Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 15 October 1941.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood
, Newcastle-under-Lyme
I am reading from "Truth." This has been going on all through. I think that anybody who used to read "Action" and followed these extracts would see that practically the same arguments and stuff which appeared in "Action" appear now in this paper called "Truth." I come next to the anti-Churchill attitude of the paper. It says:
Hitler bears close resemblance to Mr. Churchill.
That was just a month before the war, at a time when Mr. Churchill was not in a position to influence our policy. Then, after the war:
Mr. Churchill added another distinction to his conquest in the course of his speech on the wireless. He is the first man to call the Germans ' Huns.'
Again:
''Whenever during the last war Mr. Churchill edified us with a cocksure pronouncement on the progress of hostilities it was always invariably the prelude to a bad reverse.''