Former MP for Tamworth
May I say, briefiy, why I think it might be wise if the Amendment were not pressed. It is perfectly true, as my Noble Friend has said, that the occasions when this matter might come up might be occasions of acute friction. I can well imagine that in circumstances like that no possible good could be served by the matter being left obscure. If there is friction then that is just the type of...
Is it not a precedent which has actually been set by the presence here of North of Ireland Members, of which no one thinks of complaining?
I have been roused by some of the remarks of the hon. Member for Caerphilly (Mr. Morgan Jones). I can only say, incidentally and in passing, how glad we are to know of the hon. Member's new-found care for the stability of the credit of India. We sincerely hope that in the months and years to come the value of good credit, which hon. Members opposite recognise so freely with regard to India,...
That was the hon. Member's other point, and I am going to deal with it. No one wishes, least of all myself, to say that there is any lack of individual ability in India. There is not. But it is true that at the outset there must be a lack of collective experience, and everyone in this Committee knows perfectly well how much we in this country in all parties owe to the collective experience...
I have risen only to correct one misapprehension which perhaps the Committee might have gathered from the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford University (Sir C. Oman). It is true that, in the United States, ministers in charge of departments not only do not have to be members of either House of Congress, but they are not able to appear before it. The result is most unsatisfactory...
What the Under-Secretary has said with regard to stopping the spread of epidemics and taking immediate action is very important, and is satisfactory. It is clear that such action can be taken under the item in List 3 to which he referred. I think, however, that some of us would be glad if the provision for health could be more specific, and not merely covered by the sections dealing generally...
I should like to ask one simple question—whether these limitations and conditions that may be asked for apply simply to subjects in List 1 or also to List 3, the concurrent list?
I too will try to follow the rule, both in the spirit and the letter, of being quite brief. I wish to address myself simply to the Amendment and to do so from the ordinary, matter of fact standpoint of asking what would actually happen if such a Council of Greater India were brought into existence as is proposed in the Amendment. From that point of view, I think it would be wise to contrast...
