and whether he will take steps to avoid the purchase of such goods during the present Crisis in the Far East?

The Crisis in the Far East has also brought a string of disasters as grievous and as difficult to pardon as any in British history.

The lesson we have to learn from the Crisis in the Far East is that the breathing space which the atom bomb may still give us must be used for the raising of forces on a sufficient scale to enable us to meet the Communist power wherever it may threaten us.

Would my right hon. Friend take note of the fact that the Far East Crisis has not been discussed by this House, whereas it has been fully discussed on the radio and in the Press and in all other political circles?

This, following the recent Crisis in the Far East, and following Anglo-American intervention in the Middle East, seems precisely the impression we do not want to produce at this time.

Mr. Loughton: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his answer of 22 December 1997, Official Report, column 479, if he will revise his projections for GDP growth in the United Kingdom over the next three years in the light of the continuing financial Crisis in the Far East.

I am sure that the Church Commissioners have taken whatever steps they need to take to respond to the Crisis in the Far East.

All that was under way before the Far East Crisis and the Russian crisis.

He blamed the Crisis in the Far East, and unproductive and inefficient businesses.

It owes a great deal to the success in overcoming the Far East Crisis of 1998.