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Mr David Lloyd George: I should like to associate myself with the very well-deserved congratulatory references made by the two right hon. Gentlemen who have just sat down to the speeches of the Mover and the Seconder of the Address. With a very long experience of this House I do not know that I have ever heard speeches which gave more general satisfaction. Both Gentlemen have taken a part in the fiery struggle out...
Mr William Brace: I beg to move, at the end of the Address, to add the words, But regrets the absence of any mention of definite proposals for dealing with the present causes of industrial unrest and for securing, as regards wages and working hours, conditions of labour that will establish a higher standard of life and social well-being for the people. In moving this Motion on behalf of the Labour party I do...
Mr Herbert Fisher: I make no complaint of the questions which have been asked me, and I am very glad to have this opportunity of giving a further explanation to the Committee upon a matter which neces- sarily is of very great interest and importance. This scheme is the outcome of a Report made by a Committee under the chairmanship of Sir Alfred Keogh, a Committee winch was appointed by the Presidents of the...
Sir Henry Craik: My hon. Friend has made a speech full of weight, bold outlook, and first-hand knowledge, above allof wide and alert sympathy, and one which is worthy of a larger audience than he has had. I hope it will find an audience beyond the walls of this House. There can be no question but that our administration in Egypt at this time is at a very critical point. My excuse for intervening now is...
Sir Halford Mackinder: I rise to second the Resolution moved by my hon. Friend. I do so in the hope of drawing from the Government a statement of a more definite character than any which we have yet had. We had a promise in the King's Speech. We had an interim statement from the Minister for Reconstruction in regard to the policy of the Government up to the 1st September. We who stand behind this Motion feel that...
Mr Thomas Brown: Taking part in this, my first Debate in this House, I must own to a feeling of very great disappointment because when we came to discuss questions that affect Ireland I had hoped that the old routine which we have had so often, and which has so often been discussed in this House and out of it, would have been dropped and that some of the really material and vital issues which are affecting...
Mr Thomas Whittaker: I should like to congratulate the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the very clear and able statement he made to us yesterday. For twenty-seven years I have had the honour and pleasure, of listening to Budget statements, but I never listened to a clearer and more businesslike one than we had yesterday. It has always been recognised that the present occasion is one, not so much for detailed...
Mr William Ormsby-Gore: ...it, but I am merely stating what I saw myself in Egypt, and I am not going into the question whether the punishments were justified or not, or as to who were responsible for that particular scale of punishments. Personally I heard very little complaint, and it is a very easy thing to work up a sentimental agitation on this subject. In Egypt, however, I did not hear from the natives any...
Sir William Adkins: ...or sorry that my hon. Friend who has just spoken should have started another hare which has brought into this controversy already sufficiently important, conflicting new ideas as to the slicing of England. For my own part I hope that Members in all parts of this House who were prepared before the hon. Member spoke to support the Resolution will not be hindered from doing so by their...
Mr William Graham: I desire to associate myself, and I think other hon. Members of the Labour party also desire to associate themselves with the view which has been repeatedly expressed that we should try to deal with this problem broadly, without passion or prejudice, and certainly, as far as possible, with an absence of political bias. We are confronted this afternoon with a great economic issue which is not...
Viscount Curzon: I only wish to ask for a few moments' indulgence in order to deal with the question of pay. The First Lord of the Admiralty, in introducing the Vote on Account, took credit for the fact that no less a sum than £10,000,000 additional money has been granted to the Navy as a result of the concessions in the Halsey and Jerram Reports. I think that this shows the measure of injustice from which...
Mr Francis Mildmay: I do not wish to depreciate the importance of what we have just heard. I remind the Committee, as the right hon. Gentleman has reminded us just now, that there was a tacit agreement of the Service Members of the House of Commons to take no part in the discussion when the Army Vote was last under consideration, with the view of leaving to the two sections of the Opposition a fair field, so...
Lieut-Colonel Leo Amery: I hope I shall have the indulgence of the Committee in my first attempt to deal with so vast and complicated a range of subjects as those which are covered by this Vote. In the limited time at the disposal of the Committee it will be hardly fair to hon. Members who have many points of importance to raise if I endeavoured to do so in any comprehensive or detailed fashion. I would rather, if I...
Mr Thomas Davies: I should like to reply to the points which have been raised by the last two speakers. May I point out to the hon. Gentleman who spoke last that it is perfectly useless to appeal to the Board of Education to pay the same salaries to women as to men, for the simple reason that the Board take absolutely no side? If the particular education authority to which he refers or any other refuses to pay...
Sir Ernest Pollock: This Amendment raises perhaps the most important question, or at least one of the most important questions, in the Bill, and I am going to ask the Committee to give me their attention while I put before them some facts and materials without which I am quite certain that they would not be able to form a just judgment. I am in full accord with the general spirit of the Amendment as indicated by...
Mr Archibald Williamson: Before I attempt to reply to the observations of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen I should like to say a few words about the finance of the War Office. I have been only a short time at the War Office, therefore I cannot speak with the long experience acquired by my predecessor during the four and a half years of strenuous work which he put in at the War Office. I went there with little knowledge...
Mr Walter Long: That, I think is a point well worth consideration, and I will consider it. Of course, my hon. and gallant Friend must know that all depends on the number of vacancies there are. We could not give special advantages to any boy who had been removed as against boys who come up from school. But I shall be very glad to consider the point. That is all I have to say about Osborne and Dartmouth. I...
Lord Hugh Cecil: This Debate has been conducted under rather difficult, circumstances during the dinner hour, which, under the procedure of the House, is the least dignified and least efficient part of the House's working day, since there is no interval allowed in which persons can get anything to eat. Accordingly, not all those interested in the subject can ever be present in the House together, and it...
Sir J. D. REES: This Budget has been described as a "rich man's Budget." To be rich a man must have a business. Land does not make a man rich now. The more land he has, the worse off he is. If he has investments he is not rich. Unless he sells something everybody wants more or less, he is not a rich man. How do the rich people fare under this Budget? The Excess Profits Duty is raised from 40...
Sir Henry Maddocks: I beg to move, to leave out the word "now," and at the end of the Question to add the words, "upon this day six months." I oppose this Bill in the interests of the mothers of illegitimate children, in the interests of the illegitimate children themselves, and in the interests of the public. If the Bill had been brought forward by the hon. Member for Ladywood on the footing that it was a...
