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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 November 1962.

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Photo of Mr William Warbey Mr William Warbey , Ashfield 12:00, 6 November 1962

How can the House and the country have any confidence in these arrangements when it is obvious that they broke down completely during the recent Cuban crisis? Is it not a fact, which the Prime Minister virtually admitted last week, that at what he called the climax of the crisis he handed over to President Kennedy the sole power to determine Whether the people of this country should live or die in a nuclear war? Did he do that voluntarily or because he had to?

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