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Oral Answers to Questions — Public Health: Armed Forces Call-Up (Age Limit) (12 April 1945)

Commander Sir Archibald Southby: Since my right hon. Friend is not proposing to call up any more men in this particular category, will he take steps to effect the release of the older men, and substitute for them the younger men?

Clause 2. — (Procedure of Commission.) (11 April 1945)

Commander Sir Archibald Southby: I do not want to add very much to what my hon. Friend has said, because I think he has put the case exceedingly well. I cannot believe that the Government would desire to inflict hardship upon someone who was trying to come before the Commission and I hope, therefore, that the Chancellor will find it possible to accept this Amendment.

Bill Presented: Naval Personnel (Communications to Members of Parliament) (29 March 1945)

Commander Sir Archibald Southby: I apologise to the House, but circumstances made it impossible for me to be present at the beginning of this Debate. I have been one of those who in the past have asked questions on this subject and I understood that it had been accepted by all three Services that nothing could take away from any citizen, no matter where he is serving or how he is placed, his inalienable right to cornmunicate...

Bill Presented: Naval Personnel (Communications to Members of Parliament) (29 March 1945)

Commander Sir Archibald Southby: I meant his own Member of Parliament or alternatively whatever Member was accepting responsibility for that particular constituency.

Bill Presented: Naval Personnel (Communications to Members of Parliament) (29 March 1945)

Commander Sir Archibald Southby: It would be wrong for a man to write all round to a number of Members of Parliament. No one wants to defend that because it would be indefensible.

Bill Presented: Naval Personnel (Communications to Members of Parliament) (29 March 1945)

Commander Sir Archibald Southby: It would be better for the three Service Departments if they made it quite,clear to a man that he has the right to write to his Member of Parliament while stressing as strongly as possible that adequate Service channels exist, and that every man in the Service should go through those proper Service channels. At the same time it is the duty of the Member of Parliament also to advise his...

Bill Presented: Naval Personnel (Communications to Members of Parliament) (29 March 1945)

Commander Sir Archibald Southby: From what my hon. Friend said just now, it seems that he gathered that there was a desire that the Admiralty should inform the man that he had a right to appeal to his own Member of Parliament. My contention is that that right exists, and cannot be taken away. What hon. Members wanted to press was that the Admiralty should take steps to remove any doubt, which might have arisen in a man's...

Oral Answers to Questions — Canadian Service Men (Affiliation Orders) (27 March 1945)

Commander Sir Archibald Southby: asked the Under-Secretary of State for Dominions Affairs whether his attention has been called to cases where members of the Canadian Forces serving in this country, being the fathers of babies born to British girls to whom they were not married, have refused to accept airy liability in respect of the child; and whether, in view of the hardship and injustice thereby entailed, he will approach...

Oral Answers to Questions — Canadian Service Men (Affiliation Orders) (27 March 1945)

Commander Sir Archibald Southby: Does not the Minister appreciate the complete impossibility of any English girl taKin# proceedings in a court in Canada? Will he not make representations to the Canadian Government that this is a liability which they should properly accept on behalf of their men fighting overseas?

Oral Answers to Questions — Cartels and Monopolies (27 March 1945)

Commander Sir Archibald Southby: Is my right hon. Friend aware that there is in the public mind, not without reason, a fear that the cartel system would form, in peace, a system of economic and financial dictatorship, just as evil as the political dictatorship aimed at by Hitler and the Axis?

Housing (23 March 1945)

Commander Sir Archibald Southby: There was a time when the fear of unemployment was the major fear in the minds of men and women in this country. I think it is true to say that to-day the fear of not having a house to live in takes precedence of any fear of unemployment. The test by which this or any other Government are going to be judged, after the war, in domestic affairs is that of whether they are able to solve this...

Oral Answers to Questions — Greece: San Francisco Conference (14 March 1945)

Commander Sir Archibald Southby: Is it not a fact that these two States have been recognised as sovereign and independent by all the great Powers? They are now at war with our enemies, and is there any reason, in justice or in equity, why they should not be invited to the San Francisco Conference?

Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Supply: Plastic Polythene Process (14 March 1945)

Commander Sir Archibald Southby: In view of the great importance of this Question, will my hon. Friend take steps to find out whether Duponts did or did not disclose to I. G. Farben in Germany the details of this process? Will he take steps to find out?

Oral Answers to Questions — Coal Industry: War Medals and Decorations (13 March 1945)

Commander Sir Archibald Southby: Does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that many months have now gone by since we were promised a reply on this matter, and that it is one which gives rise to considerable feeling in all the Forces, in view of the anomalies which the present system is bound to cause?

Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: House of Commons Stationery (13 March 1945)

Commander Sir Archibald Southby: In view of the enormous amount of correspondence with which hon. Members now have to deal, and the resulting increase in office work, would my right hon. Friend consult with Stationery Office to see whether Members could not be allowed to purchase office equipment in addition to stationery in order to help them in the work they now have to do?

Orders of the Day — Family Allowances Bill (8 March 1945)

Commander Sir Archibald Southby: As I understand it, the extra shilling to which the hon. Gentleman refers is in respect of the increased cost of living. He originally asked for 8s. in his Report. Is it not a fact that the Government have given the equivalent of 8s. in cash and in kind?

Orders of the Day — Family Allowances Bill (8 March 1945)

Commander Sir Archibald Southby: Is that what happens in the Labour Party? They are on velvet.

Orders of the Day — Family Allowances Bill (8 March 1945)

Commander Sir Archibald Southby: The hon. Lady will have Ernest after her if she is not careful.

Orders of the Day — Family Allowances Bill (8 March 1945)

Commander Sir Archibald Southby: I am one of those who are old-fashioned enough to believe that it is the duty of an individual to discharge his own responsibilities, and that he should only be relieved of them by the State when he is not in a position to discharge them for himself; and, further, that it is the primary duty of Parliament to see that the individual has a reasonable opportunity of obtaining sufficient...

Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Navy: Coastguard Service (7 March 1945)

Commander Sir Archibald Southby: asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether it is the intention of his Depart- ment to retain the administration of the coastguard service after the war.