Orders of the Day — North Atlantic Pact

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 18 March 1949.

Alert me about debates like this

Photo of Mr Ernest Bevin Mr Ernest Bevin , Wandsworth Central 12:00, 18 March 1949

I wish to thank the House for the welcome given to the announcement. The questions raised are obviously questions which must be dealt with in Debate, and we may have an opportunity to deal with them next week. I would only say to the hon. Member for Mile End (Mr. Piratin) that I wish I could forget the speeches they all made in 1940, which I have never forgotten, and I wish that there could, somehow, be erased from the documents signed by the U.S.S.R. the Pact with Hitler in 1939.