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Oral Answers to Questions — Formosa (British Policy) (20 December 1954)

Sir Walter Fletcher: Is my hon. Friend aware, first, that the remarks of my right hon. Friend the Minister of State, as reported, are clearly in line with, and go no further or less far than, all the statements made in regard to aggressors; and, second, that by a curious piece of double-talk of the Communist order he is accused by the Chinese Government of not caring what happened to our lads in Korea, when that...

South-East Asia (8 November 1954)

Sir Walter Fletcher: The speech of the right hon. Member for Grimsby (Mr. Younger), following that of my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary, has clarified certain points in the situation but has confused it in other ways. We are so accustomed to the clarity with which my right hon. Friend exposes what occurs at various meetings that we always take it for granted that we shall have available this admirable...

South-East Asia (8 November 1954)

Sir Walter Fletcher: Where did the right hon. Gentleman get the basis for his statement? By some very curious gift which he seems to possess he was able to assess an increase in commercial probity in the 95 per cent. of China which he did not visit.

South-East Asia (8 November 1954)

Sir Walter Fletcher: I have travelled through many provinces of China, and I will come to the question of Shanghai in a minute. I should like to say this. The recognition of China, of which I was one of the few on this side to approve, we always said did not mean approval. The right hon. Gentleman has certainly given the impression in China, if one reads the vernacular Press and reports in the U.S.A., that...

South-East Asia (8 November 1954)

Sir Walter Fletcher: I am going a bit further than that, because I condemn the right hon. Gentleman for the line he took. One useful lesson which he appears to have missed is that there is in China a magnificent and well-developed system for the removal, not always painlessly, of political rivals, and that he might have taken advantage of but certainly did not.

South-East Asia (8 November 1954)

Sir Walter Fletcher: I have not grossly misrepresented the right hon. Gentleman. The impression he has left, and if he reads the American Press—[Interruption] —the American Press has its impressions and is entitled to them—and if he reads a good deal of the Press in China and here, he will see that the impression he undoubtedly gave was that he had, without having the opportunity of getting...

South-East Asia (8 November 1954)

Sir Walter Fletcher: "For nothing," the hon. Member says. I am glad that he has intervened.

South-East Asia (8 November 1954)

Sir Walter Fletcher: A very little quid for a very large quo.

South-East Asia (8 November 1954)

Sir Walter Fletcher: It is fully justified by the impression that the right hon. Gentleman has conveyed and the facts as they stand. The right hon. Gentleman knows, and we all know, what is the real trouble. The middle-of-the-road leader of the left-wing party is always in very grave danger in having to give hostages to fortune, to the left wing of his party. He is in a dangerous position, and the amount that...

South-East Asia (8 November 1954)

Sir Walter Fletcher: That is not what was reported.

South-East Asia (8 November 1954)

Sir Walter Fletcher: Certainly that is a step in the right direction. We now know, which is vitally important, that Formosa will in the end abide by what the people of Formosa want. But it is equally important that that should be true in Indo-China, in Siam and in Burma. I wish to pay a tribute to the right hon. Gentleman on Burma, because it was his Government that initiated the policy—I was one of those...

Orders of the Day — NATIONAL GALLERY AND TATE GALLERY BILL [Lords] (29 October 1954)

Sir Walter Fletcher: For safety's sake, I ought to declare a personal interest as a practising artist, though I do not assess either my expectation of life or the value of my pictures as such that they are likely to be hung in any of the national collections. However, it is safer to make the declaration. I have listened to most, though not all, of the debate, and I think that one conclusion must be arrived at....

British Airliner, Hainan (Shooting Down) (26 July 1954)

Sir Walter Fletcher: May I ask my right hon. Friend two questions arising from his statement? First, is this not an instance pointing to the fact that the control of the Central People's Government of China, in Peking, in the outlying areas, particularly in South and South-West China and the area near Hainan, is very slight indeed, and that they really do not possess sufficient control to ensure their wishes...

East-West Trade (Strategic Controls Agreement) (26 July 1954)

Sir Walter Fletcher: My right hon. Friend gave the figure of the reduction in the number of items as about one-third. May I ask whether that would represent roughly about a one-third reduction in value?

Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs (14 July 1954)

Sir Walter Fletcher: Would the right hon. Gentleman give his assessment of the active part that China has played in prolonging and increasing the war in Indo-China'? Until we get his assessment of that, we cannot really understand what he is talking about.

Foreign Affairs (Korea and Indo-China) (23 June 1954)

Sir Walter Fletcher: The Repulse" was not sunk anywhere near the base but was right away up to the north. Let us have some accuracy.

Foreign Affairs (Korea and Indo-China) (23 June 1954)

Sir Walter Fletcher: We have listened to a really Shakespearean speech from a really Shakespearean character. It is refreshing indeed to think that one can arrive at the age of the hon. Member for the Liverpool, Scotland division (Mr. Logan) and have the mentality of somebody so much more youthful and to have managed to maintain one's respect for the standards by which he has clearly lived all his life. But it...

Orders of the Day — Budget Proposals (8 April 1954)

Sir Walter Fletcher: Is not one of the great difficulties, which, I hope, the Treasury will deal with, that when they go to the Export Credits Guarantee Department they have to do a block insurance for a whole series of transactions, and not only the one in which they are interested at the time? If this could be made more flexible, it would certainly assist great institutions.

Orders of the Day — Budget Proposals (8 April 1954)

Sir Walter Fletcher: Sir W. Fletcher rose—

Orders of the Day — Budget Proposals (8 April 1954)

Sir Walter Fletcher: And were overruled.