Oral Answers to Questions — War Emergency Powers

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 July 1951.

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Photo of Viscount  Hinchingbrooke Viscount Hinchingbrooke , South Dorset 12:00, 24 July 1951

Is not the declaration of a state of emergency designed to have a tonic and moral effect on the people of the country and to arouse them to a sense of their dire responsibility and duty? Is there not some danger, if this is allowed to drag on from year to year, with a state of emergency against one country and then another, of a certain amount of confusion and frustration ensuing?