Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: I do not think he is so any longer. I think that the actual chairman is the present- editor, Collin Brooks.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: That is one of the things into which I should like the Government to inquire.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: No, he is not a director. Mr. Isaac Pitman, his son-in-law, and a Mr. Gray are at present directors, and I have no doubt that they are there to watch Lord Luke's interests, without taking any direction in the conduct of the paper. What I am urging is that they should start taking serious direction of the paper now and get rid of the editor, who is the man responsible, and put in his place an...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: I have said all I wanted to say, except that all through these kaleidoscopic changes there appear the figures of Mr. Crocker and Sir Joseph Ball, not as directors of but as connected with "Truth." I understand these people are also on the Swinton Committee. It is improper that people in any sort of way connected with this matter should be on a committee which has the decision as to whether...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: If my right hon. and gallant Friend will look at Shirer's "Berlin Diary," he will see the changes which have taken place in the relations between officers and men in the Services in Germany.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Secretary of State for War (1) with reference to Major William Patrick Scott, officer commanding troops on the "Dunera," in what regiment this officer was gazetted as major in November, 1934; was he styled captain when the "Dunera" sailed; and has his rank since been changed; (2) whether he will state the charges made against Major W. P. Scott, for which he was put on trial before...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Are we to understand that there was no charge preferred against him in respect of looting from the internees on board?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Is the right hon. and gallant Gentleman making any inquiry in connection with these prisoners?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Would the Minister kindly call the attention of the War Cabinet to the opinion expressed in this Committee that the only possible way of stopping speculation in land is to tax land values?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Secretary of State for India whether, in view of the need for supplying Russia as well as the Near East from India, the Indian Government now proposes itself to start the manufacture of internal combustion engines in India?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: How does the right hon. Gentleman know when the war will end? Is it not about time that with 400,000,000 people, you should start making something which is vital to the war?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Home Secretary whether he has considered the views expressed by the paper "Truth," which are those of the British Union of Fascists, and contain sneers at America and Russia; and, in view of the danger to the national war effort, will he take appropriate steps to deal with this publication, either directly, or through the Paper Control Board?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: While this paper may be moderate in its comments at present, what will be the action of such a Quisling paper if the Germans ever come here? Will not they have a supply of paper and machinery for acting as the organ of the new Government? Will the right hon. Gentleman take that point of view into account in regard to the publication of this wretched rag?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: I will bring the matter up on the Adjournment, with extracts from the paper.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Is the objection to turning up the lights really a Home Office objection and not an objection on the part of the Air Ministry?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Minister of Information whether he has satisfied himself as to the value, both for military and civilian training in total war, of the "Soviet War News"; and whether he is taking any steps to get this publication into the hands of the Army and civilian services in the Near East and in this country?
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: May I ask my right hon. and gallant Friend why he could not tell me that when I asked him privately?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Have any of the Colonies pre-eminence in producing materials, and are any actual deliveries taking place, and from which Colony?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Home Secretary whether there is any means by which a German or Austrian refugee from Nazi oppression, whose registration certificate has not been endorsed to that effect, may obtain such an endorsement on his certificate?
