Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 31 July 1952.
I am trying to give extracts from a speech of the right hon. Member. There were 19,000 aeroplanes and considerable naval forces, among them modern submarines and, to quote one sentence:
The existence of these vast forces in the hands of a totalitarian State, where the pressure of public opinion does not operate and whose
intentions are uncertain, represents a potential danger of which other nations must take full account."—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 26th July. 1950; Vol. 478, c. 469–70.]