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Mr Ian Gilmour: .... We sometimes forget the extent of our dependence on our sea routes throughout the Southern Atlantic and the Indian Ocean and the threat to them which has been increased by events in Southern Africa and by the Government's regrettable decision almost a year ago to terminate the Simonstown Agreement. At present, Britain obtains 66 per cent. of her oil from the Persian Gulf, France 52 per...
Mr Julian Amery: ...the trap against which he warned us. No one would call Rhodesia a pluralist democracy, but it will not have escaped the hon. Member's attention that in the past few weeks both main branches of the African National Congress have held public conferences and demonstrations. This is not quite what we associate with the words "dictatorship" and "Fascism", which he used. I shall deal with some...
Mr Patrick Wall: I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that intervention. The South African Government have stated their determination that the people of South-West Africa—Namibia—will decide their own future and have already outlined how that will be done. The only problem is that it is unlikely that the constitutional conference can be held until the end of this year or early next year. There...
.... I apologise for dealing in the final part of my speech with one other important issue on which there may be differences between us. It is the area of British interest and involvement in Southern Africa, where there could be the seeds of a wider conflict. It is our view that the prosperity and stability of the African continent depends in the long run on removing the sources of racial...
Mr Frank Allaun: ...spend a higher proportion of her gross national product on arms than any other country in Western Europe, with the single exception of Portugal which is deeply involved in its colonial wars in Africa? Last month the Labour Party issued its 50,000-word policy statement. It is remarkable that one of the most vital sections in this statement—that on cuts in military spending—received no...
Mr Edward Fletcher: ...than £100,000 per year spread over 80 countries. It is not possible to enter into any vast capital undertakings with such a small sum at the disposal of the British Council. Our experience in Africa shows that there is a tremendous demand in both Ethiopia and Nigeria for a knowledge of English—in order to read English textbooks. These young people want to get to secondary and grammar...
Mr Anthony Fell: ...Economic Community that we should join without the full-hearted support of Parliament and the people". I want to know what that means. It does not mean mounting this enormous campaign, the latest star attraction of which was the advertisement in The Times yesterday. The only mistake about that advertisement was that it should have been in the Daily Mirror. I will not read it because most...
Mr Joe Ashton: I have been asked by a body which does not have a representative in the House of Commons to bring to the Minister's attention certain anomalies which will arise on the clause. Kangaroo courts and star chambers have been referred to today, but the Bill makes no mention of the disciplinary bodies which many employers' associations have. A group of us have tabled an Amendment to Schedule 3,...
Gavin Strang: ...or other major form of exploitation, where the different races have mutual respect and where all races regard each other as of equal value. The Government's decision to sell arms to South Africa will be a blow to the United Nations. It will encourage the exploitation of cheap black labour by the owners of South African capital. It will be a victory for racialism. There is now a...
Dr Shirley Summerskill: ...but by knowledge of family planning. British aid in population growth and population control is still extremely inadequate. All of the under-developed countries, with the exception of some in Africa, have accepted as their national policy that there must be a policy on population. This has been made clear at the United Nations, so there is no point in our claiming that these countries have...
Mr George Thomson: ...the United Nations heavier burdens than it can carry is not to show faith in it but to discredit it. This was why Her Majesty's Government withheld their support from the resolution on South-West Africa, to which the hon. Member for Hertfordshire, South-West referred. In taking that attitude, we believe that we can play our part in strengthening the organisation and reinforcing its...
Mr James Johnson: ..., since 1922. I say that because of the acts of her officials who believe that they can do all manner of things which I have not found happening in other Colonial Territories, particularly in Africa. I do not believe that these officials care very much about Whitehall. There is here the classic situation of a small number of white people, officials in this case, not elected as perhaps...
Mr Jeremy Thorpe: ...the large and dedicated staff who find themselves out of work and have difficulty in getting employment for their craft—and I know that that happened in the case of the News Chronicle and the Star, though, happily, I believe that most of their employees are now occupied in other directions—but such things are also the end of a tradition. The Star particularly was a campaigning...
Mr Andrew Faulds: ...in the context of Southern Rhodesian politics today. These were the type of men with whom our Prime Minister did his damndest to reach an agreement. Heartbreaking though this is for all the Africans in Rhodesia, and for those who care about the political future of that part of Africa, these were the men who illegally usurped power and made their little pretence of legality, who...
Mr John Tilney: ...which with one or two bridgeheads now forms the front line, it was the morale, efficiency and camouflage of the Pakistani Army which I remember best. I wonder whether Great Britain, so obsessed by Africa which in total has only one quarter of the population of the Indian sub-continent, is aware that every night Pakistanis and Indians are killing each other by mortar, machine guns or...
Viscount Lambton: ...his points later in my speech, and I hope that if the hon. Gentleman is not too hungry he will be able to hear what I say on them. I should like to make the briefest reference to the happenings in Africa. It seems to me that Her Majesty's Government are now determined on a course which makes negotiations with an alternative Government in Rhodesia almost an impossibility. They are,...
Mr Ian Lloyd: ...despair has followed automatically? There was idealism there in 1953. Let no hon. Member dispute that there was this idealism. Thousands of people whose dislike of the apartheid regime in South Africa was such that they felt impelled to emigrate went to Rhodesia. So let no hon. Member dispute that there was this idealism, and it is still there. But it is turning to dismay and to fear. It...
Mr William Molloy: ...agencies within it. The year 1965 is known in United Nations circles as International Co-opera- tion Year. The hallmark of my Motion can be described as world co-operation designed primarily to start with all world youth. I have referred to the fact that 1965 is International Co-operation Year. On 21st November, 1963, the General Assembly of the United Nations passed this resolution:...
Mr James Callaghan: ...the failure, and he conveyed the depth of his feelings to the House in the speech which he made. The Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations has, of course, been associated with many ill-starred ventures. Despite the massive nuclear deterrent strategy with which the right hon. Gentleman was associated, we are asked still to feel full confidence in him, in his determination and in...
Mrs Barbara Castle: ...out, whether we like it or not, the Federation in its present form is rapidly dissolving before our eyes. Therefore, fair from our being negative in asking the Government to recognise this fact and start from that basis, we are doling what the hon. Member for Lancaster asks us to do, clearing away the irrelevancies in order to be able to proceed to a genuine organic and acceptable...