Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 25 Mawrth 1947.
Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that he made a public statement to the Press, that he hoped the demand would be met before the harvest; that several agricultural executives were refusing orders for imported machines; that home producers of these machines were refusing orders for delivery before the harvest; and that we are importing these machines from hard currency countries and exporting them to soft currency countries? Is this not crazy?