Former MP for Cornwall Northern
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has any further statement to make about import relaxations in view of the decision by the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation on 2nd November that member countries should adopt the objective of removing quantitative re-trictions before 15th December, 1949, on at least 50 per cent. of their total imports on private account from...
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether any further de-control of the hardwood trade is in prospect.
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will make a statement on the policy of His Majesty's Government in the matter of relaxing restrictions on intra-European trade.
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is yet able to make a statement on the further progress which has been made by the Working Party on Export Forms.
Like my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, I feel that I should plead for the indulgence of the House. It is very nearly two years since I last spoke in this House. The effect of a crash takes some time to get over, and it also takes some time to regain one's confidence. It is for that reason that I plead for the indulgence of the House. I am going to criticise...
I want to read a few sentences out of this document because it does not seem to me to require any technical knowledge to understand what we wrote. When we wrote these statements we must have fully understood what we were doing. We went into some detail and gave the perfect economic case for the nationalisation of the steel industry. Under the heading "Publicly Owned Monopolies" there is the...
If I remember aright the right hon. Gentleman said that the Beveridge plan was premature. Does not that amount to the same thing?
I apologise to the right hon. Gentleman if I misinterpreted him, but it was clearly in my mind that that was the effect of what he said. However, I have no wish to misrepresent him. I consider that the time to nationalise the industry is now. In the sellers' market of today we can squeeze the monopoly good will out of the industry if the problem is tackled in the right way. The Leader of...
