Dr Mont Follick: Not always.
Dr Mont Follick: As this is the first day of the debate on the Gracious Speech, I had hoped that we might have started the Adjournment debate much earlier—
Dr Mont Follick: The matter I am raising tonight is little understood in this country, but, nevertheless, is of great importance. As my hon. Friend the Member for Stirling and Falkirk Burghs (Mr. Malcolm MacPherson) has remarked, about half the students at the polytechnics are from abroad. This morning I received a letter from Lima the capital of Peru, addressed to me by the Secretary of the Federation of...
Dr Mont Follick: Yes.
Dr Mont Follick: I was giving the information that I received at The Grange.
Dr Mont Follick: Why not?
Dr Mont Follick: No, they have not
Dr Mont Follick: There are many mistakes in the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Dr Mont Follick: Why make the statement?
Dr Mont Follick: The right hon. Gentleman is putting his foot into it.
Dr Mont Follick: The Minister is no doubt aware of the advertisement of Beecham's Pills being worth a guinea a box. Would that pass or not?
Dr Mont Follick: What about shoe cream?
Dr Mont Follick: Is it not a general rule that Scotland Yard returns one-third of the value of property that is found?
Dr Mont Follick: I can beat the hon. Member by a year. I have been driving for 49 years.
Dr Mont Follick: Would not the hon. Gentleman agree that it is almost equally dangerous to have dogs inside a car, especially large dogs?
Dr Mont Follick: I should like to draw a parallel with Germany before the First World War. Then, in Dresden and Munich there were infinitely greater museums and picture galleries than ever there were in Berlin. People went to Munich and Dresden to see the pictures. It was one of the great things to go to Dresden to see the Sistine Madonna, and there was a much broader establishment of art in Germany outside...
Dr Mont Follick: Does not the right hon. Gentleman think it is a scandal that a comic actor can in one week be paid three times the amount of money that the average university professor could earn in an entire year?
Dr Mont Follick: The hon. Gentleman was suggesting Kenya, but we have already built an important base in the Mackinnon Road and we gave it up because it was not serviceable.
Dr Mont Follick: This Parliament could last another year or 18 months.
Dr Mont Follick: Could the Leader of the House, as a matter of interest, give us any indication when we are going into Recess and when we are coming out of it?
