Dr Mont Follick: The Owen Falls.
Dr Mont Follick: Is not one of the reasons for this transfer that Australia wants a direct line with Cape Town?
Dr Mont Follick: On a point of order. As probably the only hon. Member of the House who has been there, I must say that my right hon. Friend is grossly exaggerating. There are no signs of lack of civilisation.
Dr Mont Follick: After the war.
Dr Mont Follick: As we have mentioned South Africa. I might point out that we transferred to South Africa in 1921 Walfisch Bay which was one of the finest ports in the whole of South-West Africa.
Dr Mont Follick: I am glad to be able to intervene in this debate, because things have been said today about different parts of the world which need correcting. I hope that in correcting them I shall not embitter anyone. In the first place, this transfer displays to the world that the transfer of a territory from one national sovereignty to an- other can take place peacefully between friends. All over the...
Dr Mont Follick: That may be so now, but it was not so in 1920.
Dr Mont Follick: I admit that I have not been to that country since 1920. As for combined Commonwealth responsibility for all territories, I have advocated it in this House over and over again. It is time that the entire Commonwealth became responsible for the imperial part of our great Empire. I believe that this transfer is a thoroughly good thing for the Cocos Islands, which are of inestimable importance...
Dr Mont Follick: In this case, Mr. Speaker, I am on firm ground, because if those people were not uncivilised many years ago they certainly would not be uncivilised now. During the life of the Labour Government we saw the transfer of Newfoundland from Great Britain to Canada. When I was in Newfoundland, last year, I went up to see the new iron-workings. I found satisfaction about the transfer to Canada, which...
Dr Mont Follick: What! With the name Ross!
Dr Mont Follick: How does my hon. Friend know that he is the last?
Dr Mont Follick: Other side of the Pacific?
Dr Mont Follick: Indian Ocean.
Dr Mont Follick: Would the Minister not agree that it would be far better to keep the 11-year-olds in the primary schools rather than send them to secondary schools?
Dr Mont Follick: Can the right hon. Gentleman tell me if in his broadcasts he lays sufficient stress on the fact that once Cyprus becomes separated from this country all Cypriots in this country will become aliens, subject to the same legislation as other aliens in this country?
Dr Mont Follick: I am sorry to interrupt my right hon. Friend, but I should like to point out that, at the outbreak of war, the Governor of one of the colonial territories of France, the Chad territory, was a negro from French Guiana, and that he was the only one of all the Governors of French territories who remained true to the alliance with us.
Dr Mont Follick: He was.
Dr Mont Follick: Nobody said that.
Dr Mont Follick: How much did the right hon. Gentleman say?
Dr Mont Follick: A buccaneer in Scotland!
