Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Is it not carrying appeasement too far to allow these people who are a danger to retain their arms?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Secretary of State for War (1) to what regiment did the bulk of the troops belong who did the removing of wedding rings, &c, from refugees on board the "Dunera"; and did the ship's company or naval ratings take any part in such actions? (2) Whether the evidence at the court-martial showed that the officer commanding troops on the "Dunera" knew that many hundred wedding rings and...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: How is it possible that the commanding officer in charge of the troops did not know that this robbery was going on?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Secretary of State for War what were the results of the inquiry and court-martial into the looting and mishandling of the Jewish interned refugees on the "Dunera" going out to Australia; and what compensation has been paid to the victims?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Was this court-martial held without taking any evidence from the victims, and are we to understand that the net result, as far as the commanding officer is concerned, is that he is severely reprimanded and promoted from captain to major?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: When we asked for an inquiry the right hon. and gallant Gentleman promised that there should be a court-martial which would have the same effect as an inquiry. We asked for an inquiry, but we have not had it. Instead, we have had a hushing-up court-martial.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether any arrangement has been made whereby some small sum in dollars may be sent to British children refugees in America so that they may at least be able to buy stamps for letters home?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Can the right hon. Gentleman tell me whether they can send some money now?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: I always have the good fortune to follow the hon. Member for Aylesbury (Sir S. Reed) and always do so with the greatest appreciation of his speech. I entirely agree with him that the Act of 1935, so far as it affected the Provinces, was admirable, and that so far as it affected the centre it is dead— and the problem in future is how to create something acceptable as a Federal Parliament in...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Were the engines made there?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: You can get a much better education at an elementary school.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Prime Minister whether he will make a statement regarding the proposed loan to the Spanish Government of over £2,000,000; and whether the House will have a chance of debating and voting on the issue before the transaction is completed?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Is the Prime Minister aware of the fact that this money will go straight into German pockets; is there any chance of any of it being saved; and is not our representation by the right hon. Member for Chelsea (Sir S. Hoare) in Spain a little too expensive?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Greece is much more important.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: The hon. Member who has just addressed the House was for many years editor of the greatest paper in Western India, which maintained throughout the good, sound, liberal traditions of the nineteenth century. He never said a truer word in his speech than when he said that the vast majority of thinking Indians whose opinion matters to-day are overwhelmingly liberal. I would add that the...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: But the hon. Gentle man was thinking of a Government nominee. If you could get anything in the nature of representation —
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: One Congress leader is no good. Any Congress leader who came here would immediately become an outcast. It must be a nominee of Congress to give any satisfaction in India. There may be some objection to it, but I have always thought that each Province could send to this House representatives of the Provincial Legislatures, so that they might learn from us—and we might also learn something...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: In a central arrangement for Provincial government you would get agreement. It is not only a question of federation.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that women interned in the Isle of Man are allowed to write two 24-line letters and a postcard weekly only to their husbands interned in Australia; and will he abolish these restrictions so that these people can maintain a closer contact until they are reunited?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Is it fair to hon. Members to have to receive all these complaints and pass them on and get them settled satisfactorily? Why cannot the matter be dealt with generally?
