You have got the claims of the schemes in operation for labour now, and you have got the claim of men who have served the country in the Crisis of Its Life for work now.

Therefore, when the Secretary-General of the United Nations speaks of the UnitedNations facing the biggest Crisis of Its Whole Life, it is right and even essential that we should discuss it in the House.

As he himself so nobly and modestly said: It fell to me in those days to express the sentiments and resolves of the British nation in that supreme Crisis of Its Life.