Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 24 March 1943.
Sir Spencer Summers
, Northampton
Is the Minister aware that it is not the intrinsic value of the railings which the owners have had to give up which concerns them, but the financial sacrifice imposed upon them for the good of all and which they alone have to discharge? Is there not some way of seeing that people as a whole provide compensation for something which is for their benefit?
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