Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in order to rid Palestine of Nazi Aryan settlers, whose continued residence there is generally not desired, he will extend to males of military age his proposed scheme for an exchange of internees between Germany and Palestine?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Will the right hon. Gentleman say how this exchange is going on, and whether it is a fair exchange?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Undersecretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the fact that an official from India is now framing an Income Tax ordinance for Palestine, it is intended to exempt from this tax, as in India, owners of land, although by now the land of Palestine must be all zoned and valued?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Will the hon. Gentleman bear this point in mind when these considerations are being taken into account, so that the landlords should not escape, as they do in India?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Minister of Information whether his attention has been called to an anti-Semitic Polish publication, "I am a Pole"; what steps he is taking to ban that journal which is conducting a policy so contrary to our own war effort that the Germans have used it as anti-British propaganda in Poland; and whether as this publication does not meet with the approval of the Polish Government, he...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Is it not possible for the Ministry of Information to stop the supply of paper, as they have control over it?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that I have myself communicated to the Government an article by this man previously, asking that he should be prevented from getting information and that he should be interned? I really do not know why this has been going on for so long; it is nearly a year now.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Is it not an awful waste of money and time to try to do it?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: The Chancellor has produced a remarkable Budget. I am not here to congratulate him upon his Budget, but I do congratulate him upon presenting it in an entirely original way; and I congratulate the Committee upon having had today an extremely well-informed and interesting Debate. I do not remember any occasion when two new Members of this House have made such distinguished contributions as we...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: If consumption exceeds production, we are eating up our capital. For instance, our American shares are sold in America, and the Government pay us for those shares in pounds. That means that we have less production from America and that we have pounds, giving a larger demand for production in this country. But, apart from that, I am not. talking of the money question. It is the mere fact of...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps have been taken to explain to the Australian authorities in charge of internment camps there the difference between victims of Nazi oppression and pro-Nazi, and to secure special treatment or release for the former?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that at present the treatment in the camps is on all fours with that of prisoners of war May I ask whether Major Layton has instructions to make a change, or urge such a change, so that there is a distinction between those who are our friends and those who are our enemies?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Is it not possible to make it clear to the Australians that here we made a distinction between those who are our friends and those who are our enemies before these people were sent out, and that the authorities in Australia might well follow our example?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Minister of Health why families driven by bombing from Whitstable are not given billeting allowances equally with those who are evacuated from London, in view of the financial difficulties that this involves upon the poorer classes?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Is it not the case that people evacuated from London, although their houses had not been destroyed, receive a billeting allowance, but that people evacuated from parts of Kent, where the situation is quite as bad, do not?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Cannot the Government frankly tell the Spanish Government that unless they treat our friends decently they will not get any food ships?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs why no attempt was made, when granting per mission for the two food-ships to go to Vichy, France, to couple it with the condition that Messieurs Blum and Reynaud and other friends of democracy should be released, and Breitscheid not handed over to the Germans?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Are we not living in new times, and is it not our first duty to protect our friends in France when we have an opportunity of doing so?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Will the right hon. Gentleman consider consulting the American Government in connection with this matter?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Undersecretary of State for the Colonies whether he has any further information to give regarding the granting of permission to 700 Jews to enter Palestine in view of the pogroms in Rumania; and whether he can give an assurance that the 700 certificates were not old ones issued before the pogroms?
