Lord Colum Crichton-Stuart: 33. asked the Minister of Pensions whether he has been able to come to any decision on the claim made by Mr. and Mrs. Woods, of 46, Gilbert Street, Runcorn?
Lord Colum Crichton-Stuart: I am a constituent of the right hon. Member for, St. Marylebone (Sir Rennell Rodd), and I was profoundly disappointed to hear his expression of views with regard to the position of the peasantry in Egypt, but I shall have an opportunity on another occasion perhaps of discussing the matter with him. My justification for speaking is somewhat like his. I was a resident in Egypt for some three...
Lord Colum Crichton-Stuart: I have spoken from an unselfish point of view, but if I may add one selfish word, I would remind the House that by the maintenance of the irrigation system and by the destruction of the cotton pests, we have been able to increase enormously the supplies of cotton which come to us from Egypt, and which are essential to the life of the people of Lancashire. At the beginning of the century,...
Lord Colum Crichton-Stuart: I accept some of the statements of fact which have been made by the hon. Member who spoke last, but I must judge them from a different point of view. Hp has taken pride in the part taken by him in bringing pressure to bear on the Government to induce them to associate themselves exclusively with Germany and with the German point of view at Geneva. On the contrary, I must beg to differ from...
Lord Colum Crichton-Stuart: 5. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of the doubt which has arisen whether under the terms of the Paris Convention regarding Tangier there is any authority to increase by way of allowances or otherwise salaries specified in the Convention, steps will be taken to clear up this point?
Lord Colum Crichton-Stuart: I beg to give notice that, on this day fort night, I shall call attention to the necessity for confidence between those engaged in industry, and move a Resolution.
Lord Colum Crichton-Stuart: 42. asked the Minister of Agriculture if he can make a statement concerning the cause of the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease near Northwich?
Lord Colum Crichton-Stuart: 50. asked the Prime Minister whether His Majesty's Government will, in view of the great number of His Majesty's Mahommedan subjects, offer to the Caliph Abdul Mejid a residence and refuge within the borders of the Empire?
Lord Colum Crichton-Stuart: As representing Cheshire, one of the counties which has suffered more than any other under the present outbreak, I agree with hon. Members who have congratulated the officials on the work they have done. They have strained every nerve to do the best they could to remedy the evil. But I do want to mention to ho Minister one criticism which I hear often in Cheshire. I hear it from experienced...
Lord Colum Crichton-Stuart: I am rising to address the House for the first time and I therefore crave that indulgence which I have often known given to other young Members. In my official life I have spent a good deal of my time in correspondence with the hon. Member who has just spoken, and I was always then, as I am now, deeply impressed with his sincerity, but I put forward the view that he does not correctly express...
Lord Colum Crichton-Stuart: 79. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, having regard to the fact that a large proportion of the ex-service smallholders established on the land since the War are admittedly in acute financial distress, he will, in the interest of ex-service men themselves, discontinue for a time, if he has not already done so, the process of creating new agricultural holdings, and in the meantime take...