Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 5 June 1945.
Mr Oliver Lyttelton
, Aldershot
12:00,
5 June 1945
The hon. Member is perhaps under a misapprehension, and is confusing soothers with teats. I have every sympathy with him. Soothers, however, are a means of deception to which, in view of the imminence of the General Election and the present scarcity of rubber, His Majesty's Government cannot lend themselves. The assurances that he, no doubt, has in mind were given in respect of teats, and have been carried out.
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