Dr Mont Follick: What about Loughborough College?
Dr Mont Follick: Why is the Bill limited to pictorial publications? Other publications can be far more injurious than pictorial ones.
Dr Mont Follick: Would not the hon. Member agree that there should be incorporated a provision that newspapers generally should not give reports of brutality and the like, which youngsters might read and thereby have their minds influenced?
Dr Mont Follick: "Forever Amber."
Dr Mont Follick: I wish from the outset to give my unqualified support to the Bill, and to give it without any criticism at all. There has been far too much exaggeration of possibilities here and of possibilities there, but we want to get rid of this filth that is getting into the minds of young people, penetrating their thoughts, and producing a set of almost indecent adolescents. One can make all sorts of...
Dr Mont Follick: Quite a boy, compared with my right hon. Friend—there has always been some sort of horror literature. I remember the old blood-and-thunders, and the penny dreadfuls. I used to read them and lie awake all night. We have always had them. We have always had the "Weary Willies" and the "Tired Tims" which are good fun—but always in our penny dreadfuls and blood-and-thunders and our melodramas...
Dr Mont Follick: That is what Chamberlain said in 1938.
Dr Mont Follick: It looks as if War Loan is a bit of a gamble today.
Dr Mont Follick: Hear, hear.
Dr Mont Follick: If talking a Bill out is not worthy of this House, objecting to a Bill going into Committee is surely much worse.
Dr Mont Follick: The hon. Member has not much time.
Dr Mont Follick: On a point of order. Would I be in order to point out a grammatical mistake in the Minister's supplementary reply?
Dr Mont Follick: On a point of order. That was a mis-statement. Brooke Bond are the biggest.
Dr Mont Follick: Does not the Minister think that it would make all these things very much easier if he would give support to my Bill, which is to be considered tomorrow week?
Dr Mont Follick: A sexual murder is a beastly murder.
Dr Mont Follick: On a point of order. I heard my name called. I am not backing the Bill.
Dr Mont Follick: Yes, Mr. Speaker.
Dr Mont Follick: But they do not think.
Dr Mont Follick: What about the generals?
Dr Mont Follick: How is he to disobey them?
