asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, in view of the economic plight of the country as shown by the Economic Survey, 1948, what new steps he proposes to take to compel the nation to face the facts.

In this country, it is customary to invite rather than to compel people to accept particular attitudes of mind; and the steady rise in production over a wide field of industry is evidence that the public is responding to the measures which the Government has taken, and will continue to take, to make the economic situation widely known.

Is the Minister aware that, up to even quite recently, the Lord President of the Council was not aware that there was an economic crisis?

Would it not be of some help if the Opposition paid some attention to facts themselves?