Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 24 Tachwedd 1947.
Sir Waldron Smithers
, Orpington
12:00,
24 Tachwedd 1947
Might I ask the Minister, in order to save further expenditure, and in view of the fact that there are still hundreds, if not thousands of British farmers who were dispossessed and suffering under a burning sense of injustice, if he would, even at this stage, set up an independent committee under an English judge?
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