Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 December 1958.
Can the right hon. Gentleman say whether the statement made by the Minister of Labour, as reported in the Financial Times, is true, in which it is stated:
The free world had to accept the Russian economic challenge, particularly in undeveloped areas, and that we had to succeed in this or the struggle with the Communist world might be in vain.
If that is the policy of Her Majesty's Government, can the right hon. Gentleman say how are we meeting the economic challenge of Russia in Egypt, who is going to build the Aswan Dam, and have we not lost a lot of valuable markets in the Middle East because the Government are not meeting the Communist challenge?