Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Navy. – in the House of Commons at on 15 July 1925.
Mr William Bridgeman
, Oswestry
The hon. Member is trying very hard to put a false construction upon this. The Government are only doing what previous Governments have done, which is to enable them, where there is danger to life or danger of the supply of the necessaries of life being cut off, to do what they can to assist the general public.