Mr Michael Foot: Next on this list of priorities, I suggest that consideration should be given to books, and particularly children's books. It is quite true, as has been said, that the main consideration limiting the production of books is the lack of labour, but we all hope that will be overcome; in a few months time at any rate, and when it is overcome we want to make sure that there is a big supply of...
Mr Michael Foot: I am in favour of the "Daily Worker "having more newsprint, because they are not a combine and, much as I dislike most of their views, they have every right to bigger supplies. We had a Debate in this House the other day about the film industry. Hon. Members opposite who pretend they are so much in favour of maintaining the liberties of the people were unanimous—or almost unanimous—there...
Mr Michael Foot: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Dominion Governments and Governments of other sterling areas were consulted before His Majesty's Government gave their approval to the U.S. loan and was an approach by the whole of the sterling group to the U.S. Government considered.
Mr Michael Foot: Could the right hon. Gentleman supply us with the parts of his speech, or of the speeches of his right hon. Friends, in which these questions were answered, so that we can discover whether in fact they were answered or not?
Mr Michael Foot: Can the Prime Minister say whether such information services as those in the United States, which Have done very good work under great difficulties during the war, will in future come under the new organisation or under the Foreign Office?
Mr Michael Foot: Despite the inability of the Government to appoint one Minister to deal with all demobilisation problems, would it be possible to appoint a Minister to bring pressure on all three Services to secure the release as quickly as possible of a couple of good fullbacks to stand up to the Moscow Dynamos?
Mr Michael Foot: I had not really intended to take part in this Debate, but there has been such an oppressive atmosphere of good will between those on all sides that I thought it necessary to introduce a certain degree of controversy. Hon. Members on one side have applauded the sentiments expressed by those on the other side of the House; the hon. Member for East Aberdeen (Mr. Boothby) startled the House by...
Mr Michael Foot: On the question of excluding British films, those eight companies in desperate competition manage to get together and reach agreements very well. They reach agreements to exclude British films. They not only exclude them because they want to make more money; they exclude them because they know that, in the atmosphere which they have built up in America, British films will not go down in...
Mr Michael Foot: I would like to begin by thanking the Government for the opportunity of discussing this most important question to-day. Like the right hon. Gentleman who has just spoken in the Debate, I certainly have no desire to criticise the Government or to attack the Government on this issue. The Motion on the Paper, to which reference has been made, was signed by Members of all parties, and it commands...
Mr Michael Foot: I am certainly aware that there has been great devastation in that part of the world, but the hon. Gentleman is not a great authority on the war that took place in Poland, because when that war started he was opposed to it. Therefore, we think that we have a right to demand that deportation should be stopped this winter. We think that is a right we have under the Potsdam Agreement, and we...
Mr Michael Foot: I was making no attack on the Government and was not suggesting that they had failed in any way. I was appealing for further action.
Mr Michael Foot: asked the Prime Minister whether he will make arrangements for the publication of evidence about events leading up to the war, supplied to Allied officers by such German generals as Halder and Keitel.
Mr Michael Foot: On rising to address this House for the first time, I ask the indulgence which it is the custom of the House to extend to maiden speakers. I feel that a maiden speaker taking part in this Debate has a special claim upon that indulgence. We have been told from both sides to-day how advisable it is that controversy should be avoided on matters of foreign policy and we might imagine, from those...
