Results 1-20 of 374 for speaker:Mr Henry Harris

Orders of the Day — Festival of Britain (Supplementary Provisions) Bill (29 November 1949)

Mr Henry Harris: I should like to carry the questions put by the hon. Member for Tonbridge (Mr. G. Williams) a little further. On Second Reading I was very much impressed about the character of the recreations in Battersea Park. We were a good deal reassured by the Lord President of the Council and we were told by the noble Lady the Member for Anglesey (Lady Megan Lloyd George), who, I believe, is a member of...

Orders of the Day — Festival of Britain (Supplementary Provisions) Bill (29 November 1949)

Mr Henry Harris: I should not like the right hon. Gentleman to think that I am in any way opposed to the ordinary appurtenances of an English fair. One of the most hair-raising experiences of my life—and I use the adjective advisedly—was when with my daughter I was in the front row of a vehicle making the most appalling assents and descents on a switchback at the White City. I suggest that that...

Orders of the Day — Festival of Britain (Supplementary Provisions) Bill (29 November 1949)

Mr Henry Harris: I agree with the noble Lord the Member for Horsham (Earl Winterton). I can imagine that the explanation is that it would be unreasonable to apply to temporary buildings in Battersea Park the restrictions that apply to permanent buildings generally. If that is so, could the Minister say whether the temporary buildings in Battersea Park will be freed from restrictions which fall on the...

Orders of the Day — Festival of Britain (Supplementary Provisions) Bill (29 November 1949)

Mr Henry Harris: Having regard to the interest declared by my hon. and learned Friend the junior Member for the Combined English Universities (Mr. H. Strauss) in traffic on the Thames, having regard to the recognised and greater interest of my hon. Friend the junior Burgess for Oxford University (Sir A. Herbert), and having regard to the fact that this House will have few opportunities for showing favours to...

Orders of the Day — Festival of Britain (Supplementary Provisions) Bill (29 November 1949)

Mr Henry Harris: We have references to further landing stages and to landing stages authorised by paragraph so-and-so. Why should, it not be "the company authorised by"—and then the particular reference in the Bill? Why "any company?" Why not the company authorised by the Act?

Orders of the Day — Festival of Britain (Supplementary Provisions) Bill (29 November 1949)

Mr Henry Harris: Does not that explanation make it still more incomprehensible that it should still be called "any company"? The Minister says the board has actually been appointed. It is certainly not "any company"; it is the authorised company. Could not the Minister assure us that he will adopt words of that kind at a later stage?

Orders of the Day — Festival of Britain (Supplementary Provisions) Bill (23 November 1949)

Mr Henry Harris: It will be readily understood that I rise in a very chastened spirit this afternoon. I still bear indelibly printed on my personality the marks of the rebuke administered to me by the Lord President the other day, when I ventured to ask him who was really in favour of this Exhibition. He then implied, quite rightly as I recognise, from his totalitarian point of view, that to hold any opinions...

Orders of the Day — Festival of Britain (Supplementary Provisions) Bill (23 November 1949)

Mr Henry Harris: I am extremely gratified to know that, as my mind had been gravely disturbed. Let us return to the subject of Batter-sea Park, in regard to which atheism and agnosticism are having rather a hard struggle in my mind. I am impressed by the argument put forward particularly by the noble Lady the Member for Anglesey (Lady Megan Lloyd George) in regard to Battersea Park. Like many other...

Orders of the Day — Festival of Britain (Supplementary Provisions) Bill (23 November 1949)

Mr Henry Harris: Would the right hon. Gentleman arrange, whenever that takes place, that I shall still be the junior Burgess for Cambridge University?

Orders of the Day — Overseas Food Corporation (Groundnut Scheme) (21 November 1949)

Mr Henry Harris: There has been this afternoon a considerable tendency, to which the hon. Member for Rutherglen (Mr. McAllister) has contributed not a little, to turn this great national enterprise into a party political issue. It has been suggested from the benches above me that the Minister of Food was trying to treat the work of the Overseas Food Corporation as an asset—an electoral asset—for...

Orders of the Day — MARRIED WOMEN (RESTRAINT UPON ANTICIPATION) BILL [Lords] (7 November 1949)

Mr Henry Harris: I suppose it is inevitable that a Debate in this House on this subject should resolve itself into what the late Marquis Curzon of Kedleston would have called a legal "Beano." That eminent man had only seen the abbreviation for "beanfeast" in print and applied his own characteristic pronunciation to it. I desire to intervene in this Debate, not because I am a lawyer, but precisely because I am...

Orders of the Day — MARRIED WOMEN (RESTRAINT UPON ANTICIPATION) BILL [Lords] (7 November 1949)

Mr Henry Harris: I am not for a moment impugning the Attorney-General's motive, but was merely deprecating the effect which it might have on public opinion for anything to be said in this House in disparagement of the "old gentlemen sitting in the Strand." It will have been gathered from what I have said, that I am not wholeheartedly in favour of this Bill. I regret that it has been introduced, and since it...

Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs (21 July 1949)

Mr Henry Harris: There is a misunderstanding as to whether the elections are on 14th August, as I thought myself, or on 3rd September, as the right hon. Gentleman has stated. It makes a great deal of difference.

Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs (21 July 1949)

Mr Henry Harris: I hope that the hon. Member for East Coventry (Mr. Crossman) and the hon. and gallant Member for Carshalton (Brigadier Head) will forgive me if I do not pick up the threads of their very interesting discussion. I desire to occupy only a very few minutes and to confine myself to two subjects—unconditional surrender and dismantling. The subject of unconditional surrender may be said to...

Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs (21 July 1949)

Mr Henry Harris: I am prepared to take up that point. Let me first begin with the Armistice. When von Erzberger and his colleagues came to the railway carriage in the Compiegne clearing Erzberger began to argue. Foch stopped him at once, saying "Down in that corner is where you put your name" and down in that corner the Germans did put their names. That, it may be said, is only the Armistice. What about the...

Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs (21 July 1949)

Mr Henry Harris: I go a long way with the hon. Gentleman. He is quite right. It is true that President Wilson's Fourteen Points were the basis of the Treaty. I do not think there is a tremendous difference between the victorious Powers saying, "These are our terms. Sign this or nothing," and unconditional surrender, but I concede to the hon. Member the validity of his argument.

Orders of the Day — Telephone Charges (23 May 1949)

Mr Henry Harris: With the sympathy which the hon. Member for Farnham (Mr. Nicholson) has offered to the Postmaster-General, I associate myself to the full; with the congratulations and the reasons for them I have no concern. There seemed to me to be two flaws in an otherwise excellent Budget. One was the penny off beer, which I do not think will result in the consumption of an extra half pint, at the...

Orders of the Day — Telephone Charges (23 May 1949)

Mr Henry Harris: In the case of the businessman this is part of his general expenses and he can pass the amount on, but the private subscriber cannot.

Orders of the Day — Telephone Charges (23 May 1949)

Mr Henry Harris: Does not the right hon. Gentleman realise when talking about reducing the pressure of demand that he is proved to be completely wrong, because it has not reduced the pressure?

Ireland Bill: Clause 1. — (Constitutional Provisions.) (16 May 1949)

Mr Henry Harris: I still find it difficult to follow the procedure by which a Bill begins with the normal formula "Be it enacted. …" and then proceeds, not to enact something, but to affirm. I ask the Attorney-General to consider whether that matter could not be satisfactorily regularised by making Clause 1 (1, a) read that: The part of Ireland heretofore known as Eire shall be deemed to have ceased, as...