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Reverend James Barr: ...on the subject by those who turned out to be the minority. I hope to have the attention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself when I read to him a sentence or two from the speech of Dr. David Watson, a man of large outlook and generous and broad sympathies, though by no means a member of the Labour party. Speaking of this tax, he said: They were not going to alter their views and...
Mr David Grenfell: ...worked together on that body in order to build up something which will be of value both in peace and war. Something has been said about town and country planning, I think something is very much amiss. If the local authorities have not sufficient power more power should quickly be given to this House. I come down to the South of England, and here I see the disregard of amenities at every...
Mr Maurice Hely-Hutchinson: ...as a blessing in disguise, in that it has thrown a searchlight on the degree of our un-preparedness, and I feel sure that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for War will not think it amiss if I suggest that in considering the heavy charge we shall have to lay upon the taxpayer in making good these deficiencies we will take care that the battery of that searchlight is also fully...
Mr Charles Ammon: ...not yielding one iota in my esteem or admiration for the men of the Royal Navy and in the desirability of prosecuting the war with every energy to a successful conclusion, it must not be taken amiss if I put a question or pass certain criticisms. This will be done in the hope of pointing out weak spots which may afterwards be strengthened. It may interest the House to know that since the...
Mr David Maxwell Fyfe: I should always hesitate to refer to any point raised by my hon. and learned Friend as a false one, but I hope he will not take it amiss if I say that this point really has not great substance. As he will remember, the original provision with regard to the engagement or alteration of Admiralty staff was that no additional staff should be engaged or alteration made without an Order in Council....
Mr David Maxwell Fyfe: ...his speech, not limiting it to the matters which are raised in the actual wording of the Amendment of the hon. Member for Skipton (Mr. H. Lawson). I only want to say and I hope he will not take it amiss with regard to that Amendment, before I deal with the points raised to support it, that certain difficulties will arise. The hon. Member raises by his Amendment the position of justices...
Mr David Maxwell Fyfe: ...as being at all sincere, if at the very same time an effort is made to stir up a contentious issue which is non-existent and where there is no complaint? The right hon. Gentleman must not take it amiss. He must accept it if we think that this issue is something very different. He put it in his closing words almost as a beacon light. We put it as a will o' the wisp, the marsh light which...
Mr David Maxwell Fyfe: The hon. Gentleman must not take it amiss. He is a hard fighter in this House, and if we occasionally get in a quite good-tempered 'retort, he must not mind.
Mr David Maxwell Fyfe: ...that the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council should be consulted, it would be fruitless and bad taste to canvass the Tightness of its decision. Perhaps, however, the House will not take it amiss from me personally, as my views on the subject are well known, if I make two quotations, the first that "a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still," and the second, in...
Mr David Llewellyn: ...have the honour of following the hon. Member for Gower (Mr. Grenfell): This is the first time I have spoken in this House in a Welsh debate, and I know that hon. Members opposite will not take it amiss if I say that I would rather follow the hon. Member for Gower than anyone else, because he is held in such high esteem in all parts of the House. I hope he will forgive me if today I start...
Mr David Eccles: ...to defence production. My noble Friend the Member for Dorset, South (Viscount Hinchingbrooke) and my hon. Friend the Member for Barnet discussed the interest rate, and I hope they will not take it amiss if I differ slightly on this very technical subject. It is often said that a rise of a half or 1 per cent. in the long-term interest rate is the thing to go for, because it would weed out...
Mr David Maxwell Fyfe: ...the Committee of Selection for any failures in that way. I was passing to the points that had been made by the hon. and learned Member for Hornchurch. I hope again that he will not take it amiss if I do not reply on this occasion to every point that he has made, if he will allow me to say so and with great good temper, at least twice before in the discussions we have had. The question of...
Mr David Maxwell Fyfe: If the hon. Gentleman will not take it amiss, I know
Mr David Maxwell Fyfe: ...I have to face and then to say that I was quite prepared to look at this question and hoped to be able to find a solution along certain lines. I hope the hon. and learned Gentleman will not take it amiss that I have interposed to say this, because from my own experience it does sometimes rather change the tempo and tenor of one's speech if one knows that it is going to be of some effect.
Mr David Maxwell Fyfe: ...force, because otherwise it would be impossible to provide for the situation, and to decide how to manage the exemptions which have to be given. Therefore, I hope hon. Gentlemen will not take it amiss if I have argued the point rather acidly, and that they will blame it on the hour of the morning rather than on any feeling on my part about the way it was presented to me. It was rather an...
Mr David Maxwell Fyfe: As the Committee knows, I am always willing to respond to a request put in that way. I hope that the right hon. Member for Caerphilly (Mr. Ness Edwards) will not take it amiss that I did not rise at once. I thought that he was defining the differences between us rather than seeking further information. I am very glad to attempt to deal with some of the points that have been made. It is right...
Mr Anthony Greenwood: ...we have human failures, which may have been in this case at least magnified out of all proportion. The Parliamentary Secretary referred to the photographs in the Observer which were taken by Mr. David Moore. I must confess that my anxieties are not completely allayed by the explanation which the Parliamentary Secretary gave, because some of the stones in the immediate proximity of the...
Mr David Renton: ...the Member for Surrey, East (Mr. Doughty) suggested that the Bill was not very flattering to magistrates; but I disagree with him entirely. We have lay magistrates, and they have never taken it amiss when Parliament has given them guidance by altering the law. That is what we are doing. My hon. Friend the Member for Ayr (Sir T. Moore) suggested that it was for the Home Office to give...
Mr David Renton: ...course, it could not be examined until it had been decided exactly how Clause 1 as a whole should read. I wish to say a word or two about Clause 4—I know that the hon. Gentleman will not take it amiss when I say this—as it is, unintentionally no doubt, rather misleading, because, in fact, there is no statute law at present relating to consent to surgical operations. The only relevant...
Mr David Renton: I am sure that my hon. Friend the Member for Maldon (Mr. B. Harrison) will not take it amiss if I remind the hon. Member for Edinburgh, East (Mr. Willis) that, during the Second Reading debate, several Members opposite said that they were in favour of Clause 1 but against the rest of the Bill, and that the right hon. Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede) made a plea to us to drop all of the Bill...