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• Oral Answers to Questions — Civilian Property (Emergency Paint) 4 Aug 1943

  asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works whether he has any statement to make on the question of making available to private purchasers a limited quantity of emergency paint which could be used as a temporary measure to prevent the deterioration of civilian property?

• Orders of the Day — Civil Estimates, Supplementary Estimate, 1939.: Foreign Office. 7 Feb 1940

  I willingly respond to the invitation of the right hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for New-castle-under-Lyme (Colonel Wedgwood). He is under considerable confusion of ideas as to Chatham House. It was founded practically at the last Peace Conference, and the duty it undertook was the examination in as scientific a manner as possible of all international questions. It later obtained a...

• Orders of the Day — Civil Estimates, Supplementary Estimate, 1939.: Foreign Office. 7 Feb 1940

  Of course, when you are trying to carry out an impartial work you cannot satisfy everybody; you cannot satisfy the extreme Right or the extreme Left. At all events, there are many people who probably agreed with the view that was taken in the work to which my hon. Friend refers. In all our publications we are careful to print that the Institute takes no responsibility for individual opinions.

• Oral Answers to Questions — Transport.: Road Accidents. 17 Jul 1935

  24. asked the Minister of Transport when he hopes to publish the next report on the causes of fatal road accidents?

• Oral Answers to Questions — League of Nations.: Documents. 11 Jul 1935

  70. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in order to increase the facilities of hon. Members in the matter of access to original sources of information on international affairs, both political and economic, he will consider the possibility of making arrangements to place in the Vote Office supplies of copies of the more important documents issued by the League of Nations...

• Oral Answers to Questions — Bolivia and Paraguay. 11 Jul 1935

  71. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any further statement to make in respect of the restoration of normal relationships between Bolivia and Paraguay?

• Oral Answers to Questions — Transport.: Motor-Car Insurance. 9 Jul 1935

  5. asked the President of the Board of Trade when he intends to introduce legislation to provide that insurance companies undertaking third-party motor insurance shall be required to deposit a sum not less than life insurance companies are required to deposit?

• Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Air Force.: Recruiting. 3 Jul 1935

  19. asked the Secretary of State for Air what were the total number of officers and other ranks recruited for the Royal Air Force in the last three months?

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