Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Why did my hon. Friend give me a misleading answer a fortnight ago? Was he himself misled by his own permanent officials?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Is my hon. Friend taking appropriate steps to stop this sort of thing, even at the risk of annoying Admiral Darlan?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Prime Minister whether he will make a statement to this House, as well as circulating in pamphlet form, the advice to civilians in case of invasion?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: It has been suggested that the supporters of the Prayer are trying to obstruct the development of the drama. As a matter of fact, if this Prayer is rejected and Sunday opening becomes law, the theatre will not be helped in the least. It will mean the opening of the music-halls, not of the theatres. I do not believe that a single theatre in the whole of Staffordshire will open as a result of...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: No, they will not go to them, and the thing will be a flop in any case. But I want to know who demands it.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: I am coming to that point. The cinemas are open. The Army consists now not solely of recluses in a monastic establishment. You have now none of the difficulties you had when the Army was in France. There is quite enough family life and affection for men in the Army to-day. Men and girls in uniform are much better satisfied to go to the cinema than to go to a vulgar music hall performance. It...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Home Secretary whether he has considered the letter concerning Mrs. Ansbacher; and whether he will see that these wives of friendly aliens, whose husbands were sent to Australia with the promise that their wives would be sent after them, receive maintenance money and that when their husbands were on the "Dunera" that part of the compensation is paid to them?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Can my right hon. Friend inform us whether these women who have lost their all will be able to get out to Australia?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Will my right hon. Friend convey to the Government of Australia how strongly we feel on that matter?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Can it be honestly said that the Government are doing everything possible to prevent this, when they are not using their bargaining power of preventing food from entering Spain?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (1), how many British subjects of Jewish faith and German origin have been interned in Jamaica; and whether anything is being done to give internees the same chance of release that they would have if interned in this country; (2), why it has been found necessary to detain Dr. Stamm and his wife in Jamaica seeing that they are Jews and...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: While I thank my hon. Friend for the answer, will he let the Governor know that this question has been raised; and does the Governor realise that the Jews are friendly, while other Germans may not be?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: asked the Prime Minister whether he will give this House an opportunity of formally and publicly thanking the United States of America for their sympathy and help, as shown in the Lease-and-Lend Act?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Why should they not be?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: I am surprised at the opposition to this Bill coming from the circles from which it does.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: I hope that we shall find nobody in the Lobby against this Bill. The question is, obviously, one of public safety. I do not say that these people who are transferred to the Isle of Man are necessarily dangerous; but some are dangerous. If there are potential Quislings among them, I want them to be in the Isle of Man, where they cannot be rescued in the event of invasion, and not here in...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: We see to-day in Yugoslavia what happens when you nurse in your own country people whose views are hostile to those of the democracies.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: They are detained in Brixton. If London falls, they will be the first people to be set free, and to be set in charge of this country. Surely the House realises that we, Parliament, are supreme in this matter. If a crime has been committed by the Home Secretary this Parliament can eliminate it from the Statute Book, and reinstate the rights of the people affected. The Habeas Corpus Act can be...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Certainly not. As far as Mosley and company are concerned, I would deal with them in another way. We cannot possibly carry on this country with a divided allegiance to democracy. This is not a national war: it is a war of religion. Here we have a certain number of people who are opposed to our success: who will do everything they can to secure the success of our enemies. Those people are a...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: Defensive freedom comes first. The only safe defensive freedom is to destroy the enemy.
