Many hon. Members follow the extremely able reports which are given by the Washington correspondent of The Times who, only a week ago, was saying that the Crisis of Decision was arising in Vietnam, as he believed, and that it might be that within a very short period the Americans would be deciding either greatly to intensify the bombing, or to multiply their forces in Vietnam, or augment them greatly, that is, raising them from a figure of about 250,000 to 500,000.

It will transfer the Crisis of Decision from this Parliament to a future Parliament and from this generation to future generations.

However, it is far from perfect, and I do not want there to be a Crisis of Decision making so that there needs to be an inquiry into that failure.