Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Can societies which want speakers apply to the Ministry?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs why there was no representation of the Teheran Legation to see Mr. Litvinov on a British aeroplane; whether disciplinary action has been taken against the Foreign Office officials on the aeroplane for not resigning their seats to Mr. and Mrs. Litvinov; whether there was satisfactory co-operation with the Soviet officials on the part of the...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Mr. Litvinov did not refuse to accept a British plane in anger or anything of that sort?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: I congratulate the hon. Member for Oldham (Mr. Kerr) upon a most admirable speech made without a note; it was a great credit to the House of Commons. I would like also to refer to the speech made earlier in the Debate today by the hon. Member for Walsall (Sir G. Schuster) and that made on a previous day by the hon. Member for Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths), which really deserve the careful...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Excellent. I am very glad to hear those telegrams.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: But how many of the Indians are fighting? In the last war we allowed two divisions to fight over in Europe. The others were allowed to fight against the Turks. I say there is reluctance on the part of the War Office to employ West Africans, West Indians and East Africans. There is a reluctance to allow the Jews to fight; they are kept in the Pioneer Corps. There is a reluctance to allow the...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Is it contrary to the truth that you have arranged for only 1,000,000 troops from India?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Is it contrary to the truth that you have not allowed Home Guards even in the Punjaub, and that you have refused to allow Jews to fight with the British Army? Is it not true that West Indian troops are not being used? All those things are true, and it is time that the War Office changed its attitude about the employment of coloured troops in this war. That applies also to the whole...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Prime Minister whether the co-operation between the war executives of Great Britain and the Soviet are yet as close as they were between Great Britain and France when France was free and an Ally?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Secretary of State for War how many of the 1,541 Palestinians, presumed prisoners of war, were left in Greece unsurrendered; whether they were left without arms to defend themselves; whether British officers were in command; if so, did they stop with their men; and what proportion of the Palestinians left in Greece and Crete were Jews and Arabs, respectively?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Is the right hon. and gallant Gentleman aware that it is stories like these which are spreading through the bazaars of the Near East; and that they must be answered in order that any recruiting can continue at all?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: I hope that this Debate will not degenerate into the old discussion on the virtues of the Western front. Such a controversy kept us going throughout the whole of the last war. I want us to concentrate far more on how we can best help Russia Certainly I do not think that we can help Russia best by attacking the Communist Party. I thought the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Derby (Mr....
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: A united struggle.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware of the treatment meted out to 42 British survivors of a bombed ship, who got to West Africa, by the officials of the Vichy Government; whether any protest has been made; and whether His Majesty's Government will treat the Vichy Government as hostile and occupy Obok, instead of immobilising considerable Allied Forces for the...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: "How long, O Lord," shall we continue to turn the other cheek?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Secretary of State for War, whether the Ethiopian Government are now in a position to terminate the leases of land and minerals made to Italians by the former Italian rulers of Ethiopia; and, if not, when they are expected to be in such a position?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Are the relations between this country and His Majesty the Emperor a matter for the War Office or for the Foreign Office?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Is it not desirable that the body which will be normally responsible for the territory should take responsibility before the negotiations are concluded?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Is not warm clothing available for only a certain number and is handed from one man to another when they go on watch?.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Is there any chance of obtaining women for the A.T.S. in Palestine?
