and the ma's living with somebody who is supposed to be a Communist sympathiser.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-21", "file": "debates1956-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "faf72b417f5085d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1330.5", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEEDS CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ely seeking to call attention to the fact that neither the mover nor the seconder of this Instruction represents a Leeds constituency. Whether or not the hon. Member for Bury and Radcliffe (Mr. Bidgood) once represented a ward of Leeds makes no difference. The fact is that he does not represent the city which is seeking these powers. Leeds has at least one representative upon the benches opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1330.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-21", "file": "debates1956-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "faf72b417f5085d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1332.1", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEEDS CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must not make remarks of that nature. I have nothing at all to do with cold storage or ice or anything like it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-21", "file": "debates1956-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "faf72b417f5085d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEEDS CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Hugh Molson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Hugh Molson)", "preceding_text": " Act of 1948, and I added: It is nearly always unwise to try to effect a change in one branch of the law by incorporating an Amendment in legislation which is purporting to deal with another matter.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, Standing Committee B. 10th March, 1955; c. 138.] I would therefore say that, while I am frankly sympathetic—speaking for myself, and not for the Government in this particular matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1354.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-21", "file": "debates1956-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "faf72b417f5085d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1356.6", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEEDS CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "With great respect, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, I hope you will extend to me the usual courtesy extended to a Member in charge of a Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1356.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-21", "file": "debates1956-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "faf72b417f5085d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1357.0", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEEDS CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I intervened in this matter, it is a Leeds matter, to ask two points of the hon. Gentleman. I have dealt with the first, and the second which I was coming to—I did not think my intervention was unduly long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1356.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-21", "file": "debates1956-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "faf72b417f5085d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEEDS CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Wing Commander Bullus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing Commander Bullus", "preceding_text": "nto competition with them. If the private trader suffers any losses he pays for them himself, or he goes bankrupt, but when the municipality has losses in trading they are made up from the rates to which those with whom the municipality entered into competition have to contribute large portions. A trading borough—in this case, a county borough—often hides its losses by its methods of its accounts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-21", "file": "debates1956-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "faf72b417f5085d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1366.4", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEEDS CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Wing Commander Bullus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing Commander Bullus", "preceding_text": "I am expressing a personal opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1366.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-21", "file": "debates1956-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "faf72b417f5085d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1367.1", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEEDS CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Wing Commander Bullus", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wing Commander Bullus", "preceding_text": " recent reassessments, shopkeepers will now pay nearly half the rates of the municipal authorities and in the great county borough of Leeds, which within a radius of 30 miles has a purchasing population of about 13 million, Leeds shopkeepers will be paying nearly half the rates. It is iniquitous that a local authority should take rates from the shopkeepers and then set up in competition with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1367.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-21", "file": "debates1956-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "faf72b417f5085d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1367.2", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEEDS CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Wing Commander Bullus", "preceding_text": "nts, shopkeepers will now pay nearly half the rates of the municipal authorities and in the great county borough of Leeds, which within a radius of 30 miles has a purchasing population of about 13 million, Leeds shopkeepers will be paying nearly half the rates. It is iniquitous that a local authority should take rates from the shopkeepers and then set up in competition with them. [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-21", "file": "debates1956-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "faf72b417f5085d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEEDS CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "preceding_text": "I understand that in no part of the country does there exist an organisation attached to a municipal authority which understands the service which is necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-21", "file": "debates1956-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "faf72b417f5085d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEEDS CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tiley", "preceding_text": "this type is that the trade is not an everyday one, but is purely seasonal. One finds that one needs a huge staff at one time of the year and then for the rest of the year it has nothing to do. With their greater turnover and their experience and cleverness, the shops have solved the problem. I come now to the most important point. It is not a party point. It concerns the well-being of our nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-21", "file": "debates1956-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "faf72b417f5085d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1374.2", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEEDS CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaberry", "preceding_text": "To be official suppliers, presumably, they have been nominated by the headmaster or the headmistress of the school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-21", "file": "debates1956-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "faf72b417f5085d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1374.3", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEEDS CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "cs from 45s. to 56s, Blazers, No. 1 quality, cost 46s. 6d. for the small size or 66s. for the largest size. while the No. 2 quality cost from 64s. 6d. to 85s. I will not go on reading these figures out, but will only say that we have been doing some arithmetic. We find that to fit out a girl from this school at this shop—and the other shops are no cheaper—it would cost her parents from £25 to £30.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-21", "file": "debates1956-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "faf72b417f5085d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1383.1", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEEDS CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It helps tradition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "I was disturbed when I heard my hon. Friend the Member for Fulham (Mr. M. Stewart) bring forward what I believe is a legitimate argument to our discussion tonight. I would be very sorry if school uniforms were put beyond the reach of children in schools, for uniform helps to create the right atmosphere in a school and to maintain the loyalty to the school when a youngster is wearing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-21", "file": "debates1956-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "faf72b417f5085d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1383.1", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEEDS CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": " bring forward what I believe is a legitimate argument to our discussion tonight. I would be very sorry if school uniforms were put beyond the reach of children in schools, for uniform helps to create the right atmosphere in a school and to maintain the loyalty to the school when a youngster is wearing it. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It helps tradition.\"] It helps tradition. The uniform, the old school tie—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-21", "file": "debates1956-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "faf72b417f5085d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEEDS CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£2,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ition, the further argument that the meat is not nearly so wholesome and satisfactory at this very young age. I realise, and must at once concede that, of course, this proposal would involve the farmers in feeding the calves for another week. No doubt that is an argument, but I am told that so far as this Bill is concerned the loss of milk for human consumption would be only 12,000 gallons a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-21a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-22", "file": "debates1956-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7ccb67fc520c9b5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-22a.1456.2", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "The second part of the question would involve a calculation which I could not do in my head. May I say very seriously that I hope hon. and right hon. Members on both sides of the House will read the White Paper carefully. It is not a party document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-22a.1456.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-22", "file": "debates1956-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7ccb67fc520c9b5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-22a.1459.1", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The old story.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "As I had to say in answer to a Question on Tuesday, what ever views I have on a matter like this, I ought not to express them when we are so near to Budget day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-22a.1459.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-03-22", "file": "debates1956-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7ccb67fc520c9b5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-22a.1470.2", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "For more than one hour.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beresford Craddock", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend be good enough to consider suspending the rule for one hour on Monday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-22a.1470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-22", "file": "debates1956-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7ccb67fc520c9b5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-22a.1472.0", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "r is based on a long Parliamentary understanding, custom and practice. Having had the privilege of knowing three Speakers, I claim to know just a little about it. One of the most important constitutional rights of hon. Members is that grievances should be redressed, or at least ventilated in the House, before we vote Supply. Mr. Speaker created a very important constitutional precedent about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-22a.1472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-22", "file": "debates1956-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7ccb67fc520c9b5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-22a.1503.1", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 29.—(AMENDMENT OF PART I OF THE THIRD SCHEDULE TO THE ACT OF 1946.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "I did not interrupt before, but my Scottish colleagues here know quite well that when those exchanges took place in Scottish Grand Committee we were all a little \"het up\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-22a.1503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-22", "file": "debates1956-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7ccb67fc520c9b5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-22a.1582.1", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Title", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "preceding_text": "on the previous one. I have said that it no longer leaves the question in the air. Also it no longer is taxing new teachers for the benefit of arrears in respect of existing teachers. The House will remember that in the Bill which did not go through, the incoming teacher and future teachers were to be required to pay more than their fair share, and so to help in meeting the deficiency of the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-22a.1582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-22", "file": "debates1956-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7ccb67fc520c9b5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-22a.1584.8", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Title", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "preceding_text": "The two real enemies of the teacher are inflation and the penury of the finance of local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-22a.1584.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-22", "file": "debates1956-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7ccb67fc520c9b5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-22a.1592.1", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Title", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "t, and all of which will be regarded by those to whom they are offered as quite inadequate in return for the injury and insult that are being offered to the teaching profession. We ought to emphasise that one of the main grounds for rejecting the Bill is that the deliberate singling out of teachers in this fashion is taken to be a measure of the Government's general contempt for popular education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-22a.1592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-22", "file": "debates1956-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "7ccb67fc520c9b5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-22a.1599.1", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Title", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "rs.\" I do not think there is any case whatever for saying that they have had discrimination against them; rather the opposite. Of course the fundamental objection is that this is a cut in salary. The Government have always recognised that, and, as an hon. Member opposite said, the poster which pleased the teachers most said, \"More shekels, less Eccles.\" That represents the teachers' point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-22a.1599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-26", "file": "debates1956-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eca8c442b8473234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-26a.1806.1", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "MALTA (ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "litically inarticulate. I do not want to call in aid any dubious authorities, but a Government should rest its weight ultimately upon the organised, effective—I would not say progressive, but coherent—elements of the population. From those elements of the Maltese population on which ultimately good relations between Great Britain and Malta depend we have an unequivocal expression of their desires.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-26a.1806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-26", "file": "debates1956-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eca8c442b8473234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-26a.1813.3", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "MALTA (ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "Commons, interference from Westminster is very much less likely. That is a matter of guesswork. I should have thought that it would be the opposite. The Prime Minister of Malta goes on to say: one of the most important duties of the Maltese Members at Westminster would be to ensure that no such interference took place. We are all familiar with Members of this House who do not perform their duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-26a.1813.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-26", "file": "debates1956-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eca8c442b8473234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-26a.1813.3", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "MALTA (ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "familiar with somebody else of whom the same can be said. The moment we admit that an essential function of the three Members will be to see that Parliament does not contribute to this sort of thing, we admit that their presence here entirely alters any convention or rule that may grow up about the relations between Parliamentary omnicompetence and the persons for whom those Members are concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-26a.1813.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-26", "file": "debates1956-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eca8c442b8473234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-26a.1837.1", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "MALTA (ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Teeling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All of them signed it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Teeling", "preceding_text": "I should like to thank you, Mr. Speaker, for allowing me to be the first non-member of the Round Table Conference to speak this evening. I mean no reflection on you, Sir, when I say that for three hours we have listened to right hon. Gentlemen most of whom have signed a Report, or told us what they think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-26a.1837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-26", "file": "debates1956-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eca8c442b8473234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-26a.1840.0", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "MALTA (ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "preceding_text": "There is a possibility that at the time of such a General Election, and after this matter had been properly and thoroughly discussed, people would not be quite as keen on it as they are at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-26a.1840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-26", "file": "debates1956-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eca8c442b8473234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-26a.1877.1", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "MALTA (ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ave integration, he proposes that we should make the other constitutional concessions on the reserved powers, as the Maltese Opposition wants? I shall listen to his answer with the greatest care. Shall we say to Dr. Borg Olivier that a whole number of powers now reserved to the Government shall be given to the Maltese? If the right hon. Member says that, then I tell him that he is a very bad Tory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-26a.1877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-26", "file": "debates1956-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eca8c442b8473234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-26a.1924.2", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "MALTA (ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman used to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "a little. Unless I have misunderstood him, my hon. Friend seemed to think that if a Maltese Member of Parliament came here determined to try to stop something, there was something improper in that attitude. Well, large numbers of Members of Parliament, including myself, regularly come here with every intention of doing our best to stop things that they think would be contrary to the national will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-26a.1924.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-27", "file": "debates1956-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "75e3cb3db2b52586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-27a.1946.7", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "Then I am afraid that in my haste I have read out the wrong number.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-27a.1946.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-27", "file": "debates1956-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "75e3cb3db2b52586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-27a.1955.3", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ttee of this sort, what steps will he take in future to prevent bureaucratic blundering of the type manifest in this situation? Is he aware that not only has there been a great dissipation of hard-won dollar resources, but there is also a loss of tens of thousands of tons of coal weekly at a time when the National Coal Board has an accumulated deficit of £37 million? Is that of any concern to him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-27a.1955.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-27", "file": "debates1956-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "75e3cb3db2b52586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-27a.1972.0", "colnum": "1972", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICE STABILISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. Friend think that more could be done through the Central Office of Information to make known the serious fact to the people on the floor of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-27a.1972.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-27", "file": "debates1956-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "75e3cb3db2b52586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-27a.1995.1", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNDERGROUND WORKS (LONDON) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "preceding_text": "tructures would be dealt with within two or three years; though if he could do so, it would be so much the better. I am not unreasonable, and I only ask for an undertaking that it will be the objective of the Ministry to tackle this problem as soon as it is practicable and deal with the most serious and worst eyesores first. I do not believe there is one much worse than the one in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-27a.1995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-27", "file": "debates1956-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "75e3cb3db2b52586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-27a.2042.1", "colnum": "2042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "poration has not the opportunities to market it and to sell it, and, therefore, to the extent that private interests can advertise and have this advantage over the Corporation, it puts the Corporation in a less favourable position. We know that advertising is not used exclusively for selling sugar. The Labour Government were a victim of a great campaign—\"Mr. Cube,\" who was against nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-27a.2042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-27", "file": "debates1956-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "75e3cb3db2b52586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-27a.2072.1", "colnum": "2072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Jeger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Their what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Jeger", "preceding_text": " our Amendments. They accepted only a limited number of the Amendments which we proposed. Unfortunately, their minds were closed to the main ideas which we put forward, ideas which, had they been accepted, would have greatly improved the Bill. But we must express our thanks for the small concessions that they have made, concessions not so much to us as to the appeal of common sense to their minds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-27a.2072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-27", "file": "debates1956-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "75e3cb3db2b52586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-27a.2078.1", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Send for him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "sugar industry and naturally we must be concerned about what is to happen to it. That town is a trading port and, if the Commonwealth is to be let down, eventually that part of the world will feel the effect in other ways because we cannot tamper with the well-being and prosperity of our Commonwealth without that affecting our trade. I am sorry that the President of the Board of Trade is not here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-27a.2078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-27", "file": "debates1956-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "75e3cb3db2b52586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-27a.2088.1", "colnum": "2088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A quarter of an hour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "he said that the Opposition had not made up their minds how they would vote; they would wait to hear what I had to say and would judge on that whether to vote against the Third Reading. The hon. Gentleman could not stand the strain. I still hope, after what was said by the right hon. Member for Smethwick (Mr. Gordon Walker), that we may get them to change their minds over the next half hour or so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-27a.2088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-27", "file": "debates1956-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "75e3cb3db2b52586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-27a.2089.1", "colnum": "2089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUGAR BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "o to hon. Members on our side of the House who sat through Committee stage. Those of us who know the problems and workings of the business of this House are aware that one of the hardest and most unsatisfying jobs is to sit through a Committee stage and listen to lots of criticism from the Opposition benches but remain quiet, because we know that that is the way to assist the progress of business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-27a.2089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-28", "file": "debates1956-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "160218b36f478792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2144.0", "colnum": "2144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "To be fair, I should say that trains are already running with greater punctuality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-28", "file": "debates1956-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "160218b36f478792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2148.2", "colnum": "2148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "We have said that again and again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-28", "file": "debates1956-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "160218b36f478792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2218.4", "colnum": "2218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLUM CLEARANCE (COMPENSATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smithers", "preceding_text": ", an important contribution towards slum clearance is that it seeks to do justice in hard cases and, I believe, will prove to do justice in practice. Anyone who had studied the local Press in my constituency recently in connection with the slum clearance programme, which excites a lot of interest in the city, would have been impressed by the tremendous amount of feeling, not on party lines at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2218.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-28", "file": "debates1956-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "160218b36f478792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2221.6", "colnum": "2221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLUM CLEARANCE (COMPENSATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smithers", "preceding_text": "he increased redevelopment value in which in his previous ownership he had no part. But when a person owns a number of small properties adjacent to one another and they are compulsorily purchased in a block, and when the redevelopment value, therefore, of the whole block is considerable, I submit to my right hon. Friend that that should be taken account of in assessing compensation under the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2221.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-28", "file": "debates1956-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "160218b36f478792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2229.1", "colnum": "2229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLUM CLEARANCE (COMPENSATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "k in factories are food, clothing and shelter. Housing accommodation is as much a commodity as meat and fruit and other things that are sold in the market. Therefore, if a local authority had to pay a fantastic price for the diseased, rotten carcase of a house, it would be quite natural to make it pay for the diseased, rotten carcase of a bullock. The Tory Party has a bad record in slum clearance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-28", "file": "debates1956-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "160218b36f478792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2229.1", "colnum": "2229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLUM CLEARANCE (COMPENSATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "rance. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I can take hon. Members opposite to parts of London where their party has been in power on local authorities since 1922 and where no local authority house was built by the Tory Party. When they controlled local authorities in London, hon. Members opposite would not enter into the sphere of house building because that would be competing with their friends the landlords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-28", "file": "debates1956-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "160218b36f478792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2232.1", "colnum": "2232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLUM CLEARANCE (COMPENSATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": " of a local authority for a considerable time, I regret that hon. Gentlemen opposite did not show the same tenderness towards the subject of local government finance when they were in office. I can only repeat what I have said before, that nothing has done so much damage to the structure of local government finance in recent years as the Local Government Act, 1948, for which they were responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-28", "file": "debates1956-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "160218b36f478792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2243.4", "colnum": "2243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLUM CLEARANCE (COMPENSATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "What it really amounts to is that during six years of Socialism hardly a house went up in Portsmouth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2243.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-28", "file": "debates1956-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "160218b36f478792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2255.1", "colnum": "2255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLUM CLEARANCE (COMPENSATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Precision?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "the amount of compensation should be determined when a house was by definition valueless. Again, I may be wrong, but I think that the answer is \"Read the Bill,\" because it is laid down there that the compensation shall be the full compulsory purchase value, and that, again, is defined—admittedly, most inadequately, but, all the same, defined with precision—in the interpretation Clause of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-28", "file": "debates1956-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "160218b36f478792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2255.1", "colnum": "2255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLUM CLEARANCE (COMPENSATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": " meaning. If anybody takes the trouble to read the interpretation Clause and looks at what is the meaning of the full compulsory purchase value, he will get a very precise definition, but for anybody who tries to understand the Bill it is rather like going up a series of staircases in the dark and arriving at landings that are not there. If one goes on with the process, eventually one will arrive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-28", "file": "debates1956-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "160218b36f478792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2290.0", "colnum": "2290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "ng Committee with my right hon. and gallant Friend. I will only repeat what I had the pleasure of saying during Question Time today, that I like Ministers who do not become static on precedents, and I am glad to say that today my Government have had two Ministers who have not been static on precedents and have moved forward, as I see it, in implementation of the pledges given by my Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-28a.2290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-29", "file": "debates1956-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "a334c05312223a5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-29a.2346.0", "colnum": "2346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry that I cannot possibly accept any part of the right hon. Gentleman's statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-29a.2346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-03-29", "file": "debates1956-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "a334c05312223a5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-29a.2347.0", "colnum": "2347", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "Mr. Koestler's articles. It was not a statement made on behalf of the Home Office. A Question was asked, and in answer to that Question the statement was made by my noble Friend in the House of Lords. The fact remains, if we are to have controversy, as we will, on the question of capital punishment, that there is no need to descend to this kind of thing. Let us have this as a matter of conscience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-03-29a.2347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-10", "file": "debates1956-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "d598d72151d0c16d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-10a.17.0", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that that Answer will not do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-10a.17.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-10", "file": "debates1956-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "d598d72151d0c16d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-10a.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But no sympathy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I have a great deal of understanding of the point of view of the shopkeepers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-10a.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-10", "file": "debates1956-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "d598d72151d0c16d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-10a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLEAN AIR BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "ould refer to the speech made by the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Dr. Stross), who said I should be proud of the paternity of my child. Nowadays, personal leadership is out of fashion. Collective leadership is the order of the day. I think we can all agree that this Bill represents a collective effort, and that we can all join in paying tribute to the collective paternity of the child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-10a.149.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-04-11", "file": "debates1956-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "59ca1072600a43d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.198.5", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIDDLE EAST (INFORMATION SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend bear in mind that it is not improvements that are necessary but a complete revolution?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.198.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-11", "file": "debates1956-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "59ca1072600a43d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.200.0", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN SERVICE (DONALD MACLEAN)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend, in the interests of the foreign service which he is supposed to represent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-11", "file": "debates1956-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "59ca1072600a43d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.207.2", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPTIAN BROADCASTING OFFICIALS (TRAINING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "None of the officials accepted, I can assure my hon. Friend, was connected with the type of broadcasts to which he has referred, namely, the Voice of the Arabs broadcasts which are ostensibly independent of the Egyptian radio.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-11", "file": "debates1956-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "59ca1072600a43d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.216.4", "colnum": "216", "heading": "POST OFFICE (INCREASED CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keegan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keegan", "preceding_text": "Could my right hon. Friend assure the House that the bulk of these increases has been caused by the recent Civil Service wage increases?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.216.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-11", "file": "debates1956-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "59ca1072600a43d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "POST OFFICE (INCREASED CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that the usual opportunities for discussion will obtain now, as they did when he raised charges in 1951. On the right hon. Gentleman's suggestion that £100 million has been added to Post Office tariffs in the last five years, the figure is, in fact, £70 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.217.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-04-11", "file": "debates1956-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "59ca1072600a43d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "POST OFFICE (INCREASED CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "The negotiations for the Civil Service award were completed less than a fortnight ago, and these increased charges—not the whole amount—stem from that award. If the right hon. Gentleman is criticising that award, he should say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-11", "file": "debates1956-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "59ca1072600a43d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Fienburgh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilfred Fienburgh", "preceding_text": "t it will be a recommendation and an appointment by the Prime Minister, who is the highest political authority. In trying to meet our argument, the right hon. Gentleman was therefore so quick to shelter himself behind the fact that, in effect, it would be a political appointment, that he implicitly accepted our case that some political supervision over the activities of the registrar is necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.248.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-04-11", "file": "debates1956-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "59ca1072600a43d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Barlow", "preceding_text": "In view of the statement made by my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-11", "file": "debates1956-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "59ca1072600a43d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.271.3", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He does not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "d his car in Scarborough on a Saturday morning when he ought to be working at the Coal Board. We can ask Questions about every little postmistress earning 30s. a week if we wish. Of course we ought to have the power, but it must be wisely exercised. The point is that in the course of this debate the President has not given the slightest indication of the number of agreements which he thinks exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-11", "file": "debates1956-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "59ca1072600a43d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thousands.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "rded?\" This is vital. If it has not been recorded, shall I be able to ask whether the Registrar will exercise his powers under Clause 11 and look into it? That is vital. If it has been recorded, shall I be able to ask when it will be brought before the Court? That is vital. I do not think I am exaggerating when I say we have two or three hundred agreements involved here. It must run into hundreds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-11", "file": "debates1956-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "59ca1072600a43d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.342.5", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but the hon. Member quite clearly used the word \"fairly\". I have always understood that it was the business of the judge hearing a case to ensure that the facts were put to him and the court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-11a.342.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-04-12", "file": "debates1956-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "2943556f81126ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.364.6", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayman", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the county council wants to build a school on a very big site which would take up five or six holdings which are intensively worked? May I remind the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.364.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-12", "file": "debates1956-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "2943556f81126ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.381.5", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Stross", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that I heard the Answer which he gave on this matter in reply to the last Question but one, and that I disagree with him completely? Is he further aware that a third of the women of the country are female workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.381.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-12", "file": "debates1956-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "2943556f81126ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "It may be that no such decision had been taken, but it may be that the law should be altered as to what is or what is not the public interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-12", "file": "debates1956-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "2943556f81126ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "ery long discussion on the matter, but I wish that I could have had the opportunity of answering the President of the Board of Trade on these matters earlier. I should have liked to have done it more fully. I would ask the right hon. Gentleman to look at these particular grounds individually. I expect that either he or the Parliamentary Secretary will reply, so I put this point to them explicitly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-12", "file": "debates1956-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "2943556f81126ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.471.2", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "e purpose of the Amendment is to give power to the President of the Board of Trade by order, subject to an affirmative Resolution of each House, to increase either the number of appointed members or the number of judges or both. I do not propose to detain the Committee very long, because I think that this is a reasonable Amendment which should commend itself to the President of the Board of Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.471.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-12", "file": "debates1956-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "2943556f81126ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Joynson-Hicks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Joynson-Hicks", "preceding_text": "ebate appreciated that the reference made by my right hon. Friend to the opportunities which his other duties in his office gave him for the supervision of an additional court was but a passing reference and by no means a fundamental argument for his case. In spite of that, the right hon. Gentleman has blown up this molehill into the most cloudy form of mountain to which I have ever had to listen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-12", "file": "debates1956-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "2943556f81126ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.512.4", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "The effect of the Amendment would be to require that the lay members of the Court should in all circumstances have had, not merely knowledge, but experience in industry, commerce or public affairs. There is a grave suspicion in this country of people who merely write about things and have not had experience of them. It is summed up in the words, \"An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.512.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-12", "file": "debates1956-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "2943556f81126ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.513.0", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Both sides.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "t in this Clause are the best from which to choose? I am really rather interested in the Government's priorities in their enumeration of the desirable categories of persons from whom these lay guardians of the public interest should be chosen. The Government put industry first, but it is really industry which is in the dock. The whole reason for this Bill is that British industry stands condemned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-12", "file": "debates1956-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "2943556f81126ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.521.3", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then why the Amendment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "preceding_text": "I am not suggesting that at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.521.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-12", "file": "debates1956-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "2943556f81126ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.529.4", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Stewart", "preceding_text": "t it was important that this Court, like all courts, should enjoy—as he put it—the confidence of the public in general and, particularly, of those who would be appearing before it. I wonder if that is the right approach to this question. Would one say, for example, that the court which tried Dr. Crippen should have enjoyed the confidence of the public in general and, in particular, of Dr. Crippen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.529.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-12", "file": "debates1956-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "2943556f81126ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.541.1", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It depends on the lawyer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "If he had knowledge of or experience in industry gained in that way, he would then be eligible under this definition. I do not think there is anything very difficult about that, with respect to the right hon. Gentleman. Then the hon. Lady queried whether lawyers would be eligible. It is unusual to find hon. Members, who are not themselves lawyers, exhibiting tenderness to the profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-12a.541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-13", "file": "debates1956-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "0faa61794350e521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-13a.562.3", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LOTTERIES AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holmes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holmes", "preceding_text": "hat the promoters have their minds on running at a small expense, but I do not think that that is so. I am of opinion that those people who want to gamble will exploit the situation and advertise as much as possible. This was all known during the Committee stage of the Bill. I know that I am not permitted to discuss other parts of the Bill, but there is a request for bigger amounts of prize money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-13a.562.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-13", "file": "debates1956-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "0faa61794350e521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-13a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LOTTERIES AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "As will be seen, my name is down as supporting this Amendment and it is also down to a further Amendment to raise the sum to £1,000. I happen to be associated with a number of charities of which, in two or three cases, I am the hon. treasurer. There is no doubt in my mind that the chief source of income of many worthwhile charities today comes from running these more or less small raffles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-13a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-13", "file": "debates1956-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "0faa61794350e521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-13a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL LOTTERIES AND GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Errington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member has said it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Errington", "preceding_text": "I should like to say one word, and it is literally only one word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-13a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-16", "file": "debates1956-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8240d6129ffb603e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.659.5", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "As I have stated already, coal is graded in accordance with consumer preference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.659.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-16", "file": "debates1956-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8240d6129ffb603e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend said to the House last week, the shortage is due to the exceptionally dry conditions in the growing period of last year, both in this country and throughout Europe. If price control were established, the effect would be to limit the amount of imports we should attract into the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-16", "file": "debates1956-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8240d6129ffb603e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.666.2", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that his answer simply will not wash? Is it not a fact that his Department cannot avoid responsibility for this shortage, which is as much due to a drop in acreage as it is to a drop in the tonnage per acre, and arises, therefore, from this Government's failure to plan agricultural production properly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.666.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-04-16", "file": "debates1956-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8240d6129ffb603e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.670.4", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He was.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. The hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) was not called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.670.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-16", "file": "debates1956-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8240d6129ffb603e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TANKS AND FIGHTER AIRCRAFT (EXPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "It is a question of degree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.677.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-04-16", "file": "debates1956-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8240d6129ffb603e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.679.3", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TANKS AND FIGHTER AIRCRAFT (EXPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I am quite prepared to give fresh consideration to this question, but I really do not think that, upon reflection, hon. Members on either side of the House will think it right to disclose individual transactions—and in this matter I am only pursuing the policy which the party opposite carried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.679.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-16", "file": "debates1956-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8240d6129ffb603e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.689.7", "colnum": "689", "heading": "DISARMAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Through the United Nations organisation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "By calling upon the person committing the breach to stop it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.689.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-16", "file": "debates1956-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8240d6129ffb603e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.693.6", "colnum": "693", "heading": "MEMBER (MISSING PAPERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " whether they had been returned. That sort of thing is happening constantly in that office; hon. Members are constantly mislaying articles and property. There was no suggestion that anything had been stolen, as far as I understand. If the hon. Member has lost some papers, I am quite certain that the staff, who always do their best to help hon. Members, will do their very best to find them for him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.693.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-16", "file": "debates1956-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8240d6129ffb603e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.694.0", "colnum": "694", "heading": "MEMBER (MISSING PAPERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "factorily; that up to the moment the Member responsible, for some reason or other, has been unable to obtain the Adjournment to discuss the matter; that the whole of these proceedings, both inside the House and in the country, as well as internationally, are surrounded by very suspicious factors indeed; that there is a suggestion that, arising out of this matter, already one man has been murdered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-16", "file": "debates1956-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8240d6129ffb603e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (DISPOSAL OF ROAD HAULAGE PROPERTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "e support of the Treasury guarantee, but this course could only be followed if it were also applied to other nationalised industries. It is not sufficient for my right hon. Friend to fob off the Conservative side of the House of Commons by saying that this is part of a general problem and that he proposes to deal with it at some future date. I want it dealt with in the lifetime of this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-16", "file": "debates1956-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8240d6129ffb603e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (DISPOSAL OF ROAD HAULAGE PROPERTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ompanies, simply because they are interested in profits, in making a concern profitable and not running it at a loss, are not necessarily the sort of people who will act in a dishonest way. Any person of whom there is any doubt is not likely to be appointed by the Minister, who will appoint reasonable and responsible persons, who, as my right hon. Friend says, will have the confidence of the City.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-16", "file": "debates1956-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8240d6129ffb603e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.769.1", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (DISPOSAL OF ROAD HAULAGE PROPERTY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or too low.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "ieve that the Minister will continue to keep a watchful eye over the operation of the provisions of this Bill in the future. Unlike the provisions of so many other Bills, that will be a continuing process. It is a continuous process industry, and this is only one of a number of Measures. If, therefore, as I believe the figure which has been written into the Bill is too high, it is not irrevocable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-16a.769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-17", "file": "debates1956-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d88f099efe8021bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-17a.818.4", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister not think that the price we are charging for whisky is far too low? Is he aware that United States consumption of whisky is 300 million gallons a year and that we supply only 2½ per cent. of it? Scotch whisky is only a snob drink in the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-17a.818.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-17", "file": "debates1956-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d88f099efe8021bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-17a.821.3", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the whole country realises now that the right hon. Gentleman is indulging only in platitudes when he makes remarks like that and that no one really believes that the Government expect that there will be a substantial or even significant increase in motor car exports this year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-17a.821.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-04-17", "file": "debates1956-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d88f099efe8021bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-17a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend to bear in mind that the accommodation for older people is not satisfactory? Will he also bear in mind that we are getting rather tired of just being told this is a concern of the local authorities? If he could give some guidance to the local authorities, and if he felt like doing so, would he please do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-17a.851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-17", "file": "debates1956-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d88f099efe8021bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-17a.864.3", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or it might not be raised at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Before nationalisation, the necessary capital would have been raised by the many and diverse bodies concerned in one or both of two ways. The new money might come from their own resources—that is, from trading profits made and not distributed but ploughed back—or the new money might be raised, by various channels and in various amounts, on their own credit on the market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-17a.864.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-17", "file": "debates1956-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d88f099efe8021bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-17a.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I doubt whether we shall really be ready until the end of this year, or the beginning of next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-17a.881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-17", "file": "debates1956-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d88f099efe8021bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-17a.887.0", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ally had to consider the arrangements under which old-age pensioners are given partial relief from the tobacco duty. This scheme had its origin and justification in the large increase in duty in 1947, which raised the price of tobacco out of line with the post-war increases for other goods. In present circumstances I do not propose to extend it to cover the relatively modest increase now proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-17a.887.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-04-17", "file": "debates1956-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d88f099efe8021bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-17a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And lose the interest.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "preceding_text": "One can lose, all right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-17a.930.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-17", "file": "debates1956-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d88f099efe8021bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-17a.942.3", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "oal industry and to the part which it has to play. I am not a coal miner and, frankly, I should not like to be one. However, I should not like hon. or right hon. Gentlemen opposite to imagine that because it is an unpleasant job, it is necessarily the most dangerous in the country. The most dangerous job in the country is the simple task of walking across the road, and we have to accept that fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-17a.942.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-17", "file": "debates1956-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d88f099efe8021bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-17a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why should they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "t, not necessarily as a Government, set as one of our targets for this financial year the task of seeing how we can get an additional 40 million tons of coal. One or two hon. Gentlemen opposite ask how we can get the miners. I should like to point out that when the opportunity to get more men to go into the mines came—I am speaking of Italians—the National Union of Mineworkers would not have them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-17a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-17", "file": "debates1956-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "d88f099efe8021bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-17a.950.3", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Chetwynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "t one stage the Chancellor said that the eyes of the world were focussed on this House. From my reading of the popular Press I think that they are focussed on a little Principality somewhere else; and indeed there was a Monte Carlo atmosphere about the Chancellor's speech. Admittedly he made his speech with some grace, and with his reference to savings he was inviting us to save for a rainier day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-17a.950.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-18", "file": "debates1956-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "5809a9d9548be792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-18a.1014.7", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " Election about how successful the Conservatives were in expanding savings—before the hon. Member for Louth (Mr. Osborne) asks his obvious question, let me inform him that savings under the Labour Government rose by £545·7 million. The Chancellor in the matter of incentives has done three things. First, he has created a new bond carrying an average interest rate of about 4⅕ per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-18a.1014.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-18", "file": "debates1956-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "5809a9d9548be792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-18a.1034.0", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He devalued the £.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "must have his sense of purpose and sense of moral justice. Nearly nine years ago this nation faced economic crisis—the crisis of a community devastated by war. We lacked food, shelter and tools. There were those who called on us to consume the seed grain, to sacrifice the future to the present greed of a few. Sir Stafford Cripps stood firm. He insisted that we abstained and invested in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-18a.1034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-18", "file": "debates1956-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "5809a9d9548be792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-18a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "he immediate post-war years but the arguments against such a tax structure increase with the years and in the end must prove decisive. We recommend that the differential rates should be brought to an end. I shall find it very hard indeed to support my right hon. Friend in his proposals in this respect, I am bound to say that on the whole, as it seems to me, this is a lively and imaginative Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-18a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-19", "file": "debates1956-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "9892f29a947b3a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-19a.1163.6", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "It has been the practice at least since 1930 to decline to disclose the information which my hon. Friend is seeking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-19a.1163.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-19", "file": "debates1956-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "9892f29a947b3a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-19a.1181.2", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "There seems to be a general level of acceptance of the Price Review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-19a.1181.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-19", "file": "debates1956-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "9892f29a947b3a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-19a.1183.7", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Advertising.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "ted so as to exclude from the tax field any cider and perry which is made by the ordinary processes of manufacture whatever its alcoholic strength. The whole purpose of this proposal is to prevent what is at present an unfair discrimination between certain artificially strong liquids and British wines which are subject to duty. Sir Charles, I do not know whether you often indulge in a \"Baby Cham\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-19a.1183.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-19", "file": "debates1956-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "9892f29a947b3a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-19a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "es of a year before, whereas it is well known to the Committee that prices and wages have increased by considerably more than 3 per cent. in the twelve months. Therefore, there were substantial cuts in the Estimates as presented. But that does not satisfy my right hon. Friend, and I believe that he is in accord with the feeling in the country when he insists that we must be prepared to cut deeper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-19a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-19", "file": "debates1956-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "9892f29a947b3a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-19a.1204.4", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was shorter than the Opposition's.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "he nation expected a lead and what it got was a speech full of sound and literary quotations signifying very little. The main theme of the speech was misplaced. It should have been on raising investment and raising exports. Savings should have been an integral part of that policy and not taken in isolation. Of course, this is only one third of a Budget, although the speech was long enough for two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-19a.1204.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-19", "file": "debates1956-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "9892f29a947b3a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-19a.1237.3", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": " however, is that we had it better than we had earned it. That is the problem. We lived beyond our means. We spent more, we ate more, we drank more. We spent more on tobacco, sport and amusements than we could afford. Therefore, the problem facing this country is the one in Charles Dickens' book, when Mr. Micawber said that if you have 20s. income and 20s. 6d. expenditure, you are in queer street.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-19a.1237.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-19", "file": "debates1956-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "9892f29a947b3a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-19a.1238.1", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ff, since 1926, I have been trying to help the National Savings movement; I shall continue to do so as, I am sure, will all hon. Members on both sides of the Committee. However, when I heard my right hon. Friend announce his Premium Bonds scheme I was rather shocked, though not on religious grounds. It seemed to me to be rather cheap. It seemed a wee bit \"off white\" for this Mother of Parliaments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-19a.1238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-19", "file": "debates1956-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "9892f29a947b3a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-19a.1243.1", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": " middle-class has given up, if not with enthusiasm at any rate by consent, much of the material advantage over the working-class which it gained during the last century. It is true that during the last twenty years the men who run industry, the professional and managerial types, have come down in the world enormously. As the writer of the article states, they and their wives have gone to the sink—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-19a.1243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-19", "file": "debates1956-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "9892f29a947b3a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-19a.1254.0", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "ild. What percentage of the total number of children is likely to benefit from this concession? Only one-sixth of the children will get the 2s.—one-sixth of the whole of the children of the nation. Is it going to do any good? To a small section, the Chancellor will give another 2s. in cases where there are three, four or five children in a family, and that is all it amounts to. I want to conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-19a.1254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-19", "file": "debates1956-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "9892f29a947b3a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-19a.1254.0", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "y good? To a small section, the Chancellor will give another 2s. in cases where there are three, four or five children in a family, and that is all it amounts to. I want to conclude—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"]—because I have finished my main theme. I can think of many things about the wages position which have not been popularised or indicated. It may seem a confused position to many people here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-19a.1254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-20", "file": "debates1956-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "1c8edb68889dab9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-20a.1351.5", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "DEFENCE EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "altogether of the R.A.F. Regiment and for the R.A.F. to have a somewhat different rôle with guided missiles in future from what it has at present. I am not certain that there are not far too many people employed on the ground getting far too few aircraft into the air. I trust that that is a sphere in which some definite reduction can be made in manpower. Finally, in the Civil Defence field—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-20a.1351.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-20", "file": "debates1956-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "1c8edb68889dab9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-20a.1354.5", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "DEFENCE EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What again?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "I am not filibustering. I am sticking very strictly to the terms of the Amendment. I rather resent the suggestion that this is filibustering, although, possibly, it is competitive with some of the activities of hon. Gentlemen opposite. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-20a.1354.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-20", "file": "debates1956-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "1c8edb68889dab9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-20a.1359.1", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "DEFENCE EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ion, but £6,000 million, which was rejected, but only after careful scrutiny of the individual requirements of the Department. I remember what happened in the case of the War Office reply about the number of vehicles. I cut down the War Office requirements by about £150 million, a vast sum, knowing quite well, having been at the War Office myself, that the Department had too many vehicles already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-20a.1359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-23", "file": "debates1956-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c5fa91866f127fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-23a.1548.1", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": "t inevitably fail. I hope, therefore, that the step taken by the Chancellor will be the forerunner of something much more substantial, namely, that the nationalised industries should be brought within the jurisdiction of the House of Commons, under the control of Ministers, where they rightly belong. There is one exception, namely, the air Corporations, which I feel should be pushed the other way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-23a.1548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-23", "file": "debates1956-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c5fa91866f127fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-23a.1556.1", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "Certainly. Were this legalised, were the whole thing legalised. I should be willing—for a consideration—to advise those who wish to place money on any of the candidates for this or any other office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-23a.1556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-23", "file": "debates1956-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c5fa91866f127fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-23a.1556.1", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Evil.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "e money on any of the candidates for this or any other office—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] But that we could consider later. So much for the Premium Bonds. I am sure that the Chancellor will further enlighten us as to his intentions in this matter. I now pass on to some of the fiscal measures. I welcome very much the increase in the Profits Tax. This tax was invented by me, for good or for evil, in 1947—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-23a.1556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-23", "file": "debates1956-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c5fa91866f127fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-23a.1556.1", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ch can be taken out by not spending. Is that barred? I am only asking; I am in a purely interrogative mood. The Chancellor should satisfy a curiosity which is not confined to this side of the Committee. I have given an undertaking to the right hon. Gentleman about the length of my speech. It is only fair that he should have much more time than I, because he has much more to answer for than I have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-23a.1556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-23", "file": "debates1956-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c5fa91866f127fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-23a.1560.1", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "is falling alike upon the just and the unjust. All sorts of little people are being squeezed to death and all sorts of big people who can stand that degree of squeezing are getting along very nicely. The continual raising of interest rates is doing two things. It is further distorting the distribution of wealth, continually enriching the people who lend money at the expense of those who borrow it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-23a.1560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-23", "file": "debates1956-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c5fa91866f127fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-23a.1562.1", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "ckname. But what was the conclusion to be drawn? Surely that the right hon. Gentleman attempted to cover the nakedness of his argument by the brilliance of the clothing with which he decorated it. Of course, the right hon. Gentleman was always rather a nimble performer. He has appeared in many rôles in his short period as a member of this Committee. Sometimes he is a Left-wing reactionary —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-23a.1562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-23", "file": "debates1956-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c5fa91866f127fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-23a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "et, in loving retrospect—a \"flash-back\", I think it is called. There was 6d. on Income Tax, on all rates, standard or reduced. Purchase Tax was doubled on cars, wireless sets and refrigerators. Petrol tax was up. Profits Tax was up. Initial allowances were suppressed completely. Entertainments tax was up on cinemas and racing. The National Health Service charges were introduced for the first time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-23a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-04-23", "file": "debates1956-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c5fa91866f127fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-23a.1572.2", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about the Election?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "and, and no one seemed to mind very much then. The only trouble, of course, was that his successors conducted their affairs so badly that they had to put half of it back again. Of course, that is their idea of planning. But then they say—worse still—my right hon. Friend not only did it once he did it twice. He did it half way through a Parliament and at the end of a Parliament. Is it not terrible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-23a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-23", "file": "debates1956-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c5fa91866f127fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-23a.1572.3", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "nd the country approaching financial disaster. After four years he brought the greatest prosperity and happiness that the country had ever enjoyed. \"Ah,\" Members opposite say, \"but it was not the first 6d. that rankled so much. It was the second, which came just before the Election.\" What did the Opposition do about that? I did not hear the heavy trampling of their boots going through the Lobbies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-23a.1572.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-23", "file": "debates1956-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c5fa91866f127fbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-23a.1575.1", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "odern society, the Government must have the broad strategic direction of the economy. One thing we have surely learned is the folly of trying to take control of individual industries. Socialists no longer believe in nationalisation, at least, not with the same pure faith as in the old days, and they certainly cannot claim that the nationalised industries have done anything but add to our problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-23a.1575.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-04-24", "file": "debates1956-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "69ff44abbd49f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1681.0", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (RURAL AREAS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": ", I shall receive a report and will take a decision upon the issue. On the licensing question, there are many things which people could do today but of which they are very often unaware. If hon. Members think that it will be of any assistance, I shall be quite willing to set out all these matters in a statement and try to give it some publicity, so that people may know what they can and cannot do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1678.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-04-24", "file": "debates1956-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "69ff44abbd49f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1682.4", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (RURAL AREAS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vane", "preceding_text": "In view of what the Minister has said, and his clear desire to help, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1682.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-24", "file": "debates1956-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "69ff44abbd49f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1685.6", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GLASGOW CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Henderson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Henderson", "preceding_text": "ese men who have by their office been singled out from their fellow men as being of outstanding ability—did not worthily fulfil the functions of the city council. There is a very close connection between the city and the Merchants House and Trades House, and it has always been to the advantage of the community of Glasgow as a whole. The Deacon Convener and the Lord Dean of Guild are non-party men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1685.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-24", "file": "debates1956-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "69ff44abbd49f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1688.3", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GLASGOW CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "On one occasion, long before the hon. Member for Glasgow, Central was a member of the Glasgow Town Council, there was a proposal that the electricity supply for one of the departments of the Corporation of Glasgow should be generated at Pinkston. The Tory Party—the Progressive Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1688.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-24", "file": "debates1956-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "69ff44abbd49f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1690.1", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GLASGOW CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": " been received by both houses. The list is long and imposing. Let me give a few. There were the gifts from two brothers Pettigrew, Burgesses of the town. The money was left to provide two pensions for deserving Burgesses in no way connected with the Trades House or the Merchant House. There was a legacy of £10,000 by James Buchanan. He started life as a boy in a blacksmith's shop in the Stockwell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-24", "file": "debates1956-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "69ff44abbd49f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1693.1", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GLASGOW CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "No. He should have been made Lord Dean of the Guilds for Kilmarnock. The Bill in no way represents the views of the people of Glasgow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-24", "file": "debates1956-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "69ff44abbd49f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1716.13", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GLASGOW CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "t. of the electorate. This is not an issue along those lines; this is a party political issue which is being raised. I want to see local councils keeping whatever candidates they have. They have none to give away. Local government is in danger of dying through lack of appropriate candidates. This Bill would be a means of weakening the Corporation of Glasgow. I hope the House will support the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1716.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-24", "file": "debates1956-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "69ff44abbd49f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1729.0", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GLASGOW CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "nt. The suggestion that this gentleman came specially back from abroad was made by hon. Members opposite. Surely the right hon. Gentleman would not suggest that this gentleman, who had a right to vote, and who was voting in a responsible way for a particular candidate, should not have the right to return to cast his vote. It was not simply a case of casting an automatic vote for a party candidate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1729.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-24", "file": "debates1956-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "69ff44abbd49f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1729.2", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GLASGOW CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "the lord provost of Glasgow who was selected, Victor Warren, was not a good lord provost of Glasgow? He was as good a lord provost as the town council has ever known, and it would have been a great scandal had Victor Warren gone to his death, kept from office by the party intrigues of his opponents. None of his opponents ever succeeded in surpassing the personal heroism which Victor Warren showed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1729.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-24", "file": "debates1956-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "69ff44abbd49f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1729.2", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GLASGOW CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "vost was chosen, and he continued to fill the chair of the Town Council of Glasgow throughout his term of office with the utmost success. He was a man of great courage, both civic and physical. He was a man who brought added distinction to the chair of the Lord Provost of Glasgow, and who, at the end of his term of service, was applauded by all, even by his opponents as a worthy and dignified man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1729.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-24", "file": "debates1956-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "69ff44abbd49f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1730.1", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GLASGOW CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": " by hon. Members opposite; because they admitted that the precedents were good and the principles on which these gentlemen were chosen were principles to which they themselves had given support. Now the only point that they can make against them is that on one occasion their votes had been decisive in a certain way. Now they say that they quite agree with the choice that was made on that occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-24a.1730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-25", "file": "debates1956-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "6685c9a4469f5dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1756.2", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman should suppose no such thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1756.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-25", "file": "debates1956-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "6685c9a4469f5dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1758.3", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. The policy of Her Majesty's Government in this matter is impartial, as I think the whole House knows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1758.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-25", "file": "debates1956-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "6685c9a4469f5dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1796.3", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "rned Member for Gloucester (Mr. Turner-Samuels) has now repeated practically verbatim every argument that was made in 1837 when John Field was the Member for Oldham and raised this matter and nearly carried it on that occasion; in view of the fact that we have had a full debate and that no hon. Member on this side of the Committee wishes for one moment to take any action of a controversial nature—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1796.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-25", "file": "debates1956-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "6685c9a4469f5dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1801.4", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the law?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the hon. Gentleman's point. I feel that that type of murder deserves to be placed in a category by itself. I am quite certain that the courts will be cognisant of the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1801.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-25", "file": "debates1956-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "6685c9a4469f5dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The lot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " about the safety of society rests in the last analysis upon what must be put before the Committee as the necessity to hang 12 men and women every year—one a month. What I am asking hon. and right hon. Members to consider is this. If we are to make a compromise—any kind of compromise, and in particular the compromise which is recommended to us in the Amendment—how many people is it sought to hang?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-25", "file": "debates1956-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "6685c9a4469f5dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1812.7", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "No, I have not. The main answer is this, and I ask the Committee to think on it very carefully. My hon. Friend is asking the Committee to get rid of a deterrent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1812.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-25", "file": "debates1956-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "6685c9a4469f5dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1813.4", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And refused to give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. It will be within your recollection, Sir Charles, that I was repeatedly interrupted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1813.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-25", "file": "debates1956-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "6685c9a4469f5dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1821.0", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Philips Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Philips Price", "preceding_text": "types of murderers whose killings are deliberate and calculated, and a grave responsibility rests upon them if they give such killers only a life sentence, which means, in fact, nine years only. We were told by the distinguished gentlemen from Belgium, Norway and Sweden that nine years is the average period during which it is possible to keep a man in prison without deterioration of his faculties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-25", "file": "debates1956-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "6685c9a4469f5dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1824.3", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philips Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philips Price", "preceding_text": "Juries have common sense and will see the type of person that they have before them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1824.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-04-25", "file": "debates1956-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "6685c9a4469f5dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1826.2", "colnum": "1826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "preceding_text": "In paragraph 59 of the Royal Commission's Report my hon. and learned Friend will read this: We have been told that the first thing a murderer says when he is arrested is often 'Shall I be hanged?' or 'I did it and I am ready to swing for it', or something of that kind. What is the inference to be drawn from this? Clearly not that the death penalty is an effective deterrent …", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1826.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-04-25", "file": "debates1956-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "6685c9a4469f5dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1827.2", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Middlesbrough, West (Mr. Simon) for continuing the quotation, but I still maintain, from my reading of the findings of the Royal Commission, that it is true to say that the feeling of the Royal Commission was in favour of the view that it was not a deterrent, in spite of the final quotation which my hon. and learned Friend has just made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-25", "file": "debates1956-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "6685c9a4469f5dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1837.4", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And a licence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "preceding_text": "urned the revolver upon himself and shot himself. That was a tragedy of love, a crime passionel if ever there was one. The state of that young man and the state of his victim must have created sympathy in the hearts of everyone. But he would be condemned to death under the terms of this Amendment, because the day before he committed his crime he purchased the revolver and the necessary ammunition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1837.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-25", "file": "debates1956-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "6685c9a4469f5dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1849.1", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I am quite happy about leaving the matter to the courts. If they give too long a term the Executive can step in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-25", "file": "debates1956-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "6685c9a4469f5dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1889.3", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I certainly did not regard myself as winding up the discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1889.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-25", "file": "debates1956-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "6685c9a4469f5dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1889.3", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I certainly did not regard myself as winding up the discussion. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"] I repeat that the hon. Gentleman the Member for the Isle of Thanet made a mystical and complicated speech on what is an extremely simple point. May I, first, deplore his unjustified attack on the Home Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1889.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-25", "file": "debates1956-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "6685c9a4469f5dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1894.2", "colnum": "1894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "It would apply—I am not responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1894.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-25", "file": "debates1956-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "6685c9a4469f5dee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1913.1", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "That shows that the noble Lord has not understood the Amendment. The Amendment provides that it shall apply only to a man who has previously been convicted of murder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-25a.1913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-26", "file": "debates1956-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7ad9b8c3e4690cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-26a.1942.7", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "While thanking my right hon. and gallant Friend for his reply, may I ask whether he is aware that, despite the decrease since 1948 which he has mentioned, the figures are still several times greater than they were before the war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-26a.1942.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-04-26", "file": "debates1956-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7ad9b8c3e4690cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-26a.1943.2", "colnum": "1943", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "Is the Home Secretary aware that he has the full support of the great majority of people in the House in resisting the irrational sentiments of this proposal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-26a.1943.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-04-26", "file": "debates1956-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7ad9b8c3e4690cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-26a.1953.7", "colnum": "1953", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The Act of 1948.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "It may be deplorable, but it happens to be the law. Those three young girls were sent to an approved school as the result of a probation order. They absconded from the approved school and, under the Act of 1948, were put into Borstal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-26a.1953.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-04-26", "file": "debates1956-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7ad9b8c3e4690cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-26a.1967.2", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "on? I am quite certain that the authorities on the spot will make the best possible use of the physical resources at their disposal, but does the hon. and gallant Gentleman consider the separating of races in an educational institution of this sort of contribution to the multi-racial policy? That is the point raised by my right hon. Friend and which the hon. and gallant Gentleman has not answered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-26a.1967.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-04-26", "file": "debates1956-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7ad9b8c3e4690cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-26a.1967.4", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Noble", "preceding_text": "I think that I answered the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-26a.1967.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-26", "file": "debates1956-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7ad9b8c3e4690cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-26a.1968.1", "colnum": "1968", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION", "cue_speaker": "Commander Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Noble", "preceding_text": "There is no question but that this university is multi-racial. Certainly there is segregation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-26a.1968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-26", "file": "debates1956-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7ad9b8c3e4690cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-26a.1972.3", "colnum": "1972", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Is the Lord Privy Seal aware that we have a number of subjects which we are anxious to discuss in the House and which seem to us to be a great deal more important than the extremely doubtful Restrictive Trade Practices Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-26a.1972.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-04-26", "file": "debates1956-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7ad9b8c3e4690cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-26a.2062.2", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They are not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": " overcome by supplying the figures of turnover in confidence to a firm of chartered accountants, which sends a note to the trade association to say, \"We assess Messrs. X.Y.Z. at a certain subscription.\" In fact, however, in these modern days there is no difficulty about assessing the turnover of a firm, because in most balance sheets and annual accounts and reports the figures are fully disclosed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-26a.2062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-26", "file": "debates1956-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7ad9b8c3e4690cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-26a.2083.2", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Specify.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Bell", "preceding_text": "tailed\". It is not suggested that to come within the terms of this Amendment one must give a detailed recommendation. There could, for instance, be a recommendation that everyone must lower prices 10 per cent. or put them up 10 per cent., or that nobody must sell any goods to a certain firm, or that everybody is advised not to deal with persons on a certain list. Specific is a thing which one can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-26a.2083.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-26", "file": "debates1956-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "7ad9b8c3e4690cd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-26a.2084.0", "colnum": "2084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "he matter purely from the drafting point of view. As to the other Amendment, I must ask why it is limited to, in relation to any particular class … Suppose that there is a recommendation for a 10 per cent. increase in prices in all the goods dealt with by members of a particular association, dealing, for example in motor cars. Is that in relation to a particular class of goods or is it not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-26a.2084.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-27", "file": "debates1956-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6a570a35bddf18dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2145.3", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "on two grounds. First he was at pains to argue—as indeed the Minister subsequently argued, but I shall come to the speech of the Minister later—that the 1929 legislation was intended to be permanent. Then the hon. Member said that the proposals in this Bill ought not to be considered apart from a general review of local government and local government finance which the Government were considering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-27", "file": "debates1956-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6a570a35bddf18dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2153.5", "colnum": "2153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. E. Wheeldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. E. Wheeldon", "preceding_text": "thority finance. In Birmingham, in the industrial centre of the country, we are building a new technical college that will eventually cost about £10 million. Does anybody suggest that that college is not primarily for the benefit of industry? Of course it is. Industry is demanding, and rightly, higher and higher skill in terms of technology, and the cost will have to be borne by local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2153.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-27", "file": "debates1956-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6a570a35bddf18dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2159.6", "colnum": "2159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "ore convenient to the House if I were allowed to speak without interruption. The arguments dealing with this subject are both confused and confusing. To imagine, as the hon. Member for Acton did, and as apparently many of his hon. Friends still do, that we can put right all the problems of local authority finance which have been referred to by the hon. Member for Islington, East (Mr. E. Fletcher)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2159.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-27", "file": "debates1956-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6a570a35bddf18dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2162.1", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does apply to Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "nance, in support of my case on the question whether we should re-rate industry and whether it should be done as an isolated act. It certainly should not be done carrying with it the apologia with which the hon. Member for Islington, East began his speech when he said that this is only chipping at the problem, that it does not apply to agriculture or to Scotland, for very good reasons, as we know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-27", "file": "debates1956-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6a570a35bddf18dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2163.1", "colnum": "2163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "preceding_text": "cers would still be required to apportion the net annual value of these premises and put them in a separate part of the valuation list. Apart from these factors, the reason why, above all, I support this Amendment is that if the Bill were passed, as hon. Members opposite know perfectly well, it would this year reduce the finances of local authorities to a state of nothing less than absolute chaos.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-27", "file": "debates1956-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6a570a35bddf18dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2168.0", "colnum": "2168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We all do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the local authority in Norwich, which is a very responsible body, fully appreciates the practical difficulties of bringing the Bill into operation at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-27", "file": "debates1956-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6a570a35bddf18dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2177.4", "colnum": "2177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "erating, limited as it is, increases the dependence of those authorities upon the central Government for income which is essential for the effective carrying on of local services. Furthermore, local authority officials believe that the system of grants-in-aid is administratively expensive. I had always believed that it was the policy of the Conservative Party that local government should be local.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2177.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-27", "file": "debates1956-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6a570a35bddf18dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2187.1", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Ridsdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "is the householder who is asked to bear the chief burden of increased education costs, of increased costs for roads and other amenities, from which, in many cases, industry itself benefits. It is for this psychological reason that I press the Government to consider most carefully the need for abolishing derating. Therefore, I am convinced that to take any such step immediately would be very wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-27", "file": "debates1956-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6a570a35bddf18dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2193.1", "colnum": "2193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. C. George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. C. George", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to argue the merits of rerating at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-27", "file": "debates1956-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6a570a35bddf18dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2198.1", "colnum": "2198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Smithers", "preceding_text": " through the House and be enacted in present circumstances, it seems to me that he has put himself in a position in which one argument contradicts the other. If one thinks that radical reform in local government is necessary, to start by a Measure which makes alterations in the balance of taxation between one section of the community and another is to assume that that same structure will continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-27", "file": "debates1956-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6a570a35bddf18dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2201.1", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Here, here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smithers", "preceding_text": " of industrial rerating, which proceed far further than the great majority of the public and, I think, the great majority of members of chambers of commerce have any idea. The concept has been industriously put about by those interested in framing this Bill that a great injustice is about to be remedied, and that a very serious burden will be taken off the shoulders of certain types of ratepayers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-27", "file": "debates1956-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6a570a35bddf18dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2213.1", "colnum": "2213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Because we cannot rerate one half of freight transport and leave the other half derated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-27", "file": "debates1956-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6a570a35bddf18dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2217.5", "colnum": "2217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. A. Sparks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Gain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. A. Sparks", "preceding_text": "e precise figures without any difficulties. He said that in the year to which I have referred, as a result of the repeal of industrial derating, the equalisation grant would fall by £9 million. The fall in the education grant would be £4·8 million. There was no difficulty about giving those figures. That would leave a net loss of rate income to the local authorities of £31·2 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2217.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-27", "file": "debates1956-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6a570a35bddf18dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2220.0", "colnum": "2220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RATING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sparks", "preceding_text": "nt which would reduce the Exchequer burden to a very small figure indeed—probably 1s. 6d. or 2s. in the £. As I say, local authorities have all this information in their rate books. They have it, and there is no administrative problem whatsoever. It is just a matter of sending out their rate demand notes for 100 per cent. of the net annual values already in their rate books instead of 25 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-27a.2220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-30", "file": "debates1956-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "03e66cabf2725ab0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-30a.22.5", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "Although I realise that the amount of money involved is not very considerable, I know that hon. Members of all parties feel rather strongly on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-30a.22.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-30", "file": "debates1956-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "03e66cabf2725ab0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-30a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "ho are staff nurses. They have a very substantial increase under the Whitley Council award. We are dealing purely with student nurses. In answer to the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mrs. Jeger), a student nurse who is over 21 and has no dependants has had a great increase in the training allowances. It is quite true that there is a small minority with dependants who have this deterrent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-30a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-30", "file": "debates1956-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "03e66cabf2725ab0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-30a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tory efficiency.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "s an inducement to the consumers to buy more of the milk which the industry now finds it so difficult to get rid of. The point is that the Government make a pretence of protecting the producer, but do not even make a pretence of protecting the consumer. Consumer subsidies have almost all gone. The housewives pay 25 per cent. more since this Government came into power, and yet the farmers get less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-30a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-30", "file": "debates1956-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "03e66cabf2725ab0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-30a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "view, because in itself it cart give only relatively short-term assurance. We intend to work out during the next few months some scheme whereby we hope that effective assurance can be given in the long term. We shall then discuss those proposals with the National Farmers' Union. That will be a difficult exercise. It will be a variation of the present theme resulting from the Agriculture Act, 1947.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-30a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-30", "file": "debates1956-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "03e66cabf2725ab0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-30a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "is longer than ever before. The price of land has not slumped, it is stable. Farming bankruptcies are at an extremely low level. The latest figure that I have seen is about 150 to 170 for last year, and this year the number is running at rather less. Out of a total of about 300,000 farms that figure is really insignificant. An industry which has no bankruptcies at all cannot be in a healthy state.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-30a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-30", "file": "debates1956-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "03e66cabf2725ab0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-30a.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "preceding_text": "I advocate a similar policy, but I do not by any means advocate that all the commodities then subsidised should again be subsidised. Consequently, the hon. and gallant Gentleman's point does not really arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-30a.63.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-30", "file": "debates1956-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "03e66cabf2725ab0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-30a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coldrick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coldrick", "preceding_text": " or milk, surely it is better that the ordinary consumer should pay the market price, and drink the milk or eat the potatoes, than that these products should be processed or sold to manufacturers at far lower prices? I submit that to the extent that people support a potato marketing board or a milk marketing board and transfer power from the Minister, they are contributing to a policy of scarcity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-30a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-30", "file": "debates1956-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "03e66cabf2725ab0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-30a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "preceding_text": "osition, I have got one, which I can produce in a moment, not exactly like a rabbit from a hat, but at least as quickly. It must be based on two things which I do not think are really palatable to either Front Bench. The first is a more positive direction than we have got at present of production and investment in agriculture; and the second is a positive but flexible control over imports of food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-30a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-30", "file": "debates1956-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "03e66cabf2725ab0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-30a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They cannot afford it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "ey when looking at fields that had received fertilisers as compared with those which had had no treatment at all. I know that it is too late now to do the proper job and apply the lime, potash and other fertilisers that are needed, but I suggest to the small farmers that they should immediately purchase £10 worth of nitrogenous fertiliser and put it on two acres of land, giving it a good dressing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-30a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-04-30", "file": "debates1956-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "03e66cabf2725ab0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-30a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " fortune and pleasure to be asked, with my hon. Friend the Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Emrys Hughes), to speak to the farmers of Ayrshire. They also invited the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire and the hon. Member for Ayr (Sir T. Moore). I was interested to note from a report in the Press a request from hon. Members that the meeting should be divided into two—Conservatives first, Labour second.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-04-30a.128.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-01", "file": "debates1956-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "618fabab8ad0dce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-01a.181.2", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is happening all over the country.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that many men bought small boarding houses and small shops in little seaside places like this in the hope that they would keep them, but now they are having to go out to work in order to retain them? The extra burden that this involves will sink some of them. Is this not a special case which the Minister could look at again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-01a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-01", "file": "debates1956-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "618fabab8ad0dce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-01a.181.4", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is it not true that it is not only Cleethorpes which is affected but that this sort of thing is happening throughout the length and breadth of the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-01a.181.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-01", "file": "debates1956-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "618fabab8ad0dce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-01a.192.7", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "As the Minister is so reluctant to give the figure himself, will he not agree that the extra cost is 23s. 11d. a week? May I accuse him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-01a.192.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-01", "file": "debates1956-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "618fabab8ad0dce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-01a.202.4", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that hon. Members on this side of the House share his belief that the visit of the Russian leaders will result in better understanding and closer co-operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-01a.202.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-01", "file": "debates1956-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "618fabab8ad0dce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-01a.345.3", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Joynson-Hicks", "preceding_text": "I must say that I think some of the arguments have gone rather beyond my Amendment. I was disappointed with my right hon. Friend's reply, but I appreciate his difficulty and I therefore beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-01a.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-02", "file": "debates1956-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "cbd49092f34f0b6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-02a.379.7", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NYASALAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that Mr. Chibambo was originally arrested for a speech which he made in criticism of the proposals for the Central African Federation? He has served fifteen years in prison—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-02a.379.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-02", "file": "debates1956-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "cbd49092f34f0b6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-02a.379.7", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NYASALAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fifteen months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that Mr. Chibambo was originally arrested for a speech which he made in criticism of the proposals for the Central African Federation? He has served fifteen years in prison—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—he was immediately picked up and has been kept in detention ever since.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-02a.379.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-02", "file": "debates1956-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "cbd49092f34f0b6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-02a.383.0", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SEYCHELLES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the Minister and will certainly give him the details. I can assure him that a number of my hon. Friends and myself are receiving a number of complaints about the injustice and lack of tolerance which exist in the Seychelles. I hope he agrees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-02a.382.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-02", "file": "debates1956-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "cbd49092f34f0b6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-02a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Harris", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Harris", "preceding_text": "ognise that for enforcement to be carried out by trade associations it would be necessary to pass an Amendment, such as that in my name which would disapply Sections 1 to 4 of the Trade Union Act of 1871, which precludes trade unions taking action against members, and the relevant Section of the 1906 Act. If that is going too wide, and it is desired that we should not disapply the Trade Union Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-02a.548.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-03", "file": "debates1956-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "e7c5502d5d42f4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-03a.574.2", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ch the fullest undertaking was given that this would be a multi-racial university in every sense of the word? Will the hon. and gallant Gentleman make it clear that public opinion in this country will not tolerate the sending of another £1 million to a very excellent institution which is excellently staffed, and which no one desires to criticise, if racial segregation becomes part of its practice?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-03a.574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-03", "file": "debates1956-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "e7c5502d5d42f4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-03a.587.9", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "There are 45 on short time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-03a.587.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-03", "file": "debates1956-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "e7c5502d5d42f4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-03a.612.0", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Lynn Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lynn Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "ifficulty which is inherent in approaching this problem. The public interest, of course, is to protect the public interest. Our economic organisation is such that a commercial interest may be different. I am not, of course, blaming the directors of a company for trying to make as much profit as they can. It is their job and their duty; and it would be a breach of duty if they did not try to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-03a.612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-03", "file": "debates1956-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "e7c5502d5d42f4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-03a.709.3", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member is going to attack me—not that I mind that a bit —he must listen to what I say. I gave him a case from the heavy chemical industry. It was in the case of sulphuric acid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-03a.709.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-03", "file": "debates1956-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "e7c5502d5d42f4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-03a.712.0", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Roberts", "preceding_text": "restriction in certain circumstances. Before I ask leave to withdraw the Amendment, I would say to the hon. Member for Sheffield, Park (Mr. Mulley) that I do not know how he can suggest that we are backward in research. In some respects we lead the world. To hear the hon. Member denigrating some of the technicians in Sheffield was really a shock to me. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-03a.711.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-03", "file": "debates1956-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "e7c5502d5d42f4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-03a.717.0", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": " on this particular subject yesterday. Under the heading, \"How Strait are the Gates to Be?\", this is what was said: A Government Amendment to Clause 16\"— which is the one we are now considering— throws into still clearer relief a problem which has beset this legislation from the beginning. A little later it says: The Amendment is officially regarded as neither strengthening nor weakening the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-03a.716.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-03", "file": "debates1956-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "e7c5502d5d42f4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-03a.728.2", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": " Bill as it stood originally one could bring in, under \"detriment to the public\", any matter of public interest, anything in the interest of the public, anything, in other words, which is within the meaning of \"public interest\" in Clause 15, whereas it may have a very much more restrictive meaning and may mean just members of the public, \"the public\" in that sense. Shall we be quite clear on this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-03a.728.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-03", "file": "debates1956-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "e7c5502d5d42f4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-03a.728.4", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Harris", "preceding_text": "I have been waiting", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-03a.728.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-03", "file": "debates1956-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "e7c5502d5d42f4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-03a.728.4", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Harris", "preceding_text": "should be the responsibility of the Registrar. My Amendment was designed to shift the onus. I hope that what the Labour Party has said about this is right, and I hope that the right hon. Member for Battersea, North (Mr. Jay) is correct in his summing up of the new situation. I shall not oppose the President of the Board of Trade if there is a Division. I shall have to go into the Lobby behind him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-03a.728.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-03", "file": "debates1956-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "e7c5502d5d42f4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-03a.757.6", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ROGER CASEMENT PAPERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Truth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "neration, and are growing dim in the recollection of an older generation, they are remembered in Ireland with pride and bitterness. Whatever we said about this now would incite, first, curiosity, then a demand for more evidence, and, finally inevitably a good deal of bitter controversy. The embers would most certainly be fanned into flame—and to what good? To provide material for a fresh research—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-03a.757.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-04", "file": "debates1956-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "8b7ff8a82b06637e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-04a.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "n of this question and it is right that they should be in the minds of hon. Members so that the House can appreciate the changes in our fiscal law which would be entailed as a consequence of any legislation in the companies field giving effect to this principle. I thank my hon. Friends for having brought the matter before the House and for the guidance which they have given in this esoteric field.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-04a.789.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-07", "file": "debates1956-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "6530e9ee0d4a035e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-07a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "DISARMAMENT (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "rmament agreement. I am saying that we, the Allied Powers, are prepared to take certain steps by way of partial disarmament prior to a settlement of Germany and other outstanding political problems What we cannot be expected to do is to go down to the level of comprehensive disarmament of 1·5 million and 650,000 for these five major Powers unless those political problems have been resolved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-07a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-07", "file": "debates1956-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "6530e9ee0d4a035e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-07a.841.2", "colnum": "841", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS (EARNINGS LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Change his mind.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I will certainly consider the last part of my hon. Friend's question, but we shall have to give a little time to consideration of one of the conditions in which, according to the Advisory Committee's Report, the option to—I apologise to the House for this ugly word-de-retire should be given. It is proposed by the Advisory Committee that a married pensioner should be only able to de-retire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-07a.841.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-07", "file": "debates1956-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "6530e9ee0d4a035e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-07a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (COST)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "e of the local government authorities which framed detailed proposals. It recommended the ultimate transfer of all hospitals to local health authorities, with the immediate restoration of the administrative responsibility for the tuberculous, the maternity service and the care of the chronic sick. I hope I am not speaking too strongly when I say that I believe that that would be a retrograde step.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-07a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-07", "file": "debates1956-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "6530e9ee0d4a035e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-07a.880.0", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (COST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Is it not both inaccurate and ungrateful to describe these ladies as consumers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-07a.880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-07", "file": "debates1956-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "6530e9ee0d4a035e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-07a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (COST)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Linstead", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Linstead", "preceding_text": "hey would have been off work for a month. It is quite idle for us to think that we can pare down the profits of the pharmaceutical industry and, at the same time, carry on with the development of research and the export trade. I did not intend to make these remarks at ail, but I have been led to do so because of the very ill-judged and, it seemed to me, ill-informed remarks of the right hon. Lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-07a.918.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-07", "file": "debates1956-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "6530e9ee0d4a035e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-07a.967.0", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (AIRPORTS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stan Awbery", "preceding_text": "e that privilege, because, I understand, this was, once a Royal Palace. We are now extending this privilege to the airports. I very much regret this, because, like many of my hon. Friends, I feel that it is the thin end of the wedge, and it may develop much further in a short time. If we are going to give this privilege to the airports, there is no reason why we should not give it to the seaports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-07a.966.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-07", "file": "debates1956-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "6530e9ee0d4a035e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-07a.967.3", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (AIRPORTS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "hat people behind the international barrier will not be able to have an international drink. This Bill is not meant for travellers at all. I travel regularly to Prestwick and the first thing that happens when a traveller boards the aeroplane at London Airport is that a list of expensive drinks is placed before him. That is not to satisfy his thirst, but to provide profits for the vested interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-07a.967.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-08", "file": "debates1956-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ac8e700ac1297e50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1030.1", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about one's head?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitman", "preceding_text": " really badly served if one is sold by the retailer a different one. In such sales, by all means, let us have competition on price. If one wants to buy a book by a particular author or on a particular subject, it is no use the bookseller offering one of the latest \"whodunits\". Similarly, if one has something wrong with one's chest, for the retailer to sell one something for a completely different—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-08", "file": "debates1956-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ac8e700ac1297e50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1036.3", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reader Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reader Harris", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond) referred to competition in prices. I am in favour of manufacturers competing in prices. After all, the manufacturers are making the goods, and no doubt they arrive at different prices according to their methods of manufacture. I am concerned that the people who sell the articles should do so at the prices which have been fixed by the manufacturers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1036.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-08", "file": "debates1956-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ac8e700ac1297e50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1039.3", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": " agreements. The small shopkeeper will not be pleased. He will be hit in a way that he does not deserve. That is why I say we ought to make these collective price maintenance agreements registrable and examinable by the Restrictive Practices Court, instead of banning them willynilly. There is one further point I must make, despite the desire on all sides of the Committee to rush this Bill through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1039.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-08", "file": "debates1956-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ac8e700ac1297e50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1048.4", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman consider the matter from the other point of view, and consider goods that are not controlled in any way in price? Has he considered what the profit margins are or what the result is when those goods are sold at very much higher prices than they are in other shops?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1048.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-08", "file": "debates1956-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ac8e700ac1297e50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1100.0", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Bell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Bell", "preceding_text": "idends should be treated differently. Now let us assume that the Amendment is accepted. There is the law. What happens? Some people do not mind about that law. As we see from the Report of the Monopolies Commission, the persons who supply groceries and chocolate do not take any account of that dividend so they do not mind about the law. Nor do the people who supply tobacco goods or electric lamps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-08", "file": "debates1956-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ac8e700ac1297e50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "preceding_text": "at when he was on this side of the House. The right hon. Gentleman has mellowed and become exceedingly tender, kindly and conciliatory during the more mature years of his political existence. The President does not believe in the adage about letting sleeping dogs lie; for what the Bill does is to arouse sleeping dogs. Sleeping dogs have been lying around the co-operative societies for a long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-08", "file": "debates1956-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ac8e700ac1297e50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "preceding_text": " and become exceedingly tender, kindly and conciliatory during the more mature years of his political existence. The President does not believe in the adage about letting sleeping dogs lie; for what the Bill does is to arouse sleeping dogs. Sleeping dogs have been lying around the co-operative societies for a long time—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Even the Daily Express has allowed them to sleep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-08", "file": "debates1956-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ac8e700ac1297e50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1125.0", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister give an explanation for his action?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1125.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-08", "file": "debates1956-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ac8e700ac1297e50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1137.6", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "I understood that that was the original position, but I am now informed that it is desired to change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1137.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-08", "file": "debates1956-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ac8e700ac1297e50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1145.0", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cigarettes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Whose reputation is safeguarded in this case? Is Persil's? Is Dreft's? Is Tide's? Is Surf's? Is that of any other of this tidal wave of detergents sweeping across the market? Whose reputation is maintained? If I liked to take to my grocer the 5d. voucher for Persil or the 3d. voucher for Surf or the 2d. voucher for Tide—or whatever it is, I do not keep count—I could trade the voucher for anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-08", "file": "debates1956-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "ac8e700ac1297e50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1174.2", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Six, seven, eight, nine, ten, out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "arlier in this debate he made it clear that he did not think we were obstructive, but were, on the contrary, constructive and trying to make the Bill a better Bill. The Amendments which have been put forward by the Opposition have been of a character designed to make it a better Bill. Will the Bill be a better Bill if we go on discussing it after midnight, perhaps till one, two, three, four, five—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-08a.1174.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-09", "file": "debates1956-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "08866219f1f4bedb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-09a.1191.6", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member asked one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir. Surely hon. Members are allowed to ask a supplementary question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-09a.1191.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-09", "file": "debates1956-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "08866219f1f4bedb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-09a.1192.9", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Major Anstruther-Gray", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that East Lothian deserves more telephones than other areas?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-09a.1192.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-09", "file": "debates1956-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "08866219f1f4bedb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-09a.1210.2", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Strauss", "preceding_text": " gave to my hon. Friend, because it is felt that, as a result of this change of the Board, there may be some change of policy about private concerns taking further interest in some of the Corporation's present activities or the granting of licences for carrying freight which are not granted at the moment? Could the Minister give a further assurance that no change of policy whatsoever is indicated?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-09a.1210.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-09", "file": "debates1956-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "08866219f1f4bedb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-09a.1220.4", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "COMMANDER CRABB (PRESUMED DEATH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will increase.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that a great deal of information has already been published in the Press about this matter? Does he not think, on reflection, in view of the amount of speculation which undoubtedly will continue in the absence of any information from the Government℄", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-09a.1220.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-09", "file": "debates1956-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "08866219f1f4bedb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-09a.1221.2", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "COMMANDER CRABB (PRESUMED DEATH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The House and the country must draw their conclusions from what I have said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-09a.1221.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-09", "file": "debates1956-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "08866219f1f4bedb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-09a.1254.5", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No.2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "upulously, taxpayers are able to avoid their proper liability. I have noticed that a number of newspapers have criticised the speeches made by some of us. It has been said we suggested that taxpayers were behaving illegally. This criticism was made in Punch and other learned journals. They said that it is the duty of Parliament to put the matter right by altering the law. That is exactly my point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-09a.1254.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-09", "file": "debates1956-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "08866219f1f4bedb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-09a.1361.0", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No.2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has submitted a very interesting argument and some interesting figures, but before an authoritative estimate of that kind can be discarded we shall need something far more authoritative from the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-09a.1361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-10", "file": "debates1956-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "17ceb975249e9f29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1390.7", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "In view of the grossly unsatisfactory nature of the reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1390.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-10", "file": "debates1956-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "17ceb975249e9f29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1402.0", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "While thanking my right hon. Friend for that reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-10", "file": "debates1956-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "17ceb975249e9f29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1423.7", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sing it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "Does the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1423.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-10", "file": "debates1956-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "17ceb975249e9f29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1424.3", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Aubrey Jones)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Aubrey Jones)", "preceding_text": "cast, destined to accrue in 1965 is 240 million tons a year. According to the old plan, this output was due to accrue also in 1965, but without anything from opencast mining. In other words, the Coal Board has scaled down its estimates. Once again, one is tempted to disappointment, but I suggest that we suppress the feeling of disappointment and, instead, commend the Board for its greater realism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-10", "file": "debates1956-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "17ceb975249e9f29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1424.3", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Aubrey Jones)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It puts up prices.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Aubrey Jones)", "preceding_text": "full £400 million asked for? I think not. The accumulated deficit of the Board at the end of 1955 was just under £40 million. According to present prospects, it seems likely that the Board, in the current year, will add to that deficit to the tune of about £10 million, making a total deficit at the end of this year of £50 million. What happens when a nationalised undertaking increases its deficit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1424.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-10", "file": "debates1956-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "17ceb975249e9f29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1440.0", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "t this Bill is a token at once of the Government's faith in them and of their determination to make of the coal industry something of which the country would be proud. When the Bill is through it will then be for all in the industry to justify that faith and to play their part in ensuring that the coal industry becomes once again an object of pride to themselves as well as to the country at large.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-10", "file": "debates1956-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "17ceb975249e9f29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1441.1", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "There were many matters in the Minister's speech on which I should like to comment. I hope we shall hear many more speeches from him. Threatened men live long and he can take comfort from his predecessor, who, after all, was threatened from below the Gangway opposite and yet survived for a period of five years—longer than any other Minister in the same office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-10", "file": "debates1956-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "17ceb975249e9f29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1442.1", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "et the oil industry has had more than £1,000 million of capital investment in the last five years, compared with about £300 million in the coal industry. If the Government go on bungling as they are at present their Middle Eastern policy, their policy in relation to the Baghdad Pact and a number of other factors, I do not know how long we shall be able to rely on supplies of oil from those sources", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-10", "file": "debates1956-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "17ceb975249e9f29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1442.1", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Clerks get it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "f material advancement improve, we can expect that from the miners. Can we? Are we entitled to ask it from the miners, when they recently put forward a national charter for a seven-hour day and three weeks' holiday? I ask hon. Gentlemen opposite, and especially the critics below the Gangway, whether three weeks' holiday is too much to give a man who spends forty-nine weeks of the year underground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-10", "file": "debates1956-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "17ceb975249e9f29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1446.1", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The point I am making is quite a simple one. When we look at the profit and loss accounts of the Coal Board, we find included in them a sum in respect of the cost of imported coal. That is the point, and what I am saying is that that is not shown in the profit and loss accounts of either Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds, Ltd., or Guest, Keen Iron and Steel Co., Ltd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1446.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-10", "file": "debates1956-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "17ceb975249e9f29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1521.1", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "eman, but there are two points about this. In seconding the Amendment, I was very careful to say that we recognise that there must be substantial investment in the coal mines, particularly to replace lost capacity. If the hon. Gentleman will read the Amendment he will see that what we actually say is: … while welcoming any measure which would increase the economic production of coal…", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1521.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-10", "file": "debates1956-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "17ceb975249e9f29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1523.1", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "o make it clear that a price differential in this country could apply only to industrial coal. As the Minister of Fuel and Power controls the price of domestic coal, but does not control the price of industrial coal, I think my hon. Friend will find, on further investigation, that not only is my proposal absolutely valid but it is entirely practicable, and has an exact parallel in Western Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-10", "file": "debates1956-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "17ceb975249e9f29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1531.1", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "he most important indicator in our economy at any one time, after the balance of payments, is the level of investment that we are undertaking and the direction of that investment. Therefore, it is absolutely right that hon. Members should wish to have the greatest possible opportunity of being informed about, of studying, and indeed of discussing the investment that is taking place in our economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1531.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-10", "file": "debates1956-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "17ceb975249e9f29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1539.1", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Florence Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member wants to know, I can assure him that I voted for the Government and that I looked round to see why he was not in the Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-10", "file": "debates1956-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "17ceb975249e9f29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1539.2", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "want him to know that we believe it right to pass this Money Resolution. If, however, he is unable to carry his own party with him, I assure him that when we take over office we shall pass the same Money Resolution, and that he can be sure that the coal industry will not suffer. Indeed, the coal industry will have far firmer friends on this side of the Committee than on the other side of the House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-10a.1539.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-11", "file": "debates1956-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "15b990d5cb029b8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-11a.1606.0", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 8.—(PROVISIONS RELATING TO PROCEEDINGS BEFORE DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE OR COURT.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Joynson-Hicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Joynson-Hicks", "preceding_text": "hile I recognise the weight of the argument, I notice the curious thing that the problem presented here today was not presented in this or any other form during the debates in another place. Had there been real weight in the argument, I should have thought that the exceedingly learned noble lords who participated in the debates on the Bill in another place would at least have thought of the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-11a.1606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1635.4", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — N.A.T.O. MEETING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cyprus\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "So far as stopping violence is concerned, her Majesty's Government have never engaged in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1635.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1653.11", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "nity. In settling Cyprus —as we shall eventually have to—one of the problems is to enable arrangements to be made by which these two communities can continue to live in peace and friendliness together. One of the effects of our policy is, in addition to creating bitterness between the Greek Cypriots and ourselves, to allow to develop—indeed, we have created—hostility between those two communities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1653.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1653.11", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "e shall eventually have to—one of the problems is to enable arrangements to be made by which these two communities can continue to live in peace and friendliness together. One of the effects of our policy is, in addition to creating bitterness between the Greek Cypriots and ourselves, to allow to develop—indeed, we have created—hostility between those two communities.[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] We have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1653.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1653.11", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": " friendliness together. One of the effects of our policy is, in addition to creating bitterness between the Greek Cypriots and ourselves, to allow to develop—indeed, we have created—hostility between those two communities.[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] We have. [HON. MEMBERS \"Nonsense.\"] We have. It is time the Committee and the nation realised that we have created bitterness between those two communities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1653.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1653.11", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "f this year when there was an opportunity of settlement. I would ask the Secretary of State to tell us how the Government envisage the future in Cyprus. Have they any new proposals? Are there any new suggestions? Are we to assume that the Government have nothing to add to the reply we have received to our Questions, that they are going on with their present policy, first, to restore law and order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1653.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1658.1", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "an indispensable base All we get from the Government is this policy of seeking to restore law and order, which means violence and counter-violence, more bitterness, more hatred—and for how long? Her Majesty's Government do not know, and no one else knows, either. At the end of it, if we have a base, it will be a worthless base, occupied by a hostile people. It is in our view, therefore, essential—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1659.0", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I said that because I then held the view, which I still hold—and that view is now even more justified than it was then—that no settlement will be possible unless Archbishop Makarios is brought into it. The Ethnarchy Council should be invited to send representatives to London for discussions and Archbishop Makarios should be brought to London for consultation and participation in those discussions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1659.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1659.0", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ght into it. The Ethnarchy Council should be invited to send representatives to London for discussions and Archbishop Makarios should be brought to London for consultation and participation in those discussions. [ Laughter. ] I ask hon. Members opposite, before they laugh at suggestions of this kind, to realise what will be the consequences of continuing to act as we are acting in Cyprus. Believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1659.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1663.1", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maclay", "preceding_text": " of Cyprus there must be many opinions about the best course of action at any moment. The Opposition are obviously entitled to state their views and to criticise, if they feel like so doing, and to produce, as far as they can, constructive suggestions. The right hon. Member, however, said that \"the policies of Her Majesty's Government have created hatred between the two communities in the island.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1663.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1677.4", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, \"would fight\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has a very short memory. I realise that he has a short memory about his political past, but he cannot even remember what he said half an hour ago. He said that he was choosing his words with the greatest care and that they were his own personal responsibility. He said that after a talk with members of the Turkish Parliament, he thought Turkey would go to war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1677.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1682.5", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jeger", "cue_text": "HON: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jeger", "preceding_text": " of the problem I will spend a little longer on it. I am amazed that from hon. Members opposite, the great protectors and champions of British prestige, we should hear it seriously suggested that the policy of Her Majesty's Government in Cyprus should be dictated by the Turks—should be dictated by a country which, in the history of alliances with us at any time in our mortal danger, is a disgrace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1682.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1708.3", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"TO agree?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "itting opposite. I shall not forget in a hurry a speech about Cyprus which he made in the Council of Europe, in which he preached the purest party politics and attacked his own country. There are, of course, two sides to the House of Commons and nobody asks that they should try to agree artificially. Yet I am convinced that in positions of great national and international danger, it is their duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1708.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1733.2", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ten\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I said five.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1733.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1735.5", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "This is a game which it is quite easy for a Minister to play. He has access to the documents. I advise him to be exceedingly careful, because what he is doing is purporting to make references to documents which are not in the possession of the House. We do not know whether he is telling the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1735.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1738.0", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He was quoting it.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "I can only state what the rule is, because I have no knowledge of the documents at all. A Minister may summarise the contents of a document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1737.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1739.1", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The desires of the right hon. Gentleman, his wishes or his intentions, have nothing to do with the Standing Orders of the House. He has quoted from the document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1739.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1740.5", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1740.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1740.6", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite are in difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1740.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1740.8", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "When they are in difficulties we always get a school boyish howl. The right hon. Gentleman has no right, ex-Ministers have no right, to consult to defeat a Standing Order. The question before you, Sir Rhys, is whether in fact the Standing Order has been properly invoked or not. That is the issue before the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1740.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1743.0", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "n or statement on the position laid down in 1947, may I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he can explain to us whether, among the considerations which the Governor and he himself took into account in these cases, there were included these two points? First, that in the case of a man who had been convicted of murder there was a very sub- stantial element of doubt whether, in fact, he was guilty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1743.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1751.7", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "THE CASE OF COMMANDER CRABB", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ater apparatus in Stokes Bay, in the Portsmouth area, about a week before. Commander Crabb is the central figure in this strange episode which we are discussing in this very short debate this evening. Therefore, I think it will be appropriate, since I suppose we must accept the conclusion of the Admiralty, if, at the start, on behalf of all of us, I were to pay a tribute to a very gallant officer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1751.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1751.7", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "THE CASE OF COMMANDER CRABB", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "d assumptions. These assumptions are: first, that the operations of these services are ultimately and effectively controlled by Ministers or by a Minister; secondly, that their operations are secret; thirdly, that what they do does not embarrass us in our international relations. And perhaps one might add, fourthly, that what they do appears, as far as we can make out, to be reasonably successful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1751.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1768.4", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "THE CASE OF COMMANDER CRABB", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, no\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "e able somehow or another to reach a member of the Board of Admiralty. I cannot understand where the stoppage took place en route, but, apparently, there was a stoppage somewhere, and, apparently, the information never reached the Board of Admiralty. These are some of the things for which we condemn the Government. I do not say we want to know about them. We shall not ask any questions about them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1768.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1774.1", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "THE CASE OF COMMANDER CRABB", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Try to rescue yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "ster, I felt that this was a masterly exposition by a great Parliamentarian. The right hon. Gentleman had control of the House and was saying to us that the national interest must be paramount but, over and above that, the one thing he wanted is to get agreement with the Russians. That is the recipe of the Prime Minister tonight, his excuse for trying to rescue his party from a difficult position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1777.1", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "THE CASE OF COMMANDER CRABB", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Hutchison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Hutchison", "preceding_text": " good, then, is this debate going to do? If it were a question of showing up gaucherie—and there has been gaucherie—that has been noted and will be put right. If it was disciplinary action that was wanted, that has already been announced, and surely the right hon. Gentleman will accept that if disciplinary action is used it will be used on the person on whom it should fall and not on someone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-14", "file": "debates1956-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ae637348bc2abc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1778.1", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "THE CASE OF COMMANDER CRABB", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "preceding_text": "s of the Secret Service have not caught up with the change of front of the Government, which, suddenly, is all enamoured of negotiation. I can remember the time when the right hon. Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill) first suggested a high-level conference and his Tory colleagues howled him down and tried to sabotage the conference. They succeeded in preventing us having a conference for years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-14a.1778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-15", "file": "debates1956-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "d0cd3c5b7bf0fb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-15a.1829.6", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Member think that it is about time he took these lads away from Cyprus —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-15a.1829.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-15", "file": "debates1956-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "d0cd3c5b7bf0fb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-15a.1901.1", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the pools.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "se proposals— that family allowances are not warranted. The same comment must have been made to all hon. Members at times. There are always those who say that the parents should be able to manage. There are, I am sorry to say, the older people who comment \"We managed without them.\" There are always those prepared to say that the money is wasted on drink, or smoking, cosmetics, or things like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-15a.1901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-16", "file": "debates1956-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac69518c0148dd75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.1997.1", "colnum": "1997", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I think—I say this not in criticism of these questions—that if B. O. A. C. ran on hot air, its future would be assured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.1997.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-16", "file": "debates1956-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac69518c0148dd75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2011.3", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "SINGAPORE CONSTITUTIONAL CONFERENCE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman shakes his head, but I understand that to be so. I understand that what has happened is that there has been a breakdown on the interpretation of the functions of local government and local police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2011.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-16", "file": "debates1956-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac69518c0148dd75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2015.1", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "SINGAPORE CONSTITUTIONAL CONFERENCE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And here", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that we on the benches behind him fully share his great disappointment at the breakdown of the Conference, and congratulate him upon the tremendous efforts he has made? Is my right hon. Friend also aware that we fully share in the hope that wiser counsels in Singapore may yet prevail?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2015.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-16", "file": "debates1956-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac69518c0148dd75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2043.2", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "minor or complex technicality. One point is that under this Amendment it will. The noble Lord the Member for Dorset, South (Viscount Hinchingbrooke) made some very effective points, but it does not merely depend whether a man is shot in the street or in the house; it depends, as the hon. Member for Conway (Mr. P. Thomas) said, on whether the jury find as a fact that he turned the knob of the door.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2043.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-16", "file": "debates1956-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac69518c0148dd75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2060.3", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "on. Friend the Member for Westbury (Sir R. Grimston) in page 1, line 9, at end insert: Provided that this subsection shall not apply in any case in which the offender is convicted of murder where the death of the deceased was attributable to the use of any offensive weapon. Here, again, I appreciate what my hon. Friend has in mind. He wants to retain capital punishment for those men who are armed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2060.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-16", "file": "debates1956-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac69518c0148dd75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2061.3", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members.", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "My information is that we are discussing with the Amendment moved by the hon. Member for Hendon, South (Sir H. Lucas-Tooth) the second Amendment in the same hon. Member's name, in page 1, line 9, at end insert: Provided that this Act shall not apply in any case in which the murder was committed by a person already serving a sentence of imprisonment for life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2061.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-16", "file": "debates1956-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac69518c0148dd75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2063.5", "colnum": "2063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "6.15 p.m.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2063.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-16", "file": "debates1956-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac69518c0148dd75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2067.2", "colnum": "2067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": ". Would that be fair? Would that be effective? Does the hon. Baronet realise that the kind of crime with which he is most concerned in this Amendment is the crime that is committed in gangs— a number of people acting in concert to commit an armed burglary? What he is saying we ought to do is to encourage the master spirit, the leader of the gang, to make certain that somebody else uses the weapon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2067.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-16", "file": "debates1956-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac69518c0148dd75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2074.2", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Several Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-16", "file": "debates1956-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac69518c0148dd75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2079.1", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There was one today.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Hendon, South was very careful to deploy no argument in favour of retention in this case. He merely mentioned that there have been no murders in prison in this century. That is a very remarkable thing. The reason, I think, is that it is not particularly easy to commit a murder in prison. Year after year in this country there are murderous attacks on prison officers by prisoners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-16", "file": "debates1956-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac69518c0148dd75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2112.5", "colnum": "2112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Grimston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Grimston", "preceding_text": "am going to say needs to be said in this Committee because I am convinced among other things that the majority of the public outside are not in support of this Bill. I feel also that in these times it is not without the bounds of possibility that terrorism of the nature which is being seen in Cyprus might perhaps in the furtherance of the case being fought in Cyprus be transferred to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2112.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-16", "file": "debates1956-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac69518c0148dd75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2128.3", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "I did not say any such thing. What I said was—subject to correction in HANSAR: it is a long time ago since I said it, having regard to the lengthy interjection of the hon. Member —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-16", "file": "debates1956-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac69518c0148dd75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2128.5", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS \"Is nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "o say that the death penalty is bizarre and macabre, with all the paraphernalia of the black cap, and so on, as one hears continually from the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne until I am sick and tired of it; and all this stuff about what does it matter if terrorists kill, and so on, because they are always in the right and the unfortunate victim is always in the wrong. 9.45 p.m. What I am saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2128.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-16", "file": "debates1956-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac69518c0148dd75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2128.5", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "om the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne until I am sick and tired of it; and all this stuff about what does it matter if terrorists kill, and so on, because they are always in the right and the unfortunate victim is always in the wrong. 9.45 p.m. What I am saying—[Hon. MEMBERS \"Is nonsense.\"] Hon. Gentlemen opposite do not like it when they find retentionists coming out with an emotional argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2128.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-16", "file": "debates1956-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac69518c0148dd75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2136.0", "colnum": "2136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": " as hon. Members opposite do sometimes put the case to themselves in a concrete form. Let us suppose, if this Bill were passed as it stands, we were to have another Heath. Heath, as we know, murdered in most brutal fashion. If the Bill were passed, such a man would get 10 or 20 years' imprisonment and would subsequently be released, probably after good behaviour —1 do not know—in about nine years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-16", "file": "debates1956-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac69518c0148dd75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2149.0", "colnum": "2149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Philips Price", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Philips Price", "preceding_text": "elations with the public, who rely on them to face dangers and perform difficult tasks in the interests of public safety. Police recruiting has not been too good for some years. I think it is better now, but we have to consider the morale as well as the safety of the police. At all costs we want to avoid arming the police, as is the case on the Continent, where the death penalty has been abolished", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-16", "file": "debates1956-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac69518c0148dd75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2150.0", "colnum": "2150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glover", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glover", "preceding_text": "police are not to have the protection of the severest penalty, that criminal has every temptation to deal most severely with any policeman trying to arrest him. I do not think that it is sufficient to look at this matter dispassionately. One should take into account, in considering this Amendment, the view of the police force itself. The police are convinced that capital punishment is a deterrent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-16", "file": "debates1956-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac69518c0148dd75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2151.0", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course we are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "I can only think that hon. Members who are supporting the Amendment have taken leave of their senses, because, clearly, we are not protecting the police if a policeman has been killed and we proceed to execute his murderer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-16", "file": "debates1956-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac69518c0148dd75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2158.1", "colnum": "2158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Anstruther-Gray", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Anstruther-Gray", "preceding_text": "it, in England a man may be guilty of murder when he did not intend to kill, for example, where death is caused by an act of violence during a felony although there was no intention of killing. In Scotland —I am choosing my words carefully, and I believe they were spoken by the late Lord Cooper, whom many of us knew as Tommy Cooper, as good a Lord Advocate as Scotland has had for many a long year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-16", "file": "debates1956-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "ac69518c0148dd75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2167.1", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "s kind. The problem is to decide whether the death penalty is or is not a deterrent. Speaking as a Scotsman and as one hoping to do the best for my country, I conscientiously believe that to do away with the death penalty would be a disadvantage to Scotland, particularly as fewer people can be hanged in Scotland than in England. It is necessary to bear in mind the view of the criminals themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-16a.2167.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-17", "file": "debates1956-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "a745478e8a4cfcc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-17a.2194.4", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member looks in the OFFICIAL REPORT at his previous supplementary question, I think he will see that that is just what he was suggesting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-17a.2194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-17", "file": "debates1956-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "a745478e8a4cfcc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-17a.2215.1", "colnum": "2215", "heading": "OVERSEA CIVIL SERVICE(WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Usborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"British \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Usborne", "preceding_text": "In regard to Nigeria, for instance, does the statement mean that virtually all the English—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-17a.2215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-17", "file": "debates1956-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "a745478e8a4cfcc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-17a.2300.1", "colnum": "2300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" That is not a crime.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman recall that every year the Inland Revenue makes a report in which, among other things, there is a record of the proceedings taken in the courts by the Inland Revenue during the year? We usually read in it that one or two taxpayers have been convicted for assaulting tax collectors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-17a.2300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-17", "file": "debates1956-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "a745478e8a4cfcc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-17a.2334.1", "colnum": "2334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLUM CLEARANCE (COMPENSATION) [MONEY] (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "he hon. and learned Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison) was quite right in saying that all Oppositions throughout the ages draw attention to the increasing tightness of Money Resolutions, and that all Governments, during their period of office, are open to the criticism of having drawn Money Resolutions too tightly. The score of the present Government is only even with that of their predecessors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-17a.2334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-17", "file": "debates1956-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "a745478e8a4cfcc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-17a.2362.3", "colnum": "2362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT CHARGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "less the Government themselves do something to make up to the Commission the loss which they are imposing upon it? Why did the Minister not go on to say what he is doing about that? He deliberately omitted to say anything about it. He clearly objects to subsidies. I speak for myself, but I think that I carry a large number of my hon. Friends with me in saying that I have no objection to subsidies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-17a.2362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-17", "file": "debates1956-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "a745478e8a4cfcc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-17a.2362.3", "colnum": "2362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT CHARGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collick", "preceding_text": "t go on to say what he is doing about that? He deliberately omitted to say anything about it. He clearly objects to subsidies. I speak for myself, but I think that I carry a large number of my hon. Friends with me in saying that I have no objection to subsidies. [ Laughter .] You laugh, of course, when the Minister keeps railway freights down so that your private enterprise people get the benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-17a.2362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-29", "file": "debates1956-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc4660c1be271877", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.132.7", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentlemen opposite, do not want the Bill. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\") I have taken he trouble during the past ten days to ascertain, so far as I could, the opinion of the man and woman in the street in Scotland, and I am convinced from my investigations that the people of Scotland do not want the Bill. Furthermore, I understand that a number of churches in Scotland have expressed a similar opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.132.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-29", "file": "debates1956-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc4660c1be271877", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.135.3", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not a Baronet \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "While Scotland, with the consent of the hon. Baronet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-29", "file": "debates1956-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc4660c1be271877", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.135.4", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "wo different penalties applied to the same crime within ten miles south and north of the Border. Some people have very strong views about this matter and will be inclined to say, \"Why cannot we be allowed to give expression to our own feelings and to decide this matter for ourselves when it affects the life and death of every man, woman and child in Scotland?\" That is the attitude they are taking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.135.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-29", "file": "debates1956-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc4660c1be271877", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.140.0", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "will not vote against the Amendment on the grounds rather oddly given by an English colleague of mine who said he would not support the Amendment because he did not want Scotland to have privileges other than those of England and Wales. I feel that there might well be considerable support for this Amendment if there really were a free vote on this issue. I do question whether there is a free vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.140.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-29", "file": "debates1956-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc4660c1be271877", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.147.3", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"She has finished.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "The noble Lady is making a personal explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.147.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-29", "file": "debates1956-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc4660c1be271877", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.150.5", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What does he know about Scotland?", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "Mr. Rees-Davies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.150.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-29", "file": "debates1956-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc4660c1be271877", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "Having been very closely associated with the study of this topic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-29", "file": "debates1956-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc4660c1be271877", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "I do not follow the intervention of the hon. Gentleman, but I do follow the argument that in Scotland very few executions take place. I agree with the right hon. Member for Woodburn and Clackmannan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-29", "file": "debates1956-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc4660c1be271877", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. E. S. Simon:", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"Including the Sunday Express \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. E. S. Simon:", "preceding_text": "uld have been quite impossible for the Bill to have arrived at the House with this slovenly and out-of-date drafting. In 1948, this Clause was drafted and since then a tremendous public campaign has been waged, with the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman) as its principal protagonist. The organs of public opinion have been whipped up to take part in this great effort of propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-29", "file": "debates1956-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc4660c1be271877", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "I was interrupted—and I do not complain of the interruption at all—in the middle of a sentence. I was saying that it seems a most remarkable thing that with all this tremendous campaign in the country, one found many people, friends of oneself, who normally have a firm hold on reality, swept away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-29", "file": "debates1956-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc4660c1be271877", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.175.0", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "I was dealing with my hon. Friend's assertion relating to the apparatus of the gallows being kept in use. In one sentence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-29", "file": "debates1956-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc4660c1be271877", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.176.5", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Victor Raikes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Victor Raikes", "preceding_text": "ible impulse which no one could restrain, but it has taken place, although not on a large number of occasions, as the result of violent lust, which could have been controlled by the ordinary self-control which it is vitally necessary that a civilised State should maintain. There has been an increase in rape and other sexual offences year by year, but not an increase in murder in that type of case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.176.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-29", "file": "debates1956-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc4660c1be271877", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.176.5", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Victor Raikes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Victor Raikes", "preceding_text": " type of case. [ Interruption .] I ask hon. Members to bear with me. This is a matter which very much interests women, who know full well the danger in the lonely places in every great city of attack by lustful young men, and that it has grown year by year, even since the war. Let me take Liverpool, of which I am one of the representatives. We have had cases of rape before the courts in Liverpool—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.176.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-29", "file": "debates1956-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc4660c1be271877", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.181.0", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "at he has said so many times when I have seen him trying to influence votes on this important subject. I think it should be said in open Committee. The alternative to hanging, in his opinion, was that a man should be sent to prison for life. I asked him to define \"life\", and he said \"To rot, and rot, and rot.\" I have asked my hon. Friend to say this in the House, so that it could go on the record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.181.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-29", "file": "debates1956-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc4660c1be271877", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "The last thing I wish to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-29", "file": "debates1956-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "bc4660c1be271877", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.192.3", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lagden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lagden", "preceding_text": "I did not intend to speak in this debate at all. I have not taken part in any of the debates on this Bill, but having listened with some regret to arguments that have been put to the Committee on this new Clause, I must say something at this stage. It is most alarming to me that this Committee of the House of Commons should be looking upon the crime of rape SO casually.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-29a.192.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-30", "file": "debates1956-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "e991768df394232b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-30a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "PART III", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Bell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How will the dogs know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Bell", "preceding_text": "ating to dogs\"—which, otherwise, I prefer to the Government's new Clause. However difficult the matter and whatever ridicule one lays oneself open to, something must be done about this problem. We should make a try. I am not happy about the Government's new Clause. I am disposed to accept it as at least some progress, but I see the difficulty about how people are to know what is a designated road.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-30a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-30", "file": "debates1956-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "e991768df394232b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-30a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "PART III", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "We are all anxious to limit the number of accidents on the road. I do not like the new Clause tabled by the hon. Member for Crosby (Mr. Page) because in that case the accident appears to occur first and then the dog gets into trouble. I prefer the Minister's Clause, although I believe it will be completely unworkable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-30a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-30", "file": "debates1956-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "e991768df394232b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-30a.381.2", "colnum": "381", "heading": "PART III", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": " that he is saving? I ask the Minister tonight to say that he will accept this proposal and bring this reform into effect, and let these discussions take place after the law has been changed. I do not see why we should keep on waiting for these discussions to conclude, when we have waited for over ten years already. In fact. I think it has really been a form of blackmail, because people have said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-30a.381.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-30", "file": "debates1956-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "e991768df394232b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-30a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "PART III", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "preceding_text": " miles an hour or 30 miles an hour speed limit. He makes no excuse about it. He says that it is in the interest of industry that the speed limit should be increased to 30 miles an hour. It may be perfectly true. Why, however, stop at 30 miles an hour? The hon. Member has glibly told the House that 95 per cent. of the heavy goods vehicles today exceed the speed limit. That is a monstrous assertion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-30a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-30", "file": "debates1956-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "e991768df394232b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-30a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "PART III", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLeavy", "preceding_text": "e about it. He says that it is in the interest of industry that the speed limit should be increased to 30 miles an hour. It may be perfectly true. Why, however, stop at 30 miles an hour? The hon. Member has glibly told the House that 95 per cent. of the heavy goods vehicles today exceed the speed limit. That is a monstrous assertion. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It is all right for hon. Members to laugh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-30a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-30", "file": "debates1956-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "e991768df394232b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-30a.391.0", "colnum": "391", "heading": "PART III", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "preceding_text": "That is not the point", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-30a.391.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-31", "file": "debates1956-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "72ba8537aa591487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.438.5", "colnum": "438", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.438.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-31", "file": "debates1956-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "72ba8537aa591487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.440.4", "colnum": "440", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Report stage.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "iend the Member for Coventry, North (Mr. Edelman), and that mentioned by the hon. Member for Harrow, West (Sir A. Braithwaite) opposite, surely it would be advisable to have Bills to be considered in Committee sent upstairs, in order to afford more time here for other important matters. For example, this week we shall have spent three days on the Committee stage of Bills on the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.440.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-31", "file": "debates1956-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "72ba8537aa591487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "preceding_text": "iamentary Secretary that in principle the fair wages clause was accepted by the Government. Here, I, too, should like to extend my congratulations to the Joint Parliamentary Secretary on his elevation to the Privy Council, which is certainly deserved following the long spell which he has had at the Ministry of Transport and by reason of the very hard work which the right hon. Gentleman has put in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-31", "file": "debates1956-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "72ba8537aa591487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.450.0", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "preceding_text": "ltation. As this is the first opportunity that I have had, I should like to say in the House, because I think it is the right place to say it, how deeply grateful I am to my right hon. Friend the Joint Parliamentary Secretary for all the very great help which he has given me on this very complex and difficult Bill. I do not think that I could have got through without his great help and assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.450.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-31", "file": "debates1956-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "72ba8537aa591487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Hugh Molson)", "preceding_text": "rose", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-31", "file": "debates1956-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "72ba8537aa591487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.493.0", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"An argument against.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "cle. It was an open vehicle, that is, without a top, and it had a rather dangerous tendency to overturn. A number of those vehicles collided and one or two overturned. The vehicles were largely experimental in character. I was hurled out of one such vehicle, and I was saved from serious head injury because I was wearing a steel helmet. No doubt I should have lost my life had I not been wearing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-31", "file": "debates1956-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "72ba8537aa591487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.493.0", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": " in this connection, notably as it is liable to fracture, though of course it has the inestimable advantage of being light. It is the third type of helmet with which the Minister ought to be particularly concerned, that is the one made of substitute material. I say this because of the fatality to which I referred and I should like to quote briefly from a local newspaper, the Kidderminster Shuttle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-31", "file": "debates1956-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "72ba8537aa591487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.506.3", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Bell", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Shame\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Bell", "preceding_text": " is not a practical one. He may even feel that a prohibition in this form is itself not practicable. I have merely tabled my Clause in order to draw attention to the problem existing in relation to diesel vehicles. 7.0 p.m. The context in which I move the Second Reading of this new Clause is that the London Transport Executive has decided to replace 1,800 electric trolley buses by diesel vehicles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.506.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-31", "file": "debates1956-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "72ba8537aa591487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ve amongst lung cancer patients. In the absence of any direct evidence to suggest that persons specifically exposed to diesel or other motor fumes, by reason of their occupation, suffer any undue liability to the disease, it would not seem reasonable to attribute the excess mortality from lung cancer which is recorded in towns to pollution of the air with exhaust vapours. On more general grounds\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-05-31", "file": "debates1956-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "72ba8537aa591487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.518.2", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Bell", "preceding_text": "I have in my hand another opinion by Dr. Doll with a slightly different effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.518.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-05-31", "file": "debates1956-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "72ba8537aa591487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has made another offer that he will do something in another place. I ought to have raised this matter on the last new Clause, but I was so overwhelmed by the right hon. Gentleman's generosity that I was disarmed of all suspicion. However, this is a Bill which originated in another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-05-31a.531.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-01", "file": "debates1956-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "feb478ef86ab4586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-01a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "y widely. I make bold to say that in my opinion Sections 11 and 12 of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, have not done a useful job. The fact is, as we all know, that we are all guilty of driving offences fairly often. I have been driving for nearly twenty years, and I have no convictions against me for driving offences. What does that mean? It means that I have not been caught. Let us be frank about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-01a.612.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-04", "file": "debates1956-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d34a51aee0f7554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-04a.684.2", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LEGAL AID SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "gs right up to the House of Lords and has been successful all the way he should not be assisted in the event of the other party taking him to the Lords so that he or she may contest the matter? Surely, that is a very unfair situation. Secondly, as the matter involves so very few, does not the right hon. Gentleman think he ought to reconsider the position and see to it that such a person is helped?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-04a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-04", "file": "debates1956-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d34a51aee0f7554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-04a.733.1", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COPYRIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Gammans", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Gammans", "preceding_text": "a broadcasting authority from making another recording on the twentyseventh day and then carrying on ad infinitum. It seems to me that the whole business could be dropped altogether. I cannot see anything in favour of it in its present form. Clause 8 deals with another matter which was raised by the hon. Member. As soon as a composer has given authority for a gramophone company to record his vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-04a.733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-04", "file": "debates1956-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d34a51aee0f7554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-04a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COPYRIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Baxter", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Baxter", "preceding_text": "Let us take the case of a young writer of 20 years of age who is married to a girl of his own age. He may be a genius, perhaps a writer before his time. He writes a book which is published and which sells a few copies. He struggles on and finally dies very young. His poor wife lives on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-04a.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-04", "file": "debates1956-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5d34a51aee0f7554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-04a.834.4", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CALF SUBSIDY SCHEMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nugent", "preceding_text": "nnel Island heifers, Friesian heifers and Ayrshire heifers. Everything else can qualify if conformation is suitable. In practice there is some 11 per cent. of rejects. I think that number shows that there is a fair measure of rejection. It strikes about the right balance, and the fact that none of us has received many complaints in the matter shows that the thing is being done in a reasonable way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-04a.834.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-05", "file": "debates1956-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4f97646b82c547df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.853.1", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that is enough for one supplementary question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-05", "file": "debates1956-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4f97646b82c547df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ory is mechanically the sensible thing to do, but it is not our information—will the Prime Minister check this?—that there are jobs or can be jobs available in Coventry. Of course, if this spreads to other towns—as it ought to do and must do very quickly—there will shortly be a run on jobs in many towns and men will have to move. If export figures continue to decline, there will be no jobs at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-05", "file": "debates1956-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4f97646b82c547df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-05", "file": "debates1956-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4f97646b82c547df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": ". Castle), I have received a number of letters from old-age pensioners fully backing up everything which my right hon. Friend the Financial Secretary said and everything which I said. There is a great sense of injustice among all classes of old people at the existence of this scheme. They want it abolished, as I should like to see it abolished. It is unfair between different classes of pensioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-05", "file": "debates1956-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4f97646b82c547df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.916.0", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Horace King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They always are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Horace King", "preceding_text": "that the pleas which have been made by my hon. Friends would have been reinforced by appeals from hon. Members opposite, because there must be many back benchers on the Government side who have the same interest in and affection for old folk as my hon. Friends. If we could have reinforcement from back benches on the Government side, one speech from them today would be worth a dozen from this side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.916.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-05", "file": "debates1956-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4f97646b82c547df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.916.0", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Horace King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Horace King", "preceding_text": "f the case against the tobacco concession is a very unfortunate intervention on the part of the hon. Member for Taunton. I sometimes wonder when those who bear the unfair burdens of indirect taxation are going to revolt. It is about time that we had a Poujadist movement of beer drinkers and tobacco smokers in this country which could bring the Chancellor to his knees in a week by staging a strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.916.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-05", "file": "debates1956-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4f97646b82c547df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "It came into force in 1955. If we were to ride off on the purely statistical argument, I am informed by the statisticians who serve me that, measured in real terms, even at today's prices of everything, the pensions give a greater value in real terms than at the end of 1951, after the pensions increase of October, 1951.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-05", "file": "debates1956-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4f97646b82c547df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.952.1", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " which deals with tobacco, Sir Rhys. Obviously, the relevance of the increased price of tobacco to the Chancellor's Newcastle speech will have been obvious to the Committee and I do not need to labour it. If I understand the Chancellor's policy rightly, he believes that we have reached a plateau as far as prices are concerned —a somewhat sloping plateau—or that we shall shortly reach that plateau.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-05", "file": "debates1956-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4f97646b82c547df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.981.0", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Remnant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Remnant", "preceding_text": "place, even if I had the knowledge, for a discourse on fermentation or the lady friends which the hon. and learned Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison) finds in the Clause, but I can assure him on one point—as far as I am aware there is no brewers' plot in this, except in so far as the brewers have apparently provided a peg on which the hon. and learned Member could make a quite irrelevant speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.981.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-05", "file": "debates1956-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4f97646b82c547df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "Yes, the sugar is often required for the process of fermentation, but the hon. and learned Gentleman is making this more difficult. The last statement I made was perfectly clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-05", "file": "debates1956-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4f97646b82c547df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jean Mann", "preceding_text": "y the very considerable labour and \"know-how\" required. I think that hon. Members will all sympathise with the spirit which laboriously plods on in the pursuit of knowledge; an inquiring mind in the medical laboratory, or the scientific laboratory, or the engineering workshop, is very welcome, and especially do we welcome that inquiring mind which goes on after midnight when most of us are in bed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-05a.1027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1075.3", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Henderson", "preceding_text": "Will Her Majesty's Government give sympathetic consideration to this proposal? Would the right hon. and learned Gentleman not agree that international agreement providing for cuts in all defence budgets would serve two purposes: first, it would make a contribution to the solution of the disarmament problem and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1075.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1075.3", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Henderson", "preceding_text": "sideration to this proposal? Would the right hon. and learned Gentleman not agree that international agreement providing for cuts in all defence budgets would serve two purposes: first, it would make a contribution to the solution of the disarmament problem and—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—second, it would enable the United Nations to start the work of developing the undeveloped countries? May I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1075.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1075.3", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Henderson", "preceding_text": "t agree that international agreement providing for cuts in all defence budgets would serve two purposes: first, it would make a contribution to the solution of the disarmament problem and—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—second, it would enable the United Nations to start the work of developing the undeveloped countries? May I ask—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—I try to keep my questions as short as possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1075.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1077.5", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "tleman aware that I am obliged to him for that Answer? Is he aware that these documents are of great historical importance? In particular, is he aware that those documents, which show the then Conservative Prime Minister and his emissaries, in the summer of 1939, dismissing the right hon. Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill) as of no political importance; offering Hitler a condominium in Africa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1077.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1077.5", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ware that these documents are of great historical importance? In particular, is he aware that those documents, which show the then Conservative Prime Minister and his emissaries, in the summer of 1939, dismissing the right hon. Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill) as of no political importance; offering Hitler a condominium in Africa—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—and asking the assistance of Hitler—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1077.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "If every telegram and document relating to the conduct of Cypriot affairs over a great many years were to be laid before Parliament it would certainly occupy a great deal of the attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1086.2", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether it is not true that these recriminations were not begun on this side of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1086.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1104.3", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "I regret to say that my information is precisely to the contrary, that she made no communication to the Chief Secretary or to anybody else on those matters. I am perfectly prepared to investigate that, but I should not have made that statement unless I was sure of my facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1106.2", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "I cannot give details of the court or the name of the judge. What I can say is that these allegations are untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1106.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "es, nails, furniture, matches, ready-made clothing and so on. The Government are taking every possible step to encourage and accelerate the development of industry, which has already provided opportunities for wage-earning employment for large numbers of Africans. Some 140,000 Africans are employed in industry and commerce today, and their wages and conditions of employment are steadily improving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "I should he delighted to answer such questions if hon. Members would put them down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1123.0", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "goes on to that other point, I hope he is not suggesting to the Committee in his remarks on prisons that those hon. Members of this House who had the privilege of being in Kenya have not had the fullest opportunities of seeing the detention camps and the prisons. I myself, without any restrictions, saw them all, and I had the opportunity of crossexamining the detainees in the camp which I visited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1123.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order, order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "With respect, Sir Robert—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1169.0", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "een fully borne out from all kinds of reputable sources, but I am concerned about the present and the future. It is not mud from the past that we on this side of the Committee are bringing up, it is the urgent problem of the present. The accusation that I make is that we are now in danger in Kenya of continuing controls for control's sake, and if we do that multi-racialism is dead before we start.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1176.1", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "preceding_text": "ineapples in from Formosa at very cut prices to the real detriment of Kenya. Like many other hon. Members, I am personally a great lover of Kenya and an admirer of all its peoples. I am most anxious that they should all get a square deal and an opportunity to go ahead, as I am sure every other hon. Member too wishes. I finally plead with the Government, \"Do not call off the emergency too quickly\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": " of primitive peoples. That is abundantly clear from some of the speeches which are made. There is something which I have never heard said in this House, and I myself have been waiting a long time to say it. The former Secretary of State for the Colonies in the Labour Government, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths), was led right up the garden path by Jomo Kenyatta.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "No; I have got only one minute to say what I want to say now, and I shall not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "No; I have got only one minute to say what I want to say now, and I shall not give way. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] I am only saying that if the right hon. Gentleman could be so misguided by Jomo Kenyatta, I am not in the least surprised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1193.6", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "as the Masai, decreased, a series of pressures, political and economic, built up. Because the population tended to increase most rapidly in the most fertile areas, and because in these areas there are also great strips of European-owned farms acting as barriers to tribal expansion. resentment tended to rise against European land ownership. This is the principal explanation of the Mau Mau movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1193.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1193.6", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "we have another opportunity. It is said that the crisis is receding, that a new atmosphere is being created. I hope that is so. I hope that we are going to take advantage of the new opportunity, but I must say that I was very depressed by some of the speeches today. The hon. Member for Kirkdale (Mr. N. Pannell), for example, could have made the same speech if he had been in the Parliament of 1830.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1193.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1199.1", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Vermin.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " Member there of a cast-iron type whom Wells cross-examined about his ideas on education. When we were going upstairs to get ready for the evening he said to me, \"You know, I have written about them often, but I never thought they existed.\" The hon. Member reminded me of that this evening. He does not seem to understand that other people really do not like to hear themselves described as inferior.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1206.2", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way. I have 20 minutes in which to make my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1206.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1206.2", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is plenty of time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "tandard certain very qualifying observations which were made by people who have every right to speak and who are very closely associated with the Christian Council of Kenya and the Friends Service Council in that Colony, but I am afraid that time will not allow me to deal with that subject in any detail. I will, therefore, start straight away by picking up the various charges which have been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1206.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-06", "file": "debates1956-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "0127f0599a43d4d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1210.10", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "four-year primary course for every African child whose parents wish him to go to school. The intermediate school system will also be extended, and by 1960 there should be 500 more intermediate schools than the number recommended in the Beecher Report. It is hoped that we are now well on the way to a plan whereby an eight-year course of education for every African child will eventually be possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-06a.1210.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1250.0", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that many farmers simply do not believe the statement issued by him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1256.1", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there is very great concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1256.1", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there is very great concern—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"]—not among those who have no value for private property and personal freedom at all, but among the public generally—at the wide powers which Departmental officials have, not only to enter private property, but also to turn people out of their homes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1269.3", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "eciate how very unsatisfactory his Answer is? Does he not appreciate that this was a case in which a man, for whose personal safety the Prison Commissioners were responsible, had died in circumstances of some violence, and that where-as the right and duty of the prison officer was to defend himself from criticism, the duty of the Prison Commissioners was to be impartial and to ascertain the truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1269.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1269.3", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "a man, for whose personal safety the Prison Commissioners were responsible, had died in circumstances of some violence, and that where-as the right and duty of the prison officer was to defend himself from criticism, the duty of the Prison Commissioners was to be impartial and to ascertain the truth—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—this is a very important matter—and, that, therefore, since the evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1269.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1278.6", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "As this matter is in a sense sub judice, I have tried—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1278.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1285.2", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "THERMO-NUCLEAR WEAPONS (TESTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Following them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " say without hesitation that what has been the most powerful deterrent in preventing a dangerous drift towards war has been the knowledge in the minds of all nations of what the consequences would be. Certainly, I do not see any reason why this country should not make experiments similar to those that have been carried out by both the United States and Soviet Russia. That is all that we are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1296.4", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "I am very glad that that question has been raised, because if there is one glaring scandal in this country it is how grossly underpaid are trade union officials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1296.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1296.5", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "I am very glad that that question has been raised, because if there is one glaring scandal in this country it is how grossly underpaid are trade union officials. [HON. MEMBERS; \"Answer the question.\"] The answer is, \"No.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1296.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1296.8", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Other hon. Members.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "When hon. Members opposite go to the Savoy, whom do they see there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1296.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hon. Members opposite do so too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "c Budget in which to start to give this kind of concession. The other day I read in a national newspaper the budget of a married man bringing up a small child and trying to run a car and buy a house on £7 19s. a week. His total outlay on groceries for the three was £1 2s. 6d. a week. His outlay on meat was 6s. 6d. a week. Hon. Members opposite often spend more than that on themselves for one meal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1333.0", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Surtax?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "sible, and it makes impossible the three things which the middle class want above all else. Middle-class people are unable to educate their children as they would like, they are unable to save for their widows and are unable to save for their old age and retirement. Hon. Members opposite know these facts to be true. Therefore, I should like to see the Surtax rate reduced to 5s. so that ultimately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1346.0", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Moscow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": "Having tried in vain to catch your eye on the Second Reading of this Bill. Sir Rhys, and having sat here since half-past three o'clock, I am now proud to nail my colours to the same mast as that of my hon. Friend the Member for Louth (Mr. Osborne), and perhaps we shall pitch our tent in Hyde Park and get an audience there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1346.0", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Taxing them to death.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": "trol the steady flow of young technicians leaving this country. The reason why we cannot is that they seek a higher reward for their abilities in the United States. We are embarking upon an immense technical training programme, and are spending £97 million—I am certain that it will soon be over £100 million—to produce the people who will make our industry work. What are we doing to keep them here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1346.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1359.0", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Let us have it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": " Secondly, the tax is based much too narrowly upon the present legal definition of income, rather than the actual spending power of the individuals concerned. If any hon. Members opposite question that, I shall be tempted to quote from an important public statement made by Lady Docker since the last meeting of the Committee. Unless I am provoked, I shall desist from quoting it at any great length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1405.3", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does he want it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "One understands that he does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1405.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1429.4", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ledger", "preceding_text": "You are certainly making it difficult for me, Sir Austin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1443.0", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "t hon. Gentleman is satisfied with what I said about the joint account. I said that one could have any number of separate accounts, so long as they are all for separate people. The right hon. Gentleman can have a separate account for himself and his wife can have an account, and his twenty children also, but with this proviso, that the children's account must not have been provided by the parents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1443.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1446.2", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Opposition—to all sides of the Committee—who have co-operated to make as good progress as we can with the Bill. At the same time, I think it would be to everybody's convenience if we could make a little more progress tonight. There is very little of importance in the next Clause. I think it will go very rapidly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1446.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Black", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Not wholly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Black", "preceding_text": "In view of the reply of my right hon. Friend, which, at any rate. partially reassures me in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1461.0", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "preceding_text": "anadian and continental firms to come here and make this country their centre. We should be ready to receive them. Apart from that consideration, there is the question of expediency. We cannot ignore the fact that we are all expedient at some time or other, especially politicians. We must adopt a practical view of this matter. I hope that the Committee will accept the Chancellor's recommendations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1461.0", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "preceding_text": "rom that consideration, there is the question of expediency. We cannot ignore the fact that we are all expedient at some time or other, especially politicians. We must adopt a practical view of this matter. I hope that the Committee will accept the Chancellor's recommendations. [ Interruption. ] I wish my right hon. Friend the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) would listen to me on some occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-07", "file": "debates1956-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "046ec9a86d17fddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1461.0", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. L. M. Lever", "preceding_text": "tries. I want this country to be the centre of the globe, and I make no apology for saying so. I hope, therefore, that the Chancellor's recommendation will be adopted. All these foreigners have their responsibilities in their own countries. They have the education of their children to think of; their insurances, and their home responsibilities. I should like to see the Clause withdrawn altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-07a.1461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-08", "file": "debates1956-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "2586ada452ee4bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-08a.1485.9", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "PUBLIC AUTHORITIES (PUBLIC RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": "rotected from difficulties in that way. That is his function, and it scarcely affects the rôle of the individual in society. The Treasury, on the other hand, runs an information service, and when the Chancellor of the Exchequer says that we face a crisis and disaster to impress the trade unions, the Treasury information service explains to the foreign bankers that he did not really mean it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-08a.1485.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-08", "file": "debates1956-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "2586ada452ee4bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-08a.1504.0", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "PUBLIC AUTHORITIES (PUBLIC RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "e is there, challenge something against their will. That is only a suggestion, that the Minister might be allowed to have two people there just to read and digest the papers. The reason that ex-Ministers look so bleak is that they have been made to spend all night reading and reading until they cannot think at all. That is the problem of the modern world, because the civil servants will kill them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-08a.1504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-11", "file": "debates1956-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6134d53086d779e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-11a.73.1", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thornton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton", "preceding_text": " case is a strong one. I hope that hon. and right hon. Gentlemen have read the excellent case sent to them by the Cotton Board. All who have read the document will agree that it is a sober, factual and well-stated case. It is also an unanswerable case if we are at all concerned with equity as between one industry and another. I believe the President of the Board of Trade takes an exaggerated view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-11a.73.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-11", "file": "debates1956-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6134d53086d779e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-11a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "it was that the Government were so obviously failing to do anything for the cotton textile industry. Now it has gone even worse, and Lancashire is in a state of despair about the matter. We cannot understand why it is that the Government seem to have picked out this industry for neglect or inattention. I wonder whether the President of the Board of Trade has got ambitions to go to the other place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-11a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-11", "file": "debates1956-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6134d53086d779e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-11a.106.2", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "through, for example, investment allowances, which is what we are asking for today. It may be that that was what Mr. Cyril Lord had in mind. I am sure that if he were here today, he would be supporting the Amendment. There is complete inter-party unity in the industry in condemning the Government. In fact, Mr. Cyril Lord described the President of the Board of Trade as the \"hangman of Lancashire\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-11a.106.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-11", "file": "debates1956-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6134d53086d779e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-11a.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Barnett Stross", "preceding_text": " the Economic Secretary as much understanding of its point as I am sure that his hon. Friend next to him, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power, already has. it will not only receive a sympathetic hearing but will be accepted in full. The operative words in the Amendment are: … the replacement by continuous tunnel kilns and dryers of intermittent bottle-shaped kilns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-11a.147.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-11", "file": "debates1956-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6134d53086d779e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-11a.169.2", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman is wasting time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "In view of the Economic Secretary's kindly remarks to me earlier, I should like in return to support some of his arguments. I cannot understand how the hon. Member for Langstone (Mr. Stevens) really thought it worth while wasting the time of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-11a.169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-11", "file": "debates1956-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6134d53086d779e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-11a.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles A. Howell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles A. Howell", "preceding_text": "The reply of the Economic Secretary is shocking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-11a.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-11", "file": "debates1956-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6134d53086d779e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-11a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "I do not know how many importers there are in Edmonton, but they had better look out, because they will be discriminated against by this taxation Amendment in which the hon. Gentleman is interested. 11.15 p.m. It would not only be giving a Tory Government that power, but would be laying the foundation of what would happen when he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in the next Socialist Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-11a.190.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-12", "file": "debates1956-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ed3b044abe250dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that it is better to have British rather than Russian tanks in Egypt?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-12", "file": "debates1956-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ed3b044abe250dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.284.6", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In present conditions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I should like to know, because it is a very interesting decision of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.284.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-12", "file": "debates1956-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ed3b044abe250dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.337.5", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Brooke", "preceding_text": " that it is not unreasonable for people to take out policies which would give a guaranteed payment of the annuity for ten years in any circumstances instead of five years, if they wish to do so. If they wish to do so, however, they will have to pay higher premiums, but the amount on which they can claim tax relief will be strictly limited by the other provisions of the Bill. It is a simple matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.337.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-12", "file": "debates1956-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ed3b044abe250dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "w about to say will make good that which, in the minds of many of us, was the part of the scheme most deservedly open to criticism. Under the Amendment which my right hon. Friend has in mind, people born after 1915 would receive the existing rights under the Bill, whatever they may be, but the percentage will increase with increasing age, up to a maximum of 15 per cent. for those born before 1908.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-12", "file": "debates1956-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ed3b044abe250dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.383.0", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has not long been here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": "It is obvious from the speech of the hon. Member for Morecambe and Lonsdale (Sir I. Fraser) that he has not understood the attitude expressed from these benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.383.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-12", "file": "debates1956-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ed3b044abe250dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.388.0", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman intervened not to ask a question but to make a speech. Nevertheless, I will reply to that speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-12", "file": "debates1956-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ed3b044abe250dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ties of Mr. Clore affecting companies which have large sums tucked away in undistributed profits, he was making the strongest case for a capital gains tax, because it would be impossible for these things to happen if there were a capital gains tax. I will not pursue that point, but I hope I have said enough to make clear that, if this Clause was intended as a sop to us, we reject it with contempt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.455.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-12", "file": "debates1956-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ed3b044abe250dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.465.5", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have heard that before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to detain the Committee for more than a minute�ž", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.465.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-12", "file": "debates1956-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ed3b044abe250dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the whole Committee owes a deep debt of gratitude to the Solicitor-General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.467.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-12", "file": "debates1956-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ed3b044abe250dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.468.1", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Zetland\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "\"Shetland\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-12", "file": "debates1956-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ed3b044abe250dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.477.2", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not necessarily.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Brooke", "preceding_text": "have been. The Amendment asks that we shall extend this National Land Fund procedure to works which are of historical value and not keep it merely for works of aesthetic merit. I have considered this very carefully, and I am doubtful whether this really would be an effective extension. If the work is pre-eminent for its historical value, almost certainly it will be pre-eminent for aesthetic merit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.477.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-12", "file": "debates1956-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ed3b044abe250dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.486.2", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Insist?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I have put a special question to the Financial Secretary, and I think I must insist that he should at least attempt to answer, even if it is late—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.486.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-12", "file": "debates1956-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ed3b044abe250dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.500.4", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are your hon. Friends?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": ". If the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro), the noble Lord the Member for Dorset, South (Viscount Hinchingbrooke) Or anyone else wants to turn the debate into a discussion on the merits or efficiency of the natinalised industries, we are quite prepared to do it. In fact, I wonder at the restraint of one or two of my hon. Friends—indeed, of myself—in not wanting to speak for half an hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.500.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-12", "file": "debates1956-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ed3b044abe250dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Drift?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Ealing, South (Mr. Maude) expressed some apprehension about Government policy on the finances of the nationalised industries. I am afraid that I am a great deal more downright than he is in that connection. I am extremely suspicious of where this financial policy is likely to lead us. It seems to me that the drift of Conservative policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-12", "file": "debates1956-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ed3b044abe250dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The rail-ways.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ol at all. If I am wrong, I plead with my right hon. Friend the Minister of Fuel and Power to contradict me. I have asked him time and time again, in debate, to explain various points in connection with the charges. He invariably replies, \"I have no power in the matter. The Authority fixes its own charges and tariffs.\" The gas boards fix their own tariffs—and so one may go through the whole gamut.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-12", "file": "debates1956-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ed3b044abe250dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.515.0", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "a very agreeable speech, even though we do not find ourselves in agreement with it, we on our side would be justified in keeping the debate going for quite a long time yet if only to reply to points which have been made, quite apart from the reply of the Chancellor. It may reassure hon. Gentlemen opposite if I say that I do not intend to detain the Committee on this occasion for more than an hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-12", "file": "debates1956-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ed3b044abe250dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.515.0", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the hon. Member for Cheetham?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "oing for quite a long time yet if only to reply to points which have been made, quite apart from the reply of the Chancellor. It may reassure hon. Gentlemen opposite if I say that I do not intend to detain the Committee on this occasion for more than an hour. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Yes, provided I am not interrupted too much. 5.15 a.m. I have already referred to the restraint we have shown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-12", "file": "debates1956-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ed3b044abe250dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.529.4", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I do not know about 1945. I thought we had just, after considerable efforts, won a great war—the whole nation, the Coalition Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-12a.529.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-13", "file": "debates1956-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "786dda70a8688894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.554.0", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the Field Marshal was widely reported as saying in Canada on 1st June that if anyone anywhere in the world started an aggression we should give them the works from the word go with atom bombs, hydrogen bombs, with the biggest thing we've got and with everything we've got \"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.553.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-13", "file": "debates1956-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "786dda70a8688894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "He added that he did not mind the consequences but would drop a bomb on anyone committing an aggression�ž Drop the biggest bomb you can and finish them off. He added that his political superiors probably would not agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-13", "file": "debates1956-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "786dda70a8688894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.554.3", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Would the Minister not agree that if the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander is to be allowed to get away with boasts of insubordination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.554.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-13", "file": "debates1956-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "786dda70a8688894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.554.3", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Would the Minister not agree that if the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander is to be allowed to get away with boasts of insubordination—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and exhibitions of homicidal mania—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.554.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-13", "file": "debates1956-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "786dda70a8688894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.554.6", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The speech was made by Field Marshal Montgomery, not by me. I think that the House would feel it very unfair that I should make such serious charges without adducing some evidence in justification of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.554.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-13", "file": "debates1956-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "786dda70a8688894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.555.3", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "e \"everything we have got,\" meaning by that the use of nuclear weapons, in the event of wholesale aggression against the West, is not only the declared policy of the Government, but has been accepted in principle by the Labour Party? Is it not time, leaving aside the merits of some of the speeches made by the Field Marshal, that we stopped attacking one who is a fine soldier and an honourable man?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.555.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-13", "file": "debates1956-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "786dda70a8688894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.555.5", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Monckton", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Monckton", "preceding_text": "rectly reported, at a Press conference, but from the Press reports it seems quite clear that he was merely emphasising the supreme importance of the nuclear deterrent. As I said myself in the recent defence debate, we shall never be the aggressors, but others must be deterred from risking aggression against us by the sure knowledge of the overwhelming retaliation which they will receive in return.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.555.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-13", "file": "debates1956-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "786dda70a8688894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.561.4", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "May I follow up that aspect again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.561.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-13", "file": "debates1956-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "786dda70a8688894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "to 11. Miss Fletcher said that there were no alterations in the ages shown on the original records when she copied details from them, and she offered no comment on the fact that the age she ascribed to this prisoner, 11, was the same as the altered age on the original records. She then declined to give any further assistance in arriving at the truth of this or other anomalies without legal advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-13", "file": "debates1956-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "786dda70a8688894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.568.4", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "In fact the age has been altered from 18 to 11 in an ink of a colour different from that on the original statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.568.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-13", "file": "debates1956-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "786dda70a8688894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.570.0", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "larly because of his very great age. I am satisfied that there is this in common between the two cases, that it is in the interests of the mass of the people of Kenya as a whole that these persons should not be prematurely released. I am sure that it is because action of this kind has been taken that the mass of the good people of Kenya can now look forward with confidence to an early better life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.569.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-13", "file": "debates1956-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "786dda70a8688894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Sir John Harding has had more experience of the difficulty of dealing with Archbishop Makarios than anybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-13", "file": "debates1956-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "786dda70a8688894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Mr. MACHERIOTIS (DEPORTATION)", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "d not be allowed to stay longer than necessary to carry out the activities which led to his being asked to leave. Her Majesty's Government are absolutely determined, as far as in their power lies, to see that people in this country, whether British subjects or otherwise, are allowed to go on doing their ordinary day-to-day work free from the kind of thing for which Mr. Macheriotis was responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-13", "file": "debates1956-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "786dda70a8688894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.581.4", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Mr. MACHERIOTIS (DEPORTATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary has made a lot of charges which will shock many people in this House and elsewhere. The daily Press has made a series of rather less responsible charges which are even more shocking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.581.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-13", "file": "debates1956-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "786dda70a8688894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.705.0", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "which have been addressed to me. I have drawn great benefit from the suggestions made by hon. Members on both sides of the House, and the drafting of this difficult Bill has been helped in that way. I do not think that there is any trouble about this, save a trouble which is inherent in the position, namely, that we cannot say that every party to every agreement shall register. That we cannot say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-13a.705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-14", "file": "debates1956-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "f2d040f2da2abac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-14a.748.7", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "May I thank the right hon. and gallant Gentleman and say that he will get a very warm welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-14a.748.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-14", "file": "debates1956-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "f2d040f2da2abac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-14a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": " the subject and the administration of justice, namely, affecting the right of the Crown to exclude evidence otherwise relevant from courts of justice. The two bodies most authoritative to speak on this matter, the Bar Council and the Law Society, have made known their views as to the extent of the reforms that are necessary and the method of the reforms, and my noble and learned Friend's reforms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-14a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-14", "file": "debates1956-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "f2d040f2da2abac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-14a.777.0", "colnum": "777", "heading": "TRINIDAD OIL COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "he work being done by Shell and B.P. in Canada and, therefore, I do not quite agree that this is the attraction. I agree that it is no doubt the possibility of acquiring the other 50 per cent. —it already owns 50 per cent.—of the Regent distributing agency here which is attractive to the purchaser, but the fact that it is attractive to the purchaser means that it is not attractive to anybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-14a.777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-14", "file": "debates1956-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "f2d040f2da2abac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-14a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "TRINIDAD OIL COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I think that this is an administrative act. If the Government do not have the support of the House of Commons, then, of course, a new situation would arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-14a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-14", "file": "debates1956-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "f2d040f2da2abac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-14a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule.—(SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS AS TO PROCEEDINGS OF RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES COURT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Harris", "preceding_text": "It is a matter of deep regret to me that the hon. Member for Bolton, West (Mr. Holt) did not include me among the recipients of the congratulations that he was handing out so freely. As one of the hired assassins of the trade associations to which he made such kind reference, I really feel that I was entitled to some congratulation from the member of the Liberal Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-14a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-14", "file": "debates1956-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "f2d040f2da2abac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-14a.891.0", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule.—(SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS AS TO PROCEEDINGS OF RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES COURT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "e opposite direction. Nevertheless, I hope quite sincerely that the Bill will succeed. We hope that our fears may prove to be ill-founded, but I am bound to say that I have grave doubts whether the Bill will achieve, what I am sure we all on both sides of the House want to see it achieve, in the elimination of restrictive practices. I hope that my cynical Friends behind me will not be able to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-14a.891.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-15", "file": "debates1956-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "37d28ddc9a168373", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-15a.953.1", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRUSTEE INVESTMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Eric Errington (Aldershot)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Eric Errington (Aldershot)", "preceding_text": "I can speak only by leave of the House, but in view of the fact that I cut my remarks somewhat short in my speech in moving the Second Reading of the Bill, I should be glad if leave were granted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-15a.953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1037.6", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If they can afford it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "The panel considered very carefully the probable effects on all sections of the community, including the section to which the hon. Member refers, and came to the conclusion that the essential nutrients, even in the case of that section of the community, would be adequately supplied by the rest of the diet. As regards wholemeal bread, of course, everybody will be entirely free to buy it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1037.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "preceding_text": "who is unable to see how he can balance his budget, receiving a Government circular saying, \"All you have to do is put some money in the lottery; you will win, all your troubles will be at an end, you Will be able to pay your agent and live happily.\" That is the kind of dangerous propaganda which a State lottery is liable to create. In the House of Commons, we have learned to trust the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not have to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ing to debates which have taken place in another place during this Session, though, for some reason or another, they do not have the same inhibitions about us: but play has been made—I will not say where —with the fact that a number of local Labour parties supplement their funds by recourse to small pools, draws, raffles and so on. No doubt members of the Conservative Party do, too; I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1088.3", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "the trade union world as well as to the Stock Exchange—the Welfare State, for which the right hon. Gentleman coined the phrase the \"Windfall State\" but which I would rather call the \"spiv State\"—both sides must take responsibility for this—would be kept solvent. As the right hon. Gentleman says, too many people are trying to live without working. People are all trying to get something for nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1088.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1088.3", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "rying to get something for nothing. [ Interruption. ] It is not only this side of the Committee; it is the other side just as much, and let us face it. It is because of that feeling, which has grown out of the Welfare State, that we find ourselves in this financial difficulty. This Premium Bond proposal seems to me to be a kind of last regrettable prop to keep standing a Welfare State that is not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1088.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1090.0", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "it. It is because of that feeling, which has grown out of the Welfare State, that we find ourselves in this financial difficulty. This Premium Bond proposal seems to me to be a kind of last regrettable prop to keep standing a Welfare State that is not—[ Interruption. ] It is no use Welsh Members taking exception to this, because it is some of the Welsh miners who will not work as they should work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1088.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1090.8", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" How does the hon. Member know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "My retort was to an interjection made by an hon. Member sitting close to the hon. Member for Cardiff, West (Mr. G. Thomas), and I was calling the attention of the Committee to the fact that at two coal mines in Wales a fair share of the work has not been done, and that if the rest of the country followed their example we should be utterly bankrupt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1090.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1090.11", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Hughes", "preceding_text": "It is disgraceful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1090.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1090.13", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1090.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "In view of what has been said, I shall not say any more on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "In view of what has been said, I shall not say any more on that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"'] I shall certainly not withdraw. I should like to put two points to my right hon. Friend about the bonds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1092.4", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1092.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Because the hon. Member was making it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ke a high-falutin' standpoint on this issue. Ten years ago here I raised the same moral issue on the football pools question. Hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite were then in power. The right hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton) was Chancellor. I raised the question on 12th February, 1947. I did not receive from them one squeak of sympathy in support of the case which I was then making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I raised the question on 12th February, 1947. I did not receive from them one squeak of sympathy in support of the case which I was then making. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Because the hon. Member was making it.\"] The moral issue of gambling did not interest hon. Members opposite one bit. I suggest that to many of them the issue today is one of importance only because they think they will get votes out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "rity. I respect their views, but I think they are mistaken. In return they might have some respect for the sincerity of other people's views. That is why I so much liked the speech of the hon. Member for Leyton. That has not always been expressed in this controversy. There are those of us who take a different view. I am sure we should deplore any tendency to exploit these views for political ends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer should at any rate get his facts right. Not only are his figures wrong, but his statement is utterly wrong, because there was no vote for the opposite point of view at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1124.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1127.2", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "It was put up for two and a half hours from every quarter; it was advanced by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Huyton himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1128.0", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Hort. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": " among the holders of Trinidad Oil shares; as a result of what has happened in the last few days, their capital has more than doubled in value. I am very glad to hear it; I am happy that they should do well; they are very good people. But I really do not see any great difference between the prize which they have drawn unexpectedly and the prize of a man who might draw a Premium Savings Bond prize.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1129.0", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "That, put another way, is exactly what I was trying to say. The right hon. and learned Member said that there was all the difference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1129.2", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I know of no basis for that distinction. I think it is absolutely wrong and vile. The right hon. Gentleman says that I should take the profits of a bawdy house. Never when I am Chancellor of the Exchequer—no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1129.2", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "ke quite sure that they reinvest their prizes. For all these reasons, I commend the scheme to the Committee. I recognise the strength of the argument of principle, although I believe it to be unsound and not backed up by any sound or historic doctrine. I believe that the scheme will succeed. I am fortified by the knowledge that it has been enthusiastically adopted by the National Savings movement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1134.0", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At Ascot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ng the evil of gambling—by undermining the whole basis of their struggle against it. That is the great harm which the Chancellor of the Exchequer does, and one which he consistently refuses to see. We might again consider the things that have been said by hon. Gentlemen who now grace the Front Bench opposite about the great evil of opening Battersea Park on Sundays. Where is the Solicitor-General?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1137.0", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Wizard of Oz.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "I was disappointed with the Chancellor's reply and with the fact that he did not stay to hear the Committee's reactions, but all that is in harmony with his attitude these days. The right hon. Gentleman received considerable praise from the Conservative Press when he introduced this Premium Bond scheme in his Budget speech. It was said to be one of the acts of a wizard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Indemnity.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "ch believes that we can get our folk to respond to national appeals only if we appeal to the greed which is within them. I have been reminded by one of my hon. Friends that Horatio Bottomley appealed to patriotism and to national greed in the same way. He had seven years for it. The Postmaster-General, whose colour has gone a little, will realise that he is placing himself in a dangerous position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1140.0", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was he a vicar then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "f the unholy alliance between ultruism and self-seeking. For this attempt to bribe people to subscribe to charities\"— in this case, National Savings— by an appeal to self-interest, there is nothing to be said. It is an insult to charity and a source of offence because it tends to blunt men's consciences. That statement was made by the present Bishop of Exeter before he had his present appointment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1152.3", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I have sat here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-18", "file": "debates1956-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "8819f32c9c2fe079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to address the Committee for a second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-18a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-19", "file": "debates1956-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c3ed4d36817ebff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1208.5", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tomorrow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I think that my hon. and gallant Friend is rather anticipating the discussion which we shall have later in the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1208.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-19", "file": "debates1956-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c3ed4d36817ebff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1214.0", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "The broad question will be the subject of debate tomorrow. What I have to decide is whether, under the Exchange Control Act, which I have to administer, authority should be given to any particular transaction. I do not think that the proposal made in the Question would be a proper condition for the Treasury to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-19", "file": "debates1956-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c3ed4d36817ebff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Lady should take a bodyguard.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend, has said, this is a very complicated question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-19", "file": "debates1956-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c3ed4d36817ebff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. All these things are relevant, and I repeat that the country can invest only what it saves, and that is what we were engaged in debating yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-19", "file": "debates1956-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c3ed4d36817ebff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1237.7", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, the other way round.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the people of the rural districts of Norfolk will be delighted to hear that the attentions of his Ministry are to be confined—more or less confined, I hope —to cities rather than the rural areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1237.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-19", "file": "debates1956-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c3ed4d36817ebff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1261.3", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That does not make it right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "e overseas territory gives up, as it were, or reduces its tax, but the company has to pay the United Kingdom tax at the full rate on its profits and gets no relief against that tax for the tax \"saved\" in the overseas territory. Therefore, it is true to say that the United Kingdom Exchequer is the only beneficiary. That has been going on for a very long time under a great number of Administrations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1261.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-19", "file": "debates1956-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c3ed4d36817ebff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1282.1", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In Italian?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "he cinema industry, assisted there? In America it is helped by way of a tax which is three times less than what is paid in Great Britain. In America the tax is 10 per cent. as compared with the tax of 33 per cent. in our own country. America helps the industry. In Italy there is at the moment a Bill before the Italian Chamber of Deputies. I have a copy of it here sent me by Signor Nicolo de Pirro.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-19", "file": "debates1956-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c3ed4d36817ebff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1282.1", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": " not part with anything at all. It is being given to him by the action of the big circuits, and I ask him to use the £3 million to £4 million which he will receive to help the small cinemas to carry on. I plead with the right hon. Gentleman, therefore, to accept the case in principle and not to argue that, technically, the Clause is not workable. I ask him to allow his generous heart to have sway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-19", "file": "debates1956-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c3ed4d36817ebff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "preceding_text": " seats. I hope, therefore, that my right hon. Friend will reconsider his decision to do nothing for the cinema in view of the recent developments which show that he will be increasing his revenue, rather than losing any. If my right hon. Friend cannot accept a scheme such as I put up to him, or one of the other suggestions, I hope he will bear the matter closely in mind and do something next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-19", "file": "debates1956-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c3ed4d36817ebff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1290.0", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Philips Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Four", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Philips Price", "preceding_text": "ut a small cinema owner in my constituency has written to me pleading, on the assumption that tax is not applied to a population of less than one person per acre, that it should be raised to 11 persons per acre. I have not worked out the figure, but it seems to be along the lines of the third new Clause we are discussing, which asks for the figure to be raised from 640 to the square mile to 2,560—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-19", "file": "debates1956-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c3ed4d36817ebff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1290.0", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Philips Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Philips Price", "preceding_text": " me pleading, on the assumption that tax is not applied to a population of less than one person per acre, that it should be raised to 11 persons per acre. I have not worked out the figure, but it seems to be along the lines of the third new Clause we are discussing, which asks for the figure to be raised from 640 to the square mile to 2,560—[An HON. MEMBER:\" Four] Is that four persons to the acre?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-19", "file": "debates1956-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c3ed4d36817ebff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1316.1", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Income Tax?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "s not necessarily proved that Mr. A. should be the one to receive tax relief, as against Mr. B. Small cinemas are not alone. Many small undertakings of all kinds are facing difficulties in the twentieth century. Hitherto we have not shaded our revenue from taxes on these grounds. We do not charge a lower tobacco duty to small tobacco factories.We do not charge a lower beer duty to small breweries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-19", "file": "debates1956-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c3ed4d36817ebff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "Of course, any additional exemption will mean a reduction of the revenue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-19", "file": "debates1956-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c3ed4d36817ebff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1321.1", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. G. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. G. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "In rising now, I want to make it clear to those hon. Members who have waited patiently for so long for the opportunity to speak that I do not intend that they should be shut out. I imagine that they will have a great deal more to say after having heard the Financial Secretary's speech. It was very disappointing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-19", "file": "debates1956-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c3ed4d36817ebff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1336.0", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles A. Howell", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles A. Howell", "preceding_text": "ngs. When walking along the road and seeing advertisements for \"Seven Brides for Seven Brothers\" and various other colossal films, one saw big placards pointing out that \"Conservatism works\". I remind hon. Members opposite who are now surprised at what is happening to the small cinemas that that is how Conservatism works. It looks after the interest of big business. Walking around Leicester Square", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-19", "file": "debates1956-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c3ed4d36817ebff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1336.0", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles A. Howell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles A. Howell", "preceding_text": "at is happening to the small cinemas that that is how Conservatism works. It looks after the interest of big business. Walking around Leicester Square [Laughter]—not the way in which the minds of my hon. Friends are working. I hope they will follow my line of argument more closely than some of them seem to be doing. If one walks round Leicester Square one sees nothing but lots of colossal cinemas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-19", "file": "debates1956-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c3ed4d36817ebff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1364.2", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I am perfectly aware of those other types of case which the right hon. Lady has mentioned. What I am putting to the Committee is that this new Clause is confined to the case of 100 per cent. disability. I do not myself believe that a solution on those lines would be acceptable to the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1364.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-19", "file": "debates1956-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "3c3ed4d36817ebff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1394.2", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "re conceded to certain mining concerns, it would be extremely difficult to resist similar claims for preferential treatment for other mines, and for other sections of industry. For example, the shipping or agricultural industry might perfectly well claim that its particular importance to the national economy, or the degree of risk involved in its enterprises, entitled it to preferential treatment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-19a.1394.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-20", "file": "debates1956-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "274ff54046956921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Once more the right hon. Gentleman enters the lists without having troubled to ascertain the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-20", "file": "debates1956-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "274ff54046956921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1435.3", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "TRINIDAD OIL COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "egent. I think that that is the main purpose of the deal. This business is already half owned by a company belonging to the Texas and California oil interests. The other half belongs to the Trinidad Oil Company. It is the purchase of this moiety which may, I think, be the chief attraction. Personally, I see no harm in that, unless we are opposed to all competition in the distribution of petroleum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1435.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-20", "file": "debates1956-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "274ff54046956921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1438.1", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "TRINIDAD OIL COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "hat I believe to be so dangerous and ill-judged. In part of the leading article, under the sub-heading \"Shameful, sordid,\" there is this statement: Resources like oil and water power are a vital portion of a nation's patrimony. To keep them out of foreign control is an elementary act of self-preservation. Failure to give that measure of defence is irresponsible. To keep oil out of foreign control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-20", "file": "debates1956-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "274ff54046956921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "TRINIDAD OIL COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "o of the words which the Chancellor has just used, it is neither sentimental nor xenophobic, We feel that this take-over bid should not be the signal for an outburst either of anti-Americanism or economic nationalism. So far we agree with the right hon. Gentleman. But our case, which we shall take into the Division Lobby on a clear vote of no confidence in the Government on this issue, is twofold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-20", "file": "debates1956-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "274ff54046956921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "TRINIDAD OIL COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ascot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " deal knowing, as they must have known, that from the start it required Government approval. When the news broke in the Press, the first result throughout the country, except in the City, was consternation. My hon. Friends and I opposed it. The 1922 Committee went on record against it. The mighty Beaverbrook Wurlitzer pulled out every stop it had on the question. Where are these brave souls today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-20", "file": "debates1956-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "274ff54046956921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1451.3", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "TRINIDAD OIL COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I was not entirely unaware that that point might be raised, and if the hon. Gentleman can bear with me in patience a little longer, I shall be very happy to come to it in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-20", "file": "debates1956-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "274ff54046956921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1453.1", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "TRINIDAD OIL COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has always been something of a misnomer, but I did at least think from his previous interventions that his interest in this oil deal was such that if I gave way to him he would make a remark which was relevant to the subject of the oil deal and not raise another question, which I should be very happy indeed to debate with him any time here or anywhere else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-20", "file": "debates1956-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "274ff54046956921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1458.1", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "TRINIDAD OIL COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if I am forcing the hon. and gallant Member to draw so deeply upon the material of the 1950 General Election. I would remind him that we have had two or three elections since then. I should have thought that he would at least have used the questions put in 1955.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-20", "file": "debates1956-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "274ff54046956921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1459.1", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "TRINIDAD OIL COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Henry Studholme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Henry Studholme", "preceding_text": "g, shorter working hours and the Welfare State with large-scale assistance to our British subjects in overseas territories? That is a challenge which we have to meet, and I think that the real point at issue here is what is in the best interests of this country and the Commonwealth. It is incongruous, to say the least, to see Members opposite appearing in the role of champions of the Commonwealth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1459.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-20", "file": "debates1956-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "274ff54046956921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1472.7", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "TRINIDAD OIL COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "That is not what the hon. and learned Member said. He said that the City had got after each individual Member; he said \"individually.\" I ask him whether he applies that to me; and if he does, I demand that he withdraws it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1472.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-20", "file": "debates1956-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "274ff54046956921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1490.1", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "TRINIDAD OIL COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. M. Bennett (Torquay)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Premium Bonds.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. M. Bennett (Torquay)", "preceding_text": " or other securities, and that, I have no doubt, my right hon. Friend would welcome. There is something else I can do with it. If I have a temporary overdraft, or am facing temporary financial strain, I can pay it into my deposit or current account. I can then say, \"Provided things look up a bit in a year or so, or provided my income goes up a bit, then I will buy some Government or other shares.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-20", "file": "debates1956-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "274ff54046956921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1496.1", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "TRINIDAD OIL COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "rs, in order to acquire the same amount of net gain as certain people may have made on the Stock Exchange from share movements. What the right hon. Gentleman did not bear in mind, or remind the House of, was not only what faced the miners, and many other men all over this country as well, over the shocking business at Abadan but what would have happened if there had not been a change of Government", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-20", "file": "debates1956-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "274ff54046956921", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1543.1", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "scientist with particular ideas from his particular scientific angle, which might well be in conflict with those of other people and lead to more friction than co-ordination. On the other hand, the old idea that the Lord President held a sort of honorific office with nothing to do—about the same as that of the Lord Privy Seal, who has literally nothing to do and that is why he is given other work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-20a.1543.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-21", "file": "debates1956-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "63c237019b8b8f62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1604.4", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Leaving aside the merits of the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1604.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-21", "file": "debates1956-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "63c237019b8b8f62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1608.0", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is plenty of labour there\".", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "This work depends upon the availability of labour and other things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-21", "file": "debates1956-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "63c237019b8b8f62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1620.3", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Seven years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "In practically every one of the cases that the hon. Member has mentioned it was action by the police which got those concerned where they are today. In one case—the Jack Spot case—the assailants were apprehended within hours. I think they got sentences of three and five years, respectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1620.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-21", "file": "debates1956-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "63c237019b8b8f62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1620.3", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "ailants were apprehended within hours. I think they got sentences of three and five years, respectively. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Seven years.\"] There were two sentences of seven years yesterday. That was entirely due to the action taken by the police. The House will realise that, although these men are known to the police, it is not possible just to round them up as one would take stray dogs to Battersea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1620.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-21", "file": "debates1956-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "63c237019b8b8f62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1620.3", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What about the Cypriot priest?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "sterday. That was entirely due to the action taken by the police. The House will realise that, although these men are known to the police, it is not possible just to round them up as one would take stray dogs to Battersea. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Well, I have seen responsible papers saying that it is my duty to put them out of harm's way. Am I to put people out of harm's way without charge or trial?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1620.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-21", "file": "debates1956-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "63c237019b8b8f62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1621.0", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "Is the Home Secretary aware that if this ugly situation gets worse—and it is getting worse—the really serious consequence of it will be that the public will lose confidence in the police force?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1621.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-21", "file": "debates1956-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "63c237019b8b8f62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1632.1", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "m the debate yesterday. I do not understand what he means, because I was present for the early part of it, and I had already explained to the hon. Gentleman the Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan), who was in charge of the Opposition's business, before we altered the business to suit the Opposition, that I had a previous engagement. Nevertheless, I stayed behind to listen to his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-21", "file": "debates1956-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "63c237019b8b8f62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1635.6", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON.MEMBER:\" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e building of the Forth Bridge, may I ask the Leader of the House whether it would not be appropriate that the Secretary of State for Scotland should make in the House of Commons a statement on this subject, which is of vital importance to Scotland, so that supplementary questions may be asked about it? Would the right hon. Gentleman kindly recall the Secretary of State for Scotland from the deep—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1635.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-21", "file": "debates1956-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "63c237019b8b8f62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1654.2", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Education (Sir David Eccles)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Education (Sir David Eccles)", "preceding_text": "g on comparisons with technical education in foreign countries. We can learn some very useful lessons from other countries, and Her Majesty's inspectors are paying frequent visits to technical institutions abroad. Indeed, some are going to Russia this autumn. But I think there is just a danger that we may campaign for technical education as though it were an international race, like the arms race.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1654.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-21", "file": "debates1956-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "63c237019b8b8f62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1661.3", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Degree.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "cal Awards is not there to determine the pattern of technical colleges. The job of that Council, which is extremely important, is to recognise courses leading to a diploma in technology. I was glad to hear the hon. Member for Fulham say that he did not like \"Dip. Tech.\" Neither do I. It is a most cacophonous description and I was thinking that we should, perhaps, offer a prize for a suitable name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1661.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-21", "file": "debates1956-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "63c237019b8b8f62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1662.1", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Can the right hon. Gentleman answer now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "se, in the main, we want full-time teachers. I have been told that we ought to have explained in the White Paper more accurately and in more detail what we intended to do to get more full-time teachers. I realise that that appeared to be a weak passage. But the difficulty was that at the time the White Paper was published I was quite unable to answer the basic question, \"What salary will you pay?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-21", "file": "debates1956-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "63c237019b8b8f62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1665.1", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And distribution?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "-class public relations. Since we are not going to compel, we have to persuade, and persuade not only the students but their employers. I can say that the outlook in this respect is good. Productive industry has never been as interested in education as it is today. Full employment and the scientific revolution have seen to that. I hope that commerce and finance will soon become equally interested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-21", "file": "debates1956-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "63c237019b8b8f62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1684.0", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I said that I was not an educationist. I am only giving the facts recorded by the principal of a training centre, who considered them to be important. He was conducting an intelligence test laid down by the industry concerned, and those were the results. I should like that matter to be looked into. I come now to the question of attracting girls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1684.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-21", "file": "debates1956-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "63c237019b8b8f62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1684.0", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "corded by the principal of a training centre, who considered them to be important. He was conducting an intelligence test laid down by the industry concerned, and those were the results. I should like that matter to be looked into. I come now to the question of attracting girls—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] That strikes a chord apparently—Iwas about to say, attracting girls into technical courses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1684.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-21", "file": "debates1956-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "63c237019b8b8f62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1743.1", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1956–57", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ramme \"as rapidly as resources allow\", is that they have so little control over the resources of this country. What control have they got over the building industry at present? The reason why we cannot have any great extension of our building programme in education now, the reason why the Minister has to go and face a crowd of angry educational administrators tomorrow morning—and good luck to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-21a.1743.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-25", "file": "debates1956-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "29a3619b7c23af10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.16.4", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A dodge.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "The assurance that I can give is that our dominating consideration in these matters is what action will conduce most effectively to curing inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.16.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-25", "file": "debates1956-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "29a3619b7c23af10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.31.2", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Steward", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Steward", "preceding_text": "That low rate is applicable to a kitchen porter, who comes one day and may be gone the next.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.31.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-25", "file": "debates1956-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "29a3619b7c23af10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.31.6", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Steward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Steward", "preceding_text": "Most definitely, the present wages agreement was the result of many meetings spread over many months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.31.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-25", "file": "debates1956-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "29a3619b7c23af10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.45.0", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "n the covert, and successive Chancellors of the Exchequer have been unsporting enough to go on firing at it. They have very nearly killed it. The middle class has to stint and economise for its children, and will go on doing so, even though forced to sell its homes and spend its savings, and, indeed, lose its independence. Some have been obliged to send their children to State schools as a result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.45.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-25", "file": "debates1956-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "29a3619b7c23af10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.109.2", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "ays that legal people should deal with legal matters and that we should rightly keep out because we are not legally trained; but when it comes to dealing with industrial matters or technical education the people who know a little about those matters are not debarred from taking part. Nevertheless, we have learned that when it comes to a legal matter it is best to leave it to the legal authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.109.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-25", "file": "debates1956-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "29a3619b7c23af10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.109.2", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Solicitor-General?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "trial matters or technical education the people who know a little about those matters are not debarred from taking part. Nevertheless, we have learned that when it comes to a legal matter it is best to leave it to the legal authorities. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] On this issue, I would have no hesitation in entering into debate or discussion with the best legal advisers that the Government can produce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.109.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-25", "file": "debates1956-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "29a3619b7c23af10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.138.3", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We should have no Empire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "or Coventry, South (Miss Burton). I believe that within the next two or three years the Government must pay a great deal more attention to promoting professional sport. Before long we may be back where we were a thousand years ago, when disputes were settled by a tournament or contest. What a good thing it would be if we could settle some of our international disputes by means of football matches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-25", "file": "debates1956-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "29a3619b7c23af10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.156.0", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "llion. If the Clause affecting only football were accepted the amount would be £1¼ million. If an Amendment were agreed to dealing only with Rugby League football, as my hon. Friend the Member for Keighley (Mr. Hobson) said so vigorously, the amount would be only £100,000. This is chicken feed compared with other amounts in our national economy. Sport is not something that can be dismissed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-25", "file": "debates1956-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "29a3619b7c23af10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ar in mind that the Olympic Games were only held at Wembley because of the financial support that Wembley gets from greyhound racing. I know that many hon. Members here probably do not like greyhound racing. Here I will declare an interest. I have a greyhound track in my division, although it is not the Wembley track. It is a fact that this great cup final, which every hon. Member hopes to attend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-25", "file": "debates1956-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "29a3619b7c23af10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One hon. Gentleman opposite is asleep.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett Janner", "preceding_text": " unless the Chancellor does something, will disappear in a very short time. I refer to boxing. Hon. Friends of mine have commented upon the fact that few hon. Gentlemen opposite have taken much interest in the debate. The Chancellor has not even taken notice of his hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Knutsford (Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport), who has at the moment disappeared from the scene.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-25", "file": "debates1956-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "29a3619b7c23af10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "I think that that is generally conceded, because in many cases the amateur proceeds to professional boxing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-25", "file": "debates1956-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "29a3619b7c23af10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.170.4", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": "ed, but the business of prize fighting is an entirely different matter. I am impressed by the temper of the Committee as I rise to speak on this subject tonight. About the same time of night, four years ago, when I rose to speak on this subject on a similar occasion, I was interrupted by noises of every kind. The hon. and gallant Member for Knutsford (Lieutenant-Colonel Bromley-Davenport) shouted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.170.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-25", "file": "debates1956-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "29a3619b7c23af10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I have no desire to entertain the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-25", "file": "debates1956-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "29a3619b7c23af10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.208.0", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "this Budget we have increased Profits Tax on distributed and undistributed profits and have not concentrated the rise in Profits Tax on distributed profits only. At the same time, as the Clause is drawn, it would obviously have very special relevance to the problems of the John Lewis Partnership. The Clause is designed primarily to assist one group of companies with a particular capital structure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-25a.208.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-26", "file": "debates1956-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7cdc6a3778e371e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.244.2", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayman", "preceding_text": "Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that that news will be received with great satisfaction?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.244.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-26", "file": "debates1956-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7cdc6a3778e371e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.249.6", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this cynical exploitation of homeless people is continuing unchecked, because the earlier legislation has proved in practice to be a dead letter, and does he not feel any sense of responsibility?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.249.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-26", "file": "debates1956-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7cdc6a3778e371e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.250.5", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Are right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite not now interested in the bombed-out people? They were interested in them during the war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.250.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-26", "file": "debates1956-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7cdc6a3778e371e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.266.4", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEMBERS (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think any Government could possibly do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.266.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-26", "file": "debates1956-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7cdc6a3778e371e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.381.0", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "That is a very disappointing reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-26", "file": "debates1956-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7cdc6a3778e371e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.387.0", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hirst", "preceding_text": "niture too—and the rate for wool cloth sold as piece goods became 10 per cent. All non-wool cloth remained exempt altogether. That is the whole bone of contention, which has been mentioned more than once in the Committee. Naturally I drew attention to the discrimination against wool in the Committee stage of that Finance Bill, when, on 16th November, I am sorry to say, I got rather a dusty answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-26", "file": "debates1956-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7cdc6a3778e371e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "Because I have given the HANSARD reference, and I am trying to give quickly the facts of the case. I asked the number of firms carrying on business as tailors as well as dressmakers, how many were required to be registered for Purchase Tax and how many had not been required to be registered. I got a very vague reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-26", "file": "debates1956-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7cdc6a3778e371e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go ahead.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "drawn from a quite unrelated source. It is necessarily rather vague, as here again precise figures arc not available. The registration of persons for purchase tax is dealt with locally, and sufficient information is not available centrally to enable the number of registered tailors or dressmakers to be extracted. I am sorry to bring up this Question and to embarrass my right hon. and hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-26", "file": "debates1956-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7cdc6a3778e371e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.398.3", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Member for Keighley (Mr. Hobson) is fair, and he will allow that I did say \"apart from the D Scheme, apart from the Utility Scheme.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.398.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-26", "file": "debates1956-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7cdc6a3778e371e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.398.4", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Solicitor-General.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hobson", "preceding_text": " not, but I have to keep asking my hon. Friends what exactly the proposed new Clauses mean by reference to that Schedule. I have to do so even though I have a little Parliamentary experience, as I have been a Member of the House for eleven years. I think it is the bounden duty of the Government to have the Attorney-General present on occasions like this to help us and guide us through these mazes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.398.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-26", "file": "debates1956-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7cdc6a3778e371e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hobson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hobson", "preceding_text": "I have followed the Committee's proceedings on the Bill very carefully, but on many occasions, upon coming into the Committee, I have had to ask my right hon. Friend the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) to help me to understand what all these legislative references mean, and I think that the Attorney-General ought to be present on occasions like this to help us with these complexities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-26", "file": "debates1956-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "7cdc6a3778e371e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.409.0", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Harriet Slater", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"She did not buy it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Harriet Slater", "preceding_text": "The more we talk tonight about Purchase Tax the more we realise that most of us were saying almost exactly the same things after the presentation of the previous Budget. I take the view that Purchase Tax is wrong in principle. Originally, it was introduced to prevent people from buying luxury goods, and it never did that. Lady Docker could still afford to buy a gold-plated car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-26a.409.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-27", "file": "debates1956-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1f746ce8d1f91851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-27a.468.4", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that he is not the only judge of what is the appropriate time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-27a.468.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-27", "file": "debates1956-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1f746ce8d1f91851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-27a.470.3", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. K. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. K. Robinson", "preceding_text": "Since the right hon. Gentleman admits that the case has been properly presented, does not the fact that the case is not accepted anywhere else in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-27a.470.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-27", "file": "debates1956-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1f746ce8d1f91851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-27a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION AND RATING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No. 10.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "d dwelling or building—or whatever the lawyers choose to call it—is still property of value and should be taken care of. For instance, in the case of a fire in any part of the country one would not, if one had time, instruct the fire brigade to do its utmost to put out the fire and, at the same time, tell the firemen \"You need not bother about No. 11 or No. 15 because it happens to be unoccupied.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-27a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-27", "file": "debates1956-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1f746ce8d1f91851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-27a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION AND RATING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": "ware of all the talk there is in the House and in the country about the possibility of rerating industrial heritages. If we were to rerate industry, it would mean that there would be this possibility of a 25 per cent. rate hanging over the heads of all owners of factories or industrialists who might be considering whether they would go to Scotland or to somewhere else, perhaps to Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-27a.500.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-27", "file": "debates1956-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1f746ce8d1f91851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-27a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION AND RATING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They do.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Horobin", "preceding_text": "out bearing very much in mind the inevitable consequences to the English system. It has always been the view hitherto in England that rates should not be imposed upon vacant and unoccupied property, as my hon. Friend the Member for North Angus (Mr. Thornton-Kemsley) has pointed out. If the arguments that have been put forward for the proposed new Clause are sound, why do not they apply in England?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-27a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-27", "file": "debates1956-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1f746ce8d1f91851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-27a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION AND RATING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "If anybody goes into the Lobby against it, I will certainly do so. This Clause is a bad Clause, contrary to Conservative principles of rating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-27a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-27", "file": "debates1956-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1f746ce8d1f91851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-27a.548.7", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION AND RATING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McInnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McInnes", "preceding_text": "hed that two or three weeks must elapse before the local authority takes action on a house that may be unoccupied for two years. The owner has six weeks in which to appeal. It may take two or three months before that appeal reaches the sheriff, and after the sheriff has given his decision, as I interpret the provision—I hope I am wrong—a further six months elapse before the rates become operative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-27a.548.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-27", "file": "debates1956-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1f746ce8d1f91851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-27a.559.2", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION AND RATING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McInnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McInnes", "preceding_text": "the occupiers if the houses had been occupied. The 25 per cent. proposal is grossly unreasonable. It is unfair. It destroys the whole intent of the Clause. The more I consider the Clause the more convinced I become that the Government are merely playing ducks and drakes with the Opposition, and that the Secretary of State has not kept faith with the promise he made in the Scottish Grand Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-27a.559.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-27", "file": "debates1956-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1f746ce8d1f91851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-27a.564.2", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION AND RATING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. N. Browne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman agrees?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. N. Browne", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman the Member for Glasgow, Central (Mr. McInnes) pointed out that the owner would be in a better position under this Clause than he is at present. I agree with him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-27a.564.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-27", "file": "debates1956-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1f746ce8d1f91851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-27a.564.2", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VALUATION AND RATING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. N. Browne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. N. Browne", "preceding_text": "for police and fire. There is a clear case for something for loss to the authority of occupiers' rates. There is some case for public water and there is some case for street lighting. We feel that it is unwise to fixe a charge on the cost of any particular local service, not so much because this may differ widely with different authorities, but because it is contrary to the principles of taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-27a.564.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.679.5", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Poor?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "Since the Chancellor of the Exchequer is constantly asking for economies and the Minister is constantly practising economies on the children in the schools, will he not consider sending a circular to local education authorities, governors and head teachers, if only for the sake of poor parents like myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.679.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.695.8", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman knows, and the whole House will know, that we are now engaged in trying to steady prices for the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.695.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.698.5", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Our purpose is, of course, exactly the same; and I must remind the hon. Gentleman that when we began our discussions with various sections of industry, private and public, we were a good deal sneered at for the attempt. Now, when I think we have made some progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.698.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.708.3", "colnum": "708", "heading": "BRITISH MOTOR CORPORATION (DISCHARGED WORKERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "preceding_text": "To secure as calm a discussion as possible of this great national problem, will the right hon. Gentleman urge managements, like that of Standard's, not to use hectoring and bullying terms, as were used yesterday, to the trade unions pending negotiations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.708.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.709.0", "colnum": "709", "heading": "BRITISH MOTOR CORPORATION (DISCHARGED WORKERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.708.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Spens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Spens", "preceding_text": ". We now have our forces constantly serving with Commonwealth forces and constantly serving with forces of foreign countries. There could very well be a murder committed jointly by a soldier of our forces and a soldier from a Commonwealth country. Both would be tried by court-martial. At present, so far as I know, soldiers from Commonwealth countries are all liable to the death penalty for murder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.754.2", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Elliot", "preceding_text": "It seems to me that this shows the difficulty in which the country will be put by trying to deal with this matter by a Private Member's Bill. We now find that we are amending the Army Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.754.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": " it was before. This is an enormously important matter. He says that the Bill as it stands leaves the matter in doubt. He does not recommend the House either to pass or to reject the Amendment. That is not a position, it seems to me, in which the Government can possibly stand. When it is suggested that as a result of this a further Bill clearing up the position under the Army Act would need to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.766.3", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": " expecting the hon. Member either himself to move to exclude the proviso or to put his name to the Amendment. I was not expecting the result which has occurred. I am bound to say that it appears to me that the hon. Member was taking advantage of the machinery of the House to try to deceive a number of hon. Members, when there are no Whips—he knows that I have Whips—into going into the wrong Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.766.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.766.3", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "ps—into going into the wrong Lobby. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I must say that, and I am sorry that the hon. Member is not in his place to hear it. The position is this. I do not wish the Amendment to be made at this stage, but it may well be that if the hon. Member succeeds in his plan—after all, there are not very many hon. Members present in the Chamber, so there may be a number who may be deceived—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.766.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.766.3", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Chicanery.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I must say that, and I am sorry that the hon. Member is not in his place to hear it. The position is this. I do not wish the Amendment to be made at this stage, but it may well be that if the hon. Member succeeds in his plan—after all, there are not very many hon. Members present in the Chamber, so there may be a number who may be deceived—[HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] By this dodge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.766.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "There is something very uncandid and unsavoury about the proceedings on the Amendment that we are discussing. As I understood what was said by my hon. Friend the Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman)—I am sorry that he is not here—it was that he wanted to indulge the House in what, in my considered opinion, is an unsavoury piece of tactics to use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "ceeded to exercise what I suppose he had a right to do, an option to adopt the hon. Baronet's Amendment. My hon. Friend made it abundantly clear to the House—Mr. Speaker I should like your guidance on this in due course, if I may have it—that his purpose in adopting and moving the Amendment was not that he wanted the Amendment, but that he wanted the back door result of getting rid of the proviso.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "ould leave those hon. Members in the position of not having had notice and, therefore, not being in the House even to vote. That is not, in my view, a proper procedure. It has the effect of putting down a simple, negative Amendment on Report, so that a proviso which was passed in the Committee shall be got rid of. I would like your guidance on this matter, Mr. Speaker. Suppose for argument's sake—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "proviso to Clause 1 be deleted from the Bill. Would that have been right? It would be a direct negative to a provision inserted in Committee Suppose that it were right; at least the Amendment would be on the Notice Paper and notice would have been given to hon. Members who voted for the proviso in Committee to be here now to oppose its deletion. That is exactly what they are now being deprived of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "tee Suppose that it were right; at least the Amendment would be on the Notice Paper and notice would have been given to hon. Members who voted for the proviso in Committee to be here now to oppose its deletion. That is exactly what they are now being deprived of. [ Interruption .] It is no use my hon. Friends grumbling in the backwoods like that. I ask the House to face this as a matter of honour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": " have been given to hon. Members who voted for the proviso in Committee to be here now to oppose its deletion. That is exactly what they are now being deprived of. [ Interruption .] It is no use my hon. Friends grumbling in the backwoods like that. I ask the House to face this as a matter of honour. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Oh, yes. If, by a backdoor method, without other hon. Members being notified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "o in Committee to be here now to oppose its deletion. That is exactly what they are now being deprived of. [ Interruption .] It is no use my hon. Friends grumbling in the backwoods like that. I ask the House to face this as a matter of honour. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Oh, yes. If, by a backdoor method, without other hon. Members being notified—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes. It is not on the Notice Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.767.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.779.8", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH PENALTY (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is, \"That those words be there inserted in the Bill.\" Those of that opinion say \"Aye\"; to the contrary \"No.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.779.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.784.2", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Title", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": " Mr. Speaker, you will hear me out. I do not propose to detain the House for very long. I had pointed out that this proviso was put in by solemn vote of the Committee when the Committee was fully apprised of what it was about. What has happened today quite clearly took place with the House of Commons not put on its guard as to the result of the transaction. Of that there can be no question at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.784.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Title", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "in many quarters in this country at the prospect of the abolition of capital punishment. The House has a responsibility for the peace and order of the country, and it should not fail to discharge it. Certain events which have occurred recently have made me wonder whether the warnings which were given in earlier discussions on this subject are not proving justified even earlier than I had expected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Title", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "it seems a little unlikely at this stage, I would ask them whether they do not think that, irrespective of what happens on the vote tonight, the authority of the death penalty is already largely ebbing away? Have we not really reached the stage, so familiar prior to every other great reform of the criminal law, when there is so large a section of the public opinion against the particular practice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Title", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Emotion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "med criminal would think very carefully indeed before he moved, so to speak, over the line and put himself into the category of the armed criminal. Now we remove a major deterrent to his doing so. Hon. Members have said no one can prove that the death penalty is a deterrent, but I do not need any proof. It is not proof I wish to have. It is simply a matter of common sense and a little imagination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.836.1", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Title", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "The mistake into which my right hon. Friend falls is to believe that it is worth while, that it is ethically justifiable, justifiable on any religious or moral grounds, to put to death 12 people among whom, for all we know, may be one who is innocent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-28", "file": "debates1956-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "6746be77a0a8ae7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.836.3", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Title", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "ge proportion of whom have turned out to be supporters of the abolition of capital punishment. I should like to say at once that I have not received a single letter from any constituent protesting against my stand on this issue, but I am aware that if I went back to my constituency the older of my supporters would be against me on this and my young Conservatives would be, by a majority, in favour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-28a.836.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-29", "file": "debates1956-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2668b8ff5e1d9ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-29a.853.0", "colnum": "853", "heading": "MALTA (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I will try to answer the right hon. Gentleman's three points. May I say straight way that the promising experiment is more likely to be jeopardised, not by any action of mine or by Her Majesty's Government, but by the use by the right hon. Gentleman and others of very intemperate language about the proposal which has been put forward?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-29a.853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-29", "file": "debates1956-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2668b8ff5e1d9ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-29a.853.0", "colnum": "853", "heading": "MALTA (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Her Majesty's Government would at the end of the six months have found themselves committed to the total expenditure of £8 million in the year. It would have been £8 million in this year and more next year, which would have been wholly at variance with the figures I gave to the House and on which the unanimous decision of the House at the time, last March, may well be held to have been arrived at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-29a.853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-29", "file": "debates1956-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2668b8ff5e1d9ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-29a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH CARIBBEAN FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Trinidad oil?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": "I wish the party opposite understood that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-29a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-06-29", "file": "debates1956-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2668b8ff5e1d9ada", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-29a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH CARIBBEAN FEDERATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sir Hugh Foot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leather", "preceding_text": " present happy situation. I would mention three men who have not, I think, been mentioned so far, and who, I believe, when the history books are written about the setting up of this Federation, will be marked down as amongst the servants of the British Colonial Empire who were amongst the real fathers of the West Indies Federation. They are Sir Hubert Rance, Sir Stephen Luke, and Sir Michael Foot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-06-29a.903.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-07-02", "file": "debates1956-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "d429a82205e505c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-02a.973.7", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Lady refused to answer my previous question on this subject, I think she will agree that I was justified in pressing it. She has now said that ten more maternity centres have been closed down. Will she or her right hon. Friend tell us what the general policy is?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-02a.973.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-07-02", "file": "debates1956-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "d429a82205e505c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-02a.989.5", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman will put down a question which deals with a particular period, I will see whether I can answer it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-02a.989.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-02", "file": "debates1956-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "d429a82205e505c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-02a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not in New York?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "rom all over the Empire and Dominions come to London. They come with dreams and memories, and they want to see this great city. Quite rightly, if the weather is favourable, they go strolling around Mayfair, Piccadilly, and other places. What do they see? If the time is around ten or eleven o'clock at night, they see things which are not paralleled in any other great civilised capital in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-02a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-02", "file": "debates1956-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "d429a82205e505c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-02a.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This century.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "t to have one of these officers whose duty it is to bring the case before the others so that the whole of the resources can be brought to bear. With regard to the question of gangs, apparently, the present gangs are unconnected with racecourses, like the Sabini gang was. The Sabini gang had a standup fight with another big gang on the way home from Epsom Races in the 'twenties of the last century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-02a.1076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-02", "file": "debates1956-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "d429a82205e505c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-02a.1087.1", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Body", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Body", "preceding_text": "d against society. I think one might go a stage further and say that they all dislike making a contribution to society—and that applies to sexual offenders as well. I think it true to say that if there is a lowest common denominator among criminals it is that they dislike hard work. To be forced to do hard work is a grave punishment for them, and if prisoners had to work for 50 or 60 hours a week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-02a.1087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "Referring to last week, what happened between Monday and Wednesday? The Minister said he was privately informed that the dismissals were going to take place. Did he just sit and wait for them to happen without trying to get the employers to give adequate notice? Did he sit on his behind and hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1146.1", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Forty-seven schools which the local authorities had hoped to start last year were not started.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1146.3", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The facts are that the present Government are doing more by far in the way of school starts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1148.4", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "It is really surprising to hear that reply. The British Standards Institution survey contains pages full of complaints from Scotland, and particularly from Edinburgh. It is a well-known practice of schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1148.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1150.1", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that Ayrshire potato growers have lost £500,000 in ten days? Is he aware that the troubles caused in Cyprus were due to a curfew in Cyprus? What reason can the hon. Gentleman give for inflicting collective punishment on Ayrshire farmers as well as in Cyprus?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's Question was a factual one, as to which industries other than the nationalised industries had taken this step. I have informed him in regard to the associations. In addition to them, certain individual firms have notified their intention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE (ECONOMIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Where is the Prime Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "ic expenditure made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 26th June as further proof of the determination of Her Majesty's Government to conquer the dangers of inflation, and pledges its support for all measures designed to maintain our competitive position in the world on which the living standards of our people depend. This Amendment stands in the name of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE (ECONOMIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It does not mean a thing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I cannot give the exact proportions, but I am sure the hon. Member will agree that over the whole economy what I have tried to give is a fair picture, as supplied to me by the authorities on which I rely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE (ECONOMIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By volume or by value?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "oves up and down are the trade figures and the reserves, and these, as I think the right hon. Gentleman will agree, are the real indication and final sign. Let us start with the trade figures. In the first five months of 1956, exports were 6½ per cent. above the 1955 figure, and if we allow for the effect of the dock stoppage, I am informed that the true increase would be about 10 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1196.6", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE (ECONOMIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Some of us in the motor car cities really have not heard an answer to a most important question asked by my right hon. Friend the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson). He asked the Chancellor whether, in his view, unemployment had gone far enough for Government policy. We are not making party points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1196.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE (ECONOMIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"40,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "May I just ask this further question? The Chancellor told us about a 40 per cent. increase in the number of men in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE (ECONOMIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not very long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the fact that the hon. Gentleman has worked there. There is in Morris Motors a long tradition of happy labour relations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE (ECONOMIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "preceding_text": "e present time; and until we get it our situation will give cause for the gravest anxiety. There remains a considerable difference of opinion between those of us who would like to see a more purposive direction of the national economy, including capital investment; and those who cling to the outworn dogmas of a laissez-faire system which ignores the need for positive action to restore equilibrium.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1247.0", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE (ECONOMIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "preceding_text": "The nationalised industries used to contribute to taxation out of their profits, and at the moment the money is going the other way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1247.0", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE (ECONOMIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And compensation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "preceding_text": "The nationalised industries used to contribute to taxation out of their profits, and at the moment the money is going the other way. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Furthermore, we are having to pay far too great a price for their products.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1247.4", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE (ECONOMIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He generally is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "r of things had happened in Birmingham recently which had not played any part in the election programme which the Tory Party put forward at the last two General Elections. There is nothing unique in that, because many things have happened in the country recently which did not play a part in those programmes. I thought that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was in an unconvincing mood this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1247.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE (ECONOMIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "ke it twice is a bit too much. The cuts include underspendings, which the right hon. Gentleman was not going to spend anyway. I heard the right hon. Gentleman say \"No\", and I believe that I see him now shaking his head, but he must put himself right with the Home Secretary, who yesterday told us exactly the opposite. The idea of a divided Cabinet may be usual but this division is surprising to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE (ECONOMIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ing of motor cars. All these will be progressively involved in the next few weeks. I want to make quite clear our view about labour rigidity. Do not let us invent differences where they do not exist. In March I said that under full employment there could not be a guarantee that a man would always stay in the same job and in the place where he was at the moment. But I pointed out that in that case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1285.1", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE (ECONOMIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour and National Service (Mr. Iain Macleod)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour and National Service (Mr. Iain Macleod)", "preceding_text": "on to the motor car industry in the Midlands. I think that the House would prefer me to deal mainly with the second theme and with the actions and responsibility of the Government in this sphere. I do not intend to follow the right hon. Member for Belper (Mr. G. Brown) in the purple passages of his speech. Only in the last minute or two did he return to the issues which really concerned the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1285.1", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE (ECONOMIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour and National Service (Mr. Iain Macleod)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour and National Service (Mr. Iain Macleod)", "preceding_text": "mployment is poor, and we should push on in the wider field with the provision of more housing accommodation. We should encourage, in particular, the maintenance of as big a pool of houses to let as possible. In that field a solution lies. The first protection that a man in difficulties has, whether from unemployment or anything else, is our social security system which is unequalled in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1285.1", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE (ECONOMIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour and National Service (Mr. Iain Macleod)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour and National Service (Mr. Iain Macleod)", "preceding_text": "ade a speech at Geneva, to which the right hon. Gentleman referred, in which I touched on this question of compensation. I do not believe in any way that it can be, or should be, a matter for Government direction, and I do not see how that could possibly work. I believe that the matter of compensation to redundant workers is a matter for employers to decide in the light of their own circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE (ECONOMIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "ion to the unemployment benefit which is paid by the State—that is, without reducing the unemployment benefit paid by the State. I was talking about the case of workers being displaced after long and satisfactory service owing to the introduction of new machinery. There are many reasons why a man may lose his job. It may well be because of the coming of change or the coming of automatic processes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-07-03", "file": "debates1956-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "46a81f05d0174474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1294.4", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE (ECONOMIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "preceding_text": "Before the Minister concludes, would he say something about the Australian import cuts which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-03a.1294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-04", "file": "debates1956-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3c54cc6c7af5f9db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-04a.1379.1", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (MID-WALES INVESTIGATION REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. W. Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. W. Jones", "preceding_text": "t was sorry he was unable to find any sufficient grounds for modifying his previous decision. The letter was submitted to the last Council meeting, when I was instructed to write and ask whether you will kindly take the matter further on behalf of the Council. I have had to take up this matter of a letter box with the Minister, but I am pleased to say that this morning I was promised a letter box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-04a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-04", "file": "debates1956-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3c54cc6c7af5f9db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-04a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (MID-WALES INVESTIGATION REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": " modern conveniences. The buildings are quite unfit for the housing of attested stock: the cowhouses are low, lacking light and ventilation, and with cobbled floors; stonework is in need of repointing and in places rebuilding, whilst woodwork is in most cases badly in need of repair. That is the valley. I should not be surprised if it had produced poets and preachers—and, indeed, politicians, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-04a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-04", "file": "debates1956-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3c54cc6c7af5f9db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-04a.1393.0", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL LAND (MID-WALES INVESTIGATION REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "There have been provisional applications. The memorandum of guidance to local authorities, showing the terms and conditions, has not yet actually gone out, but I hope it will do so very shortly. I want to refer to the very pleasant visit I paid to the investigation area a few months ago. Since I have been Minister, I have paid eight visits to the Principality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-04a.1393.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-07-04", "file": "debates1956-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3c54cc6c7af5f9db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-04a.1412.4", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVERPOOL OVERHEAD RAILWAY BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He has made it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must wait for an opportunity to make his own speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-04a.1412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-04", "file": "debates1956-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3c54cc6c7af5f9db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-04a.1427.0", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVERPOOL OVERHEAD RAILWAY BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "this matter there would be a lot to be said for that, but this Amendment requires my right hon. Friend the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation to call a conference. The whole of my objection to this Amendment, and the reason I feel that the opposition to the Bill is mistaken and misplaced, is that the responsibility for carrying passenger transport in Liverpool rests on the City of Liverpool.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-04a.1427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-04", "file": "debates1956-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3c54cc6c7af5f9db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-04a.1427.0", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVERPOOL OVERHEAD RAILWAY BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "n the City of Liverpool. Liverpool Corporation, naturally, has not had to discharge this small area of that responsibility because the railway company was doing it. The moment the railway company can no longer do it it devolves on the city council to do it. I am sorry, I am taking far too much time. If hon. Members were enjoying it they would be encouraging me. So long as they are not, I am happy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-04a.1427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-04", "file": "debates1956-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3c54cc6c7af5f9db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-04a.1448.1", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVERPOOL OVERHEAD RAILWAY BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Hugh Molson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Hugh Molson)", "preceding_text": "47. My right hon. Friend the Minister has no power at all to direct the British Transport Commission to take over the railway. I think I ought, however, to add—because I want there to be no misunderstanding of this matter—that at the present time we are anxious to help the British Transport Commission to fulfil its obligation to make its income and expenditure balance taking one year with another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-04a.1448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-04", "file": "debates1956-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3c54cc6c7af5f9db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-04a.1452.0", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVERPOOL OVERHEAD RAILWAY BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "her discussions and negotiations of the kind that I have indicated. Indeed, it would have exactly the opposite effect. If the advice of some hon. Members opposite and of my hon. Friend the Member for Crosby (Mr. Page) were accepted, the only result that I can foresee is that it would then be impossible for any effective negotiation to take place. It would be impossible for compensation to be paid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-04a.1452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-04", "file": "debates1956-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "3c54cc6c7af5f9db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-04a.1462.1", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FYLDE WATER BOARD BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Roland Robinson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Roland Robinson", "preceding_text": "7;2 million gallons of water per day to help Blackburn. Now the demand for water is so great that the Board can no longer fulfil the corporation's demand, and Blackburn has had to draw upon the supplies of the Manchester Corporation to make up the deficiency. At the same time, the Board is helping Preston and Fulwood, which are drawing bulk supplies to the extent of ½ million dollars a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-04a.1462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-05", "file": "debates1956-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e804c91fb5071bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1543.1", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Member will turn his mind back, he will realise that, in the period shortly after his Administration, steps were taken by the Government which resulted in stabilising the cost of living over the period from 1953 to 1954, when I was Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-05", "file": "debates1956-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e804c91fb5071bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1558.3", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ll as capital investment moneys anticipated to be required in the ensuing year. I shall want my right hon. Friend to write into the White Paper particulars of major colliery schemes. I shall want him to write into the White Paper full particulars of the amount of coal which he expects to raise, and when, from each of those major colliery schemes. In other words, I shall want him to tell the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1558.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-05", "file": "debates1956-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e804c91fb5071bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1558.3", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did you write it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ion .] It is all very well for hon. Members opposite to jeer rudely, but I want him to tell the House what the taxpayer will get in return for his money. This is the taxpayers' money. It is money provided below the line in the Budget estimates. In that connection, it has a direct relevance to what my right hon. Friend had to say this afternoon. Today's Daily Express comment was right on the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1558.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-07-05", "file": "debates1956-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e804c91fb5071bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1565.3", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The big freeze.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Horobin", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman put 2 million men out of work when he was Minister of Fuel and Power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1565.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-05", "file": "debates1956-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e804c91fb5071bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1571.3", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " decided to place the conduct and operation of the industry in the hands of an independent and, as we thought, autonomous organisation; but I recognise—and I admit quite freely—that as a result of experience some modification in the organisation of the Board is inevitable, far wider and more extensive than as yet transpired, and that, in addition, we are entitled, as representing our constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1571.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-05", "file": "debates1956-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e804c91fb5071bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1571.3", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ecognise—and I admit quite freely—that as a result of experience some modification in the organisation of the Board is inevitable, far wider and more extensive than as yet transpired, and that, in addition, we are entitled, as representing our constituents—[ Laughter ]. Is the hon. Member for Kidderminster not well? Is there a doctor in the House? We are entitled, as representing our constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1571.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-05", "file": "debates1956-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e804c91fb5071bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1574.1", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "he bowels of the earth and make it up on opencast production, although that does not seem to be likely. We can gain profit from the production of electricity on a much more extensive scale than at present, for we have only touched the fringe of electricity supply in this country. We have also to consider, in the same context, the production of gas and by-products. I have one further point to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-05", "file": "debates1956-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e804c91fb5071bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1607.1", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "He also told me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-05", "file": "debates1956-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e804c91fb5071bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1608.0", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is no Member at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "s, Rainhill district. Wages £7 2s. per week of 44 hours. Applications, stating age, experience and present appointment should be forwarded to: Area Secretary, National Coal Board, No. 3 (St. Helens) Area, Haydock, St. Helens, not later than 2nd June, 1956. I was immediately flooded with letters from that part of the country inquiring, as there is no Conservative Member for miles around St. Helens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-05", "file": "debates1956-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e804c91fb5071bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1610.1", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cross Bencher.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-05", "file": "debates1956-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e804c91fb5071bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1610.3", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One who knows.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that. Evidently anybody is in a position to hurl brickbats at the Coal Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1610.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-05", "file": "debates1956-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e804c91fb5071bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1610.3", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nor will they be now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "EMBER: \"One who knows.\"]—about wasteful expenditure, but here is a case where a very reasonable commercial risk was taken by the Board. It succeeded in eight cases out of nine. It fell down only on the ninth case. Mr. James Bowman, rightly, wrote to the Sunday Express and gave it the facts of the situation, but the Sunday Express never published the facts. They have not been published to this day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1610.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-05", "file": "debates1956-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e804c91fb5071bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1612.0", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has gone to apply for a job.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "purchase of a manor house at a fabulous cost of £6,670. The other was the employment—or, at any rate, the intended employment—of two gardeners. While the hon. Gentleman was speaking I saw on the opposite bench the hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for South Fylde (Colonel Lancaster). I am sorry that the hon. and gallant Gentleman has gone, but he may have good reason for leaving the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-05", "file": "debates1956-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e804c91fb5071bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1612.0", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Free milk from the cows.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ownership. The hon. and gallant Gentleman will be able to inform the hon. Member for Kidderminster, if he is interested in the matter—really and fundamentally interested, without the trimmings and the embroidery in which he indulges—that it was a common practice during the private ownership régime for a long time not only to provide free houses and free rent and all the additional comforts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-05", "file": "debates1956-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e804c91fb5071bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1612.0", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Far too much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ng for concessions. I recall meetings with the Colliery Managers' Association. I recall the negotiations and the excessive demands they made, which, no doubt, were reasonable from their standpoint. I recall, also, that we had to agree to arbitration to determine the rate of interest to be paid to those who were the previous owners of the mining industry. A vast sum of money had to be paid to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-05", "file": "debates1956-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e804c91fb5071bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1614.5", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": ", is the person in authority. Do not bother about an affirmative Resolution, such as the hon. Member demands, or a negative Resolution—let the right hon. Gentleman, on behalf of the Government, provide time, not on a Supply day, not Opposition time, but in a positive fashion provide time when he thinks that it is opportune to place facts before the House that ought to be available to hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1614.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-05", "file": "debates1956-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e804c91fb5071bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1645.0", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Griffiths", "preceding_text": "uced one penny. Hon. Members who have put down this Amendment to limit the spending power of the Minister over a period of years do not know what they are talking about. We are not talking about an engineering bench. In mining, there has to be considerable expenditure over a period of years before a penny is received in income. Therefore, hon. Members ought to have some sympathy with the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-05a.1645.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-09", "file": "debates1956-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "249539c9b2588267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-09a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS AND OVERSPILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about London?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I do not know what the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison) did about green belts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-09a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-09", "file": "debates1956-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "249539c9b2588267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-09a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS AND OVERSPILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which Newcastle?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "r of hon. Members have mentioned figures in relation to towns in their constituencies. We express the position in terms of families registered on the local housing lists. They are a little startling. In London, the number is 160,000, in Manchester, 22,000; in Birmingham, 64,000; in Leeds, 25,000; in Newcastle, 15,000; in Liverpool, 42,000; in Hull, 16,000; in Sheffield, 20,000; in Bristol, 12,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-09a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-09", "file": "debates1956-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "249539c9b2588267", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-09a.142.2", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW TOWNS AND OVERSPILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A friendly society.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "ut of it. We want to be sure that this national asset is not a sell-out in the same way that we lost the Trinidad Leaseholds, road transport and the rest. Will the Minister make a statement about what his future intentions are about ownership in the new towns? I will help him out. I am generally noted for my generosity towards the Minister and his Department. If he is in a jam, I can help him out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-09a.142.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-10", "file": "debates1956-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "047b6c36db2316ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-10a.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. G. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. G. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " banks. We were hoping that the savings banks run by municipalities, as long as they pay 2½ per cent. and comply with the other requirements applicable to trustee savings banks, would be given the same facilities. Clearly, they ought to have them. Therefore, while supporting the Economic Secretary in his view about the Seamen's Savings Bank, I would ask him why he has gone back on his word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-10a.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-10", "file": "debates1956-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "047b6c36db2316ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-10a.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. G. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. G. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "BD; per cent. and comply with the other requirements applicable to trustee savings banks, would be given the same facilities. Clearly, they ought to have them. Therefore, while supporting the Economic Secretary in his view about the Seamen's Savings Bank, I would ask him why he has gone back on his word—[ Interruption .] I think that would be the interpretation to be placed upon what has happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-10a.204.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-07-10", "file": "debates1956-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "047b6c36db2316ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-10a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "I am disappointed with my right hon. Friend's remarks. It only shows how dangerous it is, even in financial matters, to depart from purity. Look at the mess in which we can land ourselves. I do not want to land my right hon. Friend in further difficulties and therefore I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-10a.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-10", "file": "debates1956-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "047b6c36db2316ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-10a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman's choice of reading matter, of course, I must leave to him. I have not read that book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-10a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-10", "file": "debates1956-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "047b6c36db2316ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-10a.349.0", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to detain the House for more than a minute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-10a.349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-11", "file": "debates1956-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "567f08def41db62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-11a.399.4", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "The fact is, as the hon. Member quite definitely knows, that, taking the whole operation generally, the Commission has had a very fair and generous deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-11a.399.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-11", "file": "debates1956-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "567f08def41db62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-11a.428.0", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "ticular, the higher rates for the much heavier and larger public service and goods vehicles reflect, in part, their greater use of the roads and the greater wear they cause to the roads. I would, in particular, put this point to hon. Members opposite who have spoken. Any concession for public service vehicles would almost inevitably stimulate a campaign for a similar concession for goods vehicles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-11a.428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-11", "file": "debates1956-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "567f08def41db62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-11a.497.2", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "It is no use local authorities undertaking schemes unless they know what the interest rates will be. If local authorities do not undertake those schemes next year we shall have £200 million or £300 million left over. Is that the Government's objective?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-11a.497.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-11", "file": "debates1956-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "567f08def41db62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-11a.502.2", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "He was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, which was responsible for local government in those days, and it was his right hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) who put up the interest rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-11a.502.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-11", "file": "debates1956-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "567f08def41db62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-11a.505.0", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. W. Gibson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. W. Gibson", "preceding_text": "n give one illustration from the constituency of my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Brixton (Lieut.-Colonel Lipton), where there is a large housing scheme. The tender cost was £2¾ million two years ago. The housing committee chairman reported that by the time the authority has paid the interest on capital borrowed from the Public Works Loan Board it will have paid £6¼ million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-11a.505.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-11", "file": "debates1956-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "567f08def41db62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-11a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "up what is called rural reorganisation. Nothing is more appalling to the people who have to try to raise these sums of money and repay them than to be faced with these continual increases in interest rates. I am a Nonconformist but, together with the hon. Member for Wimbledon (Mr. Black), I am a governor of two Roman Catholic schools in his constituency—the Jesuit College and the Ursuline Convent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-11a.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-11", "file": "debates1956-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "567f08def41db62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-11a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "ide itself with the money, either by borrowing in the open market—which it cannot do at 2½ per cent.—or by the use of the printing press. I think that what would appeal to those hon. Members opposite who talk about the nation creating its own credit, and so forth, is that we should get rid of all the apparatus of the money market, and resort to the printing press and uncontrolled inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-11a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-11", "file": "debates1956-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "567f08def41db62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-11a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "d where the taxpayer comes to the assistance of local government it should be done by an open subsidy, sanctioned by Act of Parliament, and not by the concealment which would be implicit in any method of this kind. There is, I know, a fundamental difference between the two sides of the Committee on this. Hon. Members opposite believe in the feather bedding of local government, as I said on Friday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-11a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-11", "file": "debates1956-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "567f08def41db62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-11a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "subsidy, sanctioned by Act of Parliament, and not by the concealment which would be implicit in any method of this kind. There is, I know, a fundamental difference between the two sides of the Committee on this. Hon. Members opposite believe in the feather bedding of local government, as I said on Friday. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] They have not the same desire that we have, that the local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-11a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-11", "file": "debates1956-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "567f08def41db62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-11a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " to which I have not yet referred, and which no hon. Member on either side of the Committee has perceived. This is the second fallacy which I said that I must mention. It is supposed by hon. Members who are supporting this Amendment that, by passing it, they would secure the issue of loans from the Public Works Loan Board to local authorities at rates of interest not exceeding 2½ per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-11a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-12", "file": "debates1956-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4e7281ef61fd843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.581.2", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Raise them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend bear in mind that though the wages paid to these men who are being transferred are being reduced, they are still vastly greater than those paid to the agricultural workers whom I represent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.581.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-12", "file": "debates1956-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4e7281ef61fd843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Whilst utterly dissociating myself from the last part of the hon. Member's supplementary question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-12", "file": "debates1956-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4e7281ef61fd843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.583.3", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "There is no question whatever of discrimination. These undertakings by the nationalised industries, which we very much welcome, were given entirely on their own responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.583.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-12", "file": "debates1956-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4e7281ef61fd843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.587.0", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THERMO-NUCLEAR WEAPONS (TESTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister at least assure the House that when he visits Russia next year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-12", "file": "debates1956-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4e7281ef61fd843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.599.0", "colnum": "599", "heading": "CYPRUS (NEW CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "overnment. As to the possibility of starting a Constitution before law and order is restored, the decision we have taken, I should have thought, was the only possible one, not for any political or doctrinaire reasons, but because we cannot hope to negotiate a Constitution in conditions where terror still exists. So we have simply stated an obvious fact, that we are ready to discuss a Constitution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-12", "file": "debates1956-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4e7281ef61fd843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.599.2", "colnum": "599", "heading": "CYPRUS (NEW CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ", we have been dealing with it for some time. It is not our intention to raise the matter at N.A.T.O. now. We have, naturally, considered this, but the views of other people have also to be considered, and so far as I know that is the general international view of the matter. As to the other point, which was about consultation, Lord Radcliffe is going out and he will be available for consultation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-12", "file": "debates1956-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4e7281ef61fd843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.599.2", "colnum": "599", "heading": "CYPRUS (NEW CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nsidered this, but the views of other people have also to be considered, and so far as I know that is the general international view of the matter. As to the other point, which was about consultation, Lord Radcliffe is going out and he will be available for consultation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"With whom?\"] I think it is reasonable that Lord Radcliffe should have an opportunity for the widest consultation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-12", "file": "debates1956-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4e7281ef61fd843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "CYPRUS (NEW CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the statement he has made this afternoon has been received with the greatest possible satisfaction on this side of the House, and will be so received, I believe, among many outside the House? Will he bear in mind that the statement of the Leader of the Opposition and his reference to what led to the present terrorism amounts to one of the most highly treasonable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.600.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-07-12", "file": "debates1956-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4e7281ef61fd843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.600.5", "colnum": "600", "heading": "CYPRUS (NEW CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. L. Jeger", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister showed a great tenderness in his statement for our parvenu ally, Turkey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.600.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-12", "file": "debates1956-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4e7281ef61fd843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ight for the salaries of Members of Parliament to be linked with the salaries of civil servants. I do not think that is right. I think we are in a different category. Nor on balance do I think it right that there should be an outside inquiry into the salaries of Members of Parliament. When a decision can be taken I think it should be taken and will be taken on the responsibility of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-12", "file": "debates1956-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4e7281ef61fd843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Last night.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " a rise. You know, Sir, that the House of Commons has been unusually generous in this respect. We have always, very rightly, declined to frustrate or oppose any proposals for the benefit of anyone else on the ground that we were being badly treated ourselves. It is right that we should do so, but in the course of the last few years, we have granted rises to many people much better off than we are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-12", "file": "debates1956-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4e7281ef61fd843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "really cannot get away with that. Let me repeat two figures. If £225,000 is spent upon the Royal Yacht \"Britannia\", nobody suggests that is starting an inflationary spiral. If about £250,000 is spent upon bringing Members up from a state of poverty and giving them a decent sustenance, nobody would suggest that that is going to start an inflationary spiral. We have already lagged behind completely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-12", "file": "debates1956-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4e7281ef61fd843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "r Members listen to the evidence of great corporations, have before them lawyers with their briefs, marked probably 50 or 80 guineas a day, and use their judgment in matters of that kind, deciding, for instance, great questions of city boundary extensions. These are the jobs that are done by hon. Members away from the limelight. It is not always the most vocal Members who are the most useful ones.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-12", "file": "debates1956-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4e7281ef61fd843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.666.5", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is probably right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "es of Members of this House and that, on the whole, the public would welcome it. I am not so sure that this is the right view. I believe that there is a substantial section of the public filled with a great deal of envy and resentment against Members of Parliament. One cannot go into any pub without meeting one man who could run the affairs of the country much better than any Member of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.666.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-12", "file": "debates1956-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4e7281ef61fd843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.685.1", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": "nsioners. I find the opposition in my constituency very strong even at this time. Although the Government have said quite firmly that no increase is to be given at present, I have had a considerable number of letters from old-age pensioners on this subject. I say quite frankly that I could not possibly vote myself an increase in salary unless something substantial were done for old-age pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-12", "file": "debates1956-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4e7281ef61fd843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.685.1", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which everyone takes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": "ite firmly that no increase is to be given at present, I have had a considerable number of letters from old-age pensioners on this subject. I say quite frankly that I could not possibly vote myself an increase in salary unless something substantial were done for old-age pensioners. [ Interruption .] Hon. Members may think that a very strange point of view, but it is the point of view which I take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-12", "file": "debates1956-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4e7281ef61fd843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Mining.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "rk—with a junior Minister. I must say, without malice against junior Ministers, that if the junior Minister cannot manage solely on what he gets a fortiori the Member of Parliament cannot manage solely on what he gets. I have tried both and speak from experience. If it is said that of course a Member of Parliament can get out of the difficulty by taking up other work, I would ask, what other work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-12a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-13", "file": "debates1956-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "89cb5493161e06c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-13a.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No.2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "He does not gain anything upon the bonds unless he draws a prize. I cannot tell what the chances are of a top Surtax payer buying a Premium Bond and then drawing a prize. It seems to me that even Mr. Ladbroke could not tell one that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-13a.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-16", "file": "debates1956-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "5b70143c85397d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-16a.847.0", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "While completely endorsing this appointment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-16a.847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-16", "file": "debates1956-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "5b70143c85397d41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-16a.981.0", "colnum": "981", "heading": "CLASS VI", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Late?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevins", "preceding_text": "By leave of the House, I would reply to what has been said. I do not want at this late hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-16a.981.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-17", "file": "debates1956-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d159bdec84fcb161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-17a.1032.2", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Cordeaux", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Cordeaux", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the interest rightly taken in these beautiful and historic almshouses by people even so far distant as Islington, but may I ask whether my right hon. Friend realises that these old buildings are now quite unsuited for their present purpose but that nevertheless they occupy one of the richest building sites in Nottingham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-17a.1032.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-07-17", "file": "debates1956-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "d159bdec84fcb161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-17a.1145.0", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH IN SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Women and children first.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "ision. Surely, they will now repent. Surely, they will issue instructions to stop that increase. Worst of all, I read that the free milk to nursery school pupils is to go down while the price of the meals goes up. The amount to the nursery school pupils is to go down from two-thirds to one-third of a pint a day. These measures will save the State about £248,000 a year, it was announced last night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-17a.1141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-18", "file": "debates1956-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "00346f5697209c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-18a.1191.0", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": " I think that it is a perfectly fair point. There is a fundamental difference between the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues and the Government. The difference is that they quite sincerely believe—and I do not question it for a moment—that the right way to run a nationalised industry is to run it on strictly nationalised principles which, the whole country accepts, have, on the whole, failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-18a.1191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-18", "file": "debates1956-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "00346f5697209c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-18a.1191.3", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I do not think that this is a matter that we can properly debate at Question Time. I would only answer by saying that if the right hon. Gentleman will study the 1953 Act, the statements made by the Government on the modernisation plan, and the 1956 Act—and he knows what they contain—he will see that they have radically changed the organisation of the Commission to its advantage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-18a.1191.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-18", "file": "debates1956-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "00346f5697209c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-18a.1204.2", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Laughte .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I quite agree with the right hon. Member. Doncaster is a very bad town—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-18a.1204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-18", "file": "debates1956-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "00346f5697209c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-18a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLUM CLEARANCE (COMPENSATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James H. Hoy", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James H. Hoy", "preceding_text": "ings, and perhaps at the conclusion of this debate I shall be told that the debt has been completely written off. The hon. Member for Banff said that one of the needs of the industry was for the various sections to hammer out a policy. The complaint in my constituency is that there are far too many changes made in the top ranks of the White Fish Authority. The chairmanship is changing continually.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-18a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-18", "file": "debates1956-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "00346f5697209c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-18a.1332.2", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLUM CLEARANCE (COMPENSATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Nicolson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Nicolson", "preceding_text": "d, at the second shot, this figure of £200, for one reason only. They argued that the value of the ordinary person's weekend luggage has risen from £100 to £200, and that the innkeeper's liability should reflect that change. I honestly do not know what noble Lords put inside their weekend suitcases. Mine usually contains a pair of pyjamas, a tooth brush, a razor and that morning's copy of HANSARD.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-18a.1332.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-18", "file": "debates1956-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "00346f5697209c77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-18a.1348.1", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NOTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Simmons", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Simmons", "preceding_text": "conditions of the people who lived in them. I have represented three slum wards in the City of Birmingham in my municipal career. The first was called Rotton Park—a very descriptive name. I see the hon. Member for Nantwich (Mr. Grant-Ferris) smiling, because he knows the ward to which I am referring. These sanitary inspectors are enshrined in the hearts of all those who over the years have fought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-18a.1348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "How could the right hon. Gentleman tell the National Farmers' Union in his letter to it that he would take a severe view if a substantial increase was given, when in fact the Act of 1947 declares—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1388.1", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "In reference to the statement which the right hon. Gentleman has made about the date of the Summer Recess, and his further statement that he is unable at present to say when we shall return after the Recess, can the right hon. Gentleman give an assurance that the forthcoming Recess will not be as long as last year's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1391.9", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": " a constitutional advance, and that those had been rejected. All this is on record, and if it is any comfort to hon. Members opposite, or if they think they can get any fun out of it or make political capital out of it, I say at once that as one who was a member of both Labour Governments I accept my full share of the responsibility for what we did or did not do. Having said that, let me say this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1391.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1391.9", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which side is the right hon. Gentleman on?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": " about our relationship with Turkey, but before doing so I must point out that the principal repercussion, among many evil consequences of the present situation in Cyprus, and of our discussions in this Chamber, is that we are tending to take sides between the two countries. Some have become pro-Turkey, some have become pro-Greece. I said in an earlier debate that one of the evil consequences was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1391.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1397.1", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1408.0", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ertain speeches in this House. Does he realise how much mischief he has caused in the last five minutes? First, he has repeated what the Prime Minister said, that we stand by the principle of self-determination for Cyprus, and he has then proceeded to qualify it to such a degree as to destroy its entire validity. When that is read in Cyprus references will be made once more to \"perfidious Albion.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1409.0", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "said the other day to a European statesman that if only Britain would leave Greece and Turkey to settle the matter together they would do it speedily. I believe that to be completely untrue. Nevertheless, if Greece puts forward proposals, agreed with Turkey, designed to meet both Greek and Turkish apprehensions, Her Majesty's Government will certainly consider those proposals most sympathetically.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1409.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1416.2", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Davies", "preceding_text": "It goes on: I think the right hon. Gentleman will agree that there are some territories which cannot expect to be that. I am not going as far as that this afternoon, but I have said\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1416.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1419.3", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He has already sat down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. K. Zilliacus", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. and learned Gentleman for Montgomery (Mr. C. Davies) sits down, may I ask him a question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1419.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1432.3", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": ", and the reason for those wide reserve powers being written in was that in 1948 Greece was the victim of an all-out Communist onslaught supported by Albania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. In those circumstances it was perhaps not surprising that the British Government should have been a little hesitant. Since then there has been a complete transformation in the Balkans and in Greece.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1432.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1442.2", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He will get that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "think we all recognise now that Lord Radcliffe did not go to Cyprus to mediate or to negotiate. His task is to give constitutional expression to the Government's intention to make an offer of self-government to the Cypriot people. He does not need, for this purpose, to see either Archbishop Makarios or, necessarily, other leaders in the island. What he needs is to get the atmosphere of the island.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1442.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1446.5", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What would the hon. Member have done?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "an American-dominated organisation. There is, besides, such a thing as responsibility. The proposal of \"passing the buck\" to N.A.T.O. reminded me very forcibly of what, I think, will always remain as the one big blot on the otherwise impressive record of Ernest Bevin. That was his decision to throw the mandate of Palestine at the United Nations, thus placing the responsibility on to somebody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1446.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1480.1", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "preceding_text": "They would have Her Majesty's Government and this country run away, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1489.1", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "ight, because it is his final responsibility that is involved. It was the then Mr. David Lloyd George, I think, who said in the early days of the Prime Minister's glittering career at the Foreign Office that he was the best advertisement that the Fifty Shilling Tailors ever had. All I would say is that he is looking very shop-soiled as far as his policy has been presented to the Committee tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1491.1", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Charles Waterhouse", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Charles Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "hat the French have made is true, we ought to take control so that it cannot be said that we, who have just complaints about broadcasts from Athens and other places, are harming our friends in Algeria. I am glad that Her Majesty's Government have come out firmly on this line. I want to tell the Committee how relieved I am that self-determination is still a thing in the comparatively remote future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1510.3", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "y)—I do not know whether he was speaking on behalf of the Government, whether he was expressing a wish, or what he was doing—said he was delighted that the Government were going to grit their teeth and stand like granite. It looks more like a mass of Turkish delight. We have been watching the Government. As the Observer has been saying, they have had five different policies for Cyprus in one year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1510.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1510.3", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "as essential to an intelligent discussion of these matters that we should know how far the Government had moved. Our fears have been aroused once more by the speech of the right hon. and gallant Member for Leicester, South-East (Captain Waterhouse), because he told us that he was delighted to know that the Government had now decided to put Cypriot self-determination somewhere in the remote future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1510.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1513.1", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "t thought out their strategy, and they have not been able to apply their minds to it because they have wobbled around under pressure from their diehards. I am told—with what truth I do not know—that one of the reasons why the Prime Minister has been absent during this part of the debate is because he could not bear to look at the embarrassment in which he has put his colleagues sitting behind him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1516.1", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Channel Islands.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "ture to think that to a large number of National Service men and others who have gone recently to serve so gallantly in Cyprus this fact will have come somewhat as a surprise. If they have been following current controversies and controversies over the last few years, they may well have been entitled to imagine that Cyprus was an off-shore island of Greece instead of an off-shore island of Turkey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1516.1", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?'", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "he name of heroism in Cyprus, could really believe that we ought to abandon our responsibilities in the face of terror tactics of this kind. When hon. Gentlemen opposite talk about the persecution of children, and when I am asked by the hon. Lady the number of children who have been whipped in Cyprus in the course of the last year—a regrettable though inevitable innovation as I recognise it to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1516.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1520.0", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is the right hon. Gentleman doing?", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": " runs that it would lose the Archbishop his influence. As I said to him on the two occasions when I met him, separated by some months, to a prince of his Church leadership would appear to be better conducted in front of the Army rather than following behind, and to say that it would lead to a loss of influence seemed to me to show a very poor approach to the problems and obligations of leadership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1521.0", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " that the vast majority of the people in Cyprus want union with Greece. What they want, of course, is the recognition of the principle of self-determination. That has been fully granted, and last week my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister repeated that the principle of self-determination had been accepted by Her Majesty's Government. But the application of that principle is quite another matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-19", "file": "debates1956-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0182a8a483509fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1521.0", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "at the principle of self-determination had been accepted by Her Majesty's Government. But the application of that principle is quite another matter—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Of course it is another matter from our point of view, but I mean that it is another matter from the point of view of the average Cypriot. I was very interested in the remarkable speech of the hon. Member for Goole (Mr. G. Jeger).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-19a.1521.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-07-23", "file": "debates1956-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ca910b62cb76bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-23a.16.3", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They cannot afford it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " Friend upon the able administration which has produced this higher stock figure this year, may I ask him to consider the position of householders who are still doomed to a mere pittance of 34 cwt. of house coal per annum in the south of England and only 50 cwt. in the North of England? In view of the satisfactory stock position, why should not the householders have a little more coal this winter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-23a.16.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-07-23", "file": "debates1956-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ca910b62cb76bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-23a.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "If it is not available to the House, how is it that the Minister's own party could give the acreage in the document \"All the Answers\" during the last Election? If the Conservative Party, for personal party propaganda, could put forward fictitious figures at the General Election, can we not now, when the party is in power, have accurate figures?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-23a.19.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-07-23", "file": "debates1956-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ca910b62cb76bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-23a.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about Wales?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "May I say a word for England? In view of the harmful effect this letter has already had, and in view of the harmful effects it is likely to cause to industrial relations in the agricultural industry, will the Joint Parliamentary Secretary advise his right hon. Friend to withdraw the letter as soon as possible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-23a.21.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-23", "file": "debates1956-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ca910b62cb76bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-23a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "BRITISH MOTOR CORPORATION (STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "Last week the B.M.C. and, I believe, the engineering employers said, in consultations with the unions, that they insisted on deciding the size of the labour force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-23a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-23", "file": "debates1956-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ca910b62cb76bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-23a.44.3", "colnum": "44", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I understand the point the right hon. Gentleman is making. It was not a condition. It was at no time a condition that Germany should join N.A.T.O. If Germany, after a free election, took the decision to join N.A.T.O., certain things would follow. If Germany, as a result of a free election, made some other move, something else would follow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-23a.44.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-23", "file": "debates1956-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ca910b62cb76bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-23a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "I mean an arms embargo. I mean the Powers supplying no arms to anyone in the Middle East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-23a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-23", "file": "debates1956-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ca910b62cb76bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-23a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "y arrived at, to consider whether these bases can be of any use if they are within a hostile population, or whether we ought to have our bases, obtained by treaty rights, among friendly peoples. I urge the Government to give some consideration to the whole question of our Imperial fortresses. Otherwise, we shall have repeated time and again the sad story of Cyprus, which has not been finished yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-23a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-23", "file": "debates1956-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ca910b62cb76bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-23a.62.3", "colnum": "62", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " Russia to agree to an arrangement whereby there is no force in or near the Middle East except the British force in Cyprus? I think that that really is a quite useless line of approach to the difficulty of defending the Middle East. Now I want to turn to what is the far more important speech—if it is not unkind to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Blyth of me to say so—of the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-23a.62.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-23", "file": "debates1956-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ca910b62cb76bf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-23a.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "on the principle of free elections in Eastern Germany, it would lose the elections. The other reason is that if the point of free elections is conceded in Eastern Germany, where does the Soviet Union go after that? If it says, \"Very well. We will have free elections in Eastern Germany\", it is difficult for it to say \"No\" to free elections in Poland, in Hungary or in any other Iron Curtain country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-23a.155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-24", "file": "debates1956-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a08a4168817258b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "I am unaware of the quotation which the hon. Gentleman is making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-24", "file": "debates1956-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a08a4168817258b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.181.2", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Is it not absurd for a Secretary of State for War to say he is totally unaware of what the Minister of Defence has said?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.181.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-24", "file": "debates1956-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a08a4168817258b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.181.2", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Is it not absurd for a Secretary of State for War to say he is totally unaware of what the Minister of Defence has said? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] He said that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.181.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-24", "file": "debates1956-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a08a4168817258b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Prime Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " to the countries from which the oil is produced. If he is talking about the oil from the consumers' point of view, he is surely aware that every other country in Europe can say the same thing. This idea that the Middle East is a special British preserve because we get some of the oil from there, is so out of date that it is extraordinary that people like the hon. Member go on talking in this way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-24", "file": "debates1956-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a08a4168817258b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "t the exact words again, but we offered at the time of the reunification of Germany a security arrangement which was not conditional upon whether or not Germany joined N.A.T.O. Therefore, I think it is right to say that we envisage, however a reunited Germany determines her future, a security arrangement for Europe if it can be arranged. Having dealt with that, and I hope, made the position clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-24", "file": "debates1956-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a08a4168817258b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.248.2", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "Do we then have this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.248.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-24", "file": "debates1956-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a08a4168817258b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.249.2", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I do not think the right hon. Gentleman is entitled to expect an answer to that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.249.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-24", "file": "debates1956-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a08a4168817258b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "95–6.] On the basis of the advice available to me I believe that what I said was the truth. I was, of course, dealing with military strength. In forming the opinion which I expressed, I took into account many factors working in Israel's favour such as unified command, internal lines of communication, technical skill, the state of training and capacity to maintain and use the arms possessed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-24", "file": "debates1956-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a08a4168817258b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.260.2", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "out the attitude of the Government on the question of the force levels. The proposal of 1–1½ million was originally put forward as a final figure; I repeat, as a figure at the end of the phases of the Anglo-French Plan. If my recollection is right, the Anglo-French Plan had three phases. It was always considered that after that we might go on to further reductions, but at the period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-24", "file": "debates1956-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a08a4168817258b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.260.2", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not final.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "estion of carrying out agreed reductions—perhaps a half, then another quarter, then another quarter. Within that bracket of agreed reductions the end figure was 1–1½ million. It was after that, when we had carried out agreed reductions and had also carried out the complete elimination of all nuclear weapons, that we might go on beyond 1–1½ million to further reductions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-24", "file": "debates1956-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a08a4168817258b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nine million pounds.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ing action along the additional lines which we are doing. As far as S.U.N.F.E.D. is concerned, the right hon. Gentleman knows as well as I do that it will not be a success unless what are called the developed countries put up a very large amount of capital for it. He knows quite well that at present it is not within our power to put up the sort of sum which would make S.U.N.F.E.D. worth beginning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-24", "file": "debates1956-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a08a4168817258b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "preceding_text": "that there was great disunity in the Western world today and not nearly enough co-ordination of policy. I was mildly irritated by the prim little lecture which he gave to the Government upon the subject of what they say about disarmament. He implied that Ministers should not mention National Service in any shape or form. He said that it showed a great lack of responsibility on their part to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-24", "file": "debates1956-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a08a4168817258b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who wrote the article?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "preceding_text": " thirdly, that every country should have two years' military service indefinitely. It then said that the Germans would have to \"buck up\" and get their full Army into being as quickly as possible, and that the French would have to bring back their troops from Algeria as soon as possible. But even that was not enough. We must also have an enormous strategic bomber force, as a deterrent to total war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-24", "file": "debates1956-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a08a4168817258b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Test Match has ended\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "preceding_text": "metimes wonder whether the people of this country are at present seriously interested in anything but racing, cricket, Marilyn Monroe and Jack Spot. If we read the papers we might think that those are the all-absorbing topics. Here we are, in a half empty House of Commons, discussing the destinies of the human race. Everybody else is probably at the tape machine, looking at the Test Match results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-24", "file": "debates1956-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a08a4168817258b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Imposed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "preceding_text": " economic plan for the Middle East. I do not for one moment rule out the possibility of certain United Nations organisations playing their part in many of these economic plans in that part of the world, but I think it quite unrealistic to suppose that these Arab countries, which are at the moment intensely nationalistic, are going to accept an economic plan imposed upon them by the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-24", "file": "debates1956-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a08a4168817258b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILK (PRICE INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "preceding_text": "ich figure very largely in this matter. I should say that the overall milk consumption in this country is far greater today per head of the population than it has ever been. There is a more important factor than that. In relation to nutritional values, milk is the cheapest food we have today, even at present prices. It does justify an increase, because at its present price milk is still too cheap—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-24", "file": "debates1956-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a08a4168817258b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILK (PRICE INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "preceding_text": "Now, look here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-24", "file": "debates1956-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a08a4168817258b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILK (PRICE INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have gone mad.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dye", "preceding_text": "time when we are faced with the Australians. Today we have our greatest growing generation, the greatest ever number of children going through the schools of this country, and their parents are faced with this determined attitude on the part of the Government to do two things, to stabilise wages or bring them down, and to put up the cost of living. It seems to me that the Government are going mad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-24", "file": "debates1956-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a08a4168817258b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.366.2", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILK (PRICE INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "ut, to make that statement and at the same time to ignore the fact that we are giving extra family allowances to those very households, is not very helpful. We either have to look at the picture as a whole or else put a very unfair interpretation on what the Government are doing. I heard comments about the old-age pensioners. What have the Government done? Are they ignoring the old-age pensioners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.366.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-24", "file": "debates1956-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a08a4168817258b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.369.3", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILK (PRICE INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "I have already dealt with the question of families which have more than two dependent children. I have not the figures which the right hon. Lady asks for, but if she will allow me, her hon. Friend was suggesting that the consumption of milk was falling at an alarming rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-24a.369.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.386.3", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. Jones", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman recognise that there are many more important things to do on the Great Western than to pander to the whims of a conceited general manager?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "At the present time we do not propose to initiate any legislation on this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SEYCHELLES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "Is the Colonial Secretary aware that since then, there have been further complaints by a large number of leading citizens, both white and black, that Mr. Lyon is drunk, incompetent, vicious and corrupt, and brings British justice in the Colony into disgrace and contempt? Is he further aware that since I put this Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SEYCHELLES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "Is the Colonial Secretary aware that since then, there have been further complaints by a large number of leading citizens, both white and black, that Mr. Lyon is drunk, incompetent, vicious and corrupt, and brings British justice in the Colony into disgrace and contempt? Is he further aware that since I put this Question— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"]—is he further aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.418.2", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SEYCHELLES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "made by my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, East (Mr. E. Fletcher) about contempt of court in writing to a Member of Parliament? Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that allegations of corruption have been made? The right hon. Gentleman made or repeated a similar allegation yesterday about the Prime Minister of Eastern Nigeria. Are not Members of Parliament perfectly entitled if they think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SEYCHELLES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "s propriety. In matters of judicial charge of any kind, to associate the case or the arguments against one person with the argument against another person is not only very improper but grossly unfair to the people concerned. In regard to this case, the fact that the subject of the question is a chief justice clearly puts him in a category which hon. Members ought to remember when asking questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SEYCHELLES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that his reply today will cause the most painful impression in Nigeria? On the one hand, and not with the disapproval of the Opposition, an inquiry is instituted into charges made against a Prime Minister who is black.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.419.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.419.2", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SEYCHELLES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " character of this judicial person but against the action that he took when he knew that people were writing from the Seychelles to Members of Parliament; and the right hon. Gentleman is so complacent about this that he does not even suggest that he will now make inquiry to see whether he thinks an inquiry is necessary. The right hon. Gentleman is not doing himself or the House of Commons justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.419.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.419.5", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SEYCHELLES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Several Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.419.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.421.8", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SEYCHELLES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ame of Parliament. If a statement of such gravity is made concerning a judge who tries people day by day, accusing him of these offences or conditions, including corruption, is it not desirable in his own interest and in the interests of this House that the case should be cleared up as quickly as possible? Does it not affect the administration of justice in the Seychelles? May I ask your guidance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.421.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.421.8", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SEYCHELLES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "leared up as quickly as possible? Does it not affect the administration of justice in the Seychelles? May I ask your guidance—[ Interruption ]. Hon. Members opposite are not doing the House of Commons any good by this. Has it not always been established that when charges of this sort are made against judges the whole matter should be cleared up as quickly as possible in the interests of the judge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.421.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.422.3", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SEYCHELLES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have heard nothing so far of a sufficiently definite character to raise any issue of Privilege.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "s provide that type of education, with a teacher-pupil ratio such as we have, or that children in our secondary modern schools, ordinary children, have opportunities like those to be had in the private schools of one kind and another? It is hypocrisy to suggest it. The real test is whether or not hon. Members on both sides of the Committee are prepared to send their sons to the new county schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that there is no evidence of that at all, but if hon. Members care to go, I can tell them which local authorities they should visit to find that the 11-plus exam is no longer a matter of anxiety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "between us, as revealed in this pamphlet, goes very deep, as the hon. Member for Workington himself indicated. Hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite pick on the schools which are having the hardest time, those which they say differ only in name from the old elementary schools, and by arguing that the gap between the worst and the best is unconscionably great, they make a policy of levelling down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "Never mind, we will not enter into political matters. I conclude, not by boosting Socialist-controlled authorities, but by boosting an authority in my own constituency, the authority at Burton, where we have a happy position with regard to the supply of teachers. I know that Burton is a unique place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "e sought an interview with the director, and in a short time he has smoothed their way to a training college. The relationship with the authority is excellent. The amount per capita for books, stationery, apparatus and equipment is always above the average for the country. Teachers are encouraged to go on short-term and long-term courses, and the authority is generous with its expenses allowances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Idwal Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Idwal Jones", "preceding_text": "merce. That was during the war, in times of black-out and many other difficulties. In my village, I have known a class of miners meet for three years to study—to study what? Not mining, not art, not philosophy, not history, not geography, but New Testament Greek! That was in the school of which I was headmaster, in a village the name of which I hesitate to pronounce in this Chamber this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.565.3", "colnum": "565", "heading": "OVERSEAS RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "ober. There has been no reason why the Bill—if it is necessary at all, which, I must confess, I gravely doubt—could not have been introduced much earlier, at a time when we could give much more attention to it. The Government have wasted the time of the House, both in the last Parliament and in this Parliament, with all kinds of stupid Acts which the Government have failed to carry out afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.565.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.565.3", "colnum": "565", "heading": "OVERSEAS RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which ones?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "ld give much more attention to it. The Government have wasted the time of the House, both in the last Parliament and in this Parliament, with all kinds of stupid Acts which the Government have failed to carry out afterwards. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Which?\"] I could give a whole list of the Acts which occupied the attention of the House for many weary months and which have been sterile on the Statute Book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.565.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.565.3", "colnum": "565", "heading": "OVERSEAS RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not correct\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "will not talk about the groundnuts scheme, because they are getting their answer in what is now being done. They are getting their answer as well in the by-elections, and they will have a good many more answers like that. The point I am making is that what we on this side of the House are worried about is that the Government appear to be anxious to define the powers of the Corporation so narrowly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.565.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.568.3", "colnum": "568", "heading": "OVERSEAS RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": ". It happens to be a fact—hon. Members oposite must face it when they talk about inexperience; they do not seem able to read the facts as they are today—that in many part of the world, over almost half of mankind, the industrial developments which are taking place, the reconstructions that are going on and the economic progress that is being made, are done under State planning and State direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.568.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.568.3", "colnum": "568", "heading": "OVERSEAS RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "are frightened about. We on this side are anxious that we also should establish instruments by which there can be some national planning and State organisation in the dependent territories. I know that hon. Members opposite do not like it, because it does not give them a chance of loot. We shall have to provide hon. Members opposite with a list of what those countries are doing. We shall, in fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.568.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-25", "file": "debates1956-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7cc66db3c8c42212", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "OVERSEAS RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is hardly risk capital.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I am saying that it would not be possible to attract private enterprise risk capital to any of these territories for developing coal resources unless the Coal Board was prepared to guarantee a long-term market in this country, because there is nowhere else that the coal could be sold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-25a.582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-26", "file": "debates1956-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "05677e9d04690b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-26a.630.2", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "They are their staffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-26a.630.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-26", "file": "debates1956-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "05677e9d04690b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-26a.630.4", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether we are on the same point. I assume that the girls employed must be employed by the agency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-26a.630.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-26", "file": "debates1956-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "05677e9d04690b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-26a.630.5", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Would it not be advisable to ensure that all these agencies are registered and that the terms on which they work should be subject to Government control?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-26a.630.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-26", "file": "debates1956-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "05677e9d04690b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-26a.639.5", "colnum": "639", "heading": "BRITISH MOTOR CORPORATION (STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend say whether it is true, as the Press tells us, that pickets are now using violence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-26a.639.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-26", "file": "debates1956-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "05677e9d04690b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-26a.641.0", "colnum": "641", "heading": "BRITISH MOTOR CORPORATION (STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "enough to consult his right hon. and gallant Friend the Home Secretary about the very unhappy scenes which are now occurring outside factories in Birmingham? In particular, would he see whether something can be done to prevent the sort of Fascist provocation which I myself saw used there? Secondly, would he be good enough to see whether the police can be asked to limit their use of mounted police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-26a.641.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-26", "file": "debates1956-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "05677e9d04690b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-26a.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "BRITISH MOTOR CORPORATION (STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I beg to move the Adjournment of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-26a.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-26", "file": "debates1956-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "05677e9d04690b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-26a.642.6", "colnum": "642", "heading": "BRITISH MOTOR CORPORATION (STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "With respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-26a.642.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-26", "file": "debates1956-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "05677e9d04690b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-26a.654.0", "colnum": "654", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "That is the point I am making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-26a.654.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-07-26", "file": "debates1956-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "05677e9d04690b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-26a.658.3", "colnum": "658", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. If the point here is that the judge was appointed by Her Majesty, is it not time that the Colonial Secretary withdrew the remark he made yesterday about this official being appointed by the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-26a.658.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-26", "file": "debates1956-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "05677e9d04690b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-26a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. James Stuart)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whitewash.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. James Stuart)", "preceding_text": "f the questions that cover different ground from what was covered in those previous debates. The hon. Member for Motherwell (Mr. Lawson) repeated more than once that Scotland was lagging behind. That was the theme of his speech. I must confess I found the picture which he painted rather a gloomy one. On the other hand, I heard my right hon. Friend's speech referred to as painted in bright colours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-26a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-30", "file": "debates1956-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "72fc2508820c4dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-30a.910.8", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is the one who really has not been careful in her reading. She will see that the original Question she put to my right hon. Friend, which elicited the Answer giving 14s. 9d. related to milk and all welfare foods. On this occasion, she asked particularly about milk, and the Answer is as I have given it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-30a.910.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-30", "file": "debates1956-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "72fc2508820c4dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-30a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On a tandem.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": " as he usually does, as a sort of political Billy Graham. He is prepared to take anything from Ministers by an act of faith. He himself referred to the danger of being a wobbler on the roads. He is a political wobbler, as a National Liberal usually is. Consequently, he makes a speech with a little criticism in it and some exhortation, but when we go into the Lobbies he will be behind the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-30a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-30", "file": "debates1956-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "72fc2508820c4dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-30a.1048.4", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "I do protest at hon. Gentlemen opposite objecting to me reading from this Report at some length. I have been criticised for not advancing arguments during the debate, but now that I am replying to the points that have been raised, I am criticised because I am reading the Report at length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-30a.1048.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-30", "file": "debates1956-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "72fc2508820c4dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-30a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "he organisations have not been willing in these two years to act upon them that we consider that it is now necessary for the Government to take action. We gave them their opportunity for two years and now we think it necessary to take action. I am prepared to undertake that there shall be the fullest consultation between my right hon. Friend and these organisations before any regulations are made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-30a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-30", "file": "debates1956-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "72fc2508820c4dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-30a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. Harold Watkinson)", "preceding_text": "s in this House might just turn our minds for a moment to the great necessity there is, I believe, to get this Measure on the Statute Book before we rise for the Summer Recess. As every right hon. and hon. Member knows, any alterations which are made to it mean that the Bill will have to go back to the other place, and that perhaps means that it will have to be deferred another two months or more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-30a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-07-30", "file": "debates1956-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "72fc2508820c4dfe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-30a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is in front of the wrong meter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has read that once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-30a.1066.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-31", "file": "debates1956-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b5c882564e3637c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1129.4", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the trade delegation appreciated the reception which it received from industrialists in this country? Secondly, is he aware that in the two categories into which he divided the trade, millions of pounds worth of those categories covered things useless to Russia, like toothbrushes and boot brushes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1129.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-31", "file": "debates1956-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b5c882564e3637c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1148.2", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HYDROGEN BOMB TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister not think that an expression of anxiety by a serious body like this warrants more careful attention, and more courteous attention?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-31", "file": "debates1956-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b5c882564e3637c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1152.2", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIES (MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A sympathetic Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister not think that the Colonial Office is being overwhelmed today by events—in Singapore, Malaya, Cyprus, Malta, the Seychelles, the Caribbean, the Gold Coast and Nigeria? Is there not a case for a peripatetic Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1152.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-31", "file": "debates1956-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b5c882564e3637c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1153.3", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Minister whether he is aware that about 90 per cent. of the value of the total land of Great Britain is in the towns, which is not agricultural? Why does he shut his eyes to the fact that the landlords of the country have been robbing the people for years and will go on doing so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-31", "file": "debates1956-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b5c882564e3637c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1159.3", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was said two minutes ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the subject of the Suez Canal is the first subject for debate on the Third Reading of the Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill, that the House will have an opportunity of debating it at the earliest possible moment, and that there will be no time limit whatever on the subject?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-31", "file": "debates1956-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b5c882564e3637c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1180.3", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE AND MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Substantial.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If the hon. and gallant Gentleman will listen to the arguments as they build up as a whole, and then see if there are any gaps at the end, he will save a lot of time. The point of the last part of the Motion is that we ask the Government to put forward their specific plans for cutting costs in money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1180.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-31", "file": "debates1956-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b5c882564e3637c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1205.1", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE AND MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "shares the equitable burden of defence so far as manpower is concerned, and the Commonwealth countries equally, it is possible to make an approach to the abolition of National Service within a specified period. Here I want to reinforce the argument of my right hon. Friend the Member for Belper as to our intentions. There are, of course, bound to be various interpretations of the Opposition Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-31", "file": "debates1956-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b5c882564e3637c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1237.1", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE AND MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "what we heard on Monday of last week from the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister came to the House and solemnly assured us, with all the experience and information he has, and immediately following the Conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers, that in his view the danger of global war has now gone. He said, \"I am sorry I cannot say it has gone forever, but certainly it has gone for the present.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-31", "file": "debates1956-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b5c882564e3637c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1250.3", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE AND MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": " used National Service in this country rather like the French used the Maginot Line. It gave them an illusion of security. The French would not spend enough money to continue the Line either to north or south. Speeches about defence were made and France spent vast sums of money and then one day there came a Panzer division, which was not in their speeches, and that was the end of the Maginot Line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-31", "file": "debates1956-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b5c882564e3637c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1250.3", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE AND MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "on of security. The French would not spend enough money to continue the Line either to north or south. Speeches about defence were made and France spent vast sums of money and then one day there came a Panzer division, which was not in their speeches, and that was the end of the Maginot Line. [ Laughter .] Hon. Members laugh. We are to have a debate on Suez. I do not expect that I shall be called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-31", "file": "debates1956-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b5c882564e3637c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1250.3", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE AND MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "d are earmarked for N.A.T.O. In what way are the reserve forces organised at present? When these young men have done their National Service and come out, in the first year they do fifteen days' training, but if my right hon. Friends abolish National Service in 1958, they will turn it all off like a tap, and it must affect the organisation of our reserve forces. But that is not all. As a result of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-31", "file": "debates1956-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b5c882564e3637c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1285.3", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE AND MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "ppeared, I think, first of all publicly in The Times some time ago. The right hon. Gentleman has since spoken in this House, as have other Ministers, and the figures have so far never been corrected. If the right hon. Gentleman now says that we are all wrong, everybody who tried to add up the information that we got, does he not think it is about time that he told us where the troops are deployed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-31", "file": "debates1956-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b5c882564e3637c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1286.0", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE AND MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Because any foreign agent can discover it. Quite honestly, it is not good enough for Ministers to assert that figures are outrageously wrong when we have only their unsupported assertion about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-31", "file": "debates1956-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b5c882564e3637c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1286.0", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE AND MANPOWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Because any foreign agent can discover it. Quite honestly, it is not good enough for Ministers to assert that figures are outrageously wrong when we have only their unsupported assertion about it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Certainly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-31", "file": "debates1956-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b5c882564e3637c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1295.2", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECT COMMITTEE ON PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ten years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "I accept that, but the fact is that in any case it is a short period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-31", "file": "debates1956-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b5c882564e3637c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1296.1", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECT COMMITTEE ON PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "irs, from the Floor of the House. We all know that there are now so many Questions on the Order Paper, and there is such difficulty in Mr. Speaker seeing everybody who wants to ask supplementary questions, that the result is that we do not get sufficient supplementary questions, and hon. Members from other parts of the country are apt to be impatient with hon. Members from Scottish constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-31", "file": "debates1956-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b5c882564e3637c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECT COMMITTEE ON PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": "tish Standing Committee, not only from Scottish Members but from co-opted Members, of being called upon too often to do the Parliamentary work they pledged themselves to do when they sought the suffrages of the electors. The Government seek to aid them by bringing in a constitution which will reduce the number of the Committee and free their colleagues who want to promote their own private wealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-31", "file": "debates1956-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b5c882564e3637c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1311.3", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECT COMMITTEE ON PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "decided by the Cabinet and this House. In Britain, in the past—and this is the safeguard for our form of democracy—the military were subordinate to democracy. In Germany, however, it was the officer corps, the General Staff, who decided policy throughout their history, no matter what form of Government was in power. We need to examine more closely all Estimates, all expenditure and administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-31", "file": "debates1956-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b5c882564e3637c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1311.3", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECT COMMITTEE ON PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "edit of the Select Committee on Public Accounts, it summed up in this way: Your Committee were surprised to learn from the evidence given … that no attempt whatever is made by the Colonial Office to check the estimates submitted to them by Colonial Governments and that in the case in reference not even the sketchiest breakdown of the estimates was required. How long has this been going on?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-07-31", "file": "debates1956-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "b5c882564e3637c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1349.0", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECT COMMITTEE ON PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "e British people without hurling abusive epithets across the Floor or introducing personalities, believe that since the end of the war—and the tendency was there after the First World War—the views of the common people, expressed through their representatives in this House, have been growing less and less effective. It was not for any truculent or jocular purpose, and I hope I am believed in this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-07-31a.1349.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1371.5", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES, (BRITISH PARTICIPATION)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "lge me. I said: I must therefore tell the Council quite frankly that if it is not possible by some means to achieve stabilisation, by which I mean if we are to be involved in ever-increasing financial contributions, Her Majesty's Government will be obliged seriously to consider whether the United Kingdom can continue to participate in the United Nations programmes and in the Specialised Agencies\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1371.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1393.0", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I am perfectly satisfied with the excellent work achieved by the Governor of Aden, who has just left the Colony, and also the work that will be done by his successor who will arrive there shortly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that his assurance that he is perfectly satisfied with all the administrations for which he is responsible is not only becoming boring but more and more inaccurate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1407.0", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman would dissent from this—Section B of the Army Reserve can be called out for service outside the United Kingdom only by Proclamation; and if that procedure is used, the House of Commons must be recalled. But there is another section of the Army Reserve, Section A, which is not so protected. Some of my hon. Friends may think that I am wasting the time of the House in raising this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1407.0", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "ists are going about their jobs and may be thinking, as some hon. Members are thinking, of going away for the weekend with their families. There will be no Proclamation for them if they are needed, but merely, perhaps on Saturday morning, a notice delivered by the postman through the letter box. Then, instead of spending August Bank Holiday with their families, they will spend it in the Suez Area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1407.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1423.0", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "SEYCHELLES (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "here was one part of the Colonial Empire where justice should be above suspicion, it would be there. Yet, the Colonial Secretary, with knowledge of this widespread public opinion, defies that public opinion. One asks why it is. First, it is due to the Colonial Secretary's innate inability to have regard to the best interests of any of the Colonies for the administration of which he is responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "SEYCHELLES (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "preceding_text": "I must not deceive the House. I have not read the Report in full—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1429.3", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "SEYCHELLES (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fifty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "preceding_text": " collect a few signatures in a community like that for or against anybody. The hon. Member for Islington, East, no doubt inadvertently, misled the House when speaking of the petition as coming from the inhabitants of the islands. Although I have not seen the petition, I do not think that that is so. Perhaps in the course of this debate we can be told how many signatures there were to the petition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1436.6", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "SEYCHELLES (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Medlicott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Medlicott", "preceding_text": "That may be so. I have not mentioned the Report, and therefore the hon. Member is not in a position to cross-examine me about it. I have said that, in effect, this debate is an attack upon the Chief Justice. He is, by implication, held in some way to blame for these other matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1436.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1436.6", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "SEYCHELLES (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Medlicott", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"So it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Medlicott", "preceding_text": "n the course of the petition—and this is one of the facts by which we can test the value of the petition—reference was made to the appeals which had been made against the judgments of Mr. Justice Lyon, and the petitioners, supported by the two legal gentlemen, were obviously under the impression that the appeal situation was such as to cast a serious doubt upon the competence of the Chief Justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1436.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1438.3", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "SEYCHELLES (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"For Islington, East.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. May I ask your advice, Sir Charles, on this matter? The hon. Member for Islington, West—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1438.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1439.0", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "SEYCHELLES (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Medlicott", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"We have already had this.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Medlicott", "preceding_text": "tical error in reading out the petition because, as has been ruled from the proper quarter, it is in order to answer anything which is referred to in the petition. If I may be allowed to give the relevant figures and facts—and they are, after all, of some consequence—in the seven years during which Mr. Justice Lyon has been Chief Justice of the Seychelles, there have been tried by him 1,561 cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1440.2", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "SEYCHELLES (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "He is perfectly entitled to say nice things about him, but he is not entitled to reflect upon his character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1441.5", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "SEYCHELLES (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Medlicott", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBERS: \"Not once.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Medlicott", "preceding_text": "I think I have been fairly generous in giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1441.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1454.4", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "SEYCHELLES (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "No suggestion of that kind was made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1454.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1459.1", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "SEYCHELLES (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"What does the hon. Member want?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "en made on the Chief Justice, although hon. Members opposite have not taken the opportunity to put down a substantive Motion. They have so over-painted the picture and so over-egged the pudding that if the administration of justice in the Seychelles is anything like that which they have attempted to portray, I am astounded that there has been so little evidence of any scandal or maladministration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "SEYCHELLES (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"How does the hon. Member know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "here is a small population, there is bound to be tittle tattle. In addition to that, they are largely influenced by the Roman Catholic Church, with the resulting strains and stresses. I should be amazed if there were not this tittle tattle, but I am even more amazed at the attitude of hon. Members opposite, who have dared to suggest that there is anything in these cases which can be substantiated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1461.3", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "SEYCHELLES (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "uld have been a higher duty levied on this wine than was in fact arrived at, but then it would clearly have been impossible to have sold it at a reasonable profit. Had the duty been as high as it should have been there is every reason to believe that nothing approaching the same quantity of wine would in fact have been imported; and so we cannot claim that the £90,000 is money lost to the revenue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1461.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1476.1", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "SEYCHELLES (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend the Member for Swindon and the question of Privilege obviously did not arise in his mind because he gave that answer. He told my hon. Friend that if he goes to the Seychelles and asks to see the Archbishop he will not be allowed to do so. I want to know if a member of the Privy Council went to the Seychelles and asked to see Archbishop Makarios what would the right hon. Gentleman say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1480.3", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "SEYCHELLES (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " and I say, in conclusion, that I am very sorry about this. When the right hon. Gentleman has to deal with homogeneous African populations, his reputation is as good as the reputation of his predecessors, but when he has to do with plural communities, his reputation is becoming rotten. We know that when he has to make any judgment or choice between black and white, he invariably chooses the white.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1480.3", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "SEYCHELLES (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Gentleman has to deal with homogeneous African populations, his reputation is as good as the reputation of his predecessors, but when he has to do with plural communities, his reputation is becoming rotten. We know that when he has to make any judgment or choice between black and white, he invariably chooses the white. [HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I say \"Yes.\" It has been the case in Kenya.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1508.1", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "SERETSE KHAMA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "remendous importance to the whole future of Africa. If we are to influence the Union of South Africa it would be by making those Protectorates models of racial equality and of educational, social and political advance. It is a tragedy that, instead of Bechuanaland appearing like that to the rest of Africa, it has become a symbol of the colour bar because of our treatment of Seretse and Ruth Khama.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-01", "file": "debates1956-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "26832c97a23fe744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1550.3", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "DAY NURSERIES (MILK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "Milk is a very essential food for the young, but if any food is too cheap we do not appreciate it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-01a.1550.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-02", "file": "debates1956-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "93a3d40dee117833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1579.3", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "isation is largely composed of ex-Fascists who have in turn disturbed meetings of the Prime Minister, Father Huddlestone and my right hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan)? Is he further aware that the subjects which have been distributed by the education authority include the following—\"The Case Against Scuttle\" and \"Why Britain should Stand Firm in Cyprus, Singapore and other Places\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1579.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-02", "file": "debates1956-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "93a3d40dee117833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1600.1", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "SEYCHELLES (MEMBERS' CORRESPONDENCE AND VISITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "rocedure, it did remind me that in another connection you, Mr. Speaker, were good enough to consider a matter which I raised with you in 1954, whether the correspondence of hon. Members was privileged when it was divulged by a Government Department to a third party. I agree that it is not a strictly comparable position. I want to remind the Lord Privy Seal, who took some part in those proceedings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-02", "file": "debates1956-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "93a3d40dee117833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1617.1", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Charles Waterhouse", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Charles Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "there must no longer be any term of years and that for all time Britain will not tolerate the unfettered control of the Canal by any one country. That includes Egypt. How is that to be done? The Leader of the Opposition suggested one or two ways, one of which is an international conference. It is not for me or for anybody on the back benches to suggest, in detail, ways to Her Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-02", "file": "debates1956-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "93a3d40dee117833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1645.3", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "ies, and by being prepared to pay a fair price. I want to refer to this point again in a moment. It is clear that we cannot safeguard these three interests of the British people by the kind of intemperate action recommended by Government supporters and their friends in the Press during the past week. The course suggested by the noble Lord the Member for Dorset, South, who has now left the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1645.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-02", "file": "debates1956-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "93a3d40dee117833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1645.3", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "w any reason in international law why the Egyptian Government should not nationalise the Canal. The Government have not been able to show it; The Times in an article today by its legal correspondent has not been able to show it; on the contrary, it has declared that in international law there is no reason why the Egyptian Government should not nationalise the Canal on payment of fair compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1645.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-02", "file": "debates1956-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "93a3d40dee117833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1645.3", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "y by its legal correspondent has not been able to show it; on the contrary, it has declared that in international law there is no reason why the Egyptian Government should not nationalise the Canal on payment of fair compensation. [ Interruption .] The Egyptian Government have offered fair compensation, or what is regarded internationally as a fair basis of compensation. There is as yet no reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1645.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-02", "file": "debates1956-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "93a3d40dee117833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1648.1", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "ternational control of the waterway under the authority of the United Nations. What we cannot do today in the modern world is to take up a viewpoint which says that any single nation or group of nations can arrogate to itself the right to exercise supra-national powers over any other country. That is no longer possible. That is imperialism by whatever country or group of countries it is practised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-02", "file": "debates1956-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "93a3d40dee117833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1649.3", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And by America.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "hares in the Suez Canal Company. Seventy-five years after Disraeli's death—the seventy-fifth anniversary was in April this year—we find a situation which would have caused him considerable pain. When he died he had won for us Cyprus, the Suez Canal shares, and had made Her Majesty Queen Victoria Empress of India. That title has gone, we are under pressure from the Greeks and hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1649.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-02", "file": "debates1956-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "93a3d40dee117833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1653.1", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Out of the red.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "easure. That was another case in which one Government—if it were a Government, which is very doubtful; more likely it was one man—unilaterally decided that an agreement which had been freely entered into between the Government of his country years before and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company should be repudiated. He decided that, just out of the blue, he would repudiate it and nationalise the Company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-02", "file": "debates1956-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "93a3d40dee117833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1656.1", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " be guilty of a libel. This is not our way of doing things. It is not only not our way of doing things; it is not a civilised, international way of conducting public business. Here we have the case of an existing international concern. We are in it, the French are in it, the Egyptians are in it—and now, I gather, the United States are in it, which I had forgotten, as part proprietors of the hotel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-02", "file": "debates1956-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "93a3d40dee117833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1663.2", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I was in the course of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1663.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-02", "file": "debates1956-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "93a3d40dee117833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1663.4", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I was in the course of putting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1663.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-08-02", "file": "debates1956-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "93a3d40dee117833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1664.1", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He did not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman used the same expression, I did not catch it, but it would be out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-02", "file": "debates1956-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "93a3d40dee117833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1703.5", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "I should have drawn the distinction much more firmly. I say that there is a distinction between nationalism and patriotism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1703.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-02", "file": "debates1956-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "93a3d40dee117833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1703.5", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": " we have no information of any kind of this nature, and there is every reason to have grave doubts about the military action that the Government have been talking of today. We have every reason to be doubtful about the way in which they are conducting the affairs of the country, even supposing that their policy be right. Let me now turn to a more constructive side of what the Government have said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1703.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-08-02", "file": "debates1956-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "93a3d40dee117833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1706.4", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "port in the United Nations. I underline that too. I want to make that perfectly clear to right hon. Gentlemen opposite that otherwise they will not get the country behind them; I warn them of that. The real solution to this problem must be peaceful. I am prepared to take a tough line to make this Canal an international waterway. I am prepared to take it to the toughest possible point short of war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-08-02a.1706.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.2.3", "colnum": "2", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "lowed to prevail. There was wide acceptance of the proposition that to prevent any interference with the free use of the Canal, and to maintain the efficiency of its operation, the Canal should be placed under an international system designed to secure the rights of all users. There was also acceptance of the view that the precautionary military measures taken by the Government had been justified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.2.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.10.1", "colnum": "10", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rovisional organisation of this kind, designed to meet an emergency, cannot be in a position to provide for the major developments which are becoming urgently necessary if the Canal is to continue adequately to serve the interests of its users and we also recognise that the attitude of the Egyptian Government will have an important bearing on the capacity of the association to fulfil its functions", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.10.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.11.1", "colnum": "11", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—with the operations of the association, or refuse to extend to it the essential minimum of co-operation, then that Government will once more be in breach of the Convention of 1888.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.11.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.11.1", "colnum": "11", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member : \"What a peace maker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—with the operations of the association, or refuse to extend to it the essential minimum of co-operation, then that Government will once more be in breach of the Convention of 1888. [HON. MEMBERS : \"Resign.\"] I must remind the House that what I am saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.11.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.11.5", "colnum": "11", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—either through the United Nations, or by other means, for the assertion of their rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.11.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.13.3", "colnum": "13", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"What have they been offered?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If these pilots decide to leave Egypt it will clearly, in our view, be the responsibility of the Egyptian Government. It is they who created conditions in which these men have taken the decision that, despite their many years' service on the Canal and their many personal ties, they feel that they must leave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.13.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"What about Israel?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "—that while there should be proper compensation, while Egypt should get a fair return financially, the users of the Canal should be assured that the charges would be reasonable, that there would be no discrimination, that the Canal would be properly developed, and that there would be full freedom of passage. All those things are agreed and, indeed, those things are agreed by President Nasser, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "be disastrous. Such a step involves abandoning the whole basis which we have accepted and which is set out in the Charter of the United Nations. It means that in future other countries will have an open invitation from us to do the same. It means that if, for instance, in the next few weeks North Korea were to launch a further attack on South Korea, we should not be able seriously to object to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Khrushchev said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "the view also of Canada. I ask hon. Members to consider something even more serious. Have the Government really thought out and seriously considered what Soviet Russia is likely to do if we go to war to impose a solution by force on Egypt? The Russians may not come in, but is it not extremely probable that within a very short time indeed there would be Russian volunteers sent to the help of Egypt?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "orcibly under Communist control. That is the greatest danger of all. If the area is simply destroyed, if a savage war is conducted there, can there be any doubt that that would be the greatest breeding ground of Communism that there could possibly be? I am, of course, not saying, nor have we ever said, that there may not be circumstances in which force is justified. I have said it again and again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Israel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " \"Tell us.\"] I will tell hon. Members. If they have read the Charter, they should know. Of course, we should be justified in using force if in fact the United Nations, by its collective decision, so decided. We were perfectly justified in using force to resist aggression in Korea. We should also be justified in using force if, under Article 51, we or Allies of ours were the subject of Arab attack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "be a very clever legalistic statement—I should very much doubt its validity myself—but it is not likely to convince anybody that this kind of step at this kind of time is justified. We are told that if the Egyptian Government refuse co-operation our Government reserve the right to take further steps, either through the United Nations or by other means. What do the Government mean by \"other means\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"That was not what was said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "tes itself will employ pilots in this way and will be prepared to send its ships through the Canal? I think that we must have an answer to that question. I would remind the Foreign Secretary of what President Eisenhower said this morning on the use of force ; it hardly seems consistent with the statement that the United States contemplates that should Egypt not co-operate, force will be justified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"What steps?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " meanwhile. It is a different situation if President Nasser, in the absence of any provocation from us, blocks the Canal. I am pleading for an absence of provocative action. I want to make that plain. If the Canal is not blocked and traffic can go on we can certainly say -I think we should—that we do not think that Colonel Nasser is going to be able to develop it and we can take steps accordingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "time limit has expired, and it is really a plain invitation to stop the use of the Canal. Again I ask, were the British Government party to this decision, as they are said in the Press to have been? If they were, since they are talking about other people breaking the Convention of 1888, I would ask the Government if they have considered whether they are not themselves in breach of that Convention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Who started it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "n point by the British and French Governments to the pilots, asking them, despite their difficult conditions, to do everything they can to keep the Canal open. It is obvious that if the Canal traffic is blocked in this way, we should want everybody to accept that it was the direct result of Colonel Nasser's action and not the result of any provocation from Britain and France. That is the argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.15.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.31.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "But, personally, he reported only to the chairman of the Conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"It was done.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "But summoned them back again in exactly the same way as they were summoned originally? I do not know why the Prime Minister should be surprised. I should have thought that that was the right thing to have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "n all the stronger coming from 22 nations, all combining together and saying, \"We have done our best, 18 of us, in complete agreement, and here we are now coming before you as the Council of the World in the United Nations and saying 'You will have to deal with this matter.' \" Instead, for some reason or other, Her Majesty's Government and France decided to go alone, for that is really what it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir V. Raikes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir V. Raikes", "preceding_text": "nt at almost any cost. Secondly, he was encouraged by the voices of those in this country who had been saying in the Press, and on the platform, \"Everything but force, but never force.\" I say deliberately that those who have taken the opportunity to say time after time that in no circumstances should there be force—I am not including the Leader of the Opposition—have done more harm to the chances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.58.3", "colnum": "58", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "at that feeling is very real. There is a great mass of opinion that the Prime Minister, after allowing placards of his features to go on the hoardings at the last Election as a peacemaker, is, now that the Election is over, leading us into very different waters. I ask all hon. Members opposite to realise that we have the combined determination of the Trades Union Congress in its recent resolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.58.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.59.3", "colnum": "59", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Why should he be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "The criticisms made of the Prime Minister I will also touch on later, but I should like to say that I think the Prime Minister has made a very great speech indeed, which will be widely acclaimed throughout the country. I am sorry that the Leader of the Opposition is not in his place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.59.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.61.0", "colnum": "61", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "very doubtful value\" because of Egypt's attitude to Israeli shipping and Nasser's reply to the United Nations Resolution of September, 1951. Secondly, he said that his confidence in Nasser was \"profoundly shaken\" by the manner of seizure by force and the promise to finance the Aswan Dam to the tune of 100 million dollars a year which he described as equal to the \"whole gross revenue of the Canal\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.61.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.61.0", "colnum": "61", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "e and the promise to finance the Aswan Dam to the tune of 100 million dollars a year which he described as equal to the \"whole gross revenue of the Canal\"—[Hon. Members : \"Hear, hear.\"] Well, I was just repeating these things. The third reason why the right hon. Gentleman was unhappy was because he thought the episode must be recognised as \"part of the struggle for the mastery of the Middle East\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.61.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.61.0", "colnum": "61", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "00 million dollars a year which he described as equal to the \"whole gross revenue of the Canal\"—[Hon. Members : \"Hear, hear.\"] Well, I was just repeating these things. The third reason why the right hon. Gentleman was unhappy was because he thought the episode must be recognised as \"part of the struggle for the mastery of the Middle East\"—[HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"] That is still agreed, is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.61.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.61.0", "colnum": "61", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "oss revenue of the Canal\"—[Hon. Members : \"Hear, hear.\"] Well, I was just repeating these things. The third reason why the right hon. Gentleman was unhappy was because he thought the episode must be recognised as \"part of the struggle for the mastery of the Middle East\"—[HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"] That is still agreed, is it? [HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"] That is rather an extraordinary thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.61.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"They are on the record.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Member does not like it. I make no apology to the House for reading the quotations, as I wanted them to be on the record in today's debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.65.4", "colnum": "65", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": " that my speech is getting very long. Before getting on to the Suez question in its wider context, I wish to say a little about the United Nations. It is a very grave mistake, indeed at any time to use the United Nations Organisation as an excuse for not defending vital British interests. That does not mean that I do not want to see the United Nations working. I want to see the machinery improved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.65.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.67.5", "colnum": "67", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunter", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.67.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.68.7", "colnum": "68", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "ppression of the toilers, and has been used by foreign colonisers to enslave the peoples of the East. … In the U.S.S.R. Islam exists only as a survival of one of the idealogical forms of exploiter society. I wonder how many people in Egypt realise the official attitude of the Soviet Government to the 21 million or more Moslems now living within their borders. I turn over half-a-dozen pages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.68.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.75.3", "colnum": "75", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Since when?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": " if we were to establish free passage for our ships, first, I do not think that the oil would come through because the Arab countries would not allow it to do so, and, secondly, there is no knowing where events would lead. Perhaps Russia, and certainly India, would take a view which would lead to the possible destruction of much of the Commonwealth which many of us on these benches have supported.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.75.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir James Hutchison", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER : \"An explanation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir James Hutchison", "preceding_text": "king the speeches which they have done. I took down in longhand, as best I could, the words of my right hon. Friend. I understood him to say that the Government held themselves free to take other steps, either through the United Nations or by any other means, and that he had, jointly with the French Government, addressed a letter to the President of the Security Council. What do hon. Members want?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.104.5", "colnum": "104", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Through the United Nations.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "l Nasser carries out his avowed intention of attempting to eliminate the State of Israel he will allow ships to go through the Canal to the aid of Israel? I remind the House that the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition, in response to an intervention of mine this afternoon, said that if Colonel Nasser attacked Israel the party opposite would support going to war with him immediately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.104.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, I have given way a great deal already. As soon as he has achieved that, Nasser is thrown back on his final demand and need. He will have set himself up as the leader and king of the Arab world. Right hon. and hon. Members should remember the background that Egypt alone is a poor, impoverished State whose population is increasing at the rate of a million a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.107.3", "colnum": "107", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Edelman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Does my hon. Friend really believe that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Edelman", "preceding_text": "The personal evidence given by the hon. Member for Gillingham (Mr. Burden) has been an important contribution to this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.107.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.114.3", "colnum": "114", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"The Charter.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "scendent in this issue, I believe can lead again to that unity of temper which is always desirable in the conduct of our foreign affairs, whichever party is in power, and which was never so much necessary as it is today on this great issue. What is it that is at stake? If we come to consider it, it is really this : are we to live under a régime of international anarchy or international law?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.114.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Who supported him?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "e ancient party controversy. I can speak with a perfectly clear conscience myself ; hon. Gentlemen who may have then voted against rearmament should perhaps search their consciences. Again Mussolini appeared to the world as an inconsiderable force ; and, when it came to the struggle, so he proved to be. But what ruin and misery he brought on the world before being shown to be the lath that he was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"It would be cheaper than war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "ations. But what does the right hon. Gentleman say is to be done if that fails? What it comes to is this. He says we must accept what Nasser has done and cut our coat accordingly. We must build these vast and expensive tankers, and we must accept the cost to us. That would be serious enough. But what would be much more serious would be that an act of international lawlessness would have succeeded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.120.3", "colnum": "120", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon", "preceding_text": "t is a breach of international order What then? One is not bound to accept an international pilot when a national pilot can take one safely and conveniently through the Canal. There is no reason at all why we should not, if we think it better, use national pilots. When we consider that, let us remember what the alternative is. The international pilots are probably going to resign from the service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.120.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "preceding_text": "I think that it is a matter for great regret that this issue, which is one of the greatest which has confronted the country for a very long time, has been made a party issue in the debate today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "preceding_text": "ue, as has been suggested, to say that he did not consult, the representatives of the 18 Powers. He consulted them before he left, he consulted their ambassadors in Cairo when he was there, and he consulted them again when he got back. Now we have a new proposition put forward by the Prime Minister, the Canal users' association. I am not—unfortunately for them—a member of Her Majesty's Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Within 48 hours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "preceding_text": "of his speech, a fascinating speech as always, the hon. Gentleman said at one moment that we were in collusion in this plan with the United States to provoke an incident which might lead to war. And almost before the words were out of his mouth he was saying that President Eisenhower was so determined to prevent the use of force that, if we attempted to use it, he would order us out of the Canal.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "preceding_text": "itten a letter to the President of the Security Council drawing his attention to the Suez Canal problem. He added that it places us in a position to ask for urgent action if that becomes necessary. I do not see how we could have gone beyond that, in view of this new canal users' association, this new plan which must certainly be tried before this matter is formally presented to the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-12", "file": "debates1956-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "01e1176418a5e257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "preceding_text": " not think that any hon. Member will be prepared to stand by and see the State of Israel destroyed with Communist arms ; but if we allow Nasser to get away with this action, that is the inevitable next step. So far as Nasser is concerned, I believe that we must stand absolutely firm on the principles which have been laid down by the Prime Minister. We have both been in this House a very long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-12a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.161.8", "colnum": "161", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "ind us only of one thing—of the speeches of Hitler before the war.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 2nd August, 1956; Vol. 557, c. 1620.] On the first of the right hon. Gentleman's points, the maintenance of this international highway, I should have thought there would be agreement everywhere that it is vital to Western Europe, but much more than that, that it is vital to the oil-producing countries themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.161.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.161.8", "colnum": "161", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": " plan or even to negotiate within the framework of it. What would have happened if we had gone to the Security Council and put the plan to it? It is obvious what would have happened ; there would have been a Soviet veto and no resolution at all would have been passed. What next? It may be said that we should then have called a special Assembly of the United Nations. What would have happened there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.161.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.166.3", "colnum": "166", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "d after innumerable amendments tending to whittle it down. Right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite have their own recollection of what happened when these procedures were used in regard to Abadan. I say that even if the necessary majority had been prepared even for a recommendation, it would have taken infinitely longer than it took us at the meeting of the 22 Powers to get this international plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": ", it is right, I maintain, to try to keep them to work for an organisation which they are prepared to serve. Thirdly, although the dues are to be paid to the organisation, Egypt will receive appropriate payment for the facilities made available. Of course, there are grave practical difficulties in carrying out the scheme—of course there are. But those practical difficulties are not of our seeking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"What about Abadan?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "king place, and no wise Government would set out step by step and stage by stage exactly how they proposed to protect the interests of the country. To do that would be the negation of diplomacy and would make all negotiation quite futile. My sorrow in this debate is that the Leader of the Opposition has yielded to the temptation of trying to use a grave international situation for party advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"America?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "y—were they not provocative? What did he say when he told us rather skimpily about the canal users' association? Before any negotiations took place, before the proposals were put to the Egyptians, the Prime Minister in this House warns Egypt in advance that if they refuse to grant facilities which the canal users' association will demand, we—that is, the three Powers, Britain, America and France.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "ery popular in one or two quarters if this conference to which the Foreign Secretary has referred is called upon to deal with this new idea of a users' committee. I do not understand what has changed the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister, with a long and distinguished record in the political and diplomatic field, has, always been an upholder of the United Nations and of the old League of Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "s changed the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister, with a long and distinguished record in the political and diplomatic field, has, always been an upholder of the United Nations and of the old League of Nations—[HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"]— Oh yes, indeed he has, and he has paid great service and lip-service to the idea of collective security. In fact, as recently as 21st February, 1946, which is postwar", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "many at that time and Nasser's seizing of the Canal within Egyptian territory. All the Prime Minister did in talking in that fashion was done, of course, to build up Nasser and make him appear a very much more powerful man than he is. The Prime Minister yesterday rather over-egged the pudding on this matter of appeasement. The truth is that he is out on a limb and he does not know how to get back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"What other means?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "on to fulfil its function. Then he went on to say—and I repeat the words I quoted at beginning—that if the Egyptian Government should seek to interfere … or refuse to extend to it the essential minimum of co-operation.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 12th September, 1956 ; Vol. 558, c. 11.] the Government, and others, will be free to take such further steps, through the United Nations or by other means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Where is the money coming from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "eady conceded that the right of Egypt to own the Canal is accepted. That was conceded in the Declaration made in the exchange between Mr. Menzies and Colonel Nasser. There is no disagreement on compensation. Nasser's declaration shows that he is prepared to agree to compensation. The 18-Power plan proposed that there should be compensation. On the principle of compensation, there is no difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "r political reasons the Egyptian Government would not carry out its obligations on non-discrimination and tolls. That is a fair statement of what is agreed and where the apprehensions arise. The differences are so narrow as to the method by which we can ensure that these undertakings are carried out that if this matter were referred to the United Nations, who could set up an appropriate committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": " day there should not again be a convention, not with a particular group of Powers but with the United Nations itself. There is no reason why we should not create some precedents if we are wanting to try to build up international law and order. If a convention that was agreed with the United Nations were broken, all the resources of the United Nations would be available to deal with such a breach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.182.3", "colnum": "182", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "fectly honourable exception—of a few Members, are in agreement. The question is : in what circumstances should force be used? In the first place that must, in any democratic country, be for the Government to decide. Of course, their view must be endorsed by Parliament, but it is the duty of the Government, and the Government alone, to decide, and the Government must be trusted to do what is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.182.3", "colnum": "182", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "he Government to decide. Of course, their view must be endorsed by Parliament, but it is the duty of the Government, and the Government alone, to decide, and the Government must be trusted to do what is right. [HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"] As a proposition, I believe that there is no responsible Member of Parliament who would differ in principle from what I have said. So far, we are in entire agreement.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.182.3", "colnum": "182", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": " far, we are in entire agreement.—[HON. MEMBERS : \"NO.\"]—How then does the present situation in this House arise? It arises, I believe, largely if not mainly because a number of Opposition Members and a number of people in the country have a belief, which I believe to be a perfectly unjustified and wrong belief, that the Government intend to use force in violation of our international obligations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.182.3", "colnum": "182", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Why not say so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "the position that under our international obligation, if there was a refusal to comply with the request made to set up this organisation and to carry it into effect, we should be bound, before resorting to force, to refer the matter to the Security Council. I do not believe that the Foreign Secretary, the Prime Minister or any other member of the Government has ever thought or suggested otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.182.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "Of course I cannot speak for anyone except myself, and I speak with no authority except that I happen to know that a person of vastly more authority in these matters than myself, namely, the President of the International Court of Justice, has said what I believe to agree precisely with what I have said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.186.3", "colnum": "186", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "that the position which I have suggested arose. We should not have a great deal of opposition against us. We should have an enormous amount of support behind us, and I believe that we should have it in the House as well. What a fine thing it would be if, after all this heat has been generated, we should end with the position that we all agree that we will comply with our international obligations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.186.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.187.2", "colnum": "187", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": " Opposition has sufficient experience to know that these matters are much better not dealt with by question and answer. At the moment, we are seeking a settlement of this matter under Article 33. We intend to make every effort we can to obtain a peaceful solution under that Article. Only when we are satisfied that those efforts have failed does the question of a decision as to the next step arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.189.3", "colnum": "189", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "There is not a great deal between us on this issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.189.3", "colnum": "189", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ing made by the Labour Party out of those issues. But there we part company. After all, why should we not part company, even on a matter of international relations, and on foreign affairs? Are we to act as a kind of rubber stamp for the Government? That could hardly be expected of us. This is a free democracy. We are men and women of independent character, apart from an occasional use of the Whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "r which I have an undying affection, made a pawn in American diplomacy. This sort of thing has been going on for a long time. It began at Abadan with Mr. Magee. We made an effort to promote international understanding about oil resources. Perhaps I might tell the House about something with which I had some connection when I was Minister of Fuel and Power. I do not like to talk too much about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Israel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "there is no reason why we should not take an international issue to an international organisation. Now, I want to leave that point, because other hon. Members will have a lot to say about these matters, and there are two further points that I want to make. I am sorry that the Foreign Secretary did not tell us this afternoon about arms for Egypt. What a glorious opportunity it was for him to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "It was said by hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.203.0", "colnum": "203", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the Opposition criticised the Government very much yesterday for what he called \"sabrerattling\", by the assembling of troops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.203.3", "colnum": "203", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"You have said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the hon. Gentleman for giving way to me, as he has referred to me. Is not he aware that the indictment against the Government at present is that they have allowed the impression to grow uncorrected that it is they who intend to launch the aggression, and no assurances that we have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "n made by my reading of the speech, though I think it was identical with the impression I gained by listening to it. I am giving the impression of my hearing. Here we make speeches to be heard ; we do not write to be read. It is an accident that this happened to be a two-day debate, so the speech could be read, but it is an impression left on a candid and not unintelligent hearer of what was said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ugust were not struck by the very remarkable difference. I am not referring to any of them who dictated either of the two speeches or who compared the printed versions of the speeches. What I am saying is that there is no one of intellectual honesty on the other side who heard the two speeches who was not struck by that very remarkable difference. A lot of water has passed over the dam since then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "that pushed some of the water. A lot of water has passed over it. The impression left on my mind the first time was that the right hon. Gentleman thought, as we all did, that this was a horrible mess. He thought that, on the whole, what the Government were doing was right enough. The impression I got on the second occasion was that really he had to find some way of quarrelling with the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "orrect it. I am no Nina Ponomareva in a police court being cross-examined. I am, hon. Members will do me the justice of admitting, generally good enough at giving way whatever may be said about me in other respects. I am now trying to make a not very easy speech, which is a debating speech and which has in no way been prepared, with almost no notes. If I sit down I shall get into a muddle, I fear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " prepared, with almost no notes. If I sit down I shall get into a muddle, I fear. [ Laughter .] I hope some hon. Gentlemen opposite who are laughing may one day get out of their muddle. The third thing which the Leader of the Opposition found to argue about yesterday was the military precautions. Here I am bound to say that it becomes difficult for persons of my prejudices and experience to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " Until that is said the Opposition's case is not formidable at all. There is one other thing I ought to say as a matter of candour. It is always difficult for me to take part in debates on the Middle East. Older Members may remember but I have spoken little lately on this or indeed any other topic, so many will not remember that I always believed that political Zionism was a mistake and was wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"What acts?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " we have ignored her for five years, will be to pave the way for the destruction of Israel and her elimination from the Middle East. I say that for this reason. Israel can only survive in the long run if she can live with her neighbours. Now that the Western Powers, by their acts of violence and threats of violence against countries of the Middle East, are in such a grave position and are so weak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "preceding_text": "n the Middle East. I should have thought that those on both sides of the House who feel deep concern for the future of Israel ought to give that factor further consideration. Turning to the question of the Canal itself, I had thought, until I heard the speech of the hon. Member for Bristol, South-East, that it was generally agreed by everybody that the seizure of the Canal had been an illegal act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.230.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "at problem. There are only varying degrees of unsatisfactory solutions, some of them less unsatisfactory than others. There is not one that is completely satisfactory. If this matter is to be dealt with by negotiation, clearly one cannot get one's own way completely. I thought that the speech of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Chertsey (Sir L. Heald) put that issue incredibly well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.233.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Not us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "h whether if, at the time of the South African War, the degree of opposition to war had existed then which exists now and if we had had then the organised Labour movement, the South African War would have been possible. The Government, somehow or another, will have to climb down on this issue. I hope that they will do so, even though, of course, it will involve us in terrible national humiliation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.245.3", "colnum": "245", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Slightly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "sion? I would remind hon. Members that at the time of the aggression in Korea the Security Council was informed of the active aggression of North Korea on 25th June. On that day it called on North Korea to halt. It learned the next day that North Korea had not halted, and two days later, on 27th June, it authorised military action, which had actually been anticipated slightly by the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.245.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.263.4", "colnum": "263", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks me a question. In that letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.263.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "es in which war might be waged. The Government, partly by what they have said and partly by what they have failed to say, have given us to understand—and given the world to understand—that there are circumstances in which, if they could not get the solution they want peaceably, they would wage war, even though that was in breach of this country's commitments under the Charter of the United Nations", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "t alone\", surely some responsibility rests on the Government of the day, if that is not their view, to make clear to the country that it is not their view. Far more serious is the fact that right down to yesterday and today the Government have been and are still giving us to understand that there are circumstances in which they would use force inconsistently with our obligations under the Charter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"The Prime Minister's speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": "ggest political confidence tricks for many years. The Opposition, both through the voices of hon. Members and through the journals in the country which support them—notably the Daily Mirror and the Daily Herald —has fostered the campaign that we intend to go to war without first fulfilling our obligations under the United Nations Charter. What real evidence is there to support this charge at all?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"By other means.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": "ar without first fulfilling our obligations under the United Nations Charter. What real evidence is there to support this charge at all?—[HON. MEMBERS : \"The Prime Minister's speech.\"] The most careful reading of both my right hon. Friend's speeches, the one in August and the one yesterday, and also his broadcast, will disclose no sentence whatsoever which could possibly bear that interpretation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Does the hon. Gentleman remember what was said by the hon. Member for Stafford and Stone (Mr. H. Fraser)?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": "ted Nations Charter. What real evidence is there to support this charge at all?—[HON. MEMBERS : \"The Prime Minister's speech.\"] The most careful reading of both my right hon. Friend's speeches, the one in August and the one yesterday, and also his broadcast, will disclose no sentence whatsoever which could possibly bear that interpretation.—[HON. MEMBERS : \"By other means.\"]—We are concerned with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"The right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Chertsey.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "on the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition. It said that he had outdone the Tories. From that day on gradually one has seen the leadership of the party opposite shifting its position, trying still to maintain a tenuous contact with the attitude and the opinions which it had expressed on 2nd August, but always trying to shift further to the Left to catch up with its own militant wing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "rt to regional agencies or arrangements … I draw attention to these words : …or other peaceful means of their own choice. The procedure adopted until now has been under that Article. The procedure now proposed is also under that Article. The Government have been- advised that the users' association is legal in international law, and so it is a peaceful attempt to resolve the dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": " do so. If this users' association does not succeed, why should the way have been blocked by a formal declaration by Her Majesty's Government that they will not try any other method under Article 33 before referring the matter to the Security Council under Article 37. What is meant by that? I prefer to leave that to the judgment of those who, on Britain's behalf, are continuing these negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Dulles said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "he two sides of the House. I do not know, but it is quite possible. Suppose we have recourse to the Security Council, and that that recourse is frustrated by the veto of the Soviet Union. What then? The Leader of the Opposition gave his answer—an unexpected one to me—yesterday. The right hon. Gentleman said, \"Well, if that happens, we shall have to build more tankers and send them round the Cape.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Yes, Dulles.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "ve government? Is it the policy, if Russia blocks us with the veto in the Security Council, then we will go on using the Canal for two or three years, and then, when the tankers have been built, we will say, \"You remember that dispute back in 1956? Now we are going to stop sending our tankers through the Canal, and we are going to send them all round by the Cape.\" Is anybody else ready to do that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "er is best served by doing everything in our power, by good will and ingenuity, to resolve the dispute under Article 33 of the United Nations Charter. If we are driven to using Article 37 by the failure of our earlier attempts, and if, by misfortune, that should be blocked, then surely it would be legitimate for us to say, as the hon. and learned Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget) said yesterday —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"They apply to Egypt.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "s a break-down of the cost of petrol, and the total cost of ocean transportation is 2¾d. a gallon. Mr. Dulles said something else at his Press conference. He said that the Suez problem, he believes, is \"solvable if it is reduced to the question of practical details and taken out of the realm of national pride and emotions.\" Those are very wise words and I commend them to the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e them, do they really believe that we shall be in the same position to do so then as we are today, or as we were a few months ago? Does the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition really think, to use his own phrase, that if Colonel Nasser \"gets away with it\" our position will still be such that we can do as much militarily to go to the help of Israel if she is attacked as we can today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "I am not saying that we should let Colonel Nasser get away with this entirely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ntion would be free to take steps to assure their rights through the United Nations or other action appropriate to the circumstances. That is almost verbatim what I told the House. The right hon. Gentleman asked, what other action? I think I made that clear too. I said that if they did this, then the Egyptian Government would be once more—this was my phrase—in contravention of the 1888 Convention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "aps almost as good as the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman), though I do not know. That is the view that he holds, and that is the view which has been stated. If that happens, Egypt will be once again, according to our view, in breach of the Convention, and the case to be brought against her at the Security Council, or by a similar method, will thereby be infinitely strengthened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.302.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I said that we were in complete agreement with the United States Government about what to do. I read out from this paper, and I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "swer.\"]— and I repeat that the first action—I said this yesterday—was to ask the Egyptian Government. We cannot do this without some co-operation with the Egyptian Government. We propose to ask for that co-operation. We have said here that if they do not give it, they are, in our view, in default under the 1888 Convention, but if they are so in default, we should take them to the Security Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "sed before the Labour Government then took that vitally important issue anywhere near the Security Council. Having said that, I make no point of the fact that it was immediately vetoed by Russia—straight away. I want finally to deal with a question asked by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Chertsey (Sir L. Heald) and repeated by the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.317.4", "colnum": "317", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": " side of the House came a call to this side to speak for the nation. My right hon. Friend this evening, by his speech and intervention at the end of the debate, has extracted a promise from the Prime Minister that has served and saved the nation. The events of the past six weeks have clearly indicated that the present Government are not to be trusted without Parliament being in session. At a time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.317.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.319.3", "colnum": "319", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "f whom, textile engineers, are facing unemployment. Is that the sort of thing which we ought to ignore, while we go away to Brighton and Dover? Shall we, by going away, be doing our duty while all those sorts of things are being done? I was rung up last night to be told the Minister of Education had cut Oldham's educational programme, and that the grants for two important schools had been refused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.319.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "cy is showing the failure which we warned him was inevitable when he introduced it. Is Parliament to adjourn and not have the opportunity of discussing the economic situation of the nation? Here is a Government who were talking yesterday about war over 1½d. a gallon on petrol and are now saying that we shall not discuss a widening trade gap, a loss of gold reserves and a loss of confidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "agree, on the experience of the last few days, that it is exceedingly difficult to forecast what the right hon. Gentleman will do, though I could make a suggestion as to what he should do next. In these circumstances it is a negation of democracy for this House to adjourn at this moment. I personally would much rather be on holiday with my wife than be here, if I consulted my own personal desires—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "een nearer the brink of war than she was in 1938. So tonight the Opposition can claim that it has saved the country and has extracted promises from the most muddled Prime Minister of the twentieth century. We have had from the right hon. Gentleman the promises we needed, but I say categorically that had Parliament not been recalled, we should probably have been at war before our return in October.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.322.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " arrangements for the future of this great international waterway could be acceptable to Her Majesty's Government which would leave it in the unfettered control of a single Power which could, as recent events have shown, exploit it for purposes of national policy.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 30th July, 1956; Vol. 557, c. 923.] Was that the policy of the Government in 1954? Did they tell that to Egypt then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. E. Winterbottom", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Divide\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. E. Winterbottom", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.337.2", "colnum": "337", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman suggested that if we had any difficulties we should raise them with the Department concerned, but is he aware of the growing practice, under this Government, when the House is in Recess, of having both the senior and junior Minister of a Department absent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Minister away on holiday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-13", "file": "debates1956-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "7108e3381f6a0998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"With whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Minister away on holiday. [HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"] I am sorry, but I have had that experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-13a.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-14", "file": "debates1956-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "873fb2be4747fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "hought so, I would support them in that course, but for the reasons given by the Government I cannot share the view of the right hon. Gentleman. What the Government of 1921 did for Ireland, we ask our Government to do for Cyprus now. Do not wait for E.O.K.A. Propose the truce yourselves. Do not wait for new, more moderate leaders who do not appear. Bring Makarios and his colleagues here to London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-14", "file": "debates1956-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "873fb2be4747fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.365.1", "colnum": "365", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"He must have a secretary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "Anybody who writes, as most of us do at some time, knows what 250,000 words mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-14", "file": "debates1956-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "873fb2be4747fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " the people of Cyprus—to prepare to strike again when the moment seemed best to them. Here we are dealing with a very dangerous conspiracy in a part of the world where vital British interests are involved and I make no apology whatever for refusing to take too seriously the offer of a truce, unless those who made it were prepared to surrender their arms and trust—as they could so safely have done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-14", "file": "debates1956-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "873fb2be4747fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jeger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jeger", "preceding_text": " this conversation was supposed to have taken place. Whatever political differences I may have had with the Field Marshal—my friends will know they must have been many—I think we can all agree that he was a man of very great courage and clarity of purpose. He told me in his emphatic, elegant French that he had never been so insulted in his life as when the British Foreign Secretary, then Mr. Eden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-14", "file": "debates1956-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "873fb2be4747fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jeger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jeger", "preceding_text": "urpose. He told me in his emphatic, elegant French that he had never been so insulted in his life as when the British Foreign Secretary, then Mr. Eden—[HON. MEMBERS : \"Order.\"]—snubbed him every time he tried to raise the issue of Cyprus. He referred to a particular occasion when the Foreign Secretary was in Greece on convalescence. The Field Marshal said, \"Maybe because Mr. Eden was convalescing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-14", "file": "debates1956-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "873fb2be4747fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "racy to be the only political institution which corresponds with the requirements of modern society. What has the right hon. Gentleman told us today? It is an unfortunate fact that poor little Cyprus is always the victim of Suez. This most unfortunate history started as a consequence of the morbid psychology of the Conservative Party. They have got so many strains and stresses that they no longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-14", "file": "debates1956-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "873fb2be4747fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "hat Archbishop Makarios has been behaving in a way which we find reprehensible. The fact is that so long as he is the most representative Cypriot, and so long as we want a settlement of the problem of Cyprus, we must deal with Archbishop Makarios. It is no use quarrelling with him in that respect. I do hope we are not going to hear from the right hon. Gentleman long extracts from the Grivas diary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.434.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-09-14", "file": "debates1956-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "873fb2be4747fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " is activated by our own purposes, which are not necessarily the purposes of N.A.T.O. That was denied. Well, listen to this. I suppose the right hon. Gentleman is responsible for this. I hope he is not, because it is not good enough, even for him. It says here : The next reason is that we have in the Middle East a number of important special obligations apart from our general N.A.T.O. obligations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-14", "file": "debates1956-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "873fb2be4747fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.441.1", "colnum": "441", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ed before. It has been done before but we have had statesmen in office and not men who are always whistling to keep their spirits up and trying to prove that the lion can still roar even if he cannot bite. It really is time we got an entire change of attitude and I beg right hon. and hon. Members opposite to realise that. In this matter we have not caused unnecessary difficulty for the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-14", "file": "debates1956-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "873fb2be4747fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Colonial Affairs (Mr. John Hare)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Colonial Affairs (Mr. John Hare)", "preceding_text": " Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) that we have come to expect of him, but I am afraid that once more as he sat down I was left with the sad regret that his wisdom really does not match his rhetoric. I am always interested to see the right hon. Member at the Dispatch Box because he tries to indicate that he is the supreme owner of knowledge of the facts of life and none of us knows anything at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-14", "file": "debates1956-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "873fb2be4747fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Colonial Affairs (Mr. John Hare)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Colonial Affairs (Mr. John Hare)", "preceding_text": "st interested that no one has seriously attempted to deny the genuineness of the Grivas diaries or the documents which have been quoted. The fact that my right hon. Friend so soundly and thoroughly gave the reasons why there could be no doubt as to their authenticity is probably the reason why hon. Members opposite, much as they may regret it, have agreed that what we have said about them is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-14", "file": "debates1956-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "873fb2be4747fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Why not bring him to trial? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": " ; the man who paid the bills for the organisation, having raised the money for it ; the man who decided the date on which operations would start and thus pulled the lever which plunged the terrorist machine into action ; the leader able to send instructions to Athens Radio to raise the pitch of its recriminations and incitements to violence if he felt that the tune was not being sung loud enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-09-14", "file": "debates1956-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "873fb2be4747fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": " should seriously think—although repeated speeches from the Opposition appear to have suggested it—that Her Majesty's Government should make a new approach to the Archbishop. I have been asked whether he will be brought to trial. The Cyprus authorities have considered this matter, and their conclusion, with which my right hon. Friend agrees, is that it would not be in the public interest to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-09-14a.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-23", "file": "debates1956-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "93fcce201c214592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.473.2", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I do not follow the movement of these shares as closely as the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.473.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-23", "file": "debates1956-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "93fcce201c214592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.482.2", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES (RESERVISTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have had about 5,000 applications—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.482.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-23", "file": "debates1956-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "93fcce201c214592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.483.4", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES (RESERVISTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the Prime Minister himself knows that there was difficulty at the commencement, because he said so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.483.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-23", "file": "debates1956-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "93fcce201c214592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.483.4", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES (RESERVISTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " Minister himself knows that there was difficulty at the commencement, because he said so—[HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"] Well, the right hon. Gentleman said that he gave further instructions to have the matter looked at and, arising from that, improvements were made; in view of that, and the fact that hon. Members on both sides of the House have been receiving letters of complaint from their constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.483.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-23", "file": "debates1956-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "93fcce201c214592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "The Government are, of course, entitled, if they so desire, to bring in another Bill. I am not concerned with that. What I am concerned with is the action which the Government propose to take in view of the fact that there is a conflict between this House and another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-23", "file": "debates1956-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "93fcce201c214592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.489.4", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "I cannot improve upon the answers given by the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.489.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-23", "file": "debates1956-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "93fcce201c214592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. William Yates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.494.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-23", "file": "debates1956-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "93fcce201c214592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "HILL FARMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Rock and roll.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "preceding_text": ", three times in four years the Government wanted tillage; then they did not want it, were not sure about it, and finally wanted as much of it as they could get, after they had lost about half a million acres of tillage. The Government wanted more beef. Quite properly, we all want to see more beef, and beef of the right quality, too. They started what is now known as the rolling system of payment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-23", "file": "debates1956-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "93fcce201c214592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Miss Margaret Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Margaret Herbison", "preceding_text": " a bad thing. Wherever possible children should be kept out of court. I know that juvenile courts are much better than other courts, but it is a bad thing to bring a child before a court, if the fault can be remedied in any other way. From what the Joint Under-Secretary has said, it seems to me that there is no need whatever for the extra provision asked for in this Bill by the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-23", "file": "debates1956-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "93fcce201c214592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir William Anstruther-Gray", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir William Anstruther-Gray", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady the Member for Lanarkshire, North (Miss Herbison) would appear to be intent upon delaying the passage of the Bill. If the Bill were referred to the Scottish Standing Committee it could not become law before the end of the Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-23", "file": "debates1956-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "93fcce201c214592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Anstruther-Gray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Anstruther-Gray", "preceding_text": " myself attending the Scottish Standing Committee in one capacity or another. It is within my recollection that we spent a great many days discussing at great length a number of Scottish Bills. For that reason a limit has to be put to the number of Bills that can be considered there. Provided that we can get this Measure on the Statute Book there is not much cause for Scottish Members to complain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-23a.546.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-24", "file": "debates1956-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "bde9f90cf20cf2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-24a.632.0", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MAURITIUS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Much better.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Would it be possible for the right hon. Gentleman to inform the House of his views on this matter? Is it not extraordinary that a proposal should be made that the Executive of a Parliament should be elected on the basis of proportional representation of its members? What would Her Majesty's Government be like if it were appointed on a proportional representation basis?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-24a.631.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-24", "file": "debates1956-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "bde9f90cf20cf2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-24a.632.3", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MAURITIUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I think it would be much more profitable if I waited until I have received a report on the outcome of the talks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-24a.632.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-24", "file": "debates1956-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "bde9f90cf20cf2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-24a.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "GAS ACT (1948) AMENDMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": " normal course. We are within two or three Parliamentary days of the end of the Session. So, because she is unable to catch your eye, Mr. Speaker, and make her point in some debate, or by way of Question and Answer, my hon. Friend makes use of this special machinery, which should be the cherished privilege of private Members and not a method of getting behind the Chair and the Clerks at the Table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-24a.649.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-24", "file": "debates1956-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "bde9f90cf20cf2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-24a.650.7", "colnum": "650", "heading": "GAS ACT (1948) AMENDMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Next Session, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-24a.650.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-24", "file": "debates1956-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "bde9f90cf20cf2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-24a.656.0", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COPYRIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. Derek Walker-Smith)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. Derek Walker-Smith)", "preceding_text": "d. 4.15 p.m. The hon. Lady the Member for Flint, East referred to the destruction of certain letters written by her eminent father. I would ask her, however, to take account of the point that one would run the risk of much greater destruction of letters if one amended the law so as to withdraw the copyright protection altogether from them after a given period. We should, in fact, have less chance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-24a.656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-24", "file": "debates1956-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "bde9f90cf20cf2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-24a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COPYRIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which newspaper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "preceding_text": "nly a very profitable enterprise for the publisher. All that we are asking is that there should be some discussion and agreement with the staff journalist as to the share he is to get out of this enterprise. I happen to be a director of a newspaper which indulges in syndication and gives 80 per cent. of its receipts to its staff. That is because it is a well-run, liberal and progressive newspaper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-24a.669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-24", "file": "debates1956-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "bde9f90cf20cf2dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-24a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COPYRIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEM- BERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Wells", "preceding_text": "ing the compulsory licence principle inscribed in our legislation dealing with copyright. It is, I suppose, a good Conservative principle, though I cannot pretend to be an authority on good Conservative principles, not to interfere with the structure of an industry unless an overwhelmingly strong case, or at any rate a very clear case, has been presented that the present structure involves abuses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-24a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-25", "file": "debates1956-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "1138a0ff9971847a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-25a.800.1", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "I did not suggest that the main purpose of this practice was to prevent prisoners writing to hon. Members of this House. There are many reasons for it, such as objectionable matter, how to commit crimes and other things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-25a.800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-25", "file": "debates1956-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "1138a0ff9971847a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-25a.826.6", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERIAL BROADCASTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say with whom the initiative lies in effecting these broadcasts? Secondly, will these talks count as party political broadcasts, because there is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-25a.826.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-25", "file": "debates1956-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "1138a0ff9971847a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-25a.827.7", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (MEMORIAL PETITION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hyde", "preceding_text": "Would not my right hon. Friend agree that this document represents a more sane and balanced view of the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-25a.827.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-25", "file": "debates1956-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "1138a0ff9971847a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-25a.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (MEMORIAL PETITION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that, so far as I can make out, this is the first occasion since the days of Charles I that a group of distinguished citizens has found it necessary to call upon the Government to govern themselves in accordance with the majority will of the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-25a.827.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-25", "file": "debates1956-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "1138a0ff9971847a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-25a.830.0", "colnum": "830", "heading": "GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE (ECONOMIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "anned. As regards the additional expenditure, Civil Supplementary Estimates were presented in July amounting to some £15 million, excluding Post Office expenditure to be covered by self-balancing revenue. On defence, additional expenditure is being incurred by the Services in connection with the Suez Canal crisis, but it is not yet possible to estimate how much this will amount to during the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-25a.829.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-25", "file": "debates1956-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "1138a0ff9971847a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-25a.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE (ECONOMIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "t is a negligible sum. With regard to the running down of stocks on current consumption, over these savings this represents not more than 3 per cent. of the savings. That answers two of the questions. As for the change made in the prescriptions, we have to thank the Front Bench opposite for giving us the powers under the National Health Service (Amendment) Act, 1949, under which we are now acting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-25a.831.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-25", "file": "debates1956-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "1138a0ff9971847a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-25a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE (ECONOMIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "cing that Bill, claimed that not merely economy was the reason for the change but the need—I use the words of the Minister— to reduce excessive and…unnecessary resort to doctors and chemists\".—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 24th October, 1949 ; Vol. 468, c. 1019.] I understand that this led later to some difficulties between the present Leader of the Opposition and the new Treasurer of the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-25a.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-25", "file": "debates1956-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "1138a0ff9971847a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-25a.833.4", "colnum": "833", "heading": "GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE (ECONOMIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"The disabled?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I repeat that war pensioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-25a.833.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-25", "file": "debates1956-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "1138a0ff9971847a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-25a.879.0", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COPYRIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "They often do that.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Horace King", "preceding_text": "used to persuade their Members-We do not want a Division, because we want to carry on the sweet reasonableness which prevailed upstairs, as I gather from a close study of the OFFICIAL REPORT of the Committee proceedings. We therefore urge the Government to accept an Amendment and not to put any of their supporters into the difficult position of going into a Lobby into which they do not wish to go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-25a.878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-25", "file": "debates1956-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "1138a0ff9971847a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-25a.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COPYRIGHT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman's point is that some people by cross-listening, can hear broadcasts from other countries which are not primarily intended for them, that is so, and to the extent that these people listen, the composer is deprived of his fees or royalties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-25a.896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-26", "file": "debates1956-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "9b0acf9b93f16514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-26a.972.1", "colnum": "972", "heading": "CROWN PRIVILEGE (DOCUMENTS AND ORAL EVIDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"And they remained there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ter about that. The answer is quite simple. Privilege, of course, can be claimed by the Crown wherever the documents are and in the custody of whomsoever they are. So there was no significance whatsoever in the documents coming to the War Office from the point of view of claiming privilege, but they were just sent there, so that the Secretary of State could decide whether a claim ought to be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-26a.972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-29", "file": "debates1956-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "2baa31b6a0abca0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-29a.1053.0", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "My consideration is taking place now. I would hope that within the next two or three months we shall have reached some views on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-29a.1053.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-29", "file": "debates1956-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "2baa31b6a0abca0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-29a.1070.3", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "HUNGARY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "While applauding every word that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition said about these historic events, may I ask whether the Foreign Secretary is aware how much more effective would have been our country's representations to the United Nations had we been able to make them with completely clean hands and if there had been no repression in Cyprus?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-29a.1070.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-29", "file": "debates1956-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "2baa31b6a0abca0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-29a.1177.1", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "a mother and knows, I really think she is exaggerating. I have visited primary schools time after time in the last few years and have asked headmasters, women and men teachers this question : \"Do you find acute anxiety caused by this examination?\" I have been told, No. In one school in Fife I was told, \"It does not arise. We bring in the children. They do not know the examination is taking place—\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-29a.1177.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1234.8", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Can I ask my right hon. Friend for an assurance that this Report will not go the way of the Phillips Report?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1234.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1246.4", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Stuart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Where are you keeping them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Stuart", "preceding_text": "I have obtained five additional heavy snow ploughs which will be available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1246.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1251.3", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Stuart", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Stuart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will be glad to learn that the Regional Hospital Board plan to start the construction of a new out-patient department at Heathfield Hospital during the year 1957–58—has been approved, I must mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "stions were put to the Minister who was conducting the Second Reading. He was unable to answer those questions. We came then to the Committee stage yesterday, which was rushed. Mr. Speaker, if you had occupied the Chair during the whole of yesterday, I am quite sure that you would agree with me when I say that the speeches from this side of the House were all of a very high order and constructive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1278.2", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "dan, unofficially or officially, or by Egypt, unofficially or officially, the Armistice Commission, endorsed by Her Majesty's Government, have condemned what were described as acts of aggression by the State of Israel ; but never a word, or hardly a word, about the repeated incursions and threats and all the rest of it by Egypt, Jordan—and even Iraq and Syria. These are facts which are well known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1278.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1278.2", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"You were in power.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ity Council about the free passage of ships, including the ships of the State of Israel, through the Canal. Not a single step was taken to secure the implementation of that decision. These are facts which are well known. The Prime Minister says that we must extract from the Egyptians a guarantee that they will not interfere with Israeli ships now. It is a pity that they did not think of it before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1278.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1281.0", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The question which I put, again, is simply this : what guarantee is there, if Israel agrees to a cessation of hostilities, that she will be left alone and in peace to pursue peaceful development? Unless we have a guarantee that is satisfactory to the State of Israel, then, in my judgment, it is hardly worth her while agreeing to a cessation of hostilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1281.0", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Aggression.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " she will be left alone and in peace to pursue peaceful development? Unless we have a guarantee that is satisfactory to the State of Israel, then, in my judgment, it is hardly worth her while agreeing to a cessation of hostilities. [HON. MEMBERS : \"Why?\"] Shall I tell hon. Members why? There is no shame about it—because she has got to defend herself. I applaud a nation that seeks to defend itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1286.0", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Ultimatum.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": " policy over the years under both Governments has had its failings, but certainly it has never been the foreign policy of either Government to ferment trouble in the Middle East. One may say that the results have not been as good as we hoped, but certainly that was not the intention or foreign policy of either Government. Today the Prime Minister has told the House that he has addressed an appeal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1286.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1298.0", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Since he is dealing with this matter, may I ask this of the Lord Privy Seal? I am sorry to disagree with my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition about procedure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1298.0", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Ten o'clock.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "free country to offer advice? It does not appear right, in spite of the suggestions which have been made from this side of the House, that the Government will agree not to undertake any physical action in the Suez Canal. Would it not be very much better, instead of having another statement tonight, and a \"scratch\" debate lasting until, say, ten o'clock, or eleven o'clock or perhaps twelve o'clock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "read out at the beginning of my speech. Our first criticism of this is that it was taken independently by Britain and France at the very moment when this dispute was being referred to the Security Council. I cannot see any possible justification for that. Surely the right thing to have done would have been to have waited for the debate in the Security Council which was taking place this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ies in the Commonwealth or with the United States of America. My hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) pressed that point this afternoon but did not get any answer. I want to ask again tonight whether the other members of the Commonwealth were consulted on this, and what was their reaction. I put this seriously because we all know what the reaction of India was in the earlier stages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"What would the right hon. Gentleman do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ing, and which involves the withdrawal of the Egyptians ten miles further within their own frontier and a withdrawal of the Israelis ten miles from the Canal Zone—which still leaves them at some points 160 miles inside Egypt—is hardly one which, I should have thought, would commend itself on equitable grounds. The only other excuse which has been put forward—and I press the Prime Minister on this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " Israelis ten miles from the Canal Zone—which still leaves them at some points 160 miles inside Egypt—is hardly one which, I should have thought, would commend itself on equitable grounds. The only other excuse which has been put forward—and I press the Prime Minister on this—[HON. MEMBERS : \"What would the right hon. Gentleman do?\"] What would I do? I have already said that. I would first of all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1351.5", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Cite one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Maitland", "preceding_text": "s ineffective over and over again; it is at such a time that we are invited to be ineffective. The whole object of the arguments advanced by some hon. Gentlemen opposite is that, somehow, we best facilitate peace by doing nothing. That was certainly not the intention of the United Nations Charter, and there are phrases in the Charter which may well be cited in support of the Government's approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1351.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"And the state of war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": "t area and to make both sides less secure than they felt before—nobody has done so much to do those bad things as Her Majesty's Government and the right hon. Gentleman himself. After all, it is now a good many years since the Arab-Israel war came to an end. For most of that time, although it is true that there was a great deal of border infiltration and trouble, and raids and threatening speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1356.1", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"There are Russian pilots, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": " right to be the policeman in the way the right hon. Gentleman has done, and we suddenly found descending on Egypt at four o'clock tomorrow morning the troops of all those other countries. What sort of a mess would it be? Who would be fighting whom? Let us be clear about this. This is not altogether as fanciful as it might sound. There is a great deal of Russian shipping which uses the Suez Canal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1356.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1362.3", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "But—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1362.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1362.4", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Ships without cargoes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "orts they are entitled to protection. I do not know what the numbers are, and no doubt the Foreign Secretary will tell us ; but that is one very good reason for intervening soon, failing an agreement to cease hostilities. Now for the second reason. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said that every 24 hours or so there are British ships worth about £50 million or more going through the Canal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1362.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1371.1", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "preceding_text": "ed that he had consulted the United States. That was my impression. Other people's impressions are not quite the same. It seems exceedingly strange, if that is the case, that there should be the statement from the United States State Department today that it had received no prior warning of the British and French intention to move troops into the Suez area if Egypt and Israel do not stop fighting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1371.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1373.3", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1373.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1373.5", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\" and \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "uation. The right hon. Gentleman suggested that we were seeking to judge the rights and the wrongs of the present situation. That is precisely what we have sought to avoid doing. There is considerable argument, I think, on this question of aggression and self-defence. I gather from the speeches today that most hon. Members opposite seem to think that Israel has been guilty of an act of aggression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1373.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1373.5", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Foreign Secretary?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "tion. That is precisely what we have sought to avoid doing. There is considerable argument, I think, on this question of aggression and self-defence. I gather from the speeches today that most hon. Members opposite seem to think that Israel has been guilty of an act of aggression. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\" and \"No.\"] Some seem to say \"Yes\" and some to say \"No,\" and some seem to be begging the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1373.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1373.5", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"An ultimatum.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "-defence. I gather from the speeches today that most hon. Members opposite seem to think that Israel has been guilty of an act of aggression. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\" and \"No.\"] Some seem to say \"Yes\" and some to say \"No,\" and some seem to be begging the question. [An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Foreign Secretary?\"] I shall tell the House. This presents a matter which must be carefully debated and discussed", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1373.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1375.3", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I think that the situation between Jordan and Israel is quite different from the situation between Egypt and Israel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1375.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1375.3", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ea that Jordan is a threat to the continued existence of Israel as a State is absolute nonsense. Really, the hon. Gentleman should know better than to make the intervention he has done. What I was saying was that this question of aggression and self-defence is nothing like as simple as some hon. Members have tried to make out. It is a matter which needs to be debated and discussed at great length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1375.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1375.3", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "atter which needs to be debated and discussed at great length. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Now hon. Gentlemen are showing greater touch with reality, because that is exactly what will happen—at great length. It will be debated at great length because it is nothing like a simple issue. What we have said is that we cannot postpone our action until the conclusion of that discussion and that debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1375.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1376.1", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which way?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "The facts as known to us at the present time are that Israeli forces are within a very few miles of Suez.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1376.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1377.1", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1377.2", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Council is, first, frustrated by the veto and, secondly, that it cannot act immediately. In a sense, the policeman has his hands tied behind his back. He has to wait a long time before he is allowed to play his part. I myself believe that, if you have accepted that system, you are only safe if you also retain the rights of individual countries to defend their own nationals and their own interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1377.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1378.1", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "til the conclusion of the Security Council debate. That is an undertaking which I believe it is quite impossible and impracticable for any Government to give. We have got to reserve to ourselves the right to take the necessary action in an emergency at the time we think fit. In spite of all the noise that has been made by the Opposition on this matter, I believe that the action that we are taking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1378.2", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "In this matter we have never claimed that we have acted in agreement with the United States of America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1378.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-30", "file": "debates1956-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "90b611802381cb9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1399.3", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "WHITE FISH AUTHORITY (LEVY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "It is a good village for all that, and what we sell is very good. But we will not go into invidious comparisons ; my hon. and gallant Friend knows my views on this subject very well. I think it a great pity that such an important issue as the conduct of the Authority should be brought up at such a late hour in a Prayer. I have constantly asked the Government to give us a day for fishing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-30a.1399.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1414.4", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL TERRITORIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "May I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that reply?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1414.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1419.5", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "It is always very difficult to catch up on a series of fresh lies or distortions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1419.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1420.0", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Is not that a most monstrous statement to make, to accuse a person of telling lies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1420.1", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "These are very serious matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SINGAPORE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether, from that supplementary question, the right hon. Gentleman is suggesting that the elected Ministers in Singapore have not the right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1446.3", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"What has happened?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "lar, since the seizure of the Canal, the Egyptian Government have kept up a violent campaign against Israel, against this country and against the West. The Egyptian Government have made clear over and over again, with increased emphasis since the seizure of the Canal, their intention to destroy Israel, just as they have made it plain that they would drive the Western Powers out of the Middle East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1446.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1446.3", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"What did you expect?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "to stand alone. It certainly could not be said to meet in any way the guarantees for Israel's security which were asked for by several hon. Members in the course of yesterday's debate. As to our own request, to both sides, to cease fire and to withdraw, Israel accepted that request last night and declared her willingness to take practical steps to carry it out. The Egyptian Government rejected it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1446.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1446.3", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "mns are reported to be nearer the Canal. Some troops may already be on it. The latest report is that they are approaching the Canal, and there are a number of details on the tape since, which hon. Members will have seen, within the last hour. A number of prisoners have been captured, I understand. In the light of all these facts, can anyone say that we and the French Government should have waited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1446.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1446.3", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "re vetoed by the Soviet Government. Can we be expected to await the development of similar procedures in the situation of much greater urgency that confronts us now in and about the Canal? The action we had to take was bound to be rapid. I regret it had to be so, but it was inescapable. We have no desire whatever, nor have the French Government, that the military action that we shall have to take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1446.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1450.4", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I actually used the words which I have repeated. I repeated the words just now which I used yesterday. I made it quite clear that the decisions were arrived at on our responsibility and upon that of the French Government yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1451.0", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I was going to say there was conversation only yesterday morning between the Foreign Secretary and the United States Ambassador in respect of action to be taken at the Security Council, with which I have already dealt. I do not shelter behind this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1451.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1452.2", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "that undertaking, that wiser counsels might still have prevailed. We are this afternoon still left to some extent in the dark about what Her Majesty's Government have done. I must ask the Prime Minister now to repair the omission from his speech and to tell us, \"Yes\" or \"No\", whether, on the expiry of his ultimatum, instructions were given to the British and French forces to occupy the Canal Zone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1452.3", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman will be good enough to read the statement which the French and our Government issued at the conclusion of our meeting yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1452.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1452.4", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman will be good enough to read the statement which the French and our Government issued at the conclusion of our meeting yesterday—[HON. MEMBERS : \"Tell us.\"] ; I have not the words with me here—he will see perfectly clearly that we made it apparent that if agreement was not reached we should consider ourselves free to take whatever action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1452.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1453.2", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I said yester day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1453.6", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not in any way prepared to give the House any details—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1453.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1453.7", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " country that are waiting for an answer to this question. When we adjourned last night, all of us knew from what the Government said, or were certainly led to suppose, that the decision was going to be made in the course of last night because of the Government's refusal to give us the undertaking for which we asked. I ask the Prime Minister once again. I do not ask him to disclose troop movements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1453.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1454.0", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I made perfectly plain yesterday that if we did not receive an answer we would take military action at the expiry of the period. I am not going to give the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1454.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1454.1", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " it is not so, so that we can then conclude that there is still time to prevent fighting. He is evidently reluctant to do that, and I think my hon. and right hon. Friends must draw their own conclusion. All I can say is that in taking this decision the Government, in the view of Her Majesty's Opposition, have committed an act of disastrous folly whose tragic consequences we shall regret for years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1454.1", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " make a full statement. So it does not seem as though the close consultation has been so very close after all. The Canadian Government, through the mouth of their Foreign Secretary, have expressed in the coldest possible language their regret at the situation which has arisen. They have also made it plain, through Mr. Pearson, that they were not consulted in advance before this ultimatum was sent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1454.1", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Temporarily.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " have in Israel I make the appeal that they at least should now accept the resolution of the United Nations Security Council, insofar as it called upon them to withdraw their forces within their own frontiers, and do that forthwith. In the Canal Zone we may seize territory, we may defeat—and, no doubt, will quite easily defeat—the Egyptian forces. Then what do we do? Do we stay there indefinitely?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1454.1", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " much reliance upon that. There are even graver possibilities. The Arab States, as, of course, we all knew they would, have indicated their solidarity with Egypt. I do not know what kind of action they may take about oil supplies. It is possible that the intervention of America against us may be of some assistance there, and thank goodness for it. Does the Foreign Secretary, or the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " to point out these dangers and, indeed, some of us supposed that the Lord Privy Seal would have had a little more courage than he appears to have shown and would have pointed them out inside the Cabinet. It is surely abundantly clear that the whole of this operation is simply another effort to dictate policy on the Canal Zone just at the point when a negotiated settlement appeared to be in sight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "the world on which, we are all agreed, special concentration should be made. Hon. Members may cheer their own Prime Minister and they may jeer at us and laugh at our faith in the United Nations and may rejoice—I know that some of them do—to be back in the days of the nineteenth century ; but all this, I ask them to believe me, will not stop the wave of hatred of Britain which they have stirred up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1461.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1463.0", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ly shocked by the aggressive policy of the Government and who still believe that it is both wise and right that we should stand by the United Nations, the Commonwealth and the United States Alliance. We shall do this because we believe that there are millions of people who think with us and who have lost all faith that such policies can any longer be pursued by the present advisers of Her Majesty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1463.3", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Put him into the Reserve.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "cialism led the country, following upon a dangerous and deadly war, a national weakness which only history will discover, then that may suffice. The nation may forget the speech and go on to higher and better things. I find myself opposed to every word that was said by the right hon. Gentleman, despite the cheers that echoed and re-echoed behind him. I find myself proud to be living upon this day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1463.3", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": ", for the maintenance of the great international waterway and free passage for the ships of all the world, to have heard the Prime Minister's statement of policy yesterday. Behind the immediate military action to separate the two contending forces of Israel and Egypt is the grand concept which the Prime Minister laid before the House in August of the internationalisation of the Canal for all time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1464.1", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"How long ago?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "onwealth ; and we can consult all friendly nations as well as our own Commonwealth upon issues which are of a political, economic and constitutional nature, as well as on all matters worthy of political discussion. But is the right hon. Gentleman going to suggest that when orders have been given to the troops, basic strategic orders with the timing and scales all worked out in the greatest detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1466.3", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "to say one word about the United States of America. I ventured in a speech which I made in August to use words in condemnation of America and I will not do so again today, although it comes as an appalling realisation of the state of our relations and the state of understanding in the world of what Britain really is and what her purpose is today to find the Americans vetoing this and arguing that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1466.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1472.1", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "That is a matter for the Security Council. I do not think it is really so fantastic as some hon. Members would seem to suggest. The Security Council would have passed a resolution calling on the Government of Israel and the Government of Egypt to withdraw to ten miles on each side of the Suez Canal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1472.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1474.0", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is not the answer they want.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1473.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1480.1", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is wrong with that?", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Tweedsmuir", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Lady the Member for Warrington (Dr. Summerskill), who is not, I regret, in the Chamber at the moment. At a Socialist Party gathering at East Ham she said : It is as well for the British and French Governments to know now that the workers of this country will not fight a war designed solely to subject the people of the Middle East in the interests of French and British commercial interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1484.1", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Due to arrive.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "t we are not dealing with something that was, perhaps, the case fifty years ago but has no relevance to the present situation. Take these gestures and screams from the Nasser Government of colonial oppression, imperialist dictation and what have you. There is not the smallest evidence that at present there is any foreign oppressor dominating or exploiting the Egyptian people in any way whatsoever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1488.1", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"My hon. Friend should not say it too soon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "sraelis. On the other hand, Israel is a State ; she needs allies. I am bound to say that, in the competitive morality of the nations, I have a certain weakness for the British Government as an ally, and I personally am very glad to see that for the first time since I have been in the House of Commons the British Government have come out four-square in identity of interest with the State of Israel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1492.3", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Can it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "ction in the Middle East. Therefore, if it were not illegal or if there were no other objection to it, I would welcome any measures that helped to bring him down. So I start with the assumption that unless it is illegal, I would welcome the action taken by the British Government, even military action, if it could be properly supported as being within our other obligations under the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1493.2", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Yes the hon. Gentleman is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I was trying to clear up certain misapprehensions about the general situation. I am not here to defend the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1495.3", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": " Government has a vested interest in supporting good relations with the Arab countries and all of them, I would not, however, agree that when it comes to defending herself, as she has done, in the present situation, she should consult Jordan or anybody else. I therefore conclude simply in this way. I hope that nothing I have said will condone any breach of our solemn obligations under the Charter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1495.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1496.1", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"That is what it is about.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "Let me make it quite plain that I cannot make a decision on the spot upon my hon. Friend's version of the report on the tape. I repeat again that, as a matter of principle I will not and I cannot support the Government in any military action of any kind which is in breach of the United Nations Charter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1499.1", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"War.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "What is it that Government policy is trying to achieve?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1504.2", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "Have we declared war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1504.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1515.1", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Richard Pilkington", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Richard Pilkington", "preceding_text": "t out of his way to say that France, because she had succeeded in capturing five leaders of the rebellion in Algeria, had done wrong because, by so doing, she had annoyed the other rebels. Was there ever such a fatuous argument as that? It must be many years since a Leader of the Opposition moved a Motion of censure upon the Government of the day in terms so strong as has been done in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1518.4", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"A rather mixed metaphor.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "preceding_text": "I will give way later on. The final result was that the leader was held firmly in the seat of the car by the back-seat drivers, with the wheel turned well and truly to the left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1518.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1520.5", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"They did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman has missed my point. When this war started, the Government had to make up their mind as to what they were going to do. They could, and hon. Members opposite say that they should, have referred the matter to the Security Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1520.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1533.1", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. King", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"It is a war\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. King", "preceding_text": "port even suggests that Mr. Dulles himself has expressed some kind of opinion of that nature. We have a right to ask the Government whether there has been any such collusion. This debate is merely the introduction to what will be the fiercest debate in the history of the country for a very long time. For the first time in this century, to my recollection, Britain has embarked on what may be a war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1542.1", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "It is preposterous to suggest, as the hon. Member for Itchen (Dr. King) suggested earlier in his speech, that the whole world is against Great Britain and France in the course they have decided to follow. On the contrary, there are millions of people in every continent who are now thanking God that British leadership in the world has revived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "uinely disturbed about what they consider the impotence of the United Nations. They go on saying that the Security Council can do nothing, and I am sorry to say that the Foreign Secretary encourages them by repeating \"Veto, veto, veto\" like a kind of incantation, as though by his words the United Nations would disappear. Yesterday, there would have been no veto had we voted with the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1561.1", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "rge a part in their party conference—the League of Empire Loyalists—two days ago tore down the flag of the United Nations and trampled it underfoot. I submit to hon. Members opposite, to whom I am trying to put a serious argument, that if we had voted with the United States, with Australia, with Belgium and with our other friends, action in the Security Council would have been swift and effective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1561.1", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "en swift and effective. [An HON. MEMBER : \"How do you know?\"] Wait until I have done. The Council would first have unanimously called upon the Israelis to withdraw. Do hon. Members really believe that they would have not done so? Of course they would have withdrawn. If they had not, what would have been the next step under the Charter? It is all laid down. We should have withdrawn our ambassadors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1561.1", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "ad not made them stop, we could, under the Charter, have cut all sea, rail, air, postal and telegraphic communications. If that had not brought results we could have imposed a blockade. Is there any hon. Member opposite who really believes that the Israelis are so mad that they would have resisted the whole United Nations imposing a blockade? That could have been followed by a naval demonstration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1561.1", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"By whom.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "nd telegraphic communications. If that had not brought results we could have imposed a blockade. Is there any hon. Member opposite who really believes that the Israelis are so mad that they would have resisted the whole United Nations imposing a blockade? That could have been followed by a naval demonstration. [HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"] Of course under the Charter there could be a naval demonstration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1561.1", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "believes that the Israelis are so mad that they would have resisted the whole United Nations imposing a blockade? That could have been followed by a naval demonstration. [HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"] Of course under the Charter there could be a naval demonstration. [HON. MEMBERS : \"By whom.\"] By all the members of U.N., and we could have had every fleet in the Mediterranean and the Russian fleet as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1561.1", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Who said so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "ael tries to assert its national status by force, its ultimate disappearance is as certain as anything can be. What the Government are doing, as my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, South (Mr. Gaitskell) said this afternoon, is very dangerous to the Israelis. If President Eisenhower believes that the Israel attack was arranged with Britain and France before it happened, we may be quite sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1561.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1562.1", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "Every country but your own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1562.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1562.2", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "hat we never consulted them at all. In recent times the legal ties of the Commonwealth have grown weaker, but by consultation, which was the foundation of the Balfour Declaration of 1926, the political cohesion and the spirit of unity of the Commonwealth have grown much greater. We on this side of the House left the Commonwealth in 1951 greatly changed from what it was when we took office in 1945.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1562.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1562.2", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "to such nations. Are hon. Members opposite saying that that was wrong? That was what enabled the Commonwealth to survive. In 1951 we left the Commonwealth the greatest single force in international affairs. Today, in this grave crisis, the Government have smashed it to smithereens. I am thinking now of the troops who are being sent into Egypt and of the families whom they have left here in Britain", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1562.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1562.2", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"We do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "n 1951 we left the Commonwealth the greatest single force in international affairs. Today, in this grave crisis, the Government have smashed it to smithereens. I am thinking now of the troops who are being sent into Egypt and of the families whom they have left here in Britain [HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"] The situation is immensely grave. Do hon. Members opposite understand what it is they have started?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1562.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1562.2", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Shame\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "I am thinking now of the troops who are being sent into Egypt and of the families whom they have left here in Britain [HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"] The situation is immensely grave. Do hon. Members opposite understand what it is they have started? [HON. MEMBERS : \"We do.\"] Perhaps the Foreign Secretary can say whether it is true, but it has just been reported that our aircraft have started bombing Egypt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1562.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1562.2", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "n to propose the vote of thanks to the Prime Minister at the Tory Conference at Llandudno three weeks ago. I beg the Government to cease their Charter-breaking action. I beg them to get Israel to withdraw. I beg them to propose in the Security Council tomorrow that we should set up a broad neutral zone around the frontiers of Israel and get it policed, as we so easily could, by the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1562.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1562.2", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": " action. I beg them to get Israel to withdraw. I beg them to propose in the Security Council tomorrow that we should set up a broad neutral zone around the frontiers of Israel and get it policed, as we so easily could, by the United Nations. [HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"] Of course we could. If the United Nations asked Sweden and Switzerland to send forces in to police the zone, they would do it tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1562.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1562.2", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "urity Council tomorrow that we should set up a broad neutral zone around the frontiers of Israel and get it policed, as we so easily could, by the United Nations. [HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"] Of course we could. If the United Nations asked Sweden and Switzerland to send forces in to police the zone, they would do it tomorrow. [ Laughter .] Hon. Gentlemen opposite continue to laugh at the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1562.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1564.1", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"And Eisenhower.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "ne with an international police force. One of the points about that is really that we have been trying for months and for years to get more international personnel guarding and safeguarding those frontiers. We have not succeeded. One of the accusations of the Leader of the Opposition was that the action we have taken is a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter. No doubt he believes that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1564.1", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Self-defence?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "he accusations of the Leader of the Opposition was that the action we have taken is a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter. No doubt he believes that. [HON. MEMBERS : \"And Eisenhower.\"] I believe with equal sincerity that that is not so, and that the effect of the Charter is that force may lawfully be used or threatened on the express authority of the United Nations or in self-defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "In referring to the right of self-defence under the Charter I presume that the Foreign Secretary was referring to Article 51. Is he now suggesting that the behaviour of the British Government in this matter is justified under Article 51? May I read out the relevant passage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1565.3", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I am going to deal with the question of Article 51 if I may be permitted just for a moment to develop the argument. The right hon. Gentleman suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1565.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1566.0", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "It is obvious that the Opposition have no intention of having an orderly debate on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1565.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1566.1", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "dcast from Radio Cairo every time. It is quite wrong to state that Israel was incited to this action by Her Majesty's Government. There was no prior agreement between us about it. It is, of course, true that the Israeli mobilisation gave some advance warning, and we urged restraint upon the Israeli Government and, in particular, drew attention to the serious consequences of any attack upon Jordan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1566.1", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "airfields, and that the civilian population was warned to keep clear before the operations started. Their aim is to obtain compliance with the request for the cessation of hostilities by the Egyptian Government, and both their extent and objectives have been limited to achieving that aim with the minimum loss of life and the minimum destruction. Our request to the Egyptian Government remains open—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1566.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1571.1", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1572.0", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has already addressed the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1572.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1572.2", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. First, the Foreign Secretary asked me for twenty minutes and I gave him twenty-five. Secondly, the Foreign Secretary has accused me of misquoting the right hon. Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-10-31", "file": "debates1956-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "b399fa58eab20793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1572.4", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "What I want to ask the Foreign Secretary is this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-10-31a.1572.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1604.6", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What assurance has he given?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "While thanking my right hon. Friend for the assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1604.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1604.6", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "While thanking my right hon. Friend for the assurance—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What assurance has he given?\"] While thanking my right hon. Friend for his assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1604.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1607.7", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mrs. Braddock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1607.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1617.2", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES, ENGLAND AND WALES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Paying for Suez.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Duncan Sandys)", "preceding_text": "Wales. In October of last year, I informed the House that the Government had come to the conclusion that the housing subsidy for general needs should be abolished, but that, in order not to make the transition too abrupt, a reduced subsidy would be paid for a year or so. We have recently reviewed the position, and have decided that the time has now come to bring this interim arrangement to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1617.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1619.0", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES, ENGLAND AND WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "We were referring to the reduction of the housing subsidies. All I can say is that from the returns so far received—and they are not yet complete —there is no evidence that the number of tenders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1619.6", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Antony Head)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Antony Head)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Sir, I will make a statement about the military situation in Egypt, based on the most recent information available to me. Last night bombing attacks were made by British aircraft on four Egyptian air fields, Almaza and Inchass, Abu Sueir and Kabrit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1619.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1620.0", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fascists.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that millions of British people are profoundly shocked and ashamed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1620.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1620.2", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about U.N.O.?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "The object of the operations so far carried out is aimed solely at one purpose, to induce the Egyptian Government to accede to the requirements put forward. These operations have been restricted entirely to military targets and the original requirement made to the Egyptian Government remains open at any time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1620.4", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And life.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Mr. Speaker. I would respectfully ask for your assistance and guidance to the House in what appears to be a completely unprecedented situation. The Minister of Defence has just made an announcement about the use of bombers and ships, the sinking of ships, the dropping of bombs, the destruction of property—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1620.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1621.3", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman asked me, I think, to give an undertaking concerning whatever ruling came from the Assembly. The question of future policy in this matter does not rest with me, and it is not for me to give any undertaking in that respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1621.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1621.4", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, whatever may be thought about the Government's policy, at any rate they are wise in furnishing whatever information is available to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1621.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1623.3", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. Mr. Speaker, as I understand, you feel yourself unable to answer my hon. Friend's question. Therefore, with your permission, I would like to ask the Government whether a declaration of war on Egypt has been made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1623.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1623.5", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order, order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1623.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1623.7", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order, order. I said just now that I was unwilling to extend my powers over an area over which I was not responsible, but I am responsible, as far as I can be, for securing that this House conducts its debates properly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1623.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1623.7", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order, order. I said just now that I was unwilling to extend my powers over an area over which I was not responsible, but I am responsible, as far as I can be, for securing that this House conducts its debates properly—[ Interruption .] Order. Also, I am jealous for the reputation of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1623.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1623.8", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Let the Government answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " Interruption .] Order. Also, I am jealous for the reputation of the House. [ Interruption .] It would be a very bad thing if we were to enter upon the very serious debate which lies in front of us in an atmosphere of noisy interruption. I do hope that we can conduct ourselves, as this House always does on grave matters, with a proper sense of what is due to Parliament and to the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1623.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1624.1", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues have put down a Motion of censure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1624.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1624.4", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "That is not an answer to the question put to the right hon. Gentleman. The question put to the right hon. Gentleman simply amounts to this. Under the orders of the Government, British airmen, soldiers and sailors have been sent into action. If they are captured and no declaration of war has been made, what protection have they under international law?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1624.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1624.5", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The action which has been taken has been, as I explained yesterday, in accordance with the statement we made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1624.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1624.6", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With existing law.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "remely serious one. We on this side of the House are desirous that the Government should have all the instruments of authority that a Government should have, and that nothing should be said here or elsewhere that would deny the Government the exercise of those instruments. However, they can only be exercised if the Government act in accord with the sentiments and aspirations of the British people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1624.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1625.3", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order, order. I cannot have two hon. Members on their feet at the same time. Would it not be possible for all these matters to be brought out in the course of the debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1625.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1625.5", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "As I read the Motion, it is in the widest possible terms. All these matters could be raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1625.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1625.8", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that the Motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1625.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1625.11", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Motion is a general one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1625.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1625.13", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "If the House will not listen to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1625.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1625.14", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "—I will suspend the Sitting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1625.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1625.14", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "—I will suspend the Sitting. [ Interruption .] I have to inform the House that if it will not listen to me, I shall suspend the Sitting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1625.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I hope it is not unreasonable if I say that these questions do involve certain definitions. I am quite confident that I can give a satisfactory and reassuring answer to the House, but I would much rather do it—if the House will allow me—in the speech which I am shortly to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1627.0", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "I am surprised and disappointed at the Prime Minister's statement. This is an extremely important issue, and an important issue now; and I cannot understand why, if the Prime Minister is shortly to say something about it in his speech, he should not do so in advance of the debate. It is really far more convenient for the House if there is an opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1627.1", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "r a little more. I am absolutely convinced that I shall persuade the House that the position is a satisfactory one, but I do not want to do it by answering \"Yes,\" or \"No\" to this or that particular point, because there is a complicated legal position in connection with the Geneva Convention. In view of the fact that we have a debate, and that there was no notice that this question was to be asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1631.2", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Last Monday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "tion in violation of our solemn pledges. During the course of this week we have seen the Government as the first British Government—I do not know whether the Prime Minister feels any pride about this—to use the veto in the United Nations. Times without number, when we have discussed international affairs in this House, Ministers have pointed to the wickedness of the Soviet Union in using the veto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1631.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1631.2", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And it was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": " the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security. he Government claim that their action was in conformity with the United Nations Charter and they base that claim on Article 51, but Article 51 lays it down quite clearly that if any such action is taken it must be immediately reported to the Security Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1631.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1631.2", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He still is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "e violated the Charter of the United Nations; that we have torn up the Tripartite Declaration; that we have divided ourselves from our friends, and that we have outraged public opinion in the world. I now want to say a word to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has for many years been looked upon by many people in this country, and of more than one party, as the champion of the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1631.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1631.2", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "n selfish impulses. I say to the Prime Minister that he has forfeited the trust of millions of our people. He has failed to keep the faith, and now, at the end of this tragic, humiliating week for our country, I say to the Prime Minister, and, I believe, to the country that, not for the first time in the history of this House, it has been left for the Leader of the Opposition to speak for Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1631.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1631.2", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nasser.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "e end of this tragic, humiliating week for our country, I say to the Prime Minister, and, I believe, to the country that, not for the first time in the history of this House, it has been left for the Leader of the Opposition to speak for Britain. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am proud of the lead which my right hon. Friend has given today. This evening, when we go into the Lobby to vote for this Motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1631.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1631.2", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nasser.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "untry, I say to the Prime Minister, and, I believe, to the country that, not for the first time in the history of this House, it has been left for the Leader of the Opposition to speak for Britain. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am proud of the lead which my right hon. Friend has given today. This evening, when we go into the Lobby to vote for this Motion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Nasser.\"]—we shall carry with us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1631.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1631.2", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": " believe, to the country that, not for the first time in the history of this House, it has been left for the Leader of the Opposition to speak for Britain. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am proud of the lead which my right hon. Friend has given today. This evening, when we go into the Lobby to vote for this Motion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Nasser.\"]—we shall carry with us—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Nasser.\"]—the good wishes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1631.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1639.1", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "d this debate I would deal at once with the question of the status of prisoners of war and the questions which the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition asked. Therefore, having moved the Amendment which stands in the names of my right hon. Friends and myself, I will answer the right hon. Gentleman's questions. There has been, of course, as the House knows, no declaration of war by us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1641.3", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I wish to allay the anxiety of the House on the two points which I was asked. On the first, I repeat that there has been no declaration of war by us. On the second, the Geneva Convention applies to any state of armed conflict. Therefore, it applies in the present conditions just as it applied in Korea. That is the position of the International Red Cross in the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1641.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1644.5", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not a point of order. It is a well-known custom in this House that if the Member who is addressing the House does not give way other hon. Gentlemen should sit down. It is quite simple. The Prime Minister did not sit down and, therefore, he must continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1644.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1645.4", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "vective to which we have listened there has been one notable omission. Indeed, in listening to some of the speeches, including that of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths) who has just addressed the House, one might think that the Middle Eastern area had been securely at peace and that we and the French Government where injecting by old-fashioned imperialist methods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1645.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1648.2", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Because if there had been immediate progress on that issue, I have no doubt it would have brought about a comparable relaxation in other areas of tension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1648.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1649.2", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Much has been said in the course of this debate, and by the right hon. Member for Llanelly, about the effect of our actions on the unity of the Commonwealth, and, particularly yesterday, Australia was many times mentioned. I therefore propose to quote to the House a passage from a speech delivered by the Prime Minister of Australia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1649.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1649.2", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ions action could have been effective. Finally, the Australian Government saw nothing sinister in all this. On the contrary, it seemed to them realistic and to pay due regard to the moving facts of life. The Prime Minister of New Zealand has also spoken in a similar sense of support. I have a note of what he said. He said that while admitting that several features of the situation were disturbing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1649.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1651.5", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d the Tripartite Declaration and made it so apparent that she did not want it to apply for Egypt. That is the sole comment I have made. In no other way have we gone back on our 1950 Declaration. I should like to remind the House of this. In the first debate we had in these matters, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison), in a most courageous and impartial speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1651.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1655.3", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Socialist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "llages has a standard of life which is gradually getting higher and higher. Here at this juncture, in a difficult period, we have injected into the situation high power politics partly to satisfy French ambitions in North Africa. A White Paper should have been presented to the House giving as many particulars as possible of the talks with the French Foreign Secretary and the French Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1655.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1655.3", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "cretary and the French Prime Minister. [An HON. MEMBER: \"A Socialist.\"] I am not concerned whether the Prime Minister of France is a Socialist or not, but with the needs of the situation, and I think that within my own party the situation needs criticism. I think that for once the Quai D'Orsay has caught the British Foreign Office napping and has led it up the garden path of French foreign policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1655.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1655.3", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Socialist Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ean activity in and around the centres of French fighting today. The cream of the French Army, nearly 500,000 men, are fighting in North Africa, and a section of the French Army was destroyed in Indo-China. France, because she did not have the wisdom to follow in North Africa the policy followed by British Socialists in India, is draining the life-blood of her country. Are we to be allies in that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1655.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1655.3", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not warmongers at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " East will be by a rapprochement between the United States and Soviet Russia who would come into the area with troops. If that can be secured, there will be a transition period during which economic progress can be made and the standard of life of Israel can progress. This week boys will die. The party opposite announced in the General Election that they stood by the Charter of the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1655.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1658.6", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Now read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "No, the right hon. Gentleman said: That, if ever there was one, is a clear enough notice of aggression to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1658.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1659.1", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Now read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "I will read the whole speech if the hon. Gentleman wishes. It is a good one. It continued: The fact is that this episode must be recognised as part of the struggle for the mastery of the Middle East.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 2nd August, 1956; Vol. 365, c. 1620.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1659.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1659.4", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Government have had it five years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "ow so well in the Middle East. It is entitled \"The Last Straw.\" The last straw is the unified command of Egypt, Syria and Jordan. It is that last straw which preceded the action of the Israelis in advancing into Egypt. What do hon. Gentleman opposite think that Israel should have done? She had applied to the United Nations about her shipping in 1951. She had got a decision from the United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1659.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1659.4", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This Government have had five years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "ted Nations about her shipping in 1951. She had got a decision from the United Nations—[An HON. MEMBER: \"The Government have had it five years.\"]—and nothing happened. I do not want to make a party point of this. If I did want to do so I would remind hon. Gentlemen opposite that it was the Labour Party which was in power in September, 1951. I admit that we, too, are to blame, but the fact remains—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1659.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1659.4", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "and the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition believed, to be the certain eventual attack of Egypt upon her. I am not prepared to blame Israel for that. I never have been a Zionist but I have never been a Jew hater, and I believe that there is an element of Jew hatred which is being stirred up, inadvertently perhaps, but stirred up definitely by the attitude of hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1659.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1659.4", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": ". Is the explanation that those hon. Members hate Her Majesty's Government even more than they love their own country? In view of this background, we have to consider whether Britain and France were or were not justified in taking the action which they have taken. I believe that they are justified for several reasons. The first is that they have a tremendous interest in the oil in the Middle East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1659.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1659.4", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": ". MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Do hon. Members opposite deny it? It is a fact. We could not maintain our standard of life if we had not that oil. Do hon. Members opposite deny the importance of that? Do they not care about the standard of life in this country? Of course they do. They are not prepared to go on to the platforms in their constituencies this week-end and say that the oil does not matter. There is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1659.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1665.0", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "It is true that there has been some support, but very many hon. Members, and the right hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Leicester, South-East in particular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1665.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1666.3", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member now say that if the Assembly of the United Nations asks us to withdraw our forces, we will at once do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1666.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1666.6", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "I will leave it to the judgment of the House and to anyone who reads HANSARD tomorrow. I have referred to the Navy. What is our Air Force doing? Many hon. Members may have read the Daily Mirror this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1666.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1667.0", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "o Radio has appealed to all Arab nations to halt the flow of oil to Britain and France, even if it means hurting themselves, even if it means blowing up the pipelines in the Arab world. That is what they are being asked to do, and we must remember that the Arabs are very excitable people and that it is quite likely that they will carry out those instructions. Is that what the Prime Minister wants?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1670.5", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "hat I should like to do in the few minutes for which I shall speak. I shall start with Colonel Nasser. I have reason to believe that he is a nice, pleasant and even kindly man in private life. I believe that he is a good and a brave soldier, and also a patriotic Egyptian. But in public life he is a ruthless dictator, an ambitious politician, and an adept at diplomatic poker, as we have discovered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1670.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1677.3", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "I am trying to make my speech, and I hope that the hon. and learned Gentleman will do me the courtesy of listening. If I sound passionate it is because I believe passionately in what I am saying. I will not attempt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1677.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1685.0", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "e, there is the other consideration of oil which weighs with me. Do not forget that oil today is the main cement holding together the sterling area. The world is no longer on the gold standard. Oil has taken its place. Advanced industrial nations, such as our own, can at a push do without gold, but to be without oil is to see our industries grind to a standstill and starvation overtake the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral John Hughes Hallett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not want to kill it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral John Hughes Hallett", "preceding_text": "ars between the wars, I watched the League slowly being killed—killed not only by the malice of its enemies, but by the folly of some of its friends. When I listened to some of the hard and bitter things that have been said by hon. Members opposite during this debate about my party and our attitude to the United Nations, I had an uneasy feeling that in that respect history may be repeating itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1696.1", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Smyth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And shoot them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Smyth", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the point of view of the hon. and learned Gentleman, but I look at it from this point of view. If two people fall into the water and are drowning, I do not look up my book of rules to see if I am trespassing or not; I try to jump in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1705.1", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And vice versa .\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " living. We live in a world of much bigger Powers than we are. When I see the Prime Minister strutting across the world stage and bullying a little country, I know, and I hope that he knows, that Russia and America could snuff him out in two minutes if they chose to do so. The hydrogen bomb, delivered from Moscow, could obliterate this country if Mr. Bulganin chose to present us with an ultimatum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1705.1", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "he saturation of destruction we could do grave damage to them. The fact is that in the world in which we live there is only one hope for Britain and the world, and that is the rule of law. The rule of law means hoping and working for a situation in which the nations will act, not only according to their own selfish interests, but also according to the dictates of their conscience. If we destroyed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1706.1", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "compels me to retrace my argument far enough back to answer him. May I deal with just one point? Over the last three debates the Prime Minister said time and again that force was the last resort, and we believe him. Today, we have the statement of President Eisenhower that the British Government wished to use force at the end of July. Whom do we believe, President Eisenhower or the Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1707.1", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "all the world against us before we had honour on our side. In this matter we are dishonoured. We here in this House gave—I do not wish to distribute the prizes—but we gave in the case of India, in the case of Ceylon, examples to the world of how great empires can dispose of their strength and of their power peacefully. Progressively we did that, and we were able to hold our heads up because of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1707.1", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "f people who lost their lives. That is true, but it is also true that fewer lives might have been lost if we had been bigger earlier. What are we to say at the United Nations, or whenever we go abroad and meet the spokesmen of other people? We say that Great Britain has always stood for civilised principles, and for humanity and justice. How do we answer now, when we drop bombs on helpless people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1707.1", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "e spirit of partisanship but with a deep sense of sorrow, that I attack the Government tonight for this policy. I believe that they are not supported by the vast majority of the people of Great Britain. They are certainly not supported by the vast majority of the people right throughout the world. I do beg and pray of them to retrace their steps even now. It would be evidence of increased stature—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1707.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1716.3", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Let him speak.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1716.7", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I desire your advice. Would it be right, if I disagreed with what the Government have done in the present situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1716.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1716.7", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are 'we'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yates", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I desire your advice. Would it be right, if I disagreed with what the Government have done in the present situation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Not a point of order.\"] The point is that we must have your advice on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1716.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1717.4", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "That observation remains eternally true, and it will be even more so at the end of my intervention. The debate has been a remarkable one because it has included several very distinguished and some emotional speeches. I think we were all particularly impressed by the speech of the hon. Gentleman the Member for Wednesbury (Mr. S. N. Evans).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1717.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bring them home.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "im subjects which we are discussing this evening, but I do want to say that I found in the speech of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Derby, South (Mr. P. Noel-Baker), who spoke yesterday, more humanity than I did in the speech of the Leader of the Opposition. The human considerations of our troops, which were referred to by the right hon. Gentleman, should be foremost in our minds tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "the issues which we have to consider, and in casting the vote which we shall shortly cast by an overwhelming majority in favour of the Government this evening, we must remember when we examine this problem, the background of human consideration which affects us all in one way or another. That is why I open my speech by a reference to the legal background against which our troops are now operating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Let us have it, then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ent have ordered the troops abroad, what authority they are acting under and, as it has been put rather dramatically in the debate, are they committing murder or are they engaged in legitimate war? I have put it like that because that is how it was put earlier in the debate. It is right that an answer should be given immediately and responsibly on behalf of Her Majesty's Government on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are we at war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " answer? History affords many examples of wars that have started without a declaration of war, but they have been wars none the less, and all the normal rights and duties of war have attached to them. I would say, after consulting the best legal experts I have been able to consult this afternoon, that the laws of war apply to the situation in Egypt at the present time. To make the situation clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Study Nuremburg.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "arted without a declaration of war, but they have been wars none the less, and all the normal rights and duties of war have attached to them. I would say, after consulting the best legal experts I have been able to consult this afternoon, that the laws of war apply to the situation in Egypt at the present time. To make the situation clear—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Are we at war?\"]—I must remind the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is there a war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ed without a previous unequivocal warning either in the form of a declaration of war or, to use the words, \"in the form of an ultimatum.\" I have asked for an interpretation of this, and I have found it in Oppenheim, in the seventh edition, in volume II, page 292—I think it important to set this out—where it specifically states that failure to observe this provision does not render the war illegal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "nt to set this out—where it specifically states that failure to observe this provision does not render the war illegal. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Is there a war?\"] Neither does it take away, from the hostilities thus commenced, the character of war. The position of Her Majesty's Government in face of this situation is this. Her Majesty's Government do not regard their present action as constituting a war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1719.0", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Is there a war?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "t of Article 1 of the Third Hague Convention, to which I referred, in warning Egypt by means of a statement of our requirements, accompanied by a conditional intimation that certain points in Egyptian territory would be occupied if that requirement was not complied with. That, therefore, is the legal position in regard to the background against which we have begun this action in the last few days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1720.5", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I am equally aware that in the case of Korea the situation was, as far as I am informed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1720.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1720.6", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "—very little different from the situation we are facing here. I do not know why hon. and learned Gentlemen opposite should desire always to denigrate the actions of their own country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1720.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1720.12", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elwyn Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elwyn Jones", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it in order for a right hon. Gentleman to make an imputation against my loyalty, or the loyalty of any hon. Member, by suggesting that my only interest is in denigrating my country when at the Nuremberg trials this country associated itself with the judgment of the Court?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1720.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1720.14", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I could not read anything like that into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1720.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1720.17", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1720.16"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1721.2", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1721.6", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "The right hon, Gentleman has quoted Oppenheim. I want to quote to him just one passage from it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1721.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1725.1", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I am coming to the statements of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and of our objectives and will endeavour to deal with the hon. Member's point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1727.0", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I really cannot interpret a speech by the President of the United States. All I can do in reply to the right hon. Gentleman is to interpret the policy with which Her Majesty's Government have been intimately associated over these months. And the interpretation of British policy is as I have given it, that we have been working up to this emergency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1727.2", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I said that we have been working up to this emergency to obtain a peaceful settlement of the dispute; and now that we are faced with the fact of this emergency we have deliberately taken action which is controversial, yet highly courageous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1727.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1745.5", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "DEMONSTRATORS (POLICE ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "preceding_text": "I heard of this incident, and I want to say that at a time when people on the other side of the House are voting away the lives of the ordinary working-class people, every one of them here can be branded as a murderer of every working-class boy who dies. When that sort of thing is happening here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1745.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1746.0", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "DEMONSTRATORS (POLICE ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This matter seems to have extended itself somewhat from the matter raised by the hon. Member for Bradford, South (Mr. (George Craddock), on the Motion for the Adjournment. I would remind the hon. Lady that the word \"murderer\" is forbidden in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1745.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1746.6", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "DEMONSTRATORS (POLICE ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "No, I have not. I was saying that the younger people in this country who will have to bear the burden of what has been decided tonight by old people who will not be asked to go to Egypt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1746.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-01", "file": "debates1956-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "aeb569df57802944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1747.1", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "DEMONSTRATORS (POLICE ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "t, I think we ought to consider that this House, from time to time, has to take decisions which affect very seriously the lives of young people who are not yet qualified to vote. Whatever the facts of the matter may be, I think it is unfortunate that there should have been the suggestion in the hon. Gentleman's speech that because these people were youthful it did not matter how they were treated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-01a.1747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-02", "file": "debates1956-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f016360557f6120f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1753.8", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Sixty-four voted for\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "The information on the debate is only just reaching me. I notice that Australia and New Zealand voted against the resolution, and that there were several abstentions, including Canada and South Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1753.8"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-02", "file": "debates1956-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f016360557f6120f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1756.3", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Mackeson", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1756.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-02", "file": "debates1956-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f016360557f6120f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1756.7", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Prime Minister has said that he is not prepared to give an undertaking and is not prepared to add to his statement. I ask the House to consider whether further questions are not really a waste of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1756.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-02", "file": "debates1956-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f016360557f6120f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1759.2", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "The House will have heard what the Prime Minister has said about the position in which he is, namely, that he must have an opportunity of studying the situation arising out of the Assembly's vote. The request—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1759.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-02", "file": "debates1956-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f016360557f6120f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1760.3", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "No, I could not give any undertaking as to time. It is quite possible to make known, through the usual channels, what time any statement can be made. What I cannot undertake is that the House should be kept in continuous session. Nor can I undertake, for reasons which are regarded as important in the country, that the House should sit on Sunday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1760.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-02", "file": "debates1956-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f016360557f6120f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1760.3", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " known, through the usual channels, what time any statement can be made. What I cannot undertake is that the House should be kept in continuous session. Nor can I undertake, for reasons which are regarded as important in the country, that the House should sit on Sunday. [ Interruption .] Well, several of us have views about sitting on Sundays which are just as strong as the right hon. Gentleman's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1760.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-02", "file": "debates1956-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f016360557f6120f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1762.0", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "That statement needs immediate correction. There were conversations through the usual channels and personally with the Leader of the Opposition about the wishes of the Opposition and the Sittings of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-02", "file": "debates1956-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f016360557f6120f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1762.0", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "That statement needs immediate correction. There were conversations through the usual channels and personally with the Leader of the Opposition about the wishes of the Opposition and the Sittings of Parliament. [HON. MEMBERS : \"When?\"] Those wishes were that Parliament should remain in session, and that we postpone Prorogation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1762.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-02", "file": "debates1956-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f016360557f6120f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1768.7", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I have nothing to add today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1768.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-02", "file": "debates1956-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f016360557f6120f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1768.9", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "eptional because a new position has arisen. Could he not at least tell the House and the country what is the relative position between the wireless stations of Cairo and Alexandria and the residential quarters? Presumably, if it has been decided to bomb them, the Government know where they are, and the country would like to know what are the prospects of civilians being annihilated in the process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1768.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-02", "file": "debates1956-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f016360557f6120f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1771.2", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "I want to submit to you, Sir, that there is a general view in this House, certainly on this side of the House, that the Orders of the Day are really comparatively trivial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1771.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-02", "file": "debates1956-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f016360557f6120f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1835.1", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "No ; I am sorry, I cannot give way. Our proceedings are to be curtailed and there is not much time. This seems to sort very ill with the suggestion that the hon. Member for Gillingham (Mr. Burden) himself has made all over the country, that nationalisation is always bound to put up prices. I was particularly glad that the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-02", "file": "debates1956-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f016360557f6120f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1841.1", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. John Profumo)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Poor stuff.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (Mr. John Profumo)", "preceding_text": "t intensely, but when we took office we were landed with certain industries which were publicly owned, and our only desire has been to try to see that they may be run efficiently and make a profit. I should like to draw the hon. Member's attention to the fact that it was not possible apparently for B.O.A.C. and B.E.A. to make a profit until a Conservative Government were finally returned to power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-02", "file": "debates1956-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f016360557f6120f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1848.4", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has asked me to say that he is unable to make any further statement on the situation today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1848.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-02", "file": "debates1956-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f016360557f6120f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1851.1", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"They should take a long rest\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "hat both sides of the House should have expressed their opinions freely and come to a major clash of opinion last night, but now, when our soldiers, sailors and airmen are engaged in dangerous and hazardous occupations, it seems to me that it is in the interests of this country, no less than of world peace, that the Ministers who are responsible for their movements should have some time for sleep—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-02", "file": "debates1956-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f016360557f6120f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1853.4", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": " would be out of order—I should like to say that I support what the Leader of the Opposition has said about the situation in Hungary, to which my hon. Friend the Joint Under-Secretary of State has just referred. We understand from the newspapers today, which is the only source of information that most of us have, that Mr. Nagy has made an appeal to the four great Powers through the United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1853.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-02", "file": "debates1956-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f016360557f6120f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1853.4", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"What influence?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": "thermore, as the only signatories to the Yalta Agreement, which made similar promises about the independence of Hungary without interference by foreign Powers, and which made similar promises about free elections in Hungary, all three of those countries are vitally interested. I conclude, therefore, by expressing a strong hope that we shall hear from the Government tomorrow that British influence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1853.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-02", "file": "debates1956-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f016360557f6120f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1853.4", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": "es about the independence of Hungary without interference by foreign Powers, and which made similar promises about free elections in Hungary, all three of those countries are vitally interested. I conclude, therefore, by expressing a strong hope that we shall hear from the Government tomorrow that British influence—[HON. MEMBERS : \"What influence?\"]—will be used to the maxi mum to try to preserve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1853.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-02", "file": "debates1956-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f016360557f6120f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1853.4", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": "similar promises about free elections in Hungary, all three of those countries are vitally interested. I conclude, therefore, by expressing a strong hope that we shall hear from the Government tomorrow that British influence—[HON. MEMBERS : \"What influence?\"]—will be used to the maxi mum to try to preserve—[HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"]—to try to ensure, through peaceful negotiation with the Soviet Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1853.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-02", "file": "debates1956-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f016360557f6120f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1855.2", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Strachey", "preceding_text": "I wish to detain the House only for a moment to ask the hon. and gallant Member for Lewes (Major Beamish) whether he realises how his words will be receved in Eastern Europe. I have just returned from Eastern Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1855.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-02", "file": "debates1956-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "f016360557f6120f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1856.1", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr John Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"We want the Motion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr John Hynd", "preceding_text": "I rise to ask three short questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-02a.1856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1857.8", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"And Canada?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "sfactory arrangements have been agreed in regard to the Suez Canal, both agreements to be guaranteed by the United Nations ; (iii) In the meantime, until the United Nations force is constituted, both combatants agree to accept forthwith limited detachments of Anglo-French troops to be stationed between the combatants.\" We have been in consultation with the Governments of Australia and New Zealand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1857.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1858.0", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"And sell Britain?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "any other Resolution previously carried by the Assembly. We can only say that, for our part, we regard this as utterly deplorable. As regards the conditions laid down by the Government, it is no part of the business of Her Majesty's Government to lay down conditions in this matter. It is their duty, as loyal members of the United Nations—if they were loyal members—to accept that majority decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1858.0", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Warmonger.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "nd that, therefore, the original situation, from that point of view, has substantially changed? The Canal is blocked, there has been no rescue operation for British ships, no British lives have been saved, and all that has happened is that the intervention of Her Majesty's Government on behalf—or, rather, against Egypt—has no doubt prematurely brought the operations in the Sinai Desert to a close.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1858.0", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "tantially changed? The Canal is blocked, there has been no rescue operation for British ships, no British lives have been saved, and all that has happened is that the intervention of Her Majesty's Government on behalf—or, rather, against Egypt—has no doubt prematurely brought the operations in the Sinai Desert to a close. [HON. MEMBERS : \"Warmonger.\"] In those circumstances, what is the objection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1858.0", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "pt. What they have done is to destroy all faith in collective security. What they have done now, by refusing to accept the United Nations Resolution, is virtually to destroy that institution, which the Prime Minister once described as the hope of mankind. I must also ask the Prime Minister this. He speaks of the United Nations force, which has been proposed by Mr. Lester Pearson, being brought in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1858.0", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " done now, by refusing to accept the United Nations Resolution, is virtually to destroy that institution, which the Prime Minister once described as the hope of mankind. I must also ask the Prime Minister this. He speaks of the United Nations force, which has been proposed by Mr. Lester Pearson, being brought in. [ Interruption .] Never mind ; it was proposed in the Assembly of the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1858.0", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "der and because we believe in the Charter of the United Nations, despite everything that has been said and done in the last few days, we are prepared to accept it. The Government could, if they had done that, to some extent at least have restored our reputation and moral authority. They could, if they had done that, at once have made it a thousand times easier to deal with the Hungarian situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1858.0", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " have hitherto voted Conservative. If only the Government had been prepared to accept the Resolution, much of the damage could have been repaired. Unfortunately, they have refused. They have not only refused but are continuing the war against Egypt, continuing the bombing and the destruction and the casualties. All that has been put forward today is a niggling, haggling kind of proposal, which is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1862.2", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"This example?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rse, is that it is in the Canal Zone that, in our judgment, the danger has lain and still lies. Finally, the right hon. Gentleman said that after this the United Nations would never be able to operate again. Each one of us is entitled to his judgment on that. I take exactly the opposite view. I am sure that a great many people in other lands share it. If the United Nations would take this example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1862.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1863.1", "colnum": "1863", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "We do not contest the right—in a legal sense—of the British Government to make what reply they like ; what we contest is their moral right to defy the Resolution of the Assembly. As for the Prime Minister's last remarks, let me remind him of this ; he spoke of the United Nations following our example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1863.2", "colnum": "1863", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "AN Hon. Member : \"Korea.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Yes. Does not he realise that the whole essence of the United Nations is that countries should not act independently and without its authority? Does not he realise that other countries, acting independently", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1863.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1863.2", "colnum": "1863", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "essence of the United Nations is that countries should not act independently and without its authority? Does not he realise that other countries, acting independently [AN Hon. Member : \"Korea.\"] Somebody raised the issue of Korea. In the case of Korea, action was taken under Article 51 of the Charter, in self-defence, whereas in this case an act of aggression was committed against another country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1863.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1865.1", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "a United Nations force to intervene and to hold the peace until a final and peaceful settlement of the Arab-Israeli dispute is reached—which we all desire—the Government are ready to have the Anglo-French forces replaced by United Nations forces as rapidly as possible? It obviously could not take place overnight, but would he agree to the change being made as speedily as possible? My second point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1865.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1865.3", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As regards the first of the right hon. Gentleman's questions. the answer is \"Yes\". In our conception the United Nations force would go in and do that work. and we should naturally not expect to be excluded from it. We should want to be a part of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1865.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1866.0", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Burglars.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is natural. I do not want to mislead the House. If there is to be a United Nations force, this country, with considerable interests in the matter, could be part of it. I should hope that the House would feel that I was not unreasonable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1871.7", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "The difficulty which the Government are in is that we were asked for a statement on Hungary, and it so happens that we were not asked for a statement on defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1871.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1871.7", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "he House, and he is still collecting the latest facts, and will oblige the House by giving that statement as soon as possible. As the Foreign Secretary is ready with his statement on Hungary, I suggest that we should ask him to give the statement on Hungary and then we could have the statement on defence when it is ready. Then we could revert to the general debate on the Question before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1871.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1872.1", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "I put it to you, Mr. Speaker, that that course would be most unfair to back bench Members, particularly hon. Members on this side of the House.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1872.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1873.5", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1873.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1873.9", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Antony Head)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Antony Head)", "preceding_text": "with the minimum loss of Egyptian life. A very high degree of accuracy was achieved. After this phase, the attacks are being switched to other military targets, particularly armour, and successful attacks have been made in the past 24 hours. Many hundreds of sorties have been flown. One Venom aircraft is so far unaccounted for. Four blockships have been sunk in the Port Said approach to the Canal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1873.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1875.3", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "ields, and how long was there between the first warning and the attack upon the Heliopolis national aerodrome? Is the Minister aware that the statement made by the Government caused complete panic among the 200,000, many of them foreign, nationals in the vicinity of that aerodrome? My third question is whether he will confirm that among the first objects hit was the Almaza hospital at Heliopolis?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1875.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1876.1", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "The warning went out at 16,00 hours and the first attack went in at 16.15—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1876.3", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "siderable danger. Secondly, I would remind the House that these attacks did not take place simultaneously. They were phased one after the other and, because of some doubt about casualties, one attack was cancelled altogether. Thirdly, I would say that, so far as all our information goes, the one thing that has been extremely marked in these attacks is the very light loss of life so far as we know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1877.2", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Amery", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Amery", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend, or perhaps the Foreign Secretary, say whether the sinking of the block ships in approaches to the Canal constitutes a breach of the 1888 Convention?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1877.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1879.2", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "rtually at an end. Would it not be wise, in the light of that fact, of, the Assembly's Resolution, and of the proposals, which we all welcome, for a United Nations police force, that instructions should now be given, in accordance with that Resolution, to cease all further military action? I beg the Prime Minister to understand that upon his answer to these questions public opinion will judge him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1880.1", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I ask that the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs should now make his statement on Hungary? He came here at the request of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1880.1", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I ask that the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs should now make his statement on Hungary? He came here at the request of the Opposition—[ Interruption .]—to make a statement on Hungary. If he does so now I think it will enable us to have a clearer debate on both statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1882.1", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Aflairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Humbug.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Aflairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "nts of Russian land forces in Hungary are not entirely clear, but on balance they seem to have been reinforced in the last three days. By latest information is that the Soviet and Hungarian Governments are considering a proposal for the establishment of a mixed commission to discuss the question of Soviet forces in Hungary. Her Majesty's Government welcome the proclamation of Hungarian neutrality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1882.1", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Aflairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Aflairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "he Soviet and Hungarian Governments are considering a proposal for the establishment of a mixed commission to discuss the question of Soviet forces in Hungary. Her Majesty's Government welcome the proclamation of Hungarian neutrality. [HON. MEMBERS : \"Humbug.\"] In the United Nations' discussion of the communications addressed to the Secretary-General by Mr. Nagy, the United Kingdom Representative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1882.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1884.2", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Hynd", "preceding_text": "The Foreign Secretary has indicated that the British Government intend to support the Hungarian appeal to the United Nations. Can he tell us on what conceivable grounds this Government can defend the claim of the Hungarian Government, and can he give an assurance that Her Majesty's Government will not proceed to bomb Hungarian hospitals in the meantime?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1887.2", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Harvey", "preceding_text": "d try to avoid mixing the Hungarian issue with that of the Middle East, and I do not want to do that—to ask themselves what would be the reaction in the United Nations organisation or anywhere else to what is happening in Hungary or what is said to be happening in Hungary if nothing had happened in the Middle East. Clearly it would be debated. Resolutions would be passed and nothing would be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1887.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1889.1", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Read it again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman could put that interpretation on the last paragraph. I have re-read it in the last three hours or so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1889.1", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "s régime and technique that the pattern was all terribly familiar. I have no doubt at all that he remembers saying that. How much more familiar did that pattern become when, in the last week or two, an Egyptian general was appointed to command a ring of steel around the State of Israel? Yet, at this moment, many hon. Members opposite have put themselves in the position of supporting Nasser—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1893.1", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Grimston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Grimston", "preceding_text": ", \"Come and police this area. We have frustrated this tearing up of an international agreement,\" although the man was only walking into his own country ; I say that the League of Nations would have then been given a chance to function. I believe it would have functioned, and nobody today can doubt that we should have saved ourselves from a Second World War. Today we have got similar circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1898.3", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"What about the bombing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "preceding_text": ". The fact remains that we intend to put our forces in in the only militarily practicable place where it could be done. Nobody can deny that. I want to turn for a moment to the legalistic side. I am not a lawyer and I do not understand these things, but it seems to me, as a simple man, that there is far too much high-hatted talk about moral principles while cities are burning and people are dying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1898.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1901.8", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "preceding_text": "I have one last point I want to make, and I hope that my right hon. Friend will pay some attention to what I am just about to say because many people seem to be a little worried about it. It is a point which has been put to me by many people, and by a good many constituents last night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1901.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1902.1", "colnum": "1902", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER : \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": "ose who are fighting today, be they Jew or Arab or our own people, because of the misguided policy not of one particular Government but of a world that has gone mad. We are all in this business—England, America, France, and lawyers, politicians, theorists, pacifists, militarists and all the lot, and there is not one party or country that is to blame for the unwholesome, unholy mess that we are in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1905.1", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "t to make a party issue of this problem. It is not too late. The fact is that, unless those landing craft are redirected to another destination in the next few hours, thousands of young men may carry on their souls for the rest of their lives the feeling that they faced personally the same sort of problem as soldiers in the German Army in the last war faced and that they failed to meet it rightly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1905.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1906.1", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I forgive the hon. Member. I know how strong feeling is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1906.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1906.3", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "In view of your Ruling, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, I will certainly withdraw. May I just—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1906.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1908.1", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. A. Burden", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1908.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1909.4", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The new Foreign Secretary.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1909.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1910.3", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Lagden", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1910.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1911.1", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Because of you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "ggestion that hostilities have terminated. I think that that comment—which I think came from the Leader of the Opposition—is a little naïve. It is clear that unless we intervene in the situation, there will be more major battles between the combatants. Israeli forces are now advancing on the Canal. That is continuing. Egyptian forces are also advancing on the Canal from the other direction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1911.1", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "t comment—which I think came from the Leader of the Opposition—is a little naïve. It is clear that unless we intervene in the situation, there will be more major battles between the combatants. Israeli forces are now advancing on the Canal. That is continuing. Egyptian forces are also advancing on the Canal from the other direction—[HON. MEMBERS : \"Because of you.\"] It is not because of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1911.1", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Humbug.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "ess we intervene in the situation, there will be more major battles between the combatants. Israeli forces are now advancing on the Canal. That is continuing. Egyptian forces are also advancing on the Canal from the other direction—[HON. MEMBERS : \"Because of you.\"] It is not because of us—[HON. MEMBERS : \"Yes.\"]—and if someone does not intervene to separate the combatants, I am perfectly certain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1911.3", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "We are certainly going to separate the combatants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1911.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1911.3", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"What is the danger then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "We are certainly going to separate the combatants. [HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"] That is certainly the object of the operation, but I would remind the hon. Gentleman that the Israeli Government have notified their willingness to withdraw ten miles from the Canal provided the other side do the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1911.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1911.4", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " trying quite honestly to follow what the right hon. and learned Gentleman says. He says in one breath, \"The Israeli forces are advancing towards the Canal ; the Egyptian Forces are advancing towards the Canal ; we are going to put our forces in between to stop them and therefore, presumably, to fight both.\" When I ask him about that, he says that the Israeli troops are not advancing on the Canal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1911.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1912.6", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "matum, but what I understand the Egyptians have accepted is the Resolution of the United Nations Assembly. It was reported in the Press this morning that they had agreed to the cease-fire providing the other parties to the dispute did so too. If it is the case that the Israelis have also said that they will agree to the ceasefire, all possible justification for armed intervention by us disappears.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1912.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1912.7", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I completely disagree with the right hon. Gentleman. I think that possibly the case for resistance to our intervention has gone, but I believe that if this resistance is really to be stopped it is necessary for there to be some detachments on the ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1912.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1912.7", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "of initiative or another, to try to get peace between Israel and the Arab States. Those efforts have failed. At present I say that there is still an extremely dangerous situation militarily on the ground, and that the best way to stop those hostilities developing is for us to intervene. We are not proposing to intervene on the side of Israel. We are intervening in order to separate the combatants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1912.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1912.7", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"For another seventy years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "s have failed. At present I say that there is still an extremely dangerous situation militarily on the ground, and that the best way to stop those hostilities developing is for us to intervene. We are not proposing to intervene on the side of Israel. We are intervening in order to separate the combatants. [ Interruption .] Fears have been expressed that we would stay in the area of the Canal Zone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1912.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1912.7", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "e on the side of Israel. We are intervening in order to separate the combatants. [ Interruption .] Fears have been expressed that we would stay in the area of the Canal Zone. [An HON. MEMBER : \"For another seventy years.\"] The suggestion from an hon. Member of the Opposition is that we intend to stay for another seventy years, and that we are going there simply to pursue our own selfish interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1912.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1913.1", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1913.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1914.1", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Since the Government are prepared to accept a Resolution carried by nine votes to two, why will they not accept a Resolution carried by 64 votes to five? Will they now give an undertaking, since they are prepared to hand this problem over to the United Nations, that they will accept the solution on Suez decided by the United Nations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1914.2", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ntend to see that this war between these two countries is stopped. If, arising out of this situation, the United Nations equips itself and organises itself so that it is in a position to act quickly in similar circumstances, then in my view we shall have done a very good job for the peace of the world. Throughout the whole of this conflict Her Majesty's Opposition have sought to make things worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1914.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-03", "file": "debates1956-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "74429175e954b7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1916.4", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-03a.1916.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1946.0", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLITICAL MEETINGS (POLICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In regard to the protection of individual Members of Parliament, do you consider it necessary, Mr. Speaker, that when a Member of Parliament goes into a certain part of London to speak it is necessary to have in attendance three mounted policemen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1946.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1948.1", "colnum": "1948", "heading": "HUNGARY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Henderson", "preceding_text": ", in Budapest, to suppress the struggles of the Hungarian people for freedom and independence? In those circumstances, may I ask the Foreign Secretary whether the Government will not do better than give another £25,000, but will give an assurance to the House that they will do everything possible to co-operate, in order to mitigate the sufferings of the Hungarian people, by providing economic aid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1948.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1951.4", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "HUNGARY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I should like to see a copy of the leaflet before pronouncing on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1951.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1952.0", "colnum": "1952", "heading": "HUNGARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "As I said, I should like to examine that leaflet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1952.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1956.2", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "rtake the recruitment directly from various Member States other than the permanent Member States of the Security Council the additional number of officers required. Finally, it invited the Secretary-General to take such administrative measures as may be necessary for the prompt execution of the actions envisaged in this resolution. Her Majesty's Government abstained from voting on this resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1956.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1958.0", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"So are we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "The House has heard with astonishment the statement of the Foreign Secretary on why Her Majesty's Government abstained from voting on the Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly setting up an international force. Is the Foreign Secretary aware that the Resolution was sponsored by Canada, that New Zealand has already said she is prepared to contribute troops to this force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1958.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1959.0", "colnum": "1959", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " the combatants to within their own territories and the absence of any other intervention by any other party? If that is the case, why did Her Majesty's Government, in replying to the Resolution passed by the Assembly, suggest that the idea of the international force was not merely to secure and supervise the cessation of hostilities but also to secure a final settlement of the Suez Canal problem?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1958.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1959.2", "colnum": "1959", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "With regard to the question of the Resolution, the right hon. Gentleman has asked why the representative of the United Kingdom abstained. First, we could not vote for a proposition which excluded detachments of the forces of the permanent members of the Security Council from this international force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1959.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1959.2", "colnum": "1959", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "nstituted to a much greater extent than is envisaged by the Resolution. The Leader of the Opposition made a second accusation that we had done wrong in suggesting that the problems of the Suez Canal should be included to be settled whilst the international force was there. I should have thought he would have understood that the blockade on the shipping of a certain country going through the Canal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1959.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1959.2", "colnum": "1959", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": " that the problems of the Suez Canal should be included to be settled whilst the international force was there. I should have thought he would have understood that the blockade on the shipping of a certain country going through the Canal—[ Interruption .]— is one of the matters a settlement of which we have to try to get out of this situation. As for the talk of people being humbugs or hypocrites—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1959.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1963.0", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I have no knowledge of that broadcast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1963.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1963.7", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member puts down a Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1963.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1963.11", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"A real one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1963.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1965.0", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "In view of the question which has just been asked, may I ask the Government to give their attention to what appears to be becoming apparent in almost all quarters of the House, that the war aims of the Government are being elicited from them day by day, and that they are being changed day by day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1965.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1966.1", "colnum": "1966", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I will consider the right hon. Gentleman's suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1966.2", "colnum": "1966", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. We are asking today what would, in fact, be asked even upon quite an unimportant occasion, in order that we might be acquainted with what is being done. Now, however, we have what purports to be a series of definitive war aims appearing in a series of propaganda leaflets from the Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1966.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1966.4", "colnum": "1966", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I have said that I will consider the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1966.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1966.6", "colnum": "1966", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "I should like, if I may, to have an opportunity to examine the various matters raised on this issue and to consider a reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1966.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1967.0", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "nder-in-Chief in the Eastern Mediterranean which affects even the discussion which is now taking place. That is why I intervened, as I know the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition will understand. This is the flash signal, which is, of course, subject to confirmation : Governor and Military Commander, Port Said now discussing surrender terms with Brigadier Butler. Cease-fire ordered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1966.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1967.7", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1967.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1967.9", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "We have not finished asking the Foreign Secretary questions. The Prime Minister has intervened with an important statement and we must really be allowed to ask him supplementary questions about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1967.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1967.13", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I read out the signal as I received it, because I thought that the House ought to have immediate information of the news at my disposal. Quite clearly, I cannot possibly know how wide or narrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1967.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1969.3", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. May I respectfully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1969.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1971.0", "colnum": "1971", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman and ourselves are in an identical position about this. The only information we have of the situation is the telegram which has been read out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1971.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1972.2", "colnum": "1972", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"How long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "The timing of this operation was based on the only possible thing on which one could carry out such an operation; that is, operational considerations, which would mean a considerable time ago, and it had nothing to do with Mr. Hammarskjöld's speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1972.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1975.4", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Such language is not proper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1975.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1975.6", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, may I have your permission to withdraw the offensive phrase and ask my right hon. Friend to note that if he wishes to have information about bombed telephone exchanges he might well ask the Leader of the Opposition, who referred to this in his speech last night?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1975.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1976.2", "colnum": "1976", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "May I answer this, as this matter was referred by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to me, at once? I gave him categorically my word and the word of the Government that no such orders had been issued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-05", "file": "debates1956-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "b973057f8d26fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1978.1", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Read the Observer .\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Eden", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the B.B.C. has been broadcasting to the Arab world details of the shameful partisan demonstrations sponsored by the Opposition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-05a.1978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.4.3", "colnum": "4", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "ve the problem of easily improvised crush barriers, a device which can be put up at short notice to direct a procession in a certain direction. There is in this Chamber a gadget, presented to us by the Government of Jamaica, which could be improved upon or operated hydraulically. It would not be difficult to find a way of sinking in the roadway telescopic tubes which could be raised and converted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.4.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.7.0", "colnum": "7", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "preceding_text": "I should like to say a word on this matter, perhaps from a slightly different point of view. I happen to be one who has been in a demonstration when mounted police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.7.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.7.0", "colnum": "7", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "preceding_text": "ctly when a horse will rear up in front of people. It creates a very difficult situation. The policemen themselves are put in a difficult position. I know many policemen. I have a very great respect for the work they have to do, and I know that they consider it is a very distasteful job when they are given instructions to use their horses to clear a passage or to break up a peaceful demonstration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.7.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.9.4", "colnum": "9", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I misunderstood the hon. Member for Paddington, North (Mr. Parkin). If so, I am sorry. Was the hon. Member for Eastbourne (Sir C. Taylor) raising the question of Sunday's demonstration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.9.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.10.0", "colnum": "10", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is the frightened crowd.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": "e of some of our administrators in Colonial Territories because they think that because a crowd of uneducated people in a Colonial Territory can be frightened by the use of men on horses, we will get the same effect by frightening a crowd of British citizens. That is a profound psychological error, because it is not true that a frightened crowd is a less dangerous crowd than an unfrightened crowd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.10.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.10.0", "colnum": "10", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": "at because a crowd of uneducated people in a Colonial Territory can be frightened by the use of men on horses, we will get the same effect by frightening a crowd of British citizens. That is a profound psychological error, because it is not true that a frightened crowd is a less dangerous crowd than an unfrightened crowd. [An HON. MEMBER: \"There is the frightened crowd.\"] The whole theory of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.10.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.11.2", "colnum": "11", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "d way, because if a particular incident has happened immediately we take sides, some with the crowd and some with the police. We discuss the matter today unprejudiced by a particular incident because we are talking about the Order. I beg hon. Members opposite to listen to us on this matter. It is my invariable experience—and I have had as much experience of crowds as any hon. Member in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.11.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.11.2", "colnum": "11", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": " as much experience of crowds as any hon. Member in this House—[ Interruption .] Yes, certainly. Indeed, I am bound to say that if the restoration of order and a condition of docility is the main object of using mounted police, a few among the Conservative Members now and again would be a great advantage. The fact is that almost invariably the presence of mounted police converts a happy, peaceful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.11.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "t with world opinion. Another object of continuing the fighting is said to be to safeguard the Canal. Let us consider where we are in respect of the Canal. I believe that it has now been blocked by eight ships, and with every hour that passes the prospect is that more ships and obstructions will be sunk in it. If we stop the fighting at once the continuing effort to block the Canal will also stop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "itish Commonwealth. Now, on top of this, in these last twenty-four hours—less—there is the Russian threat of intervention. Hon. Members opposite cannot say that we did not warn them that that might happen; we did—the last thing in the world that we should like to see, because we, as I think hon. Members opposite on reflection will realise, are just as proud and anxious for our country as they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is big of the right hon. Gentleman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ope could happen. Unarmed people have stood up, bravely and boldly, against the might of Soviet Russia and tried to win their freedom and independence. Yesterday in this House there were some bitter exchanges about the part which our adventure in Egypt has played in this matter. On that I wish to say only two things. I would not claim that what the Russians did was wholly determined by our action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "influenced the Russians to suppress the Hungarian national revolt, nothing can excuse it. I know that hon. Members are with me when I say that this Hungarian revolt was the most hopeful, encouraging and heart-raising event since 1945. But if in any way we destroyed it, we are profoundly guilty. Can any hon. Member honestly say in his heart that he thinks that what we did had no influence whatever?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ul, encouraging and heart-raising event since 1945. But if in any way we destroyed it, we are profoundly guilty. Can any hon. Member honestly say in his heart that he thinks that what we did had no influence whatever? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] I can understand hon. Members wishing to think that. But the fact is that last Monday the Russians had not, apparently, decided. There was still a possibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Listen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "any way we destroyed it, we are profoundly guilty. Can any hon. Member honestly say in his heart that he thinks that what we did had no influence whatever? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] I can understand hon. Members wishing to think that. But the fact is that last Monday the Russians had not, apparently, decided. There was still a possibility—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—there was still a very real possibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "n. Members wishing to think that. But the fact is that last Monday the Russians had not, apparently, decided. There was still a possibility—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—there was still a very real possibility—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Listen.\"]—that they might not have acted so ruthlessly. The second observation I wish to make is this. It is no use hon. Members denying it; our hands are not clean in this business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The old Liberal outlook.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "I cannot help feeling that the right hon. Member for Woodford, in his heart, cannot be too happy about what has happened. He cannot really feel happy that one of his oldest friends should have been compelled to write in the terms which I have read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.38.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "tely clear that we on these Benches cannot for one moment accept the hypocritical, indeed the odious, claim that Soviet Russia, which has invaded and suppressed Hungary, has any moral right in the Middle East to talk about withstanding aggression. What has happened? The truth of the matter is that the law of the jungle has been invoked by the British Government and the Russians are following suit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.38.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " and the Russians are following suit. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] But the jungle is a dangerous place and we are beginning to realise that there are much more dangerous animals wandering about than Great Britain or France. In his broadcast the Prime Minister said that we went in to stop the forest fire from spreading. Mr. Speaker, that fire is spreading with appalling rapidity. It has spread to Hungary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.38.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.50.3", "colnum": "50", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman accepts. On the very day that the State of Israel came into existence, six Arab States—all members of the United Nations—attacked Israel, in defiance of the decision of the United Nations. They have been at war with that State ever since. Egypt is still at war with Israel. Therefore, those who have rather tried to put Egypt into the picture as a poor, innocent, little country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.50.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Johnson", "preceding_text": "t it is a two-sided problem, and to call for measures to restrain the Egyptian raids as well as the Israeli reprisals. The other way was the one which the President and Secretary Dulles took … to ignore the Egyptian raids, to treat Israel as the aggressor and Egypt as the innocent victim. That, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, seems to me what many hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite have been doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.72.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.76.0", "colnum": "76", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "-General can confirm that the Egyptian and Israeli Governments have accepted an unconditional cease-fire and that the international force to be set up will be competent to secure and supervise the attainment of the objectives set out in the operative paragraphs of the Resolution passed by the General Assembly on 2nd November, Her Majesty's Government will agree to stop further military operations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.75.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.76.2", "colnum": "76", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "eration, is a matter of great urgency in the interests of world shipping and trade. The Franco-British force is equipped to tackle this task, and Her Majesty's Government therefore propose that technicians accompanying the Franco-British force shall begin this work at once. Pending the confirmation of the above, Her Majesty's Government are ordering their forces to cease fire at midnight tonight\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.76.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.81.4", "colnum": "81", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Mr. Gaitskell rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.81.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.81.6", "colnum": "81", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " as possible for discussions to take place with the Egyptian authorities regarding the withdrawal of our forces; and also on the matter to which he referred, namely, the speediest possible clearing of the Canal, because, clearly, that cannot be done without Egyptian cooperation? Finally, may we now take it that the objective set out in the leaflets dropped over Cairo, which was clearly to destroy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.81.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-06", "file": "debates1956-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "fdf49ac6f632e9f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.84.0", "colnum": "84", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think I must say, \"no movement forward\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-06a.84.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "OIL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Of course not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister say how long this state of affairs is likely to last?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.108.4", "colnum": "108", "heading": "OIL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be aware, of course, that large numbers of firms have switched over entirely to the use of oil fuel for industrial power purposes in response to the policy of Her Majesty's Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.108.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.108.5", "colnum": "108", "heading": "OIL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Ask a policeman.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " the policy of Her Majesty's Government—[HON. MEMBERS \"Resign.\"] While it may be true that the overall reduction for the whole of industry is about only I per cent., can my right hon. Friend give assurances that firms which are entirely reliant upon oil fuel for their sources of industrial power will receive some preferential treatment, so that their machinery and plant may be kept fully occupied?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.108.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.109.0", "colnum": "109", "heading": "OIL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very rough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "The essence of what I have described to the House is that it is rough and ready measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.109.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.114.5", "colnum": "114", "heading": "HUNGARY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant-Ferris", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend think, in view of the great sympathy which everyone in this House feels for these poor people, that he would be able to elicit a promise from the trade unions that they will allow them to work when they get here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.114.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.115.3", "colnum": "115", "heading": "HUNGARY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant-Ferris", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Sir. Italian workers have been refused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.115.7", "colnum": "115", "heading": "HUNGARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "May I thank you, Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the House, for the words which you addressed to us a moment ago, which were a rebuke to the hon. Member for Nantwich (Mr. Grant-Ferris)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.115.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.117.6", "colnum": "117", "heading": "HUNGARY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant-Ferris", "preceding_text": "upplementary question I put to my noble Friend the Joint Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs earlier this afternoon. I felt very strongly about the subject, but I realise, on reflection, that what I said might have caused great offence to some hon. Members opposite. I therefore wish most unreservedly to withdraw what I said and to express the hope that hon. Members will accept my apology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.117.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "No—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.132.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.132.4", "colnum": "132", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "There should be a free vote on the Government Bill.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. It is of vital importance in deciding how to vote on this Amendment for the House to know whether, if the Private Member's Bill is postponed to the Ballot, its position will be prejudged by the Government Bill, which will be forced through the House by the Government Whips.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.132.6", "colnum": "132", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "It is quite easy for me to answer this point. On the Government Bill, we shall not have a free vote. The Government Whips will be on. On the Private Member's Bill, we shall have no nonsense. We shall have a free vote of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.132.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.133.2", "colnum": "133", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Logan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Logan", "preceding_text": "I was the only Member on the Opposition benches to object to the Private Member's Bill when it was brought in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.133.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "o the one contribution towards the housing problem which the Government hope to make in the current Session. I heartily congratulate them upon their astuteness, their clever use of the practice of the House, their reduction to the minimum of discussion of a problem which obviously affects people all over the country. In those circumstances I confine myself to one quotation, and one quotation only.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.136.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.137.3", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "ousing in the Gracious Speech? We then found on the Order Paper the project of the Bill to which I have just referred. May I repeat my congratulations to the Government on reducing discussion to a minimum? The quotation I want to make comes from: a broad and simple statement of our Conservative outlook and aims which was published some time ago, in 1949. It was called. \"The Right Road to Britain\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.137.3", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "ns to the Government on reducing discussion to a minimum? The quotation I want to make comes from: a broad and simple statement of our Conservative outlook and aims which was published some time ago, in 1949. It was called. \"The Right Road to Britain\"—[ Interruption .] I am not quite certain whether right hon. and hon. Members opposite are approving or disapproving of \"The Right Road to Britain \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cessation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I will give the House the position as far as I know it. I admit that it is not very clear. We have had no official intimation about the cessation of the cease-fire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.143.0", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I really think that that is hardly reasonable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that we, on this side, have very definite views as to the attitude which ought to adopted on this matter by Her Majesty's Government? May I ask, further, whether he is aware of the views of the Indian Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.146.3", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have abolished them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "not all. They have made another really magnificent contribution. Considering that, in the circumstances, this being the condition of the people whom they have to govern, something or other ought to be done, and that the Ministry concerned is the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and ought presumably to help both housing and local government, they have proceeded to cut the housing subsidies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "a large number of hon. and right hon. Members opposite look back on what they have said during this period, they will hang their heads in shame. When the Election comes they will find that many of those speeches will recoil round their necks and strangle them. We have seen demonstrations like those before. The same people jump up and say that Britain is always wrong and the foreigner always right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": " The same people jump up and say that Britain is always wrong and the foreigner always right—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] Yes they do; they say it every time Each time they are pleading for the spineless section of the community, not for the people who are ready to stand up and face the issues. We have seen extraordinary scenes recently. In August, the right hon. Gentleman supported the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James McInnes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We succeeded.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James McInnes", "preceding_text": "licy, to which the Parliamentary Secretary referred, which would deal with the problem. The Parliamentary Secretary said, \"We are breaking all records\". Let us see how they are breaking the records in Scotland. He takes great credit for the achievement which followed a General Election when the Tory Party pledged their whole reputation on their capacity and ability to build 300,000 houses a year.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.219.1", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "If I misheard the hon. Member I shall be interested to see HANSARD tomorrow. He said something about twenty years of Tory rule since the First World War. My recollection is that, in that time, for only three or four years was a Tory Government in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-07", "file": "debates1956-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "fc62d75f4816a3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.219.1", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three hundred million? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": " like him to have reminded the House of how many houses were built in Glasgow from 1945 to 1951. I hope that the right hon. Member for East Stirlingshire (Mr. Woodburn), when he speaks, will give the figures of houses built by a Conservative Government in the years since his Government were in office. I cannot think that Scotland did not get its fair share of the houses we built—about 300 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-07a.219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.260.8", "colnum": "260", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "The Minister said that he could not say how far the troops had advanced after the cease-fire. Had they advanced at all after the cease-fire?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.260.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Williams", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there is still some concern about the possibility of getting the Canal open at the earliest possible moment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.263.4", "colnum": "263", "heading": "EGYPT (MILITARY SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "s said, not about the length of time but about the time when British troops will leave the Canal or the Port Said area, may I ask him whether he has considered how to obtain the support of the other Arab nations until the British troops are off the Canal bank? It is quite impossible for the other Arab nations to rally to the support of our point of view—or Her Majesty's Government's point of view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.263.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.268.0", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beresford Craddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beresford Craddock", "preceding_text": "I am one of the people who has rather taken that attitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Humbug.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "like my right hon. and hon. Friends, Her Majesty's Ministers and hon. Members opposite do not care very much about Israel. She has no doubt served their turn and they will now forget her; but we shall not. In a slightly different connection it may well be that we shall never know—and I freely admit that I do not know at the moment—how far events in Egypt have contributed to the tragedy in Hungary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.279.3", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "story of all these things can be generally known. We have ceased fire, and gladly ceased fire, after a campaign in which regard for human life has been outstanding. We have ceased fire because the parties have ceased fire, and we have acted because of the considerations that we set out in the communication that was sent to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the evening of 6th November.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.279.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.280.3", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We did.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving us a little more assistance. If that was the primary purpose, why did we not say so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.280.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.281.2", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that a very full answer was given to that point a few days ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman not realise that the shield is necessary now because of the conspiracy of the British, French and Israeli Governments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.283.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman not realise that the shield is necessary now because of the conspiracy of the British, French and Israeli Governments—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—to provoke an attack through Eilat under the cover of British troops?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.283.2", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Friend the Minister of Defence. Now that we are within measurable distance of real creation of a United Nations force, we are I think, entitled ourselves to ask right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite one or two questions. At this moment, I limit myself to one. Do they really seriously believe that we should now be near the creation of such a force but for the Anglo-French resolute action?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.283.4", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ne, nearly half of all the meetings of the Security Council. Resolutions have been passed and ignored by both sides. Tension has mounted, and it was brought to a head quite recently by the announcement of the Joint Command for Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Hon. and right hon. Gentleman can get a little temporary popularity by an outcry against the Government, but our people are beginning to understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.283.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.284.0", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "ed difficulty of the United Nations throughout all its life so far has been to find any great Power willing to commit itself forcibly in support of a resolution? Does he not appreciate that there would have been no criticism on this side of the House had Her Majesty's Government, if necessary, taken immediate action, and asked for the sanction of the Security Council upon it, as was done in Korea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "The House as a whole, the country, and many others will be very interested in what the right hon. Gentleman has just said. It is clearly quite unrealistic to compare the situation in Korea with the situation in the Middle East—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who did?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has asked, should we have got a United Nations force? We made one in Korea, and, of course, the situation is exactly the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But no Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has asked, should we have got a United Nations force? We made one in Korea, and, of course, the situation is exactly the same. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who did?\"] The Security Council did, with our co-operation and help, with the support of the whole of the Commonwealth, and with Commonwealth Forces fighting in a Commonwealth Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.285.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.286.8", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.286.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ultation with the Commonwealth. He suggested that there had been a breakdown in the machinery and, even more serious, in the spirit of that consultation. I believe that to be quite untrue, and I believe also that as this story unfolds, to use his own language, so there will be found throughout the British Commonwealth a growing conviction that we took the only possible action in the circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.286.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And in this Government too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": ", and he said that, I suppose, to cast doubt, for example, on the right of Mr. Menzies or Mr. Holland to speak for Australia or New Zealand in this matter. If that is true, I am equally entitled to say that there are many differing voices also in other parts of the Commonwealth, where, up to now, their political leaders have not felt able to give Her Majesty's Government their full public support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.287.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We know all this.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Power proposals before the Egyptian Government. Australia, New Zealand and Pakistan were present at the second meeting in London at which we discussed the setting up of the Suez Canal Users' Association. We kept other Commonwealth Governments fully informed of developments. Mr. Krishna Menon came to London after that conference and had discussions with the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.287.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.300.2", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Hungary?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "l to the despised United Nations for many of its decisions. What this incident should do is not only to shake up the United Nations, as has often been said, but also our own thinking about our international obligations. Are we really sincere in our protestations about loyalty to the United Nations? How do our various commitments to N.A.T.O. and our allies fit in with the United Nations conception?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.304.5", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "ifferent would be the situation—hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite denounced us—but how different would be the situation were the Soviet Union to say today, \"We have been called upon to cease fire. We have done so. We welcome an international force. We will defer to world opinion over Hungary.\" But there is not a scintilla of a suggestion of that kind, and it only shows a very wide difference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.304.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.309.3", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "s as magnets attract iron. We shall find that if a consultation at that level is taking place other important figures will inevitably move towards it; how important these figures are it is a little difficult to say. I am sure however that to deal with the intensity of affairs in which we are, some such discussion is absolutely necessary. Because we are not at the end of this—this is the beginning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "li mobilisation in this sense, I do not know. The hon. Member presumably makes the point, which has been made by 50 or 60 speakers in the course of 50 or 60 speeches, that Israel had submitted to a great deal of provocation and the unified command was no doubt a threat to her existence. I do not think there has been a single speech made on either side of the House in which that fact can be denied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ion sent to the Commonwealth Prime Ministers then? We have asked that time after time. We have received no assurance. It is known that M. Mollet was in touch with Israel during that period. It is known that when M. Mollet came to London on 30th October he did so with the decision that the French were going into it alone unless we went with them. These facts are at least known and not contradicted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Italian Press.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "at M. Mollet was in touch with Israel during that period. It is known that when M. Mollet came to London on 30th October he did so with the decision that the French were going into it alone unless we went with them. These facts are at least known and not contradicted. [An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"] If the hon. Member would read the French Press he would find ample information on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.314.2", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ed by twelve or thirteen the prewar expenditure, that we had not got any aeroplanes or army and that if we wanted to take on one of the weakest countries in the world we should have to call up reservists and train them for three months. My right hon. Friend, in his brilliant speech last week, made reference to the hydrogen bomb. We have now reached the stage when arms are useless, utterly useless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.322.3", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Astor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Astor", "preceding_text": "ituation that we now find, there is a better possibility of U.N.O. realising that it must have force, that is a partial success. I think every hon. Member would agree that if that does emerge, that must be considered a success. Hon. Members opposite would not agree with me when I say that the majority of the country, on the evidence that we have at present, is behind the Government in this action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.322.3", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Astor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Go over to the other side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Astor", "preceding_text": "ernment. There comes a time when, if one does not agree with the Government, one has to make one's position clear. It is said that there is never a good time to be a rebel, but if one takes that view one might as well keep eternal silence. I should only like to say that, as the Government deploy their reasons and their evidence, I am more of the opinion that their policy was unnecessary and wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.332.4", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "hose experienced Labour statesmen, are no longer with us; they have confessed their shortcomings. Those were the years when Mr. Lansbury, then Chairman of the Labour Party, said that the best way to peace was to lay down our arms. I must say that it was that attitude which was taken up by the German Ambassador, Ribbentrop, who telegraphed back to his Government and said that this country was soft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.332.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beresford Craddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beresford Craddock", "preceding_text": "The only comment I should like to make on the remarks of the hon. Member for Falmouth and Camborne (Mr. Hayman) is that he has advocated, and rightly so, that these matters should have been referred to the United Nations. Surely, that is exactly what we did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.345.4", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "of aggression. If we are to judge for ourselves the decision that the Government took, we must consider the background. If I may, I will take one line of argument and then go on to another. It is suggested that the Government have behaved immorally because they acted in a situation which was likely to lead to war—and in fact war had actually broken out—and did not first consult the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.345.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend raises a point which he might like to elaborate later if he is called to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.348.3", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": " would have been prolonged fighting, the conflagration might have spread to other Arabic States, and from there throughout the Middle East, and our other commitments—to Jordan for example—might have forced us to participate, and to participate in far worse circumstances. I say that having brought the Israeli-Egypt war to an end in seven days is a massive achievement. I do not regard it as immoral.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: The hon. Gentleman ought to be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "ed that it would have been impossible to stop it. Anyone with any knowledge of that area must know that the only place where it was possible to interpose, and to interpose successfully and quickly, with the minimum danger to the lives of our own men as well as to the combatants, was the Canal. I end on this note. I am not in the least ashamed of the action that Her Majesty's Government have taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.365.1", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "s I think it was put. We do not normally put out a fire by spraying it with petrol. The third ostensible reason was to safeguard the Canal, the fourth was to safeguard our nationals and the fifth was to help poor Israel. If the Government were paid by results they would be on National Assistance by now. Not one of those objects has been achieved as far as I can tell. Are we between the combatants?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Fisher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Fisher", "preceding_text": " concerned. We have, I suppose, saved many Israeli lives because we put the Egyptian Air Force out of action on the ground. Secondly, we have limited the size and area of the war, because our prompt action has prevented the intervention of other Arab States on the side of Egypt, and possibly, too, has prevented the Israelis from invading Jordan. Thirdly, we brought the war to an end within a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is blocked.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "our objectives and motives in taking the action we took? They were motives which were deliberately introduced by hon. and right hon. Members opposite, and by the Leader of the Opposition in particular. I believe we had two motives. The first was to protect vital British interests. The whole standard of living of our people depends on the oil of the Middle East and on the Canal to bring it through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "of its own nationals. I should have thought that was the first responsibility of any Government. The second motive, and just as important, was that we took effective action to reduce the size of the conflict and bring it to an end. In that we have been completely successful, 100 per cent. successful, in a week. We went into Suez in order to divide the main forces of the combatants from each other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.377.3", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": " the peace in the Middle East. In bringing these hostilities between Israel and Egypt to an end, we have had absolutely no help at all from the party opposite. Instead, we have had the bitter hostility of hon. and right hon. Members opposite, the unedifying scenes in the House of Commons all through last week and then the disgraceful and politically inept broadcast of the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.377.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.377.3", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "Members opposite because I have many friends on the opposite benches, but I must say that, with a few notable exceptions, I believe the Opposition have put themselves in an absolutely impossible position by the attitude which they have taken, a position in which, in order to save their own political reputations, they have had practically to hope for the failure of this country and this enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.377.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "I do not want to go into that at this late hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.379.2", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are already.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "Very soon this country and the world will, I believe, begin to reap the rewards of this policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.380.1", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": " undermine Germany's military power. Oil is required for power for most forms of transport and is an element in many by-products required by industrial countries. It has been responsible for producing more millionaires and greater profits than any other form of industry. It has produced its Sir Basil Zaharoffs and its Sir Henry Detterdings and it is no coincidence that they have all been knighted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.380.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Arabian \"knights.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Collins", "preceding_text": "I suggest that some of those hon. Members who have been recently knighted have today made very useful statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "n take exception? Are the facts wrongly stated? Are they stated in exaggerated form? Is it not, in all the circumstances, a very modest and moderate Amendment? Indeed, we were hoping to hear from the Government a statement almost immediately to the effect that they proposed, as soon as may be, to act upon the Amendment. Instead of that, we had this afternoon a speech from the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ot happening at one and the same time—changes in Russia herself, and changes in the attitude of the people around her towards Russia? Is that not clear from this timetable, from the fact that even after the invasion of Egypt by Israel, even after the ultimatum sent by Her Majesty's Government to Egypt, the Soviet Prime Minister was still speaking about the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.398.3", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ice of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Derby, South (Mr. P. Noel-Baker) and withdrawn our Ambassador from Tel Aviv, had a naval demonstration, or started a blockade. We could have used all the moral pressures which reflect a fruitless and frustrating policy over eight years. Egypt and Israel—and we must face the facts of it—were locked in combat, and locked in combat across the Suez Canal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.398.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.400.0", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. Gentleman goes to Hungary, can we ask him whether in fact it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government to withdraw their forces from Egypt immediately the United Nations asks them to do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.400.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-08", "file": "debates1956-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5300ddf430f1c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.400.4", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You face it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I have answered. I have made it absolutely plain. The hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond), who made his first contribution as Leader of the Liberal Party, struck a rather more practical note. He sought to face the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-08a.400.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-09", "file": "debates1956-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "bca12d21874f139f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-09a.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "y the Prime Minister of Israel that Israeli forces will be withdrawn from Egyptian territory? In connection with that, may I ask the Prime Minister whether, in view of this most important move by the Israeli Government, he will give the Israelis some assurance that Her Majesty's Government will seek to provide far better guarantees of security for Israel in the future than she has had in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-09a.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-09", "file": "debates1956-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "bca12d21874f139f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-09a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "epted that the United Nations, through the Secretary-General, would judge that, and whether, as soon as we heard from the Secretary-General that that was the case and the force arrived, we would withdraw. The right hon. Gentleman has not answered my other question regarding the statement by the Minister of Defence. It may have been a slip by the Minister of Defence. If it was, let him withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-09a.424.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-09", "file": "debates1956-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "bca12d21874f139f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-09a.429.6", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Horace King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Horace King", "preceding_text": "dowing tragic happenings of the last ten days. This morning I have seen photographs in the Daily Express of the blitzed Arab quarters at Port Said, and, as one of the representatives of the blitzed town of Southampton, I want to express my shame at the Government's action in Port Said. I am glad, however, that Her Majesty's Government have surrendered to world opinion, to outraged British opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-09a.429.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-09", "file": "debates1956-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "bca12d21874f139f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-09a.525.7", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST (BROADCASTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that point in a moment. The terms of the general directive were that all possible use should be made of psychological means for the purpose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-09a.525.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-09", "file": "debates1956-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "bca12d21874f139f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-09a.526.2", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST (BROADCASTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": " and so long as they had weapons with them, and to persuade other soldiers to do the same. The clear purpose of that broadcast was to keep down casualties all round; to keep down civilian casualties in the first place, and also to keep down Egyptian Army casualties, and to keep down our own casualties. I am sorry to say that hon. Members opposite have not shown great solicitude on that last point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-09a.526.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.554.7", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "In view of the difficulty which has now arisen with regard to oil and petrol, will the Minister not consider requesting industry, or at least his section of it, to see that private enterprise haulage is now handed over to British Railways during this emergency even—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.554.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.555.2", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that, ever since the nationalisation of coal and of certain sections of transport, there has been this continuous complaint that coal is being hauled by road on very uneconomic terms, whereas the whole of it ought to be hauled by rail and by canal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "r: was this asset not worth preserving? Was it not worth even the right hon. Gentleman sacrificing his discredited economic philosophies in order to preserve it? The Chancellor did not think so. For six months he had based his policies on the pretence that he was stabilising prices sufficiently to persuade the trade union movement to drop their wage claims. He has made speech after speech at them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "oment there was a war raging throughout the Middle East, with the Israelis involved, and the Arab countries strongly backed by Russian arms. Do right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite really think that if war were taking place at present between Israel and the Arab countries, the combatants would stop their fighting from time to time to allow our ships to pass through the Suez Canal? Of course not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Supply (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "ic problems which the country is facing, and to which the right hon. Gentleman referred at some length in the opening part of his speech? I think it most important to recognise that we have both short-term and long-term economic problems which are distinct but are interlinked. It is certain that sometimes action which has to be taken to deal with one makes the solution of the other more difficult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "constantly been trying to steer a course between an excess of inflation and an excess of deflation without arriving at a position where the reserves went out at a high rate. That problem was solved at the cost of a temporary check to the level of production. Since 1952 my right hon. Friends have been pursuing a policy designed to increase output, to increase consumption and to increase investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.595.0", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": " our constituents in the Central Lobby after making an appointment to see them? I have missed five minutes of this debate by having to go into the street. Some of my hon. Friends are now on the pavement in the street discussing with them the suicidal policy of this Government. I would ask you, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, to make some inquiry concerning these law-abiding, respectable, constitutional women—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.596.2", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Surely I can have some satisfaction, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. When there was some \"phoney\" organisation called the Housewives' League, coming here in their fur coats and Rolls-Royces they were all admitted into the Lobby in hundreds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.596.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.596.2", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Surely I can have some satisfaction, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. When there was some \"phoney\" organisation called the Housewives' League, coming here in their fur coats and Rolls-Royces they were all admitted into the Lobby in hundreds. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Surely the women outside, who represent the working-class women of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.596.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.597.0", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ave been aggravated by the policy of the Government in the Middle East. As I said, I do not think the right hon. Member and his friends have done much to help in recent weeks. I could go further and say that some of the remarks made this afternoon were calculated—that is not the right word—will have, or might have, the result of doing great damage to our economic prospects, if taken too seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "sult—and this is the interesting point—congested areas have had a smaller share of post-war industrial building than their proportion of insured population in manufacturing industry. For example. Metropolitan London with about 20 per cent. of the insured population, has had only 10 per cent. of the new factory building approved since the war. I admit that I am going over these ten or eleven years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. A. Burden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. A. Burden", "preceding_text": "simple as that. Many of the nationalized industries are dealing with power and other commodities essential not only to the consuming public but to our industry and thus to our exports. I was also rather surprised at the line taken by the hon. Gentleman about trade union claims for increased wages, the implication being that these should merely be asked for and then should be granted straight away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "r exported in its entirety. However, it is possible under Section 12 of the Finance Act, 1951, for Customs and Excise to allow free entry in those circumstances. I hope that in such cases Customs and Excise will show the utmost flexibility and ensure that there is no hold-up in the case of goods imported for manufacture and subsequent export. Another important point relates to travellers' samples.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How does one break a plateau? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " work, and therefore piece work earnings have no interest to these men, who still have to meet rising prices and can only do so with a rise in the basic rate. That is why it is so silly to lecture trade union officials who have to defend these men for claiming wage increases because the Chancellor has broken his own plateau with price rises that were quite unnecessary on the basis of our external—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "else. Merely to say that one cannot estimate, that it is wrong to try to estimate, does not encourage them to feel that this is a time when they can go wholeheartedly about their jobs. The Government cannot preach higher productivity and leave men in doubt whether jobs will be there at one and the same time. What about the shipping? Where are the extra tankers to come from to deal with this extra—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ot replied to. I emphasise to the Chancellor, party politics aside, that he owes it to the nation to do the best he can to answer these questions. The country is entitled to know and our members in the trade unions are entitled to know. We think that we are entitled to know. So far, we have had nothing in the way of an attempted answer at all. I will now sit down to enable the Chancellor to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.683.3", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "ctual level has fallen rather than risen. There has been a great increase in savings. There has been a spectacular result, a really remarkable result, in the success of the new issue of the orthodox character; and I think there is good hope of the success of the less orthodox. The general position of the mass of our people—and they all know it—has been better almost than ever within living memory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.683.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.683.3", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"War.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": " altogether new directions of trading policy. They have been mentioned in the debate and I will not now make reference to them, except to say that I hope that we may be able to have a day's debate upon the whole of this problem of the European market, which does not divide parties, but upon which there is very deep interest throughout the House. After that seven months there came the Suez trouble—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.683.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman did say that. He said that I had betrayed the ordinary duties of a Chancellor. I want to say quite frankly to the House that it was a very great temptation to me to take exactly that course. I believe, and I think the country believes, that in the short period during which I have had the honour to hold this office we have made very considerable progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.688.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.688.2", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheer up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "my, and, in the next few months or the next year or two, to an increasingly, improving situation. To all that I could look forward. I could also look forward, if I may introduce a purely personal note, if these unlucky events had not taken place and when I had reached what is the end of, normally, the last decade of one's life, political life at any rate, to retirement from many of these troubles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.688.3", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "ry interest of mine, every private, every personal interest that I had, would be in favour of leading me to oppose what we have done. Why, then, have I supported it? I will tell the House. All my interests would have been to follow what we used to call a policy of appeasement. Why have I not followed that? I will tell the House frankly and sincerely. It is because I have seen it all happen before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.688.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "hen had the responsibilities of a backbencher, and I tried to act up to them. What were we asked to do then? We were asked to break all our literal, legal obligations. Had we gone to war with Hitler in 1936, 1937 or 1938 it would have been contrary to the Kellogg Act, contrary to the League of Nations, contrary to all our obligations. We did not do it, and we drifted, drifted and drifted. I claim—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": " our literal, legal obligations. Had we gone to war with Hitler in 1936, 1937 or 1938 it would have been contrary to the Kellogg Act, contrary to the League of Nations, contrary to all our obligations. We did not do it, and we drifted, drifted and drifted. I claim—[ Interruption ]—that this is why we have done three things. First, we have stopped the small war, which might have led to the big war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "ct, contrary to the League of Nations, contrary to all our obligations. We did not do it, and we drifted, drifted and drifted. I claim—[ Interruption ]—that this is why we have done three things. First, we have stopped the small war, which might have led to the big war. [ Interruption ]. We have, perhaps—although there are still great difficulties ahead—created for the first time a United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "Interruption ]—that this is why we have done three things. First, we have stopped the small war, which might have led to the big war. [ Interruption ]. We have, perhaps—although there are still great difficulties ahead—created for the first time a United Nations—[ Interruption. ] Thirdly, we have, perhaps, I believe—every indication which is coming in increases my belief—stopped a third world war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.699.2", "colnum": "699", "heading": "MILK (DAY NURSERIES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": "towards the £30 to £50 million which is the amount incurred in the senseless, fruitless and immoral aggression of the last two weeks. I am surprised to see no member of the Treasury present, because this Order must represent a Treasury decision. It cannot possibly concern the Minister of Health, because I cannot believe that the Minister of Health and his medical advisers would sanction the Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.699.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-12", "file": "debates1956-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "fb4d35ebd4594b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.706.4", "colnum": "706", "heading": "MILK (DAY NURSERIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Were getting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "preceding_text": " children were not in a position to get enough milk. As I understand the position, it is that these children are entitled to their pint at l½d. and that, in addition, the necessitous cases, such as the ones mentioned by the right hon. Lady, can get it free. In addition, all school children get one-third of a pint a day and only children at the day nurseries are getting two-thirds of a pint.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-12a.706.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.731.5", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman is reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "rs, the chief one being the creation of drug-resistant bacilli by failure to administer the drugs regularly and without interruption? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that representations have been made to me and I have been asked to bring them to the notice of the House? Is the right hon. Gentleman further aware that hospital treatment ensures that patients take these prescribed drugs regularly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.731.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "May I have an assurance that since this is a matter of controversy—indeed, even of medical controversy—in view of the great campaign which is to be introduced in Scotland, the right hon. Gentleman will consider having a pilot survey of private and domicilary practice in this matter carried out by the Medical Research Council or some such body, and that meanwhile he will encourage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.736.7", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the Prime Minister has squandered most of the Chancellor's present savings by his blunders in Egypt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.736.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.739.7", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "But, quite seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.739.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.746.5", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OPERATIONS, EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And in the British Press.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman not agree that it is a major British interest to establish, by means either of a Select Committee or of a Royal Commission, the nature of the events which led up to the recent crisis, if only to establish that there has not been a conspiracy or collusion, as is alleged in detail in many organs of the American Press?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.746.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.748.0", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIDDLE EAST (PRIME MINISTER'S BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Are we to take it, therefore, that the Prime Minister's new policy is to save a few pounds by having the Conservative Central Office publish his propaganda speeches and to spend a few million pounds by carrying out this action in Suez? May I ask him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Government started that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " was to stop a war which already existed from spreading, other forces were at work in the Arab world to exploit the situation in the interests of Soviet imperialism. Indeed, the area of our debate over these past ten days has imperceptibly widened as the realisation of the basic issues has grown. Today, very many people who began by talking as though we were concerned solely with a local conflict—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ten days has imperceptibly widened as the realisation of the basic issues has grown. Today, very many people who began by talking as though we were concerned solely with a local conflict—[HON. MEMBERS: \"The Government started that.\"]—have found themselves, however reluctantly, at grips with the really vital problem of our time. The effect of our action, first and foremost, has been the cease-fire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.766.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.770.2", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We did.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman explain why, if the British Government felt that it was desirable from the start that there should be a United Nations force, they said nothing about it at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.770.4", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " hope that the right hon. Gentleman will remember that at the very first moment that the United Nations took any practical action about it we ourselves took practical action to show our readiness. We took the only practical steps. I have no doubt whatsoever that, historically, it will be recognised that there never would have been an international force of any kind but for the action that we took.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.770.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "ed the pleas in this House and took his line because he wanted to ride on the backs of the Israelis and carry out the military action which he was denied in August because of public opinion. Can the Prime Minister not understand that, when people have considered all these events and declarations, the timetable and so on, this ugly rumour of collusion is gaining ground in the capitals of the world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "took his line because he wanted to ride on the backs of the Israelis and carry out the military action which he was denied in August because of public opinion. Can the Prime Minister not understand that, when people have considered all these events and declarations, the timetable and so on, this ugly rumour of collusion is gaining ground in the capitals of the world? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Oh, yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "But throughout the Arab States, the whole of the Arab States, the Arabs do not believe that at all. They believe that it was Russian intervention and the threat of Russian rockets on Britain which stopped the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": " opportunity in January of this year to have a demilitarised zone in the Gaza Strip with a United Nations police force which would have stopped the last outbreak of hostilities. So I think that the two claims the Government made are not claims worthy for the great mass of the people of this country to accept. What have we on the other side of the balance-sheet? Britain's name has been dishonoured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman's recommendation of the suggested Royal Commission was really not very helpful. However much any of us may think that such suggestions, at times when we believe the Government to be vulnerable, are useful as part of Parliamentary warfare, it is very difficult to believe that especially after the last fortnight of what the right hon. Gentleman called \"these endless debates\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ult to feel absolutely certain that one is so well inspired that one may be sure by speaking in this House that one will do good, still more difficult to be sure that one will not do harm. I agreed with the hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr. Jack Jones) when he said that we are all in this now. We are all in it, not merely because we shall all share the consequences but because we all share the blame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Great things? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "r at me for saying that search his conscience and be quite sure how much of the blame he shares. To suggest that at this moment Her Majesty's Government would be likely to be either better advised or more effective if there were either a Select Committee or a Royal Commission looking into the events of the past few weeks seems to me to show a most careless ignorance of the way great things happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "as the right hon. Gentleman did towards the end of his remarks, if I understood him aright, that India and someone else who I have forgotten should as quickly as possible be put in charge of the Canal Zone. Why not put them in charge of Hungary? Why not? Mr. Krishna Menon has shown an interest in that country. There could not be a more foolish suggestion than that made by the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "er I shall speak. I turn to the question of the legitimacy of force in self-defence under the United Nations. It is a most difficult problem. We all know that it is a most difficult problem in private affairs and in criminal affairs, and it is much more difficult in public affairs, where Governments are not engaged in defending themselves. They are engaged, according to what poor lights they have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ything that we have done would have counted as self-defence, for reservations at that time made it plain that if things of this sort had to be done they would count as self-defence. I return to the right hon. Gentleman's words about \"these endless debates\". I agreed with all those three words except the last. I hope the House will acquit me of any temptation to lecture the House or to be superior—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " of the Peace for his county by James II; and when James began to need friends and became frightened of what was going to happen next, he invited the gentleman whose name I have forgotten to come back on the Commission; but the gentleman said—and this is an appropriate thing to remember in connection with Oliver Cromwell's kicking out of the Rump—\"One kick on the breech is enough for a gentleman.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthom", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthom", "preceding_text": "rtant business of all—and the two are part of the same thing—of controlling the choice of Ministers and the behaviour of Ministers, by voting or not voting money, is to get the Ministers who nearly as possible will do what the majority of the House want by continually making a market upon Ministers, with the reputations of Ministers continually going up and down. That is the business of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"General Neguib.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "e nothing but good will for the Americans who cannot understand some of the things which the American Secretary of State and even President Eisenhower have done or not done in the hour of Britain's trouble. After all, America must know what Colonel Nasser's intentions are. Yet Mr. Dulles was sent, I believe, by the President of the United States to present a pistol or a revolver to Colonel Nasser.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "have been elected to say what we want to say, and say it on behalf of our constituents. The only people who can say \"No\" to us are our constituents. Thank goodness, we have once every four or five years an election when our constituents can say what they think. I believe that if the Government were to go to the country today—and that would be the ultimate test—they would be out of office tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.805.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.824.0", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": " of his speech and printed them on its front page: he referred to the spectacle of people trying to throw off the shackles of Communism and added, 'It would be strange if at the same moment we were to fasten the fetters on our wrists. Make no mistake, Communism and Socialism are the same thing. One is hard, the other soft. One is red, the other pink, but the idea is the same and a bad idea it is'.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have been making it easier.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "preceding_text": "d to say that I have heard few constructive proposals from the party opposite on the many occasions on which they have raised this matter. I do not think anybody believes that an international police force would have solved the problem, and I cannot believe that making it easier for the Soviets to extend their grip over the Middle East would really have helped the cause of the patriots in Hungary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": ". But it seems to have been a little unimaginative. The world did not stand still while this slow operation was unrolled. Could we not have gone a little faster? I know there has been the argument that the preliminary bombing was necessary to avoid casualties and so on. But in affairs of this kind speed is of the essence. You cannot make war with kid gloves. Surprise and fait accompli are the key.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.836.1", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "is was propaganda spread by the defeatists to frighten the old women of both sexes in both parties throughout the country. There is, however, no doubt about one thing: that a lot of public opinion in the Middle East has been led to believe that the Russian threat had a good deal to do with it. I want to make it clear that the questions I am asking are in no sense a criticism of the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.836.1", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "public opinion in the Middle East has been led to believe that the Russian threat had a good deal to do with it. I want to make it clear that the questions I am asking are in no sense a criticism of the Prime Minister—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—in no sense. They may be a criticism of some of my hon. and right hon. Friends who, having given their assent to the decision, drew back at the critical moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.836.1", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "y this, but I think that the moral courage that my right hon. Friend has shown in this crisis has been beyond praise. It has been all the greater because it began with the reversal of a policy with which he had himself been long associated. I beg him to believe that the country is far more behind him in this matter than perhaps he knows—and that goes particularly for the industrial constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.836.3", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are going out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "er Arab countries. His and the Soviet plans for taking over the Middle East has received a very sharp setback that may be the reason why the Russians themselves are so stirred up on this question. If we use the opportunity well, those plans may have been spoiled for good. Above all—this is to me much the most important—the British and French troops are in the Middle East physically—they are there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.836.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Egypt is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "lines, or of the General Assembly, which has no competence in its Charter to try to enforce a settlement of particular problems all over the world? I know that there are hon. Members—on both sides of the House, perhaps—and many of the public who think that this will be an interesting experiment in the development of international cooperation. Unfortunately we are the guinea pig in this experiment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.839.3", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Government are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": " the speech which the Prime Minister of Australia made—I think the day before yesterday. It seems to me essential both to our honour and to our interest that there should be French and British components in the police force. Essential to our honour because otherwise, whatever formula is found, people will think we have been kept out of it because we have been regarded as aggressors in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.839.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.841.1", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Beswick", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is progress.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Beswick", "preceding_text": "ess in Manchuria and Sir Samuel Hoare offered Italy a slice of Abyssinia and Mr. Neville Chamberlain agreed to carve up Czechoslovakia, we were tearing down the principles of collective security and breaking up the structure of the League of Nations. Under a Conservative Government we appeased aggression before the war. This year, again under a Conservative Government, we have been the aggressors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.849.2", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Boothby", "preceding_text": "Israel. One of the Joint Under-Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs replied: Her Majesty's Government's policy with regard to arms supplies to Middle East countries is based on the Tripartite Declaration of 1950 which relates to the Arab-Israel dispute. He went on: The nationalisation of the Suez Canal is not related to that dispute.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 1st August, 1956; Vol. 557, c. 1381.] On—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.849.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I am sorry; I cannot give way. I must get on, because it is so late.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ord he used—to exercise their influence against the British at the present time. It would be a very good thing if the Opposition, led by its leader—who has had the courtesy to inform me that, for personal reasons, he has had to leave the House this evening; which I fully accept—and supported by their vociferous supporters, would do something to introduce a little more patriotism and understanding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.876.3", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "est speeches of his life. That is a sincere tribute in my capacity as Leader of the House. The position about the Leader of the Opposition, however, is not nearly so satisfactory. My own opinion about the broadcast reply of the Leader of the Opposition to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is that never in the field of political conflict has so large a brick been dropped to such small effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "The answer is that we are working with the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.880.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.880.2", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "The answer is that we are working with the United Nations. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I can answer the hon. Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman), to whose speech I listened, by saying that we are working for a solution which the United Nations will accept and which we, as a member of the United Nations, think is just.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-13", "file": "debates1956-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "40ae4f2339551d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION, SCOTLAND (ASSESSORS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McInnes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McInnes", "preceding_text": "I was putting it another way, trying to be more courteous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-13a.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-14", "file": "debates1956-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "0fcfcafb4816b57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-14a.937.0", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "l, the Derby Road Safety Committee, the Derby Chief Constable and police and the Watch Committee are unanimously against him, together with the inhabitants of the Mackworth Estate? Is he aware that, while he was considering the position, a cyclist was killed on this stretch of road and that three weeks ago a little girl of seven was knocked down and seriously injured and escaped only by a miracle?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-14a.937.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-14", "file": "debates1956-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "0fcfcafb4816b57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-14a.937.5", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Group Captain Wilcock", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-14a.937.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-14", "file": "debates1956-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "0fcfcafb4816b57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-14a.941.8", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Better.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "With great respect, that is a pig-headed point of view. On what military grounds can the right hon. Gentleman really justify the retention of reservists in this country at present? Surely, he knows just as well as I do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-14a.941.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-14", "file": "debates1956-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "0fcfcafb4816b57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-14a.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "In other words the Government, in fact, received confirmation on the 27th? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that his statement confirms the belief that there was collusion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-14a.943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-14", "file": "debates1956-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "0fcfcafb4816b57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-14a.1030.1", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (NEWS BROADCASTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rawlinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rawlinson", "preceding_text": " a strike. The anger which that caused all of us at that time can be imagined. I am not talking of whether the strike was good or bad, but of the anger which that broadcast news caused people about to be engaged in battle. What more stupid action could be taken than to have such news reaching troops just before a battle? The overseas broadcast should speak in the name of the Government of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-14a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-14", "file": "debates1956-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "0fcfcafb4816b57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-14a.1041.5", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (NEWS BROADCASTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "Any hon. Member speaking from this side of the House is under a considerable disadvantage, because obviously the hon. Member for Epsom (Mr. Rawlinson) came here with a well prepared brief. It is none the worst for that. After all, he comes here with a brief and one must answer that brief. It appears, by the stamp of it, that it was worked out at the Tory Central Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-14a.1041.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-14", "file": "debates1956-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "0fcfcafb4816b57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-14a.1044.5", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (NEWS BROADCASTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Daily Express.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I am giving that as a general opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-14a.1044.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-14", "file": "debates1956-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "0fcfcafb4816b57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-14a.1049.3", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (NEWS BROADCASTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Grimston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Grimston", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister's broadcast to the nation was followed, next evening, by that of the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-14a.1049.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-14", "file": "debates1956-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "0fcfcafb4816b57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-14a.1084.0", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (NEWS BROADCASTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "I apologise for interrupting my hon. Friend again. I do not want to disturb the main tenor of his argument, but, before he sits down, will he refer to the colonial aspects of this question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-14a.1084.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-15", "file": "debates1956-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "3674bf400e0b83ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1110.6", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "In view of the Government having brought us near to the brink of war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1110.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-15", "file": "debates1956-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "3674bf400e0b83ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1113.2", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The President will recall that it was in 1950–51, following the tense international situation after Korea, that the then Government invested many hundreds of millions of pounds in strategic stocks—and that was the main reason for the deterioration in the balance of payments in 1951.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1113.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-15", "file": "debates1956-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "3674bf400e0b83ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1121.5", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is the cost?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "That, of course, will be taken care of by the Australians. As regards the general meat position, imports from New Zealand come via the Panama Canal, but routing round the Cape will only make a difference of five to six days' sailing time from Australia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1121.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-15", "file": "debates1956-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "3674bf400e0b83ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1125.7", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What for?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "On this occasion the hon. Lady attracted an audience of about 1,500 people. In those circumstances seven policemen was not considered an excessive number to be on the spot. There was also the reserve, which I have mentioned, which was held away from the actual meeting place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1125.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-15", "file": "debates1956-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "3674bf400e0b83ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1129.4", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIDDLE EAST (BROADCASTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that is quite fair. I do not think the right hon. Gentleman would say that when we were the Opposition we claimed that every time there was a Ministerial broadcast the Opposition should have the right to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1129.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-15", "file": "debates1956-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "3674bf400e0b83ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1130.5", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEMBERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that several Ministers have made promises for some years about this matter and that we are the only people in the country who have not had an increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1130.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-15", "file": "debates1956-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "3674bf400e0b83ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1130.5", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEMBERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ugh at. Many hon. Members on this side have no other sources of income and are finding it very difficult. It is all very well for Government supporters to laugh when they have other incomes. Ministers have promised on several occasions that something will be done. How long have Members of Parliament to wait? Can the Prime Minister give us some idea? Some of us are getting fed up with the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1130.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-15", "file": "debates1956-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "3674bf400e0b83ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1131.1", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEMBERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Surely the Prime Minister can say when. Cannot he give us any hope?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-15", "file": "debates1956-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "3674bf400e0b83ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1153.0", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "nishment for a person convicted of two murders done in Great Britain on two different occasions. It is intended primarily to deal with what one might call the professional or habitual murderer committing one crime after another, until detection of one results in discovery of them all. Murderers of the type of George Smith—brides in the bath—Haigh and Christie are the sort of people we had in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-15", "file": "debates1956-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "3674bf400e0b83ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Why not? I do not understand the hon. Member's difficulty. What is the proposition? It is that people will not commit murder because they fear to be hanged. That is what is meant by a deterrent. What is contended here is that a man or woman doing a little shoplifting, perhaps at the C. & A. stores, and possibly carrying a discus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-15", "file": "debates1956-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "3674bf400e0b83ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1194.1", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "many people have yet realised that murder by poisoning is not dealt with in the Bill. I have not seen it discussed in the Press, at least, not at any length. I believe that hon. Members may find during the course of the next few days or weeks that there is a considerable amount of public feeling about it. I cannot see any justification for leaving it out. It is unnecessary to argue the matter now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1194.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-15", "file": "debates1956-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "3674bf400e0b83ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1247.0", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "en decided by the jury and we cannot deal with it.\" The real protection under our law, although it may offend our vanity to think so, is the police. In this country the police are very careful indeed, although where one of their number has been killed their emotions may blind them a little, and, particularly if they think a man is guilty, they may be a little less scrupulous in trying to prove it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-15a.1245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-19", "file": "debates1956-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "2861b82c61773251", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-19a.1353.3", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "I said when they first introduced it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-19a.1353.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-19", "file": "debates1956-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "2861b82c61773251", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-19a.1370.3", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BAGDAD PACT (COUNCIL MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Would the Minister of State comment on the Iraqi attitude towards British aggression in Egypt, and will he tell the House whether he still—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-19a.1370.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-19", "file": "debates1956-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "2861b82c61773251", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-19a.1370.6", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BAGDAD PACT (COUNCIL MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daines", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is the hon. Member for Billericay in order in calling my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn) \"Nasser's little lackey\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-19a.1370.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-19", "file": "debates1956-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "2861b82c61773251", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-19a.1371.7", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BAGDAD PACT (COUNCIL MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "With very great respect, Mr. Speaker, I deeply resent that you should have said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-19a.1371.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-19", "file": "debates1956-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "2861b82c61773251", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-19a.1375.1", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. From the time when the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-19a.1375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-19", "file": "debates1956-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "2861b82c61773251", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-19a.1377.6", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "With great respect, Mr. Speaker, I did not call him a liar. I said that he had made a misuse of a word. You provoked me into saying that I thought he was a liar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-19a.1377.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-20", "file": "debates1956-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "884c5f13825271fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1553.6", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "ARMY RESERVISTS AND REGULARS (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "or later, explain why 20,000 men had to be called up in the Reserve when, as we know, approximately 400,000 men were in the Army and 250,000 of them were in this country? We have never been able to get any explanation of this. Thirdly, why cannot the release of the reservists go much more rapidly, in view of the cease-fire and of the replacement of our forces in Port Said by United Nations forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1553.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-20", "file": "debates1956-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "884c5f13825271fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1554.7", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "ARMY RESERVISTS AND REGULARS (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that we are all delighted that after pressure from this side of the House he has at last made a start?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1554.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-20", "file": "debates1956-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "884c5f13825271fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1554.7", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "ARMY RESERVISTS AND REGULARS (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " Gentleman whether he does not think that an explanation is due to the public from the Government for having to call up 20,000 reservists when they had about 400,000 men at their disposal, 250,000 of whom were at their disposal in this country? Does he not think that the Opposition's Motion of censure which was on the Notice Paper a week or so ago, but which was removed owing to the circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1554.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-20", "file": "debates1956-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "884c5f13825271fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1554.7", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "ARMY RESERVISTS AND REGULARS (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many more questions? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ich was on the Notice Paper a week or so ago, but which was removed owing to the circumstances—[ Laughter .] Yes; it was removed precisely because the Government made a mess of things. Does the right hon. Gentleman not think that the demand made in that Motion for an investigation by a Select Committee of this House is fully justified? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that that is still demanded?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1554.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-20", "file": "debates1956-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "884c5f13825271fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1555.0", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "ARMY RESERVISTS AND REGULARS (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hare", "preceding_text": "eferred to, may be debated in the House. As to the business of the speed of release, it will be possible to release people at home or in B.A.O.R. more quickly than those serving in the Middle East or farther afield, but the right hon. Gentleman will understand that it is not possible to release certain troops at home straight away, for they have to check their equipment and put it back into store.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1555.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-20", "file": "debates1956-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "884c5f13825271fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1558.0", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "OIL SUPPLIES (RATIONING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Aubrey Jones)", "preceding_text": "l for agriculture and fishing vessels, which have hitherto been supplied in full will be cut by 10 per cent. Thanks to the substantial savings that can be made in ships' bunkers and by the Central Electricity Authority, I do not propose at present to increase the 10 per cent. cut on fuel oil for industry. I must warn the House, however, that further cuts in fuel oil may in time become unavoidable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1557.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-20", "file": "debates1956-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "884c5f13825271fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1559.1", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "OIL SUPPLIES (RATIONING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I do not underestimate the gravity of the statement. That is precisely why my right hon. Friend has made it today. It is most important that people should realise the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-20", "file": "debates1956-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "884c5f13825271fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1559.2", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "OIL SUPPLIES (RATIONING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ioning period, was equal to 90 miles a month. I ought perhaps to explain that there is one very crucial difference between this rationing scheme and the old rationing scheme. The old scheme had a relatively low basic allowance with large numbers of supplementary allowances. This scheme, as I have indicated, will have a not so low basic allowance but fewer and more limited supplementary allowances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1559.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-20", "file": "debates1956-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "884c5f13825271fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1561.1", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "OIL SUPPLIES (RATIONING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Grimston", "preceding_text": "Would not my right hon. Friend agree that this announcement shows the extent to which our economy could be controlled by the whim of a Nasser in unfettered control of the Canal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-20", "file": "debates1956-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "884c5f13825271fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": "ions in an orderly fashion in this House. We had, for instance, no notice until Question Time that a major statement about petrol rationing was to be made. May I, in passing, suggest to the representative of the Ministry of Fuel and Power—I think there is one here—that when he prints the petrol coupons he might like to print a label for sticking on windscreens saying \"Thanks to the Conservatives\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-20", "file": "debates1956-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "884c5f13825271fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1583.3", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ing Hungarian designs for its locomotives. What has happened is that under a dictatorship the people have lost freedom, liberty and justice under one of the harshest of dictatorships. But it is as well to give the devil his due. One of the difficulties of fighting the atrocities of Communism is its economic success. It is that it nearly always gives to the working people a higher standard of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1583.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-20", "file": "debates1956-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "884c5f13825271fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1585.1", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Growls it, I should say.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) says, in a sepulchral voice, \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1585.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-20", "file": "debates1956-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "884c5f13825271fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1588.3", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "After Chester.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "rminster is naive in these matters. He apparently believed the statement of the Minster of Fuel and Power last week that with a voluntary 10 per cent. cut we will get through. He knows that all the time the coupons were printed, all the time the announcement was imminent, all the time the Minister was plucking up courage to slip down to the House on a quiet day and get it over as soon as he could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1588.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-20", "file": "debates1956-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "884c5f13825271fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1589.2", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "Regulation 46 or 49. Mr. Ukridge used to take \"the big broad flexible outlook\" on statistical questions, and I am following a former Chancellor in taking a rough view. Whatever the Section may be, that is the one to which I am referring. We have a situation where we have 500 million people anxious to buy British goods, 500 million people in dire need of British goods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1589.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-20", "file": "debates1956-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "884c5f13825271fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I am sure they will. They are always pleased to have the support of any hon. Member on this side of the House, especially where a controversial subject of this kind is open to many shades of opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-20", "file": "debates1956-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "884c5f13825271fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1600.3", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "EMERGENCY LAWS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman attends the debates in this House so rarely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1600.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-20", "file": "debates1956-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "884c5f13825271fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1644.1", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Tory Member is awake.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "d myself theologically adrift, and I believe that there are many others who do. I recall, of course, the helpful remark of a very distinguished canon of the Church, Sidney Smith, who pointed out that it was impossible to believe in the apostolic succession without realising that some at least were descended from Judas Iscariot, but that is, after all, a rhetorical rather than a moving explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-20a.1644.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1716.7", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Pilkington", "preceding_text": "Does this interest by the hon. Member for West Ham, North (Mr. Lewis) in No. 10, Downing Street mean that one day he hopes to go there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1716.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1744.0", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "As far as Port Said is concerned, I reaffirm what I have stated. The report to me of these casualties has been strictly in accordance with the facts, and the information at my disposal is that they are limited to 100 dead and 540 wounded. The British have a great reputation for truth in these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1744.3", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the hon. Member's? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "What is the source of the right hon. Gentleman's information?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1744.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1749.2", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They will not understand that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "While thanking the right hon. Gentleman, may I ask whether it is not the case that the appellate tribunal which acts in these instances has given decisions that conscientious objection need not necessarily be pacifist applying to all wars, but can be to a particular war if a sense of right and wrong is present?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1749.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1762.3", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "and its rent. There is the injustice arising from landlords being called upon in many cases, by rent restriction, to subsidise the incomes of tenants who are better off than they are. There is, therefore, a general recognition of the evils which rent control, as we have it, is producing, and increasingly producing. There is a general recognition that the time is now ripe for that to be dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1762.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1764.1", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Gower", "preceding_text": "Would not my hon. Friend also agree that there is one circumstance which is compatible with his proposals but incompatible with the proposals of the Labour Party, namely, that at present many local authorities will not accept these houses even when they are offered to them for practically nothing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1766.1", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ontributed to a general loosening of the housing situation in those years. Undoubtedly, the provision which I have been explaining will have a most beneficial effect. It will mean that houses such as that to which the Municipal Journal , in the quotation which I made, referred, will no longer be held empty month after month, waiting for a purchaser, although quite unsuitable for an owner occupier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1766.1", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ision which I have been explaining will have a most beneficial effect. It will mean that houses such as that to which the Municipal Journal , in the quotation which I made, referred, will no longer be held empty month after month, waiting for a purchaser, although quite unsuitable for an owner occupier. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Those houses will now be let, and it will be the object of the landlord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1767.1", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "umber—and it is a large number—are being decontrolled at once, half as many again as were decontrolled at once in 1933, a sufficient number, the Government believe, to provide for adequate consumer resistance and to ensure that demand is not concentrated upon a comparatively smaller number of houses which go out of control. I was interested in the leading article today in the Manchester Guardian .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1769.3", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERSH \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": " set out in the Fourth Schedule to the Bill. I would once again emphasise to the House that in the vast majority of cases the object of the owners of these houses will be to ensure that they are not vacant of a tenant. If they are to get the value out of those houses, they will have to continue to let them at a market rent at which they can find tenants and they will have to bid for those tenants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1769.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1769.4", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "e to the House that in the vast majority of cases the object of the owners of these houses will be to ensure that they are not vacant of a tenant. If they are to get the value out of those houses, they will have to continue to let them at a market rent at which they can find tenants and they will have to bid for those tenants—[HON. MEMBERSH \"Oh\"]—in what I have shown is a very large market indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1769.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1772.1", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman has only to look at Table IV of the White Paper, which shows the increases and the number applicable for each increase and he can work out the average for himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1775.4", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Intolerable to whom? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "l arrest the deterioration of millions of houses for lack of maintenance, and it will give to persons who are moving or setting up home the opportunity to find accommodation in the market. The Bill will end long-standing injustices between tenant and tenant and between landlord and tenant. We want this or something like it to remedy a situation which, by universal agreement has become intolerable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1775.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1776.3", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "—if he wants to move, he goes to the local authority's central clearing house. That is the proposition which hon. Members opposite place before the country. It is not, I believe, the solution which the people of this country would wish to embrace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1776.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1780.1", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about South Wales?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "5,000 cases on the London housing list, of which 53,000 are urgent; and apart from a quite small figure for slum clearance all that the L.C.C. can do at present is to cope with them at the rate, at most, of 2,000 a year. It is clear that not only is there an acute shortage of housing in London but equally that it is wicked nonsense to say that that shortage can be met in a matter of a year or two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1794.0", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I am still not clear. Will the hon. and learned Gentleman make it quite clear whether under the Labour Party's proposals rents will be put up in order to pay for the repairs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1794.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1794.1", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that the answer to that must depend on each separate case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1802.1", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Errington", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Errington", "preceding_text": "e between 150 and 250 associations in the country affiliated to our Federation. The majority of their members, some 30,000, are comparatively small men and women who are trying to do their best under what are admittedly difficult circumstances. What we want to do, and what I am afraid hon. Gentlemen opposite have not done much to help, is to restore a good relationship between landlord and tenant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1803.1", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Errington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Errington", "preceding_text": "There would be very few such people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1803.1", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Errington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about before the war? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Errington", "preceding_text": "There would be very few such people. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] As is well known, it was almost impossible for repairs to be done during the war years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1808.2", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "preceding_text": "bill of industry artificially by amounts paid by the taxpayer, the ratepayer, and, indeed, the landlord. It follows that now that we are getting in sight of a measure of reform there will be a shift in the incidence of those costs back to industry through wages. I take it, therefore, that the Government have carefully considered what will be the effect on wage claims, on the inflationary position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1808.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "preceding_text": "My next point concerns the future rent levels of those houses which will become decontrolled altogether. The question which many people will be asking is: how much are the increases of rents in the free market which are contemplated by the Bill likely to be? I concede that there may be people who will be worried about this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1811.0", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "preceding_text": "nsiderations—they would find that housing authorities would want to work the system of municipalisation which they contemplate. It is, I am sure, within the experience of almost all hon. Members that 50 per cent., or nearly 50 per cent., of the housing cases which come to us arise when somebody has been allocated a council house and somebody else thinks that he should have got it and is aggrieved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1811.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1811.0", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are already.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "preceding_text": "ne. We would all wish to pay tribute to the work of the local authority housing committees. They have a very thankless task and get many more kicks than ha'pence, because when they satisfy one person they almost inevitably leave others dissatisfied. I do not think that it is reasonable to ask them to undertake a threefold extra responsibility in being responsible for the allotment of these houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1811.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1830.5", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Body", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It belongs to Odham's.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Body", "preceding_text": "ted his money in a building society. I notice that the Daily Herald has joined in the cry of profiteering, the allegation made against the landlords. I notice, also, that it declares a good healthy dividend of 17½ per cent. I do not know what its criterion is of profiteering, but the Daily Herald is a property which yields 17½ times what these landlords receive from their properties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1830.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1843.3", "colnum": "1843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": "Anybody who can maintain in good order a house which was built seventy years ago and which up to now has only had a rental of under 10s. a week deserves public praise. His award of 17s. 6d. will in no way reimburse him for the expense which he has had in maintaining that house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1843.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1843.3", "colnum": "1843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": "sure is always unpopular. I believe it to be a serious effort to bring reality into housing matters. I see the point that hon. Gentlemen make in their publication \"Homes of the Future\". Hon. Gentlemen should notice that many of us have in the last few days been reading that interesting pamphlet about turning housing into a social service. If housing is a social service why not the supply of bread?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1843.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1862.3", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sunk in the Canal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "I do not think that even the Suez crisis has caused either the hon. Gentleman or his right hon. Friend to forget that Act. That great \"Operation Rescue,\" on which we spent so much Parliamentary time both in the House and in Committee upstairs, where is it now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1862.3", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Operation salvation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "I do not think that even the Suez crisis has caused either the hon. Gentleman or his right hon. Friend to forget that Act. That great \"Operation Rescue,\" on which we spent so much Parliamentary time both in the House and in Committee upstairs, where is it now? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Sunk in the Canal.\"] If that Act had done its job, why is this Bill necessary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1862.3", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "w? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Sunk in the Canal.\"] If that Act had done its job, why is this Bill necessary? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Operation salvation.\"] The Parliamentary Secretary ignored that Act because he did not want to admit that it had been a complete failure. Perhaps I ought not to say \"complete\" because I have to declare an interest. Unfortunately, under that Act, my rent was increased by £20 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1862.3", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sometimes he did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "lp us to pay that £20. Under the 1954 Act the increase of rent was applied to repairs. Having mentioned my own case, may I say that I had no cause for complaint because the repairs were carried out by the landlord. But in the majority of cases the landlord is concerned only with rent, not with repairs, and because the repairs were required before he received more rent he did not increase the rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1868.1", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Horobin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Horobin", "preceding_text": "I cannot think that the speech of the hon. Member for Welling-borough (Mr. Lindgren) will increase his reputation. I do not intend to waste the last few minutes in this debate by referring to his speech but to some of the important matters dealt with by the hon. and learned Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison) and other hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "ld be quite intolerable, particularly at a time when we are still struggling with inflation. Those are two practical objections. We also have social objections. We have social objection to there being only one landlord over a huge area of some of our great towns. We think that bad in itself. I, for instance, know well—and other hon. Members probably know—what we might call the Becontree mentality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Heaven forbid.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "ustrial areas people should grow up in street after street looking to the town hall for everything from the time they are born to the time they die. We take that view, and that is why we are introducing this Bill. It is fair enough for hon. Members opposite to ask us: is it practicable to reconstruct the old landlord-tenant relationship? Can it be done? Even if we desired to do it, is it possible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "of those cases such houses will have been under old control, and, therefore, it is fair to point out that for forty years the landlord will not have had the money with which to keep them up. It is no good jobbing backwards on that. I admit at once, and I think the Minister will admit it, that those sort of houses cannot be rescued in this kind of way. Local authorities will have to take them over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-21", "file": "debates1956-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8a758902d30ec9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1872.1", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Horobin", "preceding_text": "n, in which landlords are having to pay these huge subsidies to tenants who are earning more money than they, and who sometimes, in their turn, are sub-letting. Millions of our houses are going to remain for letting. It is impossible to envisage a position in which everybody can be an owner-occupier. I am all in favour of owner-occupiers, and think that they should be helped in every possible way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-21a.1872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1927.5", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "Is the Home Secretary not aware that this officer and this horse appeared to be the centre of nearly every Press photograph the following day? Is it not likely that after an incident of this kind, that officer will be a marked man and that some people in the crowd will tend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1927.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1932.3", "colnum": "1932", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "uardian earlier this week, and in The New York Times and Washington Post last week alleging collusion in military operations between the British, French and Israeli Governments, and alleging in particular that the Foreign Office deceived the American Government about the nature of the meeting on 16th October? In view of the fact that these allegations are now widely accepted by responsible people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1932.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1934.1", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I am in this position—that Questions end at 3.30.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1934.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1934.2", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "e when he spoke— news was received that the Israel Government were taking certain measures of mobilisation. Her Majesty's Government at once instructed Her Majesty's Ambassador at Tel Aviv to make inquiries of the Israel Minister for Foreign Affairs and to urge restraint.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 30th October, 1956; Vol. 214, c. 1278.] That is the action we took, and that is the information we received.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1935.1", "colnum": "1935", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I have said here that five days before the Prime Minister spoke, news was received that the Israeli Government were taking certain measures of mobilisation. When our Ambassador saw the Israeli Minister for Foreign Affairs, she assured Her Majesty's Ambassador on 29th October that no further hostile move was contemplated against Jordan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1935.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1935.6", "colnum": "1935", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "Is the Lord Privy Seal aware that we are asking him to clear the Government of accusations which are widely believed throughout the world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1935.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1936.4", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Did I understand you to say, Mr. Speaker, that there would be a further opportunity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1936.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1936.14", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT AND ISRAEL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1936.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1944.0", "colnum": "1944", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nasser.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "rance and Britain withdrew their forces? Is the right hon. Gentleman further aware that the United Nations has been invited by Egypt to undertake the task of clearing the Canal and that the Secretary-General has made a report on this subject, indicating considerable progress? Is it not now perfectly clear that the major obstacle to the clearance of the Canal, which is so desperately important, is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1944.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1949.1", "colnum": "1949", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Captain Waterhouse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1949.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1951.2", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I want to ask the Lord Privy Seal another question about the withdrawal of our troops—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1951.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1954.1", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "preceding_text": "ts Scotland as well as England and Wales. In the Labour Party policy pamphlet for housing, entitled \"Homes of the Future,\" there appeared two lines, at the bottom of the page that bears that unlucky number 13, which say: A moderate increase in rent is a small price to pay for such obvious improvements in living conditions. I subscribe to that. Indeed it is the object of the Bill we are discussing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1961.3", "colnum": "1961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Fraser", "preceding_text": "these 640,000 houses are mostly old houses—very old indeed, a high proportion of them being 100 years old or more—and very lacking in amenities. May I on this point quote something said by the hon. Member for Oldham, East (Sir I. Horobin) in yesterday's debate? The hon. Member was presumably speaking then on behalf of Her Majesty's Government, although he is not himself a member of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1961.3", "colnum": "1961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Fraser", "preceding_text": "deed, a high proportion of them being 100 years old or more—and very lacking in amenities. May I on this point quote something said by the hon. Member for Oldham, East (Sir I. Horobin) in yesterday's debate? The hon. Member was presumably speaking then on behalf of Her Majesty's Government, although he is not himself a member of the Government.[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] He was invited to, I understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1966.1", "colnum": "1966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "emergency measure. It is a product of the war, a product of the stresses of war, a product of the temporary derangement of the relationship between demand and supply which the war inevitably brought with it.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 21st November, 1956; Vol. 560, c. 1766.] Will the right hon. Gentleman say that this argument adduced by the Parliamentary Secretary has any relevance whatever to Scotland?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1998.3", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": " agree with everything said by my hon. Friend the Member for Scotstoun about certificates of disrepair. It is absurd that if a certificate of disrepair is granted the application for increased rent fails and the rent goes back to the 1914 level. It is as if a man went to his employer and asked for a rise in wages, and the employer said, \"No, you must go back to where you started as an office boy\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.1998.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2001.2", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend is to take any part of the Bill home with him tonight he ought to take a part which applies to Scotland. The First Schedule does not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2001.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2047.1", "colnum": "2047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Twopence a week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " Bill, it will become, in time, 22s. 8d. There will be an increase in respect of that house, typical of hundreds, of 11s. 3d. a week. When the Minister last spoke in this House about housing, on the Third Reading of the Housing Subsidies Bill, he poked a lot of fun at some of my hon. Friends about increases in rents which they said would take place. He said that that Measure would mean 8d. a week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2051.1", "colnum": "2051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Starvation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "r £9 a week, laying out their budgets in rent and housing and food and clothing, do not have 10s. a week to spare. They do not have 10s. lying about which they can pick up and pay to the landlord. What the Minister is doing by this Bill is to break through the plateau. Has he consulted the Chancellor of the Exchequer? He will engender wage claims which will not be denied or there will be profound—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2052.3", "colnum": "2052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "—because if there were a General Election at this time I believe he might get a rude awakening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2052.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2052.3", "colnum": "2052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, intriguing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "—because if there were a General Election at this time I believe he might get a rude awakening. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Then resign.\"] The hon. Gentleman was at pains to explain why we have had such a quiet debate. He attributed it to all kinds of reasons which had nothing to do with housing. I do not propose to embark upon that intriguing topic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2052.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2052.5", "colnum": "2052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "ill not be affected. The Bill will extend to less than one-third of the households of the country; that is, to about 4¾ million out of 15 million. But—let me emphasise this, and do not let me be misquoted—that does not mean, of course, that all the affected households will have their rents raised. Since the Bill does not allow landlords to increase rents without doing the necessary repairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2052.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2054.0", "colnum": "2054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Only a very small minority. I said that the bulk of them would not be affected. The hon. and learned Gentleman can check in HANSARD what I said. We are told that this is not the right time to bring forward a Bill of this kind. But would there ever be a right time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2054.0", "colnum": "2054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "d Wales. Incidentally, my hon. Friend has pointed out to me that HANSARD has recorded \"overall\" as \"average\". Obviously, \"average\" means nothing at all. If hon. Members opposite can make any sense out of the word \"average\", I ask them to do so. * The hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East tried to read into the speech of my hon. Friend much more than in fact he said. My hon. Friend did not say a lot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2054.0", "colnum": "2054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. \"MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "me that HANSARD has recorded \"overall\" as \"average\". Obviously, \"average\" means nothing at all. If hon. Members opposite can make any sense out of the word \"average\", I ask them to do so. * The hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East tried to read into the speech of my hon. Friend much more than in fact he said. My hon. Friend did not say a lot—[ Laughter .] There is nothing new at all in what he said", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2054.0", "colnum": "2054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": " and showed that if the Report was correct in estimating that we were only three * Note. —This correction has been made in col. 1766, 21st November. quarters of a million homes short in 1954, then the gap must before very long be closed. In my opinion, it is fair to say that, \"taking the country as a whole, we are not very far away from the total amount of accommodation which the nation requires.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2054.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2055.0", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "hat we were only three * Note. —This correction has been made in col. 1766, 21st November. quarters of a million homes short in 1954, then the gap must before very long be closed. In my opinion, it is fair to say that, \"taking the country as a whole, we are not very far away from the total amount of accommodation which the nation requires.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Do hon. Members opposite deny that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2054.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2055.2", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Are they sure that they deny it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2055.3", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nothing new again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "All right. Those are not my words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2055.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2055.7", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "That is taken from a speech made in this House by the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2055.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2056.0", "colnum": "2056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Encourage\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Evidently the hon. Gentleman has not read the Labour Party's pamphlet, \"Homes of the Future\" and I should like to read to him what is said. It says local authorities will be able to encourage the transfer of small families from houses and flats that are too large to others more in keeping with their requirements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2055.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2056.1", "colnum": "2056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "l agreed. I come now to the question of rent limits. Throughout my speech, any references to rents or rent limits will be net figures, that is to say, exclusive of rates and service charges. It has been said that many families will not be able to afford the new controlled rents. Is that really so? It is worth remembering that the average level of adult male earnings is not far short of £12 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2056.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2057.4", "colnum": "2057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That does not make them just.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "g the view expressed by Mr. Herbert Ashworth, the General Manager of the Co-operative Permanent Building Society. I am not necessarily identifying myself with his views, but I think they are worthy of note. At a conference last month, Mr. Ashworth said If the rents of all the rent restricted houses were doubled I do not think their occupiers would have any difficulty in paying the increased rents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2057.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2057.5", "colnum": "2057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman wants to get the dividend.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I am not associating myself with the Co-operative movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2057.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2058.0", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. B. T. Parkin", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. B. T. Parkin", "preceding_text": "It does not mean that one pays £20 for a second-hand suit either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2058.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2058.1", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It ought to be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "ped, but if help is needed in the form of council house subsidies or other assistance, we maintain that it is for the community as a whole and not for individual landlords to provide it. It has been said that the Bill does not compel landlords to do repairs if they do not want to do them. It is true that we are not proposing to make it a criminal offence to own a house which is not in good repair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-22", "file": "debates1956-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "93097e4a82a0448a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2059.1", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "o be decontrolled would be sold. He went on to say that that would put large sums of money into the pockets of the landlords and would therefore be inflationary. All I will say is that if our proposal to decontrol 800,000 houses is inflationary, then how much more inflationary is the Socialist proposal to buy 5 million or 6 million houses all at once? I do not claim that this is an agreed Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-22a.2059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-26", "file": "debates1956-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "91fee9ccc8804cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.8.1", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT", "cue_speaker": "Commander Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Noble", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has forgotten paragraph 4 of the Resolution of 2nd November, which urges— … that upon the cease-fire being effective steps be taken to reopen the Suez Canal and restore freedom of navigation. We have cleared our part of the Canal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.8.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-26", "file": "debates1956-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "91fee9ccc8804cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.8.1", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT", "cue_speaker": "Commander Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Noble", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has forgotten paragraph 4 of the Resolution of 2nd November, which urges— … that upon the cease-fire being effective steps be taken to reopen the Suez Canal and restore freedom of navigation. We have cleared our part of the Canal—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—the part of the Canal in which our forces happen to be stationed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.8.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-26", "file": "debates1956-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "91fee9ccc8804cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.14.1", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "With respect, Mr. Speaker, unless I can give you the facts upon which my point of order rest, surely you are not in a position to decide whether it is or is not a point of order. I was going to give you the facts and figures, and then to ask, in view of that, is it in order for a Minister, though I agree he can refuse to answer at all, to give a deliberate lie in answer to a Question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-26", "file": "debates1956-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "91fee9ccc8804cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.14.5", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is it in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.14.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-26", "file": "debates1956-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "91fee9ccc8804cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is also out of order. The word \"hypocrisy\" is also out of order. The hon. Member should withdraw that too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.15.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-26", "file": "debates1956-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "91fee9ccc8804cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " not almost the first rule of order about supplementary questions that a supplementary question cannot be in order which would have been out of order if it had been purported to have been placed on the Order Paper? I should like to ask whether that be not still the rule and whether, if it be still the rule, every supplementary question we have had for three weeks has not been grossly out of order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.16.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-26", "file": "debates1956-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "91fee9ccc8804cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.16.2", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"An attack on the Chair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is, of course, the rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.16.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-26", "file": "debates1956-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "91fee9ccc8804cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "preceding_text": "In view of the answer my right hon. and gallant friend has given to this Question, will he draw the attention of the other signatories to the Tripartite Declaration to the build-up of arms in Syria with a view to taking precautions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.22.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-26", "file": "debates1956-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "91fee9ccc8804cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.22.4", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that we have had from the right hon. and gallant Gentleman today, Sir, as we had from the Prime Minister earlier, the statement that the reason the Tripartite Declaration was not invoked was that Egypt had not agreed with it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.22.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-26", "file": "debates1956-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "91fee9ccc8804cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.24.4", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "Sometimes they were present and sometimes they were not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.24.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-26", "file": "debates1956-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "91fee9ccc8804cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.27.4", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Is every action taken to counteract the effect of letters written by British subjects to foreign newspapers which seek to stir up hatred against Her Majesty's Government and to make the situation even worse?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.27.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-26", "file": "debates1956-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "91fee9ccc8804cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.32.2", "colnum": "32", "heading": "EGYPT (EXPULSION OF BRITISH SUBJECTS)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not at war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Noble", "preceding_text": "It seems to Her Majesty's Government that the Egyptian Government are in breach of the Geneva Convention of 1949 relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.32.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-26", "file": "debates1956-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "91fee9ccc8804cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "EUROPEAN TRADE POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ementary to us than many of the countries of this free trade area, which are largely competitors. The Chancellor, in some well-chosen passages, referred to his attitude to the Commonwealth. We had the usual graceful genuflection in the direction of the ideal of Commonwealth trade. But, as we all known from the experience of the last five years, the party opposite is the Commonwealth party no more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-26", "file": "debates1956-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "91fee9ccc8804cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "EUROPEAN TRADE POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "overnment's doctrinaire abolition of the Raw Cotton Commission and the establishment of the \"phoney\" Liverpool Cotton Futures Market to see what has been the result as regards long-term contracts enjoyed by the Colonial Territories with Lancashire for the sale of Commonwealth cotton. Speaking on behalf of the party which does not talk so much about Commonwealth trade, but does a great deal for it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-26", "file": "debates1956-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "91fee9ccc8804cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "EUROPEAN TRADE POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Mulley", "preceding_text": "common market or free trade area. We should go further than that and say that we will associate ourselves with any scheme which can be agreed after negotiation. I believe that, even if the present Government conducted the negotiations, we should be negotiating with a strong hand. I also believe that there is a sincere desire on the Continent for us to be associated with any scheme which is set up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-26", "file": "debates1956-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "91fee9ccc8804cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "EUROPEAN TRADE POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£120.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "terests of my constituency, but I have the gravest doubt whether it would be a good thing for the motor industry, for example, to have to withstand competition from a Fiat 600 c.c. motor car, a vehicle of 6 h.p. approximately on our scales, which is well-known no doubt to hon. Members and which could sell on the United Kingdom market at as much as £60 to £70 below the price of a Morris 8 h.p. car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-26", "file": "debates1956-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "91fee9ccc8804cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "BREAD (PRICE CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "ed to accept the official calculations. The average wage earner has had his earnings increased by 6 per cent. and the articles on which he spends his earnings have increased in price by only 2 per cent. There is evidence to show that these official figures represent the true facts. These same people are spending, each year, £250 million on sweets, £870 million on tobacco, and £870 million on beer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.180.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-26", "file": "debates1956-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "91fee9ccc8804cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.187.4", "colnum": "187", "heading": "SOLICITORS (REMUNERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Major W. Hicks Beach", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I want to ask your guidance, Mr. Speaker, concerning this Prayer, which you will see is coming up for discussion at five minutes after eleven. The matter which has to be discussed is one of very grave importance to the whole solicitors' profession, and, indeed, to a great number of people in the country. Perhaps I may venture to read the relevant Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-26", "file": "debates1956-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "91fee9ccc8804cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.187.5", "colnum": "187", "heading": "SOLICITORS (REMUNERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Major Hicks Beach", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We want to vote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Hicks Beach", "preceding_text": "mber, 1956. which guides Members on the procedure with regard to Prayers. It says that you, Mr. Speaker, need not put the Question to the vote if, because of the importance of the subject matter of the Motion, you shall be of the opinion that the time for debate has not been adequate. I venture to suggest that many Members on both sides of the House will want to express their views on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.187.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-26", "file": "debates1956-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "91fee9ccc8804cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "SOLICITORS (REMUNERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Lancelot Joynson-Hicks", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will the hon. Member declare his interest?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lancelot Joynson-Hicks", "preceding_text": "w very regrettable it is that a matter of this importance, and a matter in which considerable aspersions have already been cast in a very short debate against an exceedingly reputable and representative professional body, should have come on at this late hour and with so little opportunity to dispute them or discount them or even to discuss them. May I go straight to the basic point of the Prayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-26", "file": "debates1956-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "91fee9ccc8804cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.193.5", "colnum": "193", "heading": "SOLICITORS (REMUNERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Joynson-Hicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Joynson-Hicks", "preceding_text": "partments, all of whom were equally affected, on Schedule 2, which is a quite different matter. Those negotiations came to an end—let me not say that they were abortive if my hon. Friend thinks they were not abortive, but they came to an end—and application was again made for an amendment of Schedule 1; and it is Schedule 1 which has now been amended. I therefore ask the House to accept the Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-26a.193.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-27", "file": "debates1956-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "ba02e87526291295", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-27a.239.5", "colnum": "239", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "n a person who preferred to remain anonymous used the most objectionable, threatening and intimidating language regarding that Question. From 8 a.m. last Sunday, almost for the whole day, for the whole of yesterday and the whole of today until—the last information I had—3.15 this afternoon, abusive, threatening and intimidating calls have been anonymously delivered to my wife and daughter at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-27a.239.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-27", "file": "debates1956-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "ba02e87526291295", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-27a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " got up and acknowledged the justice of that. I put on a penitent air and I pleaded, in mitigation, that it was the first offence I had committed and the first time that it had happened during my eleven years in the House. What has happened? These casual observations of mine, made, I admit, without sufficient forethought and sufficient consideration, have completely converted the Attorney-General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-27a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-27", "file": "debates1956-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "ba02e87526291295", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-27a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "However, it really is not good enough for the Attorney-General to say we must turn to some paragraph or other and see what the Royal Commission says so that we may know what this Clause means. It will not do to say that this Clause means what the Royal Commission intended by what it said in paragraph 73, and that, really, is as far as the Committee has got in more than three hours of debate today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-27a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-27", "file": "debates1956-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "ba02e87526291295", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-27a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "l disease. He traced just over 700 members of the family, of 639 of which he was able to get particulars. He was able to show that a very large number of them were convicted criminals; but a large number of the women were prostitutes or brothel keepers. All over the years the original infection, coupled with environment, had debased the whole of the family, until it became a serious social menace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-27a.334.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.552.0", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "Is it not correct that the combined results in increased percentage for share capital dividend and undistributed profits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.552.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.552.0", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "Is it not correct that the combined results in increased percentage for share capital dividend and undistributed profits—[ Interruption .]—is about 124 per cent.? [ Interruption .] Has not the tax on profits been increased from £651 million to £877 million and is that not a 35 per cent. increase in taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.552.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.573.7", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIDDLE EAST (LORD PRIVY SEAL'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Does not the Lord Privy Seal agree, on reflection, that when, according to the report of this speech, he said, We have a united party and a united Government\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.573.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIDDLE EAST (LORD PRIVY SEAL'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "The resounding cheers from behind me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "EGYPT (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "tart a new life elsewhere. The present position is not entirely clear, but it seems that no general expulsion order was made. The Egyptian Government did, however, issue a very large number of individual expulsion orders against British and French subjects. In addition, several hundred British subjects remain interned. The Swiss Minister in Cairo, to whose work I should like to pay a warm tribute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "EGYPT (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "That is a question which I should like to consider.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.586.7", "colnum": "586", "heading": "EGYPT (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "t of order. The statement itself took some time and surely, Mr. Speaker, when the right hon. and learned Gentleman says that we must await next week to hear the decisions of the Government, we are entitled by question and answer today to try to influence what those decisions may be. In this respect, we might have taken another course this evening, but out of courtesy to the Government we have not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.586.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.586.7", "colnum": "586", "heading": "EGYPT (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "itled by question and answer today to try to influence what those decisions may be. In this respect, we might have taken another course this evening, but out of courtesy to the Government we have not—[ Interruption .] Certainly. The right hon. and learned Gentleman has announced that he is to meet the French Foreign Minister and we think that in the circumstances he is perfectly entitled to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.586.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.586.7", "colnum": "586", "heading": "EGYPT (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Is this a point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "es he is perfectly entitled to do so—[ Interruption .]—if the House would allow me to finish my sentence and not be so schoolboyish—before the Government make their final decision to the House. If we are to have those final decisions given to the House, surely we are entitled now to try to elicit something of what is in the Government's mind before that is done. Hon. Members really must remember —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.586.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.586.7", "colnum": "586", "heading": "EGYPT (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "uld allow me to finish my sentence and not be so schoolboyish—before the Government make their final decision to the House. If we are to have those final decisions given to the House, surely we are entitled now to try to elicit something of what is in the Government's mind before that is done. Hon. Members really must remember —[HON. MEMBERS: Is this a point of order?\"] I am on the point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.586.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.619.3", "colnum": "619", "heading": "NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Spens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Spens", "preceding_text": " Committee. It is not going to be a one-way traffic, and it will not be any good if it is. It will be of use to the House and the economy generally only if proper friendly relations are established between the nationalised industries and a Select Committee of this House to work together to bring about this indefinable relationship of more accountability of the nationalised industries to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.619.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.667.3", "colnum": "667", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (PRESCRIPTION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "e of his £5 million if he likes to be bold and courageous enough to tackle it. The cost of drugs is certainly high, and in my opinion this can be attributed to three main causes. First, the cost has risen with everything else. Secondly, the introduction of new and expensive drugs has also raised the drug bill. But the third and most important cause is the increased proportion of proprietary drugs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.667.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (PRESCRIPTION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has gone for a tranquilliser.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "his House of Commons, the guardian of the liberties and interests of the common people, should assent to any proposal by the Government to penalise those who by sickness or poverty are already the hardest hit members of the community. I conclude—I know there are many others who share my indignation—by referring to the hon. Member for Putney (Sir H. Linstead), who is not at the moment in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.684.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.690.0", "colnum": "690", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (PRESCRIPTION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fort", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"I.C.I.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fort", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Member for Fife, West (Mr. Hamilton) for reminding me. I had not intended to discuss these matters very much further because I have absolutely nothing to do with the manufacture of pharmaceuticals. I have been long associated with a company, one of whose branches manufacture pharmaceuticals, but I know as little about the industry as does the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (PRESCRIPTION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. R. H. Turton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Chancellor did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. R. H. Turton)", "preceding_text": " Lady the Member for Warrington (Dr. Summerskill). I thought the tone of her speech was quite unexceptionable, but the right hon. Member for East Stirlingshire (Mr. Woodburn) was forgetting a good deal of history when he was Secretary of State for Scotland and a good many of the problems. I have tried, and I shall continue to try as long as I hold this office, to keep health out of party politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.711.3", "colnum": "711", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (PRESCRIPTION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "crease in that cost is a most serious problem. Successive Governments have failed to find a solution to it. I also agree with her that a large part of the additional cost is due to the new and comparatively expensive drugs which have been developed and made available for treatment in recent years. No one would wish to deprive patients of treatment with those drugs. Many of them are of great value—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.711.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (PRESCRIPTION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who induced them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "That is the point on which I disagree with hon. Members opposite. Among the patients involved are what are called \"shopping list patients\", whose doctors are being induced to stock up the patients' medicine cupboards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.714.0", "colnum": "714", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (PRESCRIPTION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "That is not the position. I want hon. Members to think of two different patients suffering from the same remedy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.714.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.714.0", "colnum": "714", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (PRESCRIPTION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Call in a psychiatrist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "o abides by the handbook and who cuts down the items to two on the form and gives the patient three forms so that the patient has to pay 3s. Another patient goes to a doctor who puts all six items on one form as a result of which his patient has to pay only 1s. Which is the more deserving patient? There is that inequality and there is another inequality in the system. There are very many patients—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.714.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.714.5", "colnum": "714", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (PRESCRIPTION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The chronic sick?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "d pay any more, and they will in fact not have to pay a penny more on their prescriptions. According to my survey, on half the prescriptions today there will not be one penny increase and it is my contention that the vast majority of the cases about whom the hon. Member for Kirkcaldy Burghs (Mr. Hubbard) was talking will not have to pay the increase, because they are now on one-item prescriptions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.714.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (PRESCRIPTION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": " at the same time and sufficiently often prescribed to make it worth while for the manufacturers to make up the packs. Those are the steps that I have taken. I have asked the British Medical Association whether it can suggest any further multiple packs, and if any are suggested I will at once approach the manufacturers. The normal way of relieving hardship is through the National Assistance Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.716.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-11-29", "file": "debates1956-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "04200ad0017ab47f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.720.4", "colnum": "720", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (PRESCRIPTION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "ing, but up to the shilling you will pay'.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 9th December. 1949; Vol. 470, c. 2261.] I do not quarrel with the right hon. Gentleman's presentation of the case. There is another way of putting it—and I put this to the House. This charge is, in fact, less than the average dispensing fee in respect of each item. The drug or the appliance is, therefore, absolutely free to the patient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-11-29a.720.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-03", "file": "debates1956-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "9bb729a3f60c3bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-03a.881.3", "colnum": "881", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A new Government \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "bly Resolution of 2nd November enjoining a ban on the delivery of military goods to the area of hostilities. Two important objectives have, therefore, been achieved. The war has been stopped and an international force has been put into position to prevent its resumption. There are, however, other important matters to which I must refer. The first and most urgent need for us and the whole world is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-03a.881.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-03", "file": "debates1956-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "9bb729a3f60c3bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-03a.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Canal. That is the first inaccuracy. The second inaccuracy is the taking up of the discussions about the future of the Canal where they had been left off. The right hon. Gentleman will observe that the letter of 24th October from the Secretary-General had not been replied to by the Egyptian Government at that date. Since this action has been taken the Egyptian Government have accepted that letter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-03a.884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-03", "file": "debates1956-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "9bb729a3f60c3bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-03a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. The position is that those forces should remain on the Canal until the functions given to the Force under the appropriate Resolutions have been carried out. One of those functions has to do with keeping the peace between Israel and the Arab States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-03a.886.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-03", "file": "debates1956-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "9bb729a3f60c3bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-03a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I only say that I believe that the actions which we took have achieved the results which I set out. I will only add that the arguments of certain right hon. Gentlemen opposite are very present on the lips of the enemies of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-03a.887.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-03", "file": "debates1956-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "9bb729a3f60c3bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-03a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Foreign Secretary to answer my question? What does he mean by the phrase \"enemies of this country\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-03a.888.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-03", "file": "debates1956-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "9bb729a3f60c3bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-03a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman will permit me time to examine the question of the cease-fire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-03a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-03", "file": "debates1956-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "9bb729a3f60c3bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-03a.892.2", "colnum": "892", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Technically.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. and learned Friend tell us what was meant by that part of his statement dealing with the clearance of the Canal—I believe that he said that the Secretary-General said that the clearance of the Canal would take place under General Wheeler—when he told us that it would be as soon as tactically possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-03a.892.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-03", "file": "debates1956-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "9bb729a3f60c3bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-03a.893.4", "colnum": "893", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I will have to verify my memory about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-03a.893.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-03", "file": "debates1956-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "9bb729a3f60c3bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-03a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (RAILWAY FINANCES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "belts, stillages. power trucks and fork lift trucks. Plans for development of such terminals are actively in hand.' That is a very practical step forward, because if the railways cut down the time taken in sorting, and in finding things that get lost, they have a chance of attracting that kind of traffic. I very much agree, too, with what has been said about branch lines by hon. Friends behind me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-03a.981.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-03", "file": "debates1956-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "9bb729a3f60c3bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-03a.1010.2", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "UNITED NATIONS CHARTER (REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Younger", "preceding_text": "ularly to pay attention to the provision near the beginning of the Charter which enjoins on everybody the settlement of their disputes by peaceful means and to recognise a consensus of world opinion as expressed through the United Nations, even if there is not at present the full power to enforce it. It is no use saying that that is ineffective. That is what was done in the case of the Korean War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-03a.1010.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-04", "file": "debates1956-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "86e1af23905ec7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-04a.1032.7", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Free?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "If it is what is called a free loan from a moneylender, there is no objection, of course, to such a loan being used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-04a.1032.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-04", "file": "debates1956-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "86e1af23905ec7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-04a.1090.3", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The other way round.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "But it is an Amendment which deals with the question whether it is right for this House to decide that we should hang a man who has committed a theft in the course of or in furtherance of a murder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-04a.1090.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-04", "file": "debates1956-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "86e1af23905ec7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-04a.1091.2", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That would be unlikely.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "tion for the jury? They have to decide, first of all, that there has been a vacancy declared in my hon. Friend's constituency, and he is dead; secondly, that he was killed by the man in the shop; thirdly, that he was killed with malice aforethought. Fourthly, they are called upon to consider at very great length whether there was some provocation by my hon. Friend or such initiation of the attack—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-04a.1091.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-04", "file": "debates1956-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "86e1af23905ec7e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-04a.1096.2", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMICIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "If it is housebreaking with intent to violate a woman, it would not come within Clause 5 (1, a ) because it would not be housebreaking with intent to steal. I should have thought that that would be obvious to the hon. and learned Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-04a.1096.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1233.0", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "That has nothing to do with this Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1233.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1256.6", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "Mr. Denis Healey (Leeds, East) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1256.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1259.1", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member should have waited for just a moment. In the question he put to me last Monday, he left out from the chain of events which he described the communication of 4th November from the Israeli Government which put into doubt the question whether or not they had accepted a cease-fire. They put that into doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1259.3", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has, very cleverly, tried to put another question to the question on which I gave way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1260.0", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman asked a question and his Friends behind him took it up. I understand the question—the last sentence he uttered—to be what would we have done to prevent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1262.5", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "which have been disclosed by our action. I also claimed in my statement on Monday that a third result of our intervention had been the action taken by the United Nations. Some sensitivity has been shown to our claim that it was our action which forced the formation of the United Nations Emergency Force. I do not see how anyone can believe that this Force could have been created without our action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1262.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1266.1", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "h the Commonwealth or our alliance with the United States, and without creating new institutions. I go at the weekend to the meetings of the Western European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation with those considerations very much in mind. I maintain—it has been my belief throughout and it is still my conviction—that out of this situation certain definite advantages have been achieved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1269.0", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " speech we have heard today is the first speech in which that subject has been dropped. Every other statement made on this matter since the beginning has always contained a reference to the future of the Canal as one of Her Majesty's Government's objectives, in fact, as an object of war, to coerce Egypt. Indeed, that is exactly what hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite believed it was all about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1275.4", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There were the volunteers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "y enough, it seems to me, of not knowing what is happening in other nations. They do not even know what is happening in Poland or Hungary, and it does not seem to have occurred to the Russians that there was no military advantage in providing weapons that the Egyptians could not use. The fact of the matter is that these great modern weapons are practically useless in the hands of backward nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1275.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1283.3", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooman-White", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooman-White", "preceding_text": "oss of life between the Arabs and Israeli States should have at last been brought to a close. The second point, on which the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale was perhaps not doing himself full justice was in his reference to the British attitude to the original Israeli incursion. This was possibly, or so one hopes, a last shot fired at a target of collusion which is rapidly vanishing into a mirage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooman-White", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooman-White", "preceding_text": " cannot ride out of it that way. The implication of his remarks was that we had gone to the Israelis and said, \"If you take action against Jordan this will be an unfriendly act against a Power with which we are in treaty relations.\" That was a perfectly clear point, and we would have been bound to intervene. We then said, \"If you take action against Egypt we must urge restraint in that direction.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1286.1", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooman-White", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooman-White", "preceding_text": "That is extremely hypothetical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1286.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1290.2", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Like hon. Gentlemen on the Government benches.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooman-White", "preceding_text": "eeded by a Government prepared to come to unconditional surrender terms with the Israelis and to reject the Russian aid which was being offered? That is extremely unlikely. Maybe Nasser would have been shot, but there are plenty of people in most Middle Eastern capitals who would like to take office if they could shoot up the people already filling the offices, and they quite frequently manage it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1294.1", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "It would have caused no British casualties at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1294.1", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "It would have caused no British casualties at all. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am answering the question. It would have caused no British casualties at all. Is that a matter of indifference to hon. Members opposite? It would also have caused no civilian casualties in Port Said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1294.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1304.0", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Charles Waterhouse", "preceding_text": " this crisis came we had no plan, no ships, no aeroplanes and no men available in sufficient quantities to hit quickly. If we had been able to hit quickly on those first days of Nasser's aggression in seizing the Canal, we would have had a very different picture today both there and here, because do not forget that at that time the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition was on our side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1321.0", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman was not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": " military precautions. Is that really fair in view of what the Labour Party did at the time of Abadan? I can remember the right hon. Member for Lewisham, South (Mr. H. Morrison), when he was Foreign Secretary, taking steps which earned commendation everywhere when he sent forces to the Middle East. I do not remember hon. Members on these benches trying to make party political capital at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman should ask the country \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "The Government and great majority of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "e Member for Derby, South (Mr. P. Noel-Baker) said, when several hon. Members from this side were casting doubts on his assertion that the United Nations was quite capable of bringing about a settlement in the Middle East: If they had not\"— that is, if the aggressors had not obeyed— what would have been the next step under the Charter? It is all laid down. We should have withdrawn our ambassadors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1327.1", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was not hypocrisy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "preceding_text": "e about the hypocrisy which he found in the conduct of the American Government. Would he address himself to the fact that, upon the very day upon which the Prime Minister announced his ultimatum here, the American Ambassador actually met the British Foreign Secretary? There was no reference whatever by the Foreign Secretary to the fact that the Prime Minister would shortly announce that ultimatum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1330.1", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Mutual understanding.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that on the theme of hypocrisy that sort of thinking takes quite a bit of believing. In the course of Question Time hon. Members opposite have mentioned the actions of my hon. Friends. I thought we came precious near to admissions that, at any rate, if there had not been collusion there was a substantial degree of what we might call fore-knowledge of what was going to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1330.1", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "ent have sustained in this matter. When one sees the leading article in the Daily Telegraph yesterday, it really gets a little beyond the pale. I quote: The ordinary decencies of relations between Government and Opposition have not been observed by the latter. From the demeanour of at least the Socialist back benches yesterday, it looks as if the Opposition intended to gloat over this humiliation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1330.1", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "sterday, it really gets a little beyond the pale. I quote: The ordinary decencies of relations between Government and Opposition have not been observed by the latter. From the demeanour of at least the Socialist back benches yesterday, it looks as if the Opposition intended to gloat over this humiliation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Hon. Members opposite agree that there is humiliation, do they?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1339.0", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Spens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Spens", "preceding_text": "e months after are the most dangerous times for the world at present, because politics is being played in the United States—and politics, local politics, come before everything else. At any rate, there it was. I, with great regret—because I have many friends, legal and otherwise, in the United States—think that the United States has to bear a great deal of the responsibility for what has happened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1340.1", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Spens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So are we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Spens", "preceding_text": "—if the right hon. Gentleman will allow me, to what I think is the present situation. I think that the United States is realising how serious is the position in the Middle East—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1341.2", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Spens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who would not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Spens", "preceding_text": "That was not really quite the same. I should like to have seen them build up a United Nations Force out of our forces and the forces of France. I think that that would have been the right way to do it, following the Korean example. But they would not do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1341.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1364.1", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "ed to establish entirely new relationships with Asia and with Africa, but particularly with Asia. After all, that is the main objective and will prove to be the real test of the modern multi-racial Commonwealth. This is linked with the United Nations, because I believe that it is only under the protection of the Charter and within the principles laid down there that we shall be able to succeed in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1369.3", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "n about the Tripartite Declaration, where the Americans were also kept in the dark. The discussions were on the 28th and 29th. On the 30th, the Americans issued from the White House an official statement making it clear that they believed the Tripartite Declaration to be in full operation. There was no mention of any kind of exception for Egypt at all. I have rather overrun my time on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1369.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1369.3", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": " before anything can be done in detail, is to restore our relations with the United Nations, with the Commonwealth and with our allies. Alas, it may well be that temporarily we shall have to leave most of the initiative in this matter to others. We have to work through our friends. We know that we shall get the fullest co-operation from Canada, from India and, no doubt, now from the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1369.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1372.0", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "ld govern the whole world is coming to an end. Let us not look at it in this way, but rather as at a problem of world wide co-operation which, since it involves Powers of East and West, both inside and outside the Commonwealth, can only be solved under the authority of the United Nations. It is because we believe that the Government's policy has cut across these basic principles of British policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1369.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1372.8", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Antony Head)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence (Mr. Antony Head)", "preceding_text": "During the whole of the discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1372.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1374.1", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "ntirely discounts the possibility, if the war had continued, of Russian intervention, of Egyptian bombers and of intervention by the other Arab States, is unwise. I think anybody would be a fool to rule it out as impossible that we should have ended with a crippled Israel, a bombed Tel Aviv and a united Arab world of which, under Russian arms and Russian influence, Nasser would have been the head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1374.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1375.0", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "ptians. Would it be a very good state of affairs to have a dominant Israel surrounded by fearful Arab States? It would have been one extreme or the other. Non-intervention would have led to a continuance of the war and, in my opinion, it would have led to a situation with far fewer good prospects and much greater difficulties than the present situation. That is the policy of hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1376.0", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not our dilemma.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "ed the matter to the United Nations, we should have behaved, as hon. Members sincerely wished, with complete moral rectitude, but undue insistence on moral rectitude in matters like this can be a means of dodging hard and difficult decisions which are the only way of achieving a solution which ensures the safety of this country. I am aware of the dilemma of hon. Members opposite, but it is a fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1376.0", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "thout getting any assurances or terms is associated in that way. But this particular operation was, I suggest, entirely different from the kind of operation where armed force is used entirely to impose a solution. This action was not taken for that reason—it was done to stop a war—and we invited into that area an international force. The moment that that international force was invited into Egypt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1385.2", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "HYDROCARBON OILS, ETC. (CUSTOMS AND EXCISE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "That is what I was arguing against. I am not in favour of asking for a waiver.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1385.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-05", "file": "debates1956-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c37481d22e67a433", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1388.2", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "HYDROCARBON OILS, ETC. (CUSTOMS AND EXCISE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "Sir Dennis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-05a.1388.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1435.0", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "While thanking the Minister for his statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1435.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1451.8", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You could resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "We cannot do everything before Christmas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1451.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1462.3", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "I repeat, so little did hon. and right hon. Members opposite care for Hungarian freedom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1462.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1463.0", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant-Ferris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant-Ferris", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has made a most bitterly wounding accusation against this side of the House. I was accused of doing something of a similar character earlier in this series of debates. I had the decency to withdraw that remark of mine. Will the right hon. Gentleman withdraw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1463.3", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "moned a meeting of the Security Council, on a Sunday, to denounce and to try to check the Russian aggression in Budapest. On 30th October they cast a veto to protect their own aggression. Suppose we had accepted on that day the Council's summons, dropped our ultimatum, bowed to the world authority of the United Nations. Would there not have been a chance that the Russians would have done the same?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1463.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1464.1", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Noel-Baker rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1464.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1465.2", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Noel-Baker rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1467.0", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "I do not remember any senior British Minister going to New York and making any such proposal. Let the Government drop this foolish legend, which earns us only ridicule and contempt. The facts are all in HANSARD.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "This debate has gone on for so many days inside and outside the House—this matter has been debated day after day—that I think, we all find it somewhat difficult to add anything new to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "This debate has gone on for so many days inside and outside the House—this matter has been debated day after day—that I think, we all find it somewhat difficult to add anything new to say. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] For my part, I feel that the House and the country are beginning to weary of this reiteration of argument and recrimination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "nment found themselves confronted. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ebbw Vale, in a very subtle and ingenious argument, accused the Government of shifting their ground. Sometimes, he said, it was the danger of the war in the Middle East; sometimes it was the Canal; sometimes it was the Russian intervention. But surely he must see that all these questions, although separate, are interlocked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": " amounts to a Motion of censure. Indeed, except for the first part, those sentiments might have been generally acceptable. I do not know how to account for this change. Perhaps it is a matter of personalities. I think that it is the rather more statesmanlike and philosophical approach of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ebbw Vale instead of the pure hysteria of the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who made them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "lities. I think that it is the rather more statesmanlike and philosophical approach of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ebbw Vale instead of the pure hysteria of the Leader of the Opposition. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"] It was my duty to make a statement to the House last Tuesday about the effect of the last four months on the British economy. These are the facts. Our difficulties are serious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "the Opposition. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"] It was my duty to make a statement to the House last Tuesday about the effect of the last four months on the British economy. These are the facts. Our difficulties are serious—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Who made them?\"]—but I am absolutely convinced that by the united efforts of all our people we shall be able to regain the ground that we have lost in the reserves —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give him a gold medal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "ly all the temporary burdens which we may have to carry during this emergency. Let us compare them with what would have been the staggering burdens which might have followed from our inaction. In the very brilliant speech which the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ebbw Vale made, in a Parliamentary style which is all his own and worthy of the best of all predecessors, he made one curious lapse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "uld have been the staggering burdens which might have followed from our inaction. In the very brilliant speech which the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ebbw Vale made, in a Parliamentary style which is all his own and worthy of the best of all predecessors, he made one curious lapse. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Give him a gold medal.\"] I would not mind seeing the right hon. Gentleman over here one day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Be careful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": "leman the Member for Derby, with whom I remember being in general agreement at the time of Munich, and other hon. and right hon. Gentlemen on the other side of the House, blamed the Government of the day—for what? For not acting, for choosing to follow the letter and not the spirit of their obligations. I think the phrase of the day was that had they \"stood up to Hitler\" in 1936, in 1937, in 1938—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1473.0", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was not war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer has referred to me. I ask him what was it that we were in agreement about in 1936 and 1937?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1476.3", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is also the Suez Group.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": " co-operation will be developed as has taken place in other areas. I believe that this is a challenge to American and British statesmanship. There is a third reflection that I would venture to put to the House. A series of groups seems to have emerged in the United Nations. Such groups have, of course, existed for a long time. There has been the Latin-American Group. There is the Afro-Asian group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1476.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1477.1", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir; work and act towards that end during the two or three years that the Government will remain in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1477.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1487.1", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "n does not wish to be unfair and that he would agree that hon. Members on this side of the House have always condemned the Government under all circumstances. Would he not charge his recollection that when the Prime Minister announced that he was going to do right, and cease fire, it was hon. Members on this side of the House who cheered him, and there was dead silence among hon. Members opposite?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1487.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1487.2", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "with our fellows on the other side of the great highway of the Atlantic, and we wish to work with them closely. I believe that we can work with them closely. An occasional expression of ill-will, an occasional flurry of a quarrel, is not a thing to deplore if it is not persisted in. If I may quote Latin in this house, ira amantium redintigratio amoris —the wrath of lovers is the making up of love.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1487.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or that side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glover", "preceding_text": "erve its life, to be branded as an aggressor? I am sure that we were right to use the veto, and that history will show us to have been right. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer this afternoon said that great good can come from a crisis. I believe that in the Middle East we had a cauldron on the boil and that it boiled over. History, not right hon. and hon. Gentlemen on that side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glover", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is failing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glover", "preceding_text": "e West can carry out. He said that force solves nothing, but in the ultimate end, even today, force is still the thing that makes the world tick. We have only to look at the tragedy in Hungary, about which I shall speak in a moment. Let nobody tell me that it is not Russian force that is beating down the brave Hungarian bid for freedom. That Russian force is beating down Hungary's bid for freedom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glover", "preceding_text": "We used force in Egypt, I believe, to stop a war and to see that the area was not enslaved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glover", "preceding_text": "were right. Many of us, on whichever side of the House we sit and whatever line we take in the country, have been anxiously searching our minds to decide whether we were right, whether the other side was right, whether this drastic course of action was or was not justified. When such a time has passed and when the dust and outfall settles down, sometimes a change of leadership is, perhaps, needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glover", "preceding_text": "used such an occasion for his own personal political advantage is not worthy of his charge. The right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale has, I believe, in the same circumstances shown a far greater capacity for leader- ship. His mind has worked on the problems affecting the nation, realising more nearly the true nature of them, and we must not forget that there was a grave problem which had to be tackled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1532.1", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "of oil from the Middle East and other oil centres. If we are to try to get America to come in because of the Russian threat in the Middle East I do not believe that we can do so by putting down Motions on the Order Paper such as that which appears under the names of hon. Members opposite. One would have hoped that by now they would have had the decency to remove such a Motion from the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is what it is all about.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "s mischief-making the remarks of the hon. Gentleman. Having listened to almost every speech in this two-day debate I have come to the conclusion that we have lost sight of the reason for all that has happened. It was that Nasser seized the Suez Canal by military force. That fact has hardly been mentioned in the debate. Listening to hon. Gentlemen opposite, one would think that we seized the Canal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We followed them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "es would not have been lost in that case. It struck me as a most peculiar line for a statesman of his experience to take. The American withdrawal of their aid to build the Aswan Dam was the beginning of this trouble. If they had wanted to get out of it, they could have done so differently. What they did was clumsy, just as every other American attitude in recent years has been clumsy and immature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "0 million, for which we have to pay interest for forty-five years. Let hon. Members opposite remember it. Let me tell them, too, that the Americans do not mind rough talk; they understand it, and they prefer it to a lot of sentimentality. My belief is that the alliance will be better without the sentimentality and if we get down to hard facts, which the Americans readily understand. My time is up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1557.2", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "it will do so again. It also happens to coincide with the point of view of a great many people in France. Consequently, I hope that the House will bear with me if, at the outset, I say a few words about their attitude. I do not propose to put to them any high-falutin' moral arguments—I know that most of them do not take very seriously either the United Nations Charter or the United Nations itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1557.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1557.2", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "tion, but I wonder, if that had happened, what the consequences would have been. Do they really feel that if we had pursued that line of action there would have been any settlement? Many hon. Members on the Government benches have, from time to time, expressed precisely these sentiments, and in particular, of course, the right hon. and gallant Member for Leicester, South-East (Captain Waterhouse).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1557.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1559.3", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ing which stopped the war then perhaps right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite will say that it was the bombing that stopped the war. Undoubtedly, the bombing by French and British planes of Egyptian airfields destroyed a great deal of the Egyptian Air Force. Nobody would deny for a moment that this helped Israel to win the battles in Sinai more quickly. Does anybody challenge that? That is agreed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1559.3", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No collusion?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " planes of Egyptian airfields destroyed a great deal of the Egyptian Air Force. Nobody would deny for a moment that this helped Israel to win the battles in Sinai more quickly. Does anybody challenge that? That is agreed. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The Israelis themselves say that this assistance which they received—I very much doubt whether they either asked for it or, indeed, knew that it was coming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1559.3", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Egyptian Air Force. Nobody would deny for a moment that this helped Israel to win the battles in Sinai more quickly. Does anybody challenge that? That is agreed. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The Israelis themselves say that this assistance which they received—I very much doubt whether they either asked for it or, indeed, knew that it was coming—[An HON. MEMBER: \"No collusion?\"] We will come to that, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1559.3", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "a country which is, in any case, plainly losing a war, a country which is itself the subject of a surprise onslaught—here I make no comment on whether or not the Israeli invasion of Egypt was justified by provocation—with infinitely greater superiority in weapons, it is not surprising that you destroy its capacity to continue to fight. In that sense, I used the word \"premature\" about the fighting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1559.3", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the Opposition cheers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "plainly losing a war, a country which is itself the subject of a surprise onslaught—here I make no comment on whether or not the Israeli invasion of Egypt was justified by provocation—with infinitely greater superiority in weapons, it is not surprising that you destroy its capacity to continue to fight. In that sense, I used the word \"premature\" about the fighting—[ Laughter .] About the fighting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1559.3", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Prematurely.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "er superiority in weapons, it is not surprising that you destroy its capacity to continue to fight. In that sense, I used the word \"premature\" about the fighting—[ Laughter .] About the fighting—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the Opposition cheers?\"] Perhaps hon. Members had better wait. In that sense I used the word \"premature\" about the ending of the fighting in Sinai, meaning that it came to an end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1559.3", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Prematurely.\"]—earlier than it otherwise would have done. I do not think that that is very surprising. In fact, there are many interesting historical parallels. One occurred quite recently, within our lifetime, in 1939. When Germany invaded Poland, Soviet Russia invaded Poland, too. No doubt on that occasion the fighting was brought to an end sooner than it otherwise would have been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1569.3", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "nd on that. There has been this bitterness, I would suggest, because we both happen to feel extremely strongly on the subject we were discussing. First, I would beg hon. Members opposite not to go on identifying the Government with the country. It is, in fact, the essence of democracy that there is a profound distinction between the State and the Government. I would say, further, that they should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1569.3", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "say, further, that they should—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Time.\"] Hon. Members are only prolonging matters. I would say-to them that, in disregarding the distinction between the two, they are betraying the essence of democracy. Secondly I do not believe that it is right that any Government of any colour should lead this country into war without first making sure that it has the unity of the nation behind it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1569.3", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "only prolonging matters. I would say-to them that, in disregarding the distinction between the two, they are betraying the essence of democracy. Secondly I do not believe that it is right that any Government of any colour should lead this country into war without first making sure that it has the unity of the nation behind it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Time.\"] I am sorry, but I really must finish. That was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1569.5", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "e next stage must be a return to the principles from which they have departed, namely, Commonwealth unity, understanding with our allies, and obedience to the United Nations. This is not very easy for the Government. It means eating a lot of words. It means admitting that wrong things have been done, and it means dealing firmly with their followers. But it is the only way if we are to get through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1569.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1569.5", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have heard all this.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "nciples from which they have departed, namely, Commonwealth unity, understanding with our allies, and obedience to the United Nations. This is not very easy for the Government. It means eating a lot of words. It means admitting that wrong things have been done, and it means dealing firmly with their followers. But it is the only way if we are to get through—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Time.\"] I must say this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1569.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1570.3", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ndeed superior to all. I am surprised that hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite are not ready to recognise that as well as I am. The first matter I want to deal with is what I regarded as the utterly revolting speech of the right hon. Member for Derby, South (Mr. P. Noel-Baker). I have had to deal with the right hon. Gentleman, for whose personal character nobody has a higher regard than I have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1570.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1570.3", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "es so much importance. However, I should like to remind him that there is no connection whatever between the Russian assault on Hungary and our own action in Egypt. I have again checked the speech which I made in the House on this subject, and to which he made no allusion in his speech, and in which I gave our own information, which was that long before we decided on our action or took our action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1570.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1571.1", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1571.4", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " Mr. Ernest Bevin, who spoke for the then Government, that I had many talks with him, and it was his view that this was the most intractable, human and difficult problem in the world. It is today, and remains so. I appeal to my hon. and right hon. Friends and hon. and right hon. Members opposite to back us on four main lines. The first is that we should put real strength behind the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1571.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1573.1", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We hope.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "r Mr. Menzies' to the right hon. Gentleman. We should accept the view of the President of the United States and of Mr. Dulles when they have made clear their willingness to contribute to the purpose of bringing stability and a just peace to this area. That statement of the United States Government, quoted by the Foreign Secretary, is of the utmost importance in building up the future in this area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1573.1", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Pathetic.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ast to be a source of plenty and of peace and prosperity for the future. The aim of the Government in this respect is to achieve a reasonable degree of stability and the minimum possible Russian interference, and the aim politically is to realise that there is a real Russian danger in Syria and that without the strength of the Atlantic alliance we cannot ensure peace in that area. It may seem odd—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1573.1", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "t is only one,\"— that is one human life we had no business to take it.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 5th December, 1956; Vol. 561, c. 1286.] Does he realise that between 10th September and 11th October this year no fewer than 160 men, women and children were killed on the Jordan-Israel border? Does he realise, as I do, and that is the reason why I have unhesitatingly supported the Government in this venture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-06", "file": "debates1956-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "144fd80965002467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1573.1", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "on. I can tell him, because I was a member of the British Cabinet and I followed everything intimately. On the morning of Tuesday, 6th November, we held a Cabinet meeting at which we were informed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations that both sides had ceased fire. We therefore decided to cease hostilities. It was not till that date that we had authentic evidence that both the Israelis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-06a.1573.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-10", "file": "debates1956-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7863d29c27f1d42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend realise that many of us feel, in view of the fact that the United States has shown how unwilling it was to help us in our problems in the last few weeks,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.20.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-10", "file": "debates1956-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7863d29c27f1d42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teeling", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend realise that many of us feel, in view of the fact that the United States has shown how unwilling it was to help us in our problems in the last few weeks,—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—he should reconsider the presence of these people in this country? Will he make sure that if it is to look after its own forces—which are here to protect the United States and not necessarily us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.20.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-10", "file": "debates1956-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7863d29c27f1d42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.20.3", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " economising with the consumption of petroleum products for its forces in this country, is it not propitious to ask whether we are buying large quantities of American oil for dollars, and why should we supply the United States of America and its forces' requirements in this country with petrol and petroleum products bought for dollars? Why can they not bring in their own and pay for it themselves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.20.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-10", "file": "debates1956-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7863d29c27f1d42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.21.6", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "Taxis, after all, are not put to quite the same use in provincial cities as in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.21.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-10", "file": "debates1956-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7863d29c27f1d42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I have taken the opportunity of raising the matter at the earliest possible moment, Sir, as I was bound to do, otherwise the matter would have been out of order. I will make every effort—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.33.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-10", "file": "debates1956-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7863d29c27f1d42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.64.3", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROCARBON OIL DUTIES (TEMPORARY INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Cary", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Suez?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Cary", "preceding_text": "May I say to the right hon. Gentleman that I will give it my consideration. But I would, in passing, say that I am completely free in giving him that limited assurance because I have never been aware that in the ranks of my own party I am at any time subjected to undue or unfair pressure as to the way in which I should act on any particular occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.64.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-10", "file": "debates1956-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7863d29c27f1d42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.65.0", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROCARBON OIL DUTIES (TEMPORARY INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Four or five months.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Cary", "preceding_text": "Measure is purely temporary, not to look at it in terms of an additional tax at all. I look upon this tax as a form of surcharge to meet an emergency, and I should like to see it dealt with in a less permanent form by subjecting it to Parliamentary review at an extremely short interval. Let us hope that the Chancellor's optimism is justified and that within six months this tax will be unnecessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.64.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-10", "file": "debates1956-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7863d29c27f1d42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.65.2", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROCARBON OIL DUTIES (TEMPORARY INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Cary", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Unintentional?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Cary", "preceding_text": "one other matter about which we heard a lot at Question Time and about which we shall perhaps hear a certain amount in the debate which follows. It has some relationship to this Bill. I have myself had representations from the Manchester and Salford Taxi-Cab Drivers' Association, which feels most strongly that an unintentional act of unfairness has been committed by the Ministry of Fuel and Power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.65.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-10", "file": "debates1956-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7863d29c27f1d42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.79.5", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROCARBON OIL DUTIES (TEMPORARY INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "I understand so. The matter was raised with me by the firm concerned just recently. If my right hon. Friend can assure me that the duty does not apply, I shall be extremely glad to hear that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.79.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-10", "file": "debates1956-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7863d29c27f1d42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.84.5", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROCARBON OIL DUTIES (TEMPORARY INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "If all hon. Members acted only according to their consciences, this House would be a better place. I, as an individual back bencher, have brought all pressure I can to bear on the Treasury, including putting my view clearly to the Patronage Secretary on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.84.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-10", "file": "debates1956-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7863d29c27f1d42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROCARBON OIL DUTIES (TEMPORARY INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": " will bear an additional 7½ per cent. in freight costs. If a basic raw material is sold, the customer will be processing that into a product which he sells to the retailer and then to the customer, both carrying increased freight rates of 7½ per cent. The net result is a much greater impost than is laid down by the extra 1s. 1 support the Chancellor in this issue for one reason only.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-10", "file": "debates1956-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7863d29c27f1d42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROCARBON OIL DUTIES (TEMPORARY INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "a long and detailed explanation, but I will happily give the hon. Member the details afterwards. May I add, and I say this with sympathy towards the views of the hon. Member, that I do not think he had sufficient regard to the fact that a large part of the increased distributive costs caused by the greater duty will be recouped by higher prices. I will vote for this Bill on Second Reading tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-10", "file": "debates1956-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7863d29c27f1d42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROCARBON OIL DUTIES (TEMPORARY INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much was it then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ter attack on its implications for medical practitioners, especially in rural areas, he concluded: It still remains what it was at the beginning, a tax on the industrial and commercial costs of this country. It is a tax which will result in an increase in the cost of living.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 14th June, 1950; Vol. 476, c. 277–80.] Those are the views of the Chancellor's right hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-10", "file": "debates1956-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7863d29c27f1d42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROCARBON OIL DUTIES (TEMPORARY INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is doubling the standard of living.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "in an increase in the cost of living.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 14th June, 1950; Vol. 476, c. 277–80.] Those are the views of the Chancellor's right hon. Friends. [An HON. MEMBER: \"How much was it then?\"] Petrol was 3s. a gallon then, and now it has gone up above 6s. Did the Chancellor know about all these statements? Was he not moved by all this eloquence of which I have been reminding the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-10", "file": "debates1956-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7863d29c27f1d42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROCARBON OIL DUTIES (TEMPORARY INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Barren.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " finds that his costs have been raised by one-fifth of a penny, and so, of course, he puts up the price by 1d. if he can. As the hon. Member for Cheadle (Mr. Shepherd) quite rightly said, the effect is very largely psychological; the whole psychology is now in terms of price increases. The Chancellor's plateau is dead—or whatever is the right geological expression to describe the end of a plateau.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-10", "file": "debates1956-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7863d29c27f1d42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROCARBON OIL DUTIES (TEMPORARY INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "Despite all that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) has said, this short debate has proved once again the unerring judgment of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.115.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-10", "file": "debates1956-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7863d29c27f1d42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.122.3", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROCARBON OIL DUTIES (TEMPORARY INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "the nature of this temporary tax. He said at the outset that he regarded the new petrol duty as a temporary measure during the present oil shortage. He has repeated that today. Hon. Members have suggested that we ought to write into the Bill words making sure that the matter would come before the House again within a reasonable period, but I must remind the House that that will happen in any case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-10", "file": "debates1956-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7863d29c27f1d42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.124.2", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROCARBON OIL DUTIES (TEMPORARY INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Thieves.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " in the debate to which I am trying to lead the House by ending a speech which would have ended earlier but for the number of times that I have given way to hon. Members opposite. The right hon. Member for Smethwich used a curious phrase about honourable taxes and he said that this was a dishonourable one. I will not venture as Financial Secretary to draw this delicate distinction of honour among—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.124.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-10", "file": "debates1956-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7863d29c27f1d42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "MOTOR FUEL RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Horace King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Horace King", "preceding_text": "cause then everybody gets some. The wit of man has to be exercised to see that the shares which everyone gets are fair. In the last few weeks, the days before the imposition of rationing, we have had a striking example of what it means to leave things to free, unregulated private enterprise. All those whose philosophy may be summed up in the workman's expression \"all right, to hell with you Jack\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.136.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-10", "file": "debates1956-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7863d29c27f1d42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.151.2", "colnum": "151", "heading": "MOTOR FUEL RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-10", "file": "debates1956-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "f7863d29c27f1d42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.153.5", "colnum": "153", "heading": "MOTOR FUEL RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Yes, my hon. Friend is as helpful as ever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-10a.153.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-11", "file": "debates1956-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "71ae6c8e1592cec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-11a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "At the same time, I think all forms of Government expenditure must be closely watched.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-11a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-11", "file": "debates1956-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "71ae6c8e1592cec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-11a.225.2", "colnum": "225", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Thank you for your consideration of this matter, Mr. Speaker. May I point that there is one small slip which you have made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-11a.225.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-11", "file": "debates1956-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "71ae6c8e1592cec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-11a.226.3", "colnum": "226", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "With respect, Mr. Speaker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-11a.226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-11", "file": "debates1956-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "71ae6c8e1592cec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-11a.226.3", "colnum": "226", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sitdown.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "sary for him and 14 of his colleagues to dare to show themselves in this place. The daring may be one of two kinds; it may be physical daring or moral daring, or, of course, it may be neither. The hon. Member asserted that it was necessary to show daring in order to show himself at this House. The House cannot possibly function if it is necessary to dare against the Patronage Secretary. Therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-11a.226.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-11", "file": "debates1956-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "71ae6c8e1592cec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-11a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Dudley should not make charges of that kind against the hon. Member for Lanark. That is not the way to deal with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-11a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-11", "file": "debates1956-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "71ae6c8e1592cec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-11a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "EGG MARKETING SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Most decidedly, they were definitely interested in it. The objectors who do not produce any eggs are not entitled to the same interest as the man who produces them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-11a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-11", "file": "debates1956-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "71ae6c8e1592cec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-11a.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "EGG MARKETING SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coldrick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coldrick", "preceding_text": "say in conclusion that I am not a bit interested in the pedigree of this Scheme. Hon. Members opposite may be proud that they introduced a Bill in 1931 and other people may be proud that we introduced another Bill in 1945 and another in 1949, but the plain fact of the matter is that all these egg marketing schemes at the present moment are a monument to the influence and power of Sir James Turner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-11a.345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-11", "file": "debates1956-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "71ae6c8e1592cec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-11a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "EGG MARKETING SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coldrick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coldrick", "preceding_text": "nter-war period? So do not let us have any more of this argument about the conditions which obained then and which do not obtain now. I say with great seriousness that I do not believe that one argument can be adduced in favour of compulsion being used to make the producers of eggs join an association which cannot be as validly adduced to compel every producer of coal to belong to a miners' union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-11a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-12", "file": "debates1956-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c776d57fc6ff5ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.416.4", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The Question actually reads: … whether … he will reconsider his refusal to end National Service … That is the policy issue. The date is not the policy. The policy is to reconsider the refusal to end National Service. Will the Secretary of State stop being clever?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.416.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-12", "file": "debates1956-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c776d57fc6ff5ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to answer that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-12", "file": "debates1956-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c776d57fc6ff5ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.424.6", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "While, in great deference to yourself, Mr. Speaker, I will agree that the Government have not told a lie, may I ask the Minister whether he is aware that they have not told the whole truth? What the people of the world want to know is what really happened. Everybody believes that there was collusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.424.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-12", "file": "debates1956-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c776d57fc6ff5ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.434.2", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was correct?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "rst of all to the Press reports which appeared of M. Mollet's speech, of which I have a full account here, and secondly to the Prime Minister's speech on 31st October, in which he gave an answer on behalf of the British Government. There was no agreement at all, as is referred to in the Question which the hon. Gentleman has asked. We have stated our attitude, and M. Mallet has stated his attitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.434.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-12", "file": "debates1956-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c776d57fc6ff5ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "In the answer to which the Lord Privy Seal has referred us, the Prime Minister said there was no time for consultation. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that last Wednesday the Minister of Defence told us that we had on 26th October true knowledge that an Israeli attack on Egypt was about to be made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.434.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-12", "file": "debates1956-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c776d57fc6ff5ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.437.2", "colnum": "437", "heading": "MILITARY BARRACKS, NORTHERN IRELAND (ATTACKS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Could the Minister assure us that Her Majesty's Government are not sending a British expeditionary force to the mouth of the Shannon or to Tipperary, to separate the combatants?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-12", "file": "debates1956-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c776d57fc6ff5ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.438.2", "colnum": "438", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "May I, Mr. Speaker, raise with you a point of order and ask for your guidance? I tried to catch your eye before the hon. and gallant Member for Down, South (Captain Orr) put his Private Notice Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-12", "file": "debates1956-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c776d57fc6ff5ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.438.2", "colnum": "438", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "a point of order and ask for your guidance? I tried to catch your eye before the hon. and gallant Member for Down, South (Captain Orr) put his Private Notice Question. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Not a point of order.\"] I want to ask your advice, Sir, not that of hon. Gentlemen opposite who are muttering. I put down a Question to the Minister of Defence and it is now Question No. 110 on today's Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-12", "file": "debates1956-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c776d57fc6ff5ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.457.3", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INCREASE OF DUTIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "hat we are doing in pleading for the continuance of this industry. I claim that we are looking after our more permanent interests and I ask the Minister to regard the matter in that way. With the knowledge we possess today, I cannot remain silent and see this industry assassinated. I am dismayed at the unconcern and indifference shown to this problem by Ministers in various Government Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.457.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-12", "file": "debates1956-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c776d57fc6ff5ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INCREASE OF DUTIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No subsidy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "of Transport and Civil Aviation. All three Ministries must be most closely associated in the very difficult manoeuvre which now lies ahead. 6.15 p.m. It seems to me that there is only one thing which can save the road haulage industry from ending in Carey Street in the next six months, at any rate the private road hauliers, who are not buttressed by any of the State subsidies enjoyed by the B.T.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-12", "file": "debates1956-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c776d57fc6ff5ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.536.2", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INCREASE OF DUTIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "of Amendment when they were members of a Socialist Government. This is a matter which cuts right across party lines. We really must decide whether or not the duty on light hydrocarbon oils should affect our industrial production. That is the simple issue. If hon. Members opposite formed the Government of the day I believe that they would resist the Amendment as my hon. and learned Friend has done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.536.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-12", "file": "debates1956-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c776d57fc6ff5ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INCREASE OF DUTIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Cary", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Cary", "preceding_text": "I know that the Chancellor tried, in regard to bus fares—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-12a.544.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.603.6", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "If the Minister looks into this question, will he pay particular attention to the far wider grievance felt by many families of juvenile delinquents who may be certified under the mental deficiency Acts whilst inmates of remand homes and Borstal institutions, without legal representation or even independent medical examinations, and then be detained for many years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.603.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Austria?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. and gallant Friend's reply show that no other country has acted so generously Or so promptly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.624.2", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER AND MR. NEHRU (MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend impress upon his right hon. Friend, if the meeting does take place, that while many of us have great respect and love for India we expect a little more fairness? Many of us have been very disappointed that the Egyptian casualties should be exaggerated out of all knowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.624.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.625.4", "colnum": "625", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I should not like to prejudge Mr. Speaker's discretion in regard to what subjects come up for discussion on Friday, 21st December, but if it were possible for time to be given for a discussion on Hungary on that occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.625.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "We recently had a debate on the Adjournment upon this crucial and heart-rending subject. I do not misunderstand in any way the interest and deep feeling of the House in this matter. I thought that it would be best to arrange it in the way that I have suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.626.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What should be done?", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "In making arrangements for a debate, will he bear in mind the desirability of a full discussion by the whole House? I think that to give half a day to this subject would be unworthy of the situation. This House should do something to end the bloodshed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.629.4", "colnum": "629", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I have already considered the Hungarian question and there has been a proposal that it might be considered, subject to Mr. Speaker's discretion, on Friday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.629.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.631.2", "colnum": "631", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.636.3", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INCREASE OF DUTIES.)", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Derek Walker-Smith)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Derek Walker-Smith)", "preceding_text": "should be given to that intention and in this we have been very glad to meet the wishes of hon. Members. On the generality of the Measure, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor said, on Second Reading on Monday, that he did not expect this proposal to be popular. Nevertheless, he claimed—I think with justice—that the majority of people understand the reasons behind the proposal and think them sound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.636.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.659.3", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Clause 1.—(INCREASE OF DUTIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chetwynd", "preceding_text": "ring public that by the summer of next year. when most people are thinking in terms of taking their families on holiday, the rationing will be off? I listened with dismay to the Economic Secretary's argument when he delivered his very brief speech about the effect of this increased tax on the cost of living. He seems to think that all that it will mean will be a pimple on the Chancellor's plateau.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.659.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.699.2", "colnum": "699", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "records. He said that … while the Bill means the end of local authority building in urban areas, its effects in the rural areas will be catastrophic.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT. 17th November, 1955; Vol. 546, c. 824.] The hon. and learned Member for Kettering (Mr. Mitchison) said: The Bill is the first step towards killing council housing.\"—[OFFICIAI REPORT, 21st November, 1955; Vol. 546, c. 1164.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.701.3", "colnum": "701", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There you are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "igures which I have quoted show conclusively that the changes made in the subsidy rates a year ago have certainly not had the catastrophic effect predicted by the hon. Member for Wellingborough. There has, of course—and here I come to the point raised a few moments ago—been a major switch in house building away from building for general needs and towards the provision of houses for slum clearance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.701.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "ticisms. Indeed, I made some myself. They were very strongly worded. They shocked the right hon. Gentleman who did not know what I was talking about. I hope that since then he has learned a little more. The right hon. Gentleman said: It has always been clear that it was the intention of Parliament that the subsidy\"— That is, the housing subsidy— should not go to persons for whom it was not needed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.716.3", "colnum": "716", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twice as many as on the hon. Member's side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "As hon. Members opposite have had a three-line Whip on this matter does not my hon. Friend think it surprising that there are so few of them present in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "count together with the subsidy payments to the best advantage. It does not lie in the mouths of hon. Gentlemen opposite to criticise either this part of our housing policy or any other part. The simple truth is that there are more houses being provided today for people to live in and more bases for the homes of British families being made available than ever the party opposite managed to provide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.733.5", "colnum": "733", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. A. Sparks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. A. Sparks", "preceding_text": "I do not know the source upon which the hon. Member for Walton (Mr. K. Thompson) bases the assumptions which he made in his speech, one of which was that more houses were being provided today than ever before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.733.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.734.0", "colnum": "734", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. K. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. K. Thompson", "preceding_text": "I apologise for interrupting the hon. Gentleman, and I delayed doing so until I saw the purpose of his argument. I said nothing about that at all. What I said was that under the Administration of this Government more houses have been built than were built under the Administration of the party opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.734.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.734.3", "colnum": "734", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ah.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I said \"about 300,000\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.734.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "s announced by my right hon. Friend as long ago as 27th October, 1955. His words were: we have come to the conclusion that the subsidy on future houses, built for general needs, should be abolished altogether. In order not to make the transition too abrupt, we propose, for a year or so, to pay a much reduced annual subsidy of £10 per house.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 27th October, 1955; Vol. 545. c. 378.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.745.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.746.5", "colnum": "746", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ntleman the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan), who said to the Labour Party Annual Conference in 1950: There is no justification for arguing that subsidies should be increased in respect of post-war housing rents. But there is a case, nobody has ever denied it, for adjusting the position to individual families and individual houses. One can go right through the housing policy of the party opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.746.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "VISITING FORCES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "n casting doubt upon that.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 14th April, 1954; Vol. 526, c. 1300.] The opinions of the legal gentlemen were the opinions of a very great United States constitutional lawyer and of United States senators, and showed that the thing could be done. We ask the Minister whether the thing has been done in the United States, and whether our troops have, when they are in the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "VISITING FORCES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "procal at all. We are told by a Government supporter that that is quite academic. Very hard words have been used from the Government benches recently on this alliance; a good deal too harsh for us. It is a great pity, because on an issue of this sort it is important for good feeling and the morale of the alliance that this should be reciprocal. The Government have done absolutely nothing about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "VISITING FORCES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "this means absolutely nothing to the Minister. The right hon. and learned Member asked what had happened since 1954 and I gave the answer that statutorily there had been no change at all. That is rather different from what the right hon. Gentleman has just said. The point about what would happen were British troops to land and remain in the United States as American troops are here has not arisen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-13", "file": "debates1956-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3b66304eb7eb16c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "VISITING FORCES ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "preceding_text": "g of it, and there is no kind of reciprocal action on the other side. The relationship between the United States and ourselves is such that if it was clearly and reasonably conveyed that this feeling existed on this side, action would at once be taken. I say that this is evidence of a failure in the channels of communication. What we ask is something essentially reasonable and formal in character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-13a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-14", "file": "debates1956-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "84369945ca784b20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-14a.812.3", "colnum": "812", "heading": "BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Or the Daily Herald ?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "s that the sort of newspaper which would accept our money is unlikely to have any credit with its readers.\" It is not just a question of having an opportunity to say things. It is a question of having an opportunity to say things in a voice which has credit with its readers. For instance, if one has any cause at heart, could one wish it better than that it should be attacked by the Daily Express ?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-14a.812.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-17", "file": "debates1956-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "47b135bda419ea13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-17a.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "I appreciate fully the considerations which the hon. Gentleman has adduced. This is a difficulty. None the less, we are in a state of emergency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-17a.925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-17", "file": "debates1956-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "47b135bda419ea13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-17a.926.5", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT (MILITARY OPERATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware how delighted we are to see him back among us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-17a.926.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-17", "file": "debates1956-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "47b135bda419ea13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-17a.937.0", "colnum": "937", "heading": "\"PRIVILEGE\"", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " view that the Privilege of this House is a very serious matter, not to be lightly invoked. For that reason I do not feel that every attack of this silly nature should be regarded by the House as a breach of Privilege. I have given my opinion on the matter but, as I have said, that does not finish it. If it be the general sense of the House that the matter should go to the Committee of Privileges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-17a.936.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-17", "file": "debates1956-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "47b135bda419ea13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-17a.980.0", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Lord Citrine himself defended this system of price fixing only a few months ago, in fact, at the time when the Bill dealing with monopolies was on the point of reaching the Statute Book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-17a.980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-17", "file": "debates1956-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "47b135bda419ea13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-17a.1017.2", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " the essential purposes for which those corporate bodies were formed, in this instance the generation and distribution of electricity. Let me give my final objection to this manufacturing Clause. What is the distinction between electrical plant and electrical fittings? The Clause says that the authority may manufacture plant but may not manufacture fittings. Is an electric motor plant or fittings?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-17a.1017.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-17", "file": "debates1956-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "47b135bda419ea13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-17a.1022.1", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "er cent. or more. The plain fact is that only 44·9 per cent. of the huge sum of public money invested in these power stations was actively employed last year, and the remainder of the capacity was dormant or idle. Herbert recognised this point at once. He used these words, which again I commend to my right hon. Friend; and again I was grieved that he did not embody them in his speech today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-17a.1022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-17", "file": "debates1956-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "47b135bda419ea13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-17a.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He will have a rough time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "r heaters and one or two other things which improved the load factor, but when it becomes so distant from the original electrical appliances as is evidenced by such items as television sets, one wonders where the area board's commercial activities will end. I am prompted to inquire of the Minister, although he cannot reply today—I shall press him on the matter in Committee at the appropriate time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-17a.1023.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-17", "file": "debates1956-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "47b135bda419ea13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-17a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. David Renton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. David Renton)", "preceding_text": "ould be, I think, impossible in the time for me to reply to them all, but I should just mention one, and that is the matter of salaries and to say that it is receiving the earnest consideration of my right hon. Friend and his colleagues. Many other points which have been raised were candidly Committee points, and we are looking forward to dealing with them at the right time and in the right place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-17a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-18", "file": "debates1956-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d21f79753a11d7c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-18a.1080.7", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We know that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I am bound to say that I had to make some inquiries, but I understand that \"sandwich courses\" is the term for courses which industrial firms and other employers, including Government Departments, allow their newly-joined apprentices to take with the object of getting better technological qualifications.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-18a.1080.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-18", "file": "debates1956-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d21f79753a11d7c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-18a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I have given you notice, Mr. Speaker, of a matter I wish to raise now. I complain of a cartoon which appears in today's Evening News.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-18a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-18", "file": "debates1956-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d21f79753a11d7c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-18a.1187.1", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GHANA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is too silly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ter's speech was as pleasant as his manner we should not be intervening now. We want to delete Subsection (4), which prohibits the Colonial Development Corporation from operating in Ghana. The effect of the Minister's speech is that the C.D.C. cannot do that, and if the Government stand by that, there is nothing to take the place of the C.D.C. In other words, the Government wash their hands of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-18a.1187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-18", "file": "debates1956-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d21f79753a11d7c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-18a.1201.2", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GHANA INDEPENDENCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "Singapore and I was not privileged to hear the discussion on Second Reading; but, having been in contact with some of the Ministers of the present Gold Coast Government and knowing a little about that country, I find this to be a disturbing debate to listen to. It seems to me that hon. Members opposite are implying that the Gold Coast is not really ready to take its place as an independent nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-18a.1201.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-19", "file": "debates1956-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "51acda886733e8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1243.2", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which one?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Maitland", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for the assurance that there has been no change in our policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-19", "file": "debates1956-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "51acda886733e8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that had this country and France not taken immediate notice of the United Nations the Canal might not be blocked now? Is it not obvious that the United Nations is as powerless to insist on the clearance of the Canal as it is powerless to insist on the removal of Russian troops from Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-19", "file": "debates1956-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "51acda886733e8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "One of the best ways to try to get a settlement in the Middle East is to preserve peace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-19", "file": "debates1956-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "51acda886733e8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1271.0", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "CYPRUS (LORD RADCLIFFE'S PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "in relation to those recommendations? Is there not a danger that that addendum will once more poison the atmosphere and prevent a settlement in the island? Is there not a danger that in winning the acquiescence of the Turks the right hon. Gentleman will once more lose the support of the Greeks and we shall once again be where we were? Would it not have been far better to have left it where it was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-19", "file": "debates1956-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "51acda886733e8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1305.1", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": " the public should know. Contracts can be given to any of these hon. Gentlemen so long as it is known. Then the public can choose. What I object to is the giving to hon. Members of this House of recorderships which enable them to deprive other citizens of their liberty, when hon. Members know in their heart of hearts that the persons who have been given these jobs are quite unfitted for the posts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-19", "file": "debates1956-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "51acda886733e8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1332.4", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "HUNGARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ope. I can sum it up in a phrase. Only the Red Army, it is clear, now maintains the Communist régimes in Central and Eastern Europe. That is a new situation. and it seems to me that in the light of that situation we really ought not to be, say, legalistic—I hope that the Foreign Secretary does not mind that word—thinking in terms that we ought not to do something outside the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1332.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-19", "file": "debates1956-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "51acda886733e8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1332.4", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "HUNGARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": ", say, legalistic—I hope that the Foreign Secretary does not mind that word—thinking in terms that we ought not to do something outside the United Nations. [ Laughter. ] I hope that hon. Members will listen first to what I am suggesting. The Foreign Secretary was inclined to say, \"Well, so long as the United Nations was there, no other initiative of any kind was possible.\" We have never said that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1332.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-19", "file": "debates1956-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "51acda886733e8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "HUNGARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There might be on us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it necessarily follows that if economic sanctions, complete or partial, were employed against the Soviet Union, or if the diplomatic representatives of perhaps 60 nations were withdrawn from Russia, there would be any hardship on Hungary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1341.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-19", "file": "debates1956-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "51acda886733e8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1399.0", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "HUNGARY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "On a point of order. Is it in order, Mr. Speaker, for the right hon. Gentleman to conduct a debate on the Middle East?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "y, the House will be in Recess when the next part of the serial story comes out. It may be that by the time we resume after the Recess we shall have the story almost complete. We shall not have it from the Prime Minister. He probably will not be here then, but we shall probably have before the end of it the full story about collusion. But now we know, and I hope that hon. Members opposite realise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-19", "file": "debates1956-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "51acda886733e8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1400.0", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "HUNGARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " following days, by 29th October, there were no fewer than tour Soviet divisions in Hungary in addition to the two which we originally estimated.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 6th December, 1956; Vol. 561, c. 1575.] So the charge is reversed. It is not now that Russia went into Hungary because we went into Egypt, but, rather, that we went into Egypt because we knew that the Russians were going into Hungary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-19", "file": "debates1956-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "51acda886733e8fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1402.1", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "HUNGARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Hungary?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " Russians because of their behaviour in Hungary, and the case I am making is that the full force of that public opinion has been muted, if not mutilated, by the fact that we are not able to speak in the same tones as other nations are able to employ. We have had it from the Lord Privy Seal himself that, with the knowledge that the Russians were going to do this, we took the action we did in Egypt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-19a.1402.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1439.4", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Queen's English.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "Is \"co-optee\" King's English?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1439.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1457.0", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ISRAEL AND EGYPT (ANGLO-FRENCH ULTIMATUM)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Minister of Defence?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "on. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary emphatically denied that charge on 31st October. Since then, it seems that the charge has been altered and Her Majesty's Government have been asked to prove that they had no foreknowledge of the Israeli attack. The extent of our knowledge has repeatedly been stated to the House and was explained fully by my right hon. and learned Friend on 5th December.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1458.1", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ISRAEL AND EGYPT (ANGLO-FRENCH ULTIMATUM)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman. The position is exactly as I have stated it to the House now. It is perfectly true that there were a number of discussions on every kind of hypothetical event in the Middle East—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1458.3", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ISRAEL AND EGYPT (ANGLO-FRENCH ULTIMATUM)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Jordan?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " other countries say in other Houses. I must have an opportunity to examine the words used by other Foreign Ministers. I know myself what the position of our own Government was quite clearly. That is that the decisions were taken on the date I gave, and that, though we did discuss every other hypothesis—and far more than any other, I tell the House, the hypothesis of an Israeli attack upon Jordan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1458.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1459.0", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ISRAEL AND EGYPT (ANGLO-FRENCH ULTIMATUM)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Studholme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Studholme", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend not think it deplorable, to put it mildly, that the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition and his hon. and right hon. Friends should be so anxious to discredit our country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1459.3", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ISRAEL AND EGYPT (ANGLO-FRENCH ULTIMATUM)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Florence Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Florence Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the Opposition, in trying td bring discredit on the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1459.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1460.0", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ISRAEL AND EGYPT (ANGLO-FRENCH ULTIMATUM)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Egypt?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have made a very full statement. I would add only this, that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1460.0", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ISRAEL AND EGYPT (ANGLO-FRENCH ULTIMATUM)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Tripartite Declaration.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "med of it—every conceivable hypothesis which might arise in a very dangerous Middle-Eastern situation. Of course we did, and I do not think that any Government would have done otherwise. As regards the position about Egypt, I have discussed this before. The hon. Member is perfectly correct. The position about Egypt was not the same as with Jordan, first because we did not have a treaty with Egypt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1460.5", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ISRAEL AND EGYPT (ANGLO-FRENCH ULTIMATUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has done so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has indicated, very properly, that he is prepared, and is anxious, to give every possible explanation of this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1460.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1464.1", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "PORT SAID (CASUALTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Why did not the Paymaster-General tell the House on 5th December that he was doubtful about the figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1466.0", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "PORT SAID (CASUALTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "I have not been hedging on this. The story of this estimate is perfectly clear. I have said that the Commander-in-Chief gave me an estimate. Hon. Gentlemen opposite started quoting astronomical figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1467.3", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "PORT SAID (CASUALTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister of Defence recall informing the House on 5th December that, to quote his own words, he had true knowledge\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 5th December, 1956; Vol. 561, c. 1244.] on 26th October of Israeli intentions to attack Egypt?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1467.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1467.3", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "PORT SAID (CASUALTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister of Defence recall informing the House on 5th December that, to quote his own words, he had true knowledge\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 5th December, 1956; Vol. 561, c. 1244.] on 26th October of Israeli intentions to attack Egypt? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Can he tell the House whether, on receiving this true knowledge of Israeli intentions to attack Egypt, he asked the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1467.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1468.3", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "PORT SAID (CASUALTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "hey not go a step further and either appoint a Select Committee, as in the case of the Jameson Raid, or a Royal Commission to inquire into the origin of this business? It would clear the name of the Prime Minister, assuming that was possible, and would also establish beyond any doubt the inception and origin and the conduct of this operation, and we should know, as far as that is humanly possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1468.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1468.6", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "PORT SAID (CASUALTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman and his right hon. Friends have become converted to the principle of independent inquiries will they not go a step further and appoint a Select Committee or a Royal Commission to inquire into the origin and the conduct of this operation, so that we shall establish beyond any shadow of a doubt what the casualties are, whether the Prime Minister has been telling the truth or not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1468.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1469.3", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "PORT SAID (CASUALTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I heard the hon. Member for Dudley say that he thought an inquiry would establish whether the Prime Minister was telling the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1469.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1469.6", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "PORT SAID (CASUALTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "We have had that. Will somebody say whether there is to be a Select Committee or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1469.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1474.0", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE (INTERIM STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister give us some information about the effect on the rate poundage? May I say, with great respect, that we are getting tired of what seem to us to be attempts to mislead the House? This will increase the rates of the domestic ratepayer by well over one-third.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1484.4", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "If I may interrupt, I must make a personal explanation in order not to be discourteous to the right hon. Gentleman or the House. I have to preside over the Committee of Privileges at 5 o'clock, and I shall, therefore, be obliged to leave the Chamber. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is returning to the Chamber. I would also say that we have had no notice of this subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1484.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1485.1", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More than that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "This is a very simple Motion—simply that at the rising tomorrow we adjourn to 22nd January. The right hon. Member is entitled to say that he is against it but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1486.0", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the hon. Member trying to hush up?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Surely the Question before the House is not directly related to this subject. The Question before the House is the date of our reassembly and the period of our Adjournment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1489.1", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Surely my right hon. Friend is perfectly in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1490.2", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "With respect, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, that is not what I have done at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1490.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1491.1", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "ourse, we deplore it\"— And here is the point— but I do not think that it can carry with it this corollary, that we must in all circumstances secure agreement from our American ally before we can act ourselves in what we know to be our own vital interests.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 31st October, 1956; Vol. 558, c. 1453.] I am bound to say to the House that the list of the charges has changed in character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1491.1", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There never was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "he House that the list of the charges has changed in character. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I want the House to note that. I want to try to tick off those charges which are not, shall I say, now made. Some may say that they were never made. They have not been made by the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition, but at any rate they were made by others. There is no charge of incitement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1491.1", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "h are not, shall I say, now made. Some may say that they were never made. They have not been made by the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition, but at any rate they were made by others. There is no charge of incitement—[HON. MEMBERS: \"There never was.\"] That is very interesting. I am merely readjusting the list. Nor is there a charge of any prior agreement with Israel or foreknowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1491.1", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "have some form of discussion with each other. The right hon. Gentleman made a previous reference to Jordan and wrote that off quite quickly. I think he will understand, and I think I am entitled to say to the House, that although it is quite easy to write that one off quickly now, that was, in fact, by far and away the greatest anxiety we had at that period—by far and away—because it seemed to us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1491.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1493.0", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is all in order now.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way. I am trying not to trespass upon the time of the House. I think that I am entitled to put this view. Looking at the matter from a military point of view, it seemed possible, to put it no higher—I would put it higher than that, and say probable—that, feeling the noose tightening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1493.2", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We all agree about that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "called upon to put the Royal Air Force into operation, because it was thought that Israeli aeroplanes were in action. If they had been, it would have been a very grave matter indeed. If we had put the Royal Air Force into action against Israel's air force it would have been a matter of the utmost gravity. I do not know what it would have led to. We should have been involved in the actual fighting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1496.3", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "preceding_text": "operation started and how it was conducted. I think hon. Members opposite will agree with me in saying that when we move from how it began to how it was carried out this House has the right to answers to many questions. It was not the fault of the unfortunate Navy, Army and Air Force that they were given such ludicrous political directives which caused the operation to fail, and fail ignominously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1499.1", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "asonable—what would, in fact, be infamous—would be for a British Government which had given those guarantees to say that they sent our troops in there to divide the combatants and that they went in there to put out the forest fire. Did these guarantees when they were given make the Israelis feel that it was safe to attack? I do not know. All I know is that these things are being said by M. Pineau—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1499.1", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I object to is the thought of our Government going in and saying, \"We are stopping a war\" after encouraging a war by giving Israel assurances. If that were true, it would make our Government—I am sorry to say this Mr. Deputy-Speaker—guilty of lying, guilty of giving one reason for going to war when actually the real motive was another. I would love to have all this disproved by the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1500.1", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite can laugh as much as they like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1500.5", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "I wish to draw attention to another phrase reported in the Press as having been used by M. Pineau. I think it is a point of view which is very widely held in this country. If it does not satisfy the Opposition it certainly seems to satisfy many of the electorate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1500.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1501.1", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It proves that there was not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "t what time the armoured fighting vehicles were put on board and the right hon. Gentleman told me that it was at 1 p.m. the same day. If the ultimatum was not presented before 4 o'clock and the 6th Royal Tank Regiment and the 3rd Commando Brigade left the same night, the hon. Gentleman is asking for collusion, because he is wanting them to start before the Government had presented their ultimatum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1501.1", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": " their ultimatum. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It proves that there was not.\"] If the hon. Member does not see that armoured fighting vehicles and commandos were put on board ship before the ultimatum had expired, I am sorry for him. The hon. Member does not see that the 6th Royal Tank Regiment and the 3rd Commando Brigade could not have arrived before they did even though they heard the pistol at the start.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1508.1", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Perhaps I have been in error here. I understand that the Prime Minister did make a statement on the Question, \"That this House, at its rising Tomorrow, do adjourn until Tuesday, 22nd January.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1510.2", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "preceding_text": "at I have been here since the beginning of business today? I have risen repeatedly for the purpose of asking a question, and putting to the Prime Minister something that has not been put to him before in any of the debates on the Suez position. Can you tell me how it is possible for a woman Member who is interested in this matter—and I happen to be the only woman Member in the House at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1510.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1510.2", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"My right hon. Friend is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "preceding_text": "ting to the Prime Minister something that has not been put to him before in any of the debates on the Suez position. Can you tell me how it is possible for a woman Member who is interested in this matter—and I happen to be the only woman Member in the House at the moment—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The hon. Member for Tynemouth (Dame Irene Ward) is not properly in the Chamber. She has only just come in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1510.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1511.3", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I do wish to resume my speech, Mr. Speaker, but I do not wish to be too long about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1513.5", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then the hon. Gentleman should stay here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Consul in Port Said, Mr. Anthony Quomo. He gave the number of killed as certainly not less than 1,000, but it is probably nearer 2,000. He also told me that there are in the Nile Delta a minimum of 60,000 homeless who are now being cared for by the Egyptian Government, and that about 4,000 housing units were destroyed. I am not prepared to go away for the Christmas holidays, or any other holidays—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1513.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1514.5", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "to their inception and origin. I am now arguing for something in addition. I am asking the Government to face the consequences of what they have done. The oil of the Middle East is essential to the economic well-being of this country. It can be got only on the basis of good will. I am asking the Minister, as the first act of retribution for what he has done, to admit that he has been wrong and to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1514.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1515.1", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "preceding_text": "s of Israel in this matter, jumping the gun as regards the action which Israel had taken and landing us into this situation because the Government desired to take the Suez Canal under their control on account of the action which had been taken by Colonel Nasser? Will the right hon. Gentleman answer the question whether that actually is the position or whether that information is completely untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1515.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1516.6", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I beg the hon. Member's pardon. That representation was quite apart from the risk of a general war which could have resulted from any such attack. On 29th October, our Minister in Tel Aviv saw the Israeli Minister for Foreign Affairs and she assured him that no further hostile move was intended against Jordan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1516.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1517.1", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1518.1", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "mething else. There was—we knew it perfectly well—a risk of it, and in the event of the risk of it certain discussions and conversations took place, as, I think, was absolutely right, and as, I think, anybody would do. So far from this being an act of retribution, I would be compelled—and I think my colleagues would agree—if I had the same very disagreeable decisions to take again, to repeat them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1956-12-20", "file": "debates1956-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "12a0d92a24252503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1531.1", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "I have done a lot of crystal-gazing this afternoon, but I will not prophesy future birthrate trends in this country. However, the number of those of school-leaving age in 1962 will be 50 per cent. higher than it is today. Might I conclude—I shall take the good wishes and the many happy returns of the Opposition for granted—by saying that I have been Minister of Labour for one year today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1956-12-20a.1531.1"}