Former MP for Barnet
Has the elevation of the new Colonial Office been submitted to the Royal Fine Art Commission?
I am afraid that I cannot follow in detail the argument presented by the hon. Member for Newbury (Mr. Hurd). I would merely say that I am very glad to hear that if the Conservative Party should ever be returned to power they will follow a different agricultural policy from that which they followed in the inter-war years inasmuch as they hope to see a high target set for British agriculture...
No, certainly not on that assumption. The difficulty will be in the actual sending of exports to the United States and the dollar world to pay the interest on the invested capital.
Yes. One can go on indefinitely, but sooner or later one must pay in the form of exports in the reverse direction. The truth is, as the right hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington said, that we are facing a new kind of problem. In the 19th century the world could balance its economy because the greatest creditor country was also the greatest importer. Today the greatest creditor country...
No, not social credit, because the pumping out of purchasing power must be equated with actual production and the actual available goods. That is the short-term answer, and I think that, judging from President Truman's message, he and his advisers realise that that is their short-term problem; they have to step up their own purchasing power to cope with their own under-consumption, plus their...
Whether we shall make it worse or not, we shall not be able to pay for these goods, and that is all there is to it. We do not want this to happen, because it is the worst thing for all of us, but we should be prepared and ready for it. To maintain full employment will then be painful and difficult, but it can be done by a sort of gigantic redeployment operation to make industry independent of...
Is not my right hon. Friend aware that the regional hospital board gave the most careful and sympathetic consideration to the case of the Lock Hospital, and that it was only after this matter had been discussed very carefully for a very long time that they reached this decision?
I am sorry to delay the House in this matter. I must apologise for not having been here when the Bill was read a Second time and also for the fact that the three hon. Members who are Governors of the British Film Institute could not be present on that occasion. I am one of the Governors and also the vice-chairman, and I want to say on our behalf how much we welcome the Bill and also how much...
