If we are going to be bound by pledges made under circumstances entirely different, and if we are going to be so bound that we must totally ignore new factors in the case in a Great National and International Crisis, then it seems to me that our position becomes absolutely impossible.

Is it not clear that it is a case not for dealing with imports in order to keep up prices, but a case for organising the home crop and the home producer The National Government, we are told, have been elected to deal with a Great National and International Crisis, and yet the British Cabinet has to sit around a table discussing whether a tariff shall be put on cucumbers, on asparagus or on turnips.