Former MP for Merthyr Tydfil Merthyr
The Debate to me has taken on a complete air of unreality. It is very strange that we should be talking in this way after two years of a National Government which we are told has been supremely successful both in the field of domestic and foreign policy. Every speaker that I have listened to so far has assumed that war is inevitable, and that the best thing we can do is to prepare for it in...
Our Government should have backed up general action by the League of Nations.
That is an assumption which my hon. and gallant Friend is unable to prove. I think that from the records and statements made by various important individuals there was sufficient evidence to show that we could have had the backing of France and of the United States of America. I feel convinced that, if this country had had the backing of France and of the United States of America, and the...
If the Falkland Islands is right, we can find the ocean on the map. If my knowledge of geography in that area is not as good as that of the hon. Member, the Falkland Islands, from my point of view, is enough. If that is correct, it marks another development, and we now have to consider, at any rate, officially, that Japan is a potential enemy, although for years she has been our friend. If...
I think that I argued that, from the speeches I have listened to, I came to the conclusion that we were bound to have a war.
The hon. Gentleman is a good man battling with adversity. I think that the main difficulties which he mentions do not really exist. He has told us of the difficulty of establishing these centres under the Board of Education. He has told us that the Ministry of Labour has had some experience of them—on an extremely limited scale and not in any extensive way, but merely as a kind of stop-gap...
Do these figures apply to children between 16 and 18, or those from 14 to 18?
Will the right hon. Gentleman take care that these ultimatums which are flying about are retained at his own office, and that they do not extend to the War Office and the Foreign Office?
