I remember the dissemination in the news a short time ago of some theological views which the stress of the Munich Crisis had invoked in the mind of the hon. Mover of this Motion.
In view of the fact that it is now nearly two months since the scheme was submitted, and six months since the Munich Crisis, when it was evident that we were totally unprepared to meet aerial bombardment, is it not now time that the Lord Privy Seal prepared a deep-shelter scheme and published it to the country?
asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether he has drawn the attention of the Committee of Imperial Defence to the recent statement of the late Governor of Gibraltar concerning the state of the de fences of Gibraltar during the Munich Crisis; whether the situation at Gibraltar has been studied in the light of that statement; and whether all the requirements of the authorities at Gibraltar in respect of sea, land and air defences, have now been met?
Is my right hon. Frined aware that military circles in this country, and also a great many of the general public, have had their confidence in the War Office very much shaken because the War Office, since the Munich Crisis, have not laid in stocks to meet what is, in fact, only a small expansion compared with the expansion we might have had if there had been a war?
In the summer of this year, after the Munich Crisis, the Government produced a Bill which was a bitter disappointment to British shipowners.
The first time was in September, 1938, when they were mobilised on account of the Munich Crisis.
Will my right hon. Friend acquaint himself with the proposal which was made by the Government in September, 1938, during the Munich Crisis, to pay the fares of old people who could get accommodation with friends or relatives in the country; and is he aware that if an offer were made, to provide free transport for such old people, thousands who have friends and relatives in the country would take advantage of it?
In April, 1938, Austria was annexed; in September we had the Munich Crisis and in March of the following year Czechoslovakia was annexed.
To that basis we adhered until 1934 and even into 1935 - within three years of the Munich Crisis and within four years of the outbreak of this war.
The book is "The Truth About the Munich Crisis," by Lord Maugham.
In pre-war years this market lost much of its elasticity and drive, and, in fact, during the Munich Crisis, it practically closed and had to be prompted by the Bank.
In 1938 the Munich Crisis caused dislocation, and in 1939 there was war.
Then there was the resignation of Mr. Duff Cooper, now Ambassador in Paris, after the Munich Crisis.
The position in the book publishing trade at the moment is that publishers get a four-monthly quota of paper, three times a year, based on the consumption of paper in the year 1938–39 which, to begin with, is a very bad year on which to base a quota because of the effect of the Munich Crisis and other matters on the book publishing trade at that time.
asked the Minister of Transport how many first-class sleeping berths were reserved on an average every week between the Munich Crisis and the outbreak of war; and why it is necessary to reserve an increased number at the present time.
Today I read a speech by the present Prime Minister in 1938 soon after the Munich Crisis.
I well remember, at the time of the Munich Crisis, sitting in a biplane with a couple of guns but no paint even to camouflage the aeroplane.
This need was felt, as I have said, at the time of the Munich Crisis; and in 1939 a special Act was passed - the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces Act - in May of that year, which permitted the Service authorities to call up such of the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces as were necessary, without Proclamation.
One of the first things that happened during the Munich Crisis was that the civil population were issued with gas masks.
I understand that it was not the case in the Chanak incident, and it was not the case in 1938 at the time of the Munich Crisis.
At one time, we had a central chart depot, but that system broke down during the Munich Crisis, because we could not deliver an entire set of charts as quickly as was necessary.
Some of us who were in the House at the time of the Munich Crisis cannot help comparing the two situations.
In his last speech on affairs before the Munich Crisis in 1938 he drew attention to the devastating effects of social division.
Does the hon. Gentleman think that, likewise, we should be candid about the role of the British Government before the second world war, particularly at the time of the Munich Crisis, when we gave sustenance to Hitlerism in Germany?
For the first time in that period - indeed for longer, because it was clear from the time of the Munich Crisis who our enemies were and where the battles would be fought - the familiar certainties of a clearly identified threat, a traditional confrontation, appear to have diminished.
It was because we went on and on - through the abandoning of Czechoslovakia, the Munich Crisis and so forth - failing to grasp the nettle that we finally allowed Hitler to become so strong that we very nearly lost the war.
It is worth remembering that, in 1938, during the Munich Crisis, the Prime Minister's first opportunity to know whether he had achieved any success with Adolf Hitler was when the Deutschland left the Spanish port of Vigo.