Results 101–120 of 1166 for speaker:Sir Fitzroy Maclean

Defence ( 4 Mar 1970)

Sir Fitzroy Maclean: Two or three years ago. Two or three years is not all that long; the Secretary of State was talking about things said in the 1950s. The White Paper states that the main function of British forces in the future will be to help guarantee peace and security for Europe through the North Atlantic Alliance. I do not quarrel with that definition of Britain's future defence rôle. We may have other...

Defence ( 4 Mar 1970)

Sir Fitzroy Maclean: I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that clarification. I hope he is equally happy about the relative numbers of submarines. The Russians have an awful lot of them, and they would have an important part to play in the sort of situation he is describing. Then, of course, as he himself has pointed out, there is the political significance of the Soviet fleet to be taken into account....

Defence ( 4 Mar 1970)

Sir Fitzroy Maclean: It is also true to say that the relative nuclear preponderance of the Western Alliance was at that time much higher—

Defence ( 4 Mar 1970)

Sir Fitzroy Maclean: It is a kindred point. That meant that in those days the deterrent was much more likely to be a deterrent, and also a one-way deterrent instead of a two-way deterrent. There was not the same balance of terror then as there is now. We had then much bigger conventional forces, and certainly a much bigger army, in this country and we had the power to expand those forces if we wanted to which,...

Defence ( 4 Mar 1970)

Sir Fitzroy Maclean: I have great respect for General Hackett. I read his article, and also the letter that he wrote to The Times. I think that what he said should have made the Secretary of State a bit uneasy, too. He did not seem particularly happy about the present state of affairs, and he was writing from an essentially non-party point of view. As for Lord Wigg, he has often turned out to know quite a lot...

Defence ( 4 Mar 1970)

Sir Fitzroy Maclean: Lord Wigg is certainly a friend of mine and I think that the right hon. Gentleman ought to accept him as a friend, too. After all, it is not so long since they served together in the same Government. But I must challenge the right hon. Gentleman when he says that we attacked the then Conservative Government on the grounds that they would not get the figure at which they were aiming. The right...

Defence ( 4 Mar 1970)

Sir Fitzroy Maclean: My right hon. Friend has confirmed this undertaking during this debate.

Defence ( 4 Mar 1970)

Sir Fitzroy Maclean: Which is exactly the reason why the right hon. Gentleman threw the accusation at him. This backand-forth well illustrates what I am trying to get at. I sometimes wonder whether this is quite the right way to handle a problem of such importance. I was struck by the remarkable speech made by the right hon. and learned Member for Ipswich (Sir Dingle Foot). He said that right hon. Gentlemen on...

Defence ( 4 Mar 1970)

Sir Fitzroy Maclean: The hon. Gentleman will recall that I followed him on that occasion and that I agreed with his every word on the subject.

MR. Gerald Brooke (Release) (24 Jul 1969)

Sir Fitzroy Maclean: The Foreign Secretary has spoken of his anxiety to do nothing that might prejudice Anglo-Soviet relations. Will he consider conveying to the Soviet Government that they also have a contribution to make in this respect?

Orders of the Day — Firth of Clyde (Planning and Development) ( 7 Jul 1969)

Sir Fitzroy Maclean: I listened with interest to the speech of the hon. Member for Glasgow, Scotstoun (Mr. Small), who happens to be my constituent. I am not so sure though whether he votes for me. I accept some of what he says. I agree that we ought to press on, but we ought not to do so at the cost of brushing aside objections or of careful examination of the facts. I cannot agree, either, with the hon....

Orders of the Day — Firth of Clyde (Planning and Development) ( 7 Jul 1969)

Sir Fitzroy Maclean: That is not how the hon. Gentleman was reported.

Orders of the Day — Firth of Clyde (Planning and Development) ( 7 Jul 1969)

Sir Fitzroy Maclean: The hon. Gentleman must take it up with the local newspaper. I am glad that we are having this debate. The proposals for industrial development which we are discussing are of the greatest importance not only to the Clyde, but to Scotland and to the United Kingdom as a whole. It seems to me, therefore, that we should discuss them in a wide national context, not piecemeal or in a narrow local...

Orders of the Day — Firth of Clyde (Planning and Development) ( 7 Jul 1969)

Sir Fitzroy Maclean: One possibility would be in the hon. Gentleman's constituency, between Lochwinnoch and Kilbirnie.

Orders of the Day — Firth of Clyde (Planning and Development) ( 7 Jul 1969)

Sir Fitzroy Maclean: I have not consulted them. But neither have the people in my constituency been consulted. I like to think that those concerned explore every possibility and do not say, "Oh, dear! This happens to be in the constituency of the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire (Mr. Manuel) and, therefore, it is sacrosanct", or, "This happens to be near where So-and-so lives, so we must not touch it". The hon....

Orders of the Day — Firth of Clyde (Planning and Development) ( 7 Jul 1969)

Sir Fitzroy Maclean: Is the hon. Gentleman aware that one of the questions which the representatives of Ayr County Council were unable to answer at that meeting was how much more it would cost Chevron to site the complex further inland in his constituency? It was apparent that they had not even asked Chevron that question or, if they had, that Chevron had refused to answer it. As for the meeting breaking up in...

Orders of the Day — Firth of Clyde (Planning and Development) ( 7 Jul 1969)

Sir Fitzroy Maclean: The hon. Member for Central Ayrshire (Mr. Manuel) gave way to me.

Orders of the Day — Firth of Clyde (Planning and Development) ( 7 Jul 1969)

Sir Fitzroy Maclean: The one question on which the county council did not seem to have been informed was the essential one of the difference in cost involved in siting the refinery on the shore and siting it inland. Why was that?

Orders of the Day — Firth of Clyde (Planning and Development) ( 7 Jul 1969)

Sir Fitzroy Maclean: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it in order for the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire (Mr. Manuel) to call you a silly woman?

Orders of the Day — Firth of Clyde (Planning and Development) ( 7 Jul 1969)

Sir Fitzroy Maclean: The Minister suggested that I did not send back to his noble Friend the minutes to which he referred. I did so immediately, and sent his noble Friend a personal letter with them, so he should have been aware that they had come back and that I had read them—and, naturally, that I had taken a copy. What does the Minister expect? If I were to read out the rest of the whole lot of minutes this...


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