Former MP for Salford North
In connection with the campaign in Burma, from which country I have recently returned, I am pleased to inform Members of the House that I have very little criticism to make. Indeed, if I do, I will be most careful not to say anything that would in any way add to the existing difficulties confronting the people who are charged with running the war in that country. Considering the conditions of...
I remember many things. If that was our condition of unprepared-ness then it would have been worse if those hon. Members had been in power.
I was amazed to find that the main centre of attack of the people who criticised the direction of the war was the Prime Minister. I am jealous of the rights of Members, but I am certain in my own mind that they betrayed a great lack of proportion in their utterances on that point. They fail to realise what harm they have done to our war effort, both in Allied and neutral countries, by...
Yes, or the slums. They want to get back to their wives and families, and the young men want to get back to their parents. Any one who has had the job of censoring their letters for over two years, will realise that that is their constant thought. I know that it is prudent to think of the future but in my opinion there has been too much talk of the future at the expense of the war effort....
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that gentleman-cadets at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, who passed out on their course and, if proceeding to infantry regiments, would have been commissioned on the 18th October, 1939, were, because possessed of certain technical knowledge, retained for the Royal Corps of Signals and were not granted their commissions until...
asked the Secretary for Mines whether he is aware that representatives of his Department visited Salford on 13th September, inspected sites for the storage of coal, and promised that supplies of coal for storage would be delivered at once; that the consumption of coal in Salford amounts to 30,000 tons per month, whereas there are only 4,000 tons now stored; and what action he proposes to take...
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will consider authorising the use of motor-cars and utility cars of His Majesty's forces for giving lifts to civilians in cases where the direction and length of journey is not interfered with, as, up to now, it has been disagreeable to officers in charge of such vehicles to have to refuse giving such assistance, particularly to elderly people?
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware of the deficiency of steel helmets, civilian duty respirators, haversacks, protective clothing and gum-boots in an air-raid precautions division of which he has been informed which is causing dissatisfaction and resentment among the wardens; and will he take steps to see that this air-raid precautions equipment is issued at once?
