Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Have not Members of the House been Justices of the Peace ever since there were Justices of the Peace?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Did the right hon. and gallant Gentleman include Palestinian prisoners, and, if not, will he give the figures?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the commandant of the Fascist internment camp in the Isle of Man has been changed; whether the free unlimited entry of food and drink has been restored; whether the police replace the military or are supplementary; and what is the weekly cost per head to the British taxpayer for housing, feeding and guarding these interned British...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Now that the Home Office have taken over this particular camp, is there any prospect of their taking over the other camps in which friendly aliens are interned?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Are the Commandants of other camps military officers or your officials?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of certain changes in the relations between this country and Russia, he will now permit the release from internment of the three Communist ex-members of the German Reichstag?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Will their passports be marked "friendly alien"?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Is it not possible that if the Australian Government were approached by the right hon. Gentleman, they would be willing to accept these people for liberation in Australia, where they could be used?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Is it not obvious that if the Italians do not send ships to take their nationals away, they may prefer them to remain there until the end of the war?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will publish as a White Paper the full text of the declaration made recently by Lord Halifax concerning military action by this country on the Continent of Europe?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Undersecretary of State for the Colonies whether, before taking any steps to unite the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, safeguards will be obtained for granting the franchise to native and coloured peoples on a common roll of electors on an educational basis, as being the only sufficient safeguard for justice?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Does the hon. Gentleman realise that the only real safeguard for our trusteeship for these communities is that they should have the power of self-government and not be subject entirely to class rule?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: I am sorry to take up the time of the House, particularly on a subject which affects the freedom of the Press. In normal times I do not think there is any more ardent advocate than I am of the freedom of the Press in this country, not only to print the things we like but to print the things we do not like. On that principle, I and a great many Members of the House take a stand in normal...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: I do not know about that, but I say that it is an indication that the paper is anti-Semite when so much of that sort of stuff is brought forward. I pass to the charge that it is pro-Fascist and pro-German. I ask the House to consider the attitude of this paper towards the "Link," which used to be the Fascist organ in this country. This, I admit, was before we went to war. On nth August,...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: The "Link" was a pro-German organisation. Here is the quotation from "Truth": The 'Link' is quite open about what it is doing. Many anti-Government propagandists pretend to be actuated by national welfare, but their plan is to push Britain, by hook or by crook, into a war with Germany.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: On 14th February, 1940, they said: If peace were concluded with Germany, and there is good reason to believe that it could now be concluded on terms which would satisfy any reasonable person. … Again, on 23rd February they spoke of the peace policy of the B.U.F., that is the British Union of Fascists, before and after the war as the same: Mind Britain's business.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: I am reading from "Truth." This has been going on all through. I think that anybody who used to read "Action" and followed these extracts would see that practically the same arguments and stuff which appeared in "Action" appear now in this paper called "Truth." I come next to the anti-Churchill attitude of the paper. It says: Hitler bears close resemblance to Mr. Churchill. That was just a...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: I will give you the whole of the notes, and you can check them up afterwards.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: They can look them up in "Truth" themselves; it will do them good. That was in November, 1939. On 16th December, 1939, it says: Imagination boggles at Mr. Hore-Belisha and Mr. Winston Churchill wondering a single second over the failure of their Departments to meet their obligations. What they would worry themselves sick about would be if their own salaries were not paid promptly. On 23rd...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: I did not want to bring in the hon. Member's name. Changes in directorship have been very frequent.
