Mr Victor Finney: I cannot lay claim to the high distinction of Irish blood as a reason for intervening in this Debate. I cannot even lay claim to that newly-instituted qualification of a short visit made to the boundary of Ulster within the last month. As a newcomer to this House and as one who felt almost that the Irish question had become a thing of the past, a thing of history of which he could read and...
Mr Victor Finney: I know. I admit there has often been mistakes made in the past. But there also should be a great deal more elasticity in the view of the South. Even if it had always been the same plea, do I understand that it has always been obeyed? Has it always been listened to?
Mr Victor Finney: Surely there are many terrible exceptions. Surely one does read in history of the dangerous situation which was created in Ulster in 1914? Are we to understand that there are no very dangerous exceptions? I am talking of the difficulties that were added to the administration of this Empire in very serious circumstances. Is it not idle, then, to say that it is always Ulster that has to give?...
Mr Victor Finney: Does the hon. and gallant Gentleman mean to suggest that he prefers to accept this policy, as expressed in the League of Nations, to the one expressed here?
Mr Victor Finney: Your own Chancellor of the Exchequer—
Mr Victor Finney: I beg to second the Amendment.
Mr Victor Finney: Whose statement is that?
Mr Victor Finney: Is the Noble Lord in order in referring to the Minister of Labour as an Aunt Sally?
Mr Victor Finney: Will the Prime Minister make inquiries whether the Assembly of the Island of Nassau is considering the project of reducing the import duty on spirits, in order to enable them to compete with the Island of St. Pierre in this traffic?
Mr Victor Finney: On a point of Order. What has this to do with the Vote under discussion?
Mr Victor Finney: 12. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether an agreement made between the British Dyestuffs Corporation and the Interessen Gemeinschaft is under consideration by the Board; and, if so, can he indicate the policy of the Government in regard to this arrangement?
Mr Victor Finney: If you increase the world's supply, you reduce the world's price.
Mr Victor Finney: 33. asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is prepared to put in operation the findings of the Haldane inquiry as to the means of democratising the methods of admission to the military academies of Sandhurst and Woolwich?
Mr Victor Finney: I have been interested in some of the remarks, and particularly in the speech of the Noble Lady who has just addressed us. It is not exactly pleasant to hear from the benches above the Gangway on this side of the House that hon. Members who sit there are the only people who understand unemployment, or who lived under unemployment conditions. I am sorry that that view is so often expressed,...
Mr Victor Finney: I wish to make a few brief remarks on the programme for helping co-operative agriculture which has been put forward by the Minister. It is, no doubt, well known to many people that agriculture has always been one of the topics on which people, whenever they have thought about it, have got excited, but, whenever it has happened that they have had to attend to some serious matter connected with...
Mr Victor Finney: 13. asked the President of the Board of Trade if, in view of the virtual monopoly in banking exercised in the United Kingdom principally by the big five banks, concurrent with the complaint of the commercial community of the limitation of credit facilities operating to the disadvantage of our trade and commerce and of employment, he will appoint an expert committee to inquire into the...
Mr Victor Finney: 3. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether an argeement has been made between the British Dyestuffs Corporation and the Interessen Gemeinschaft; and, if so, would he give the terms?
