We had had this question of the Suez Canal for months and years under our notice, and we had had This Special Crisis under our notice for a period of more than 10 days.

We are a new type of men specially thrown up by the nation to meet a Special Crisis.

Mr. CHAMBERLAIN: I am confining myself to my own statement, and not to that of hon. Members opposite—devised for the purpose of meeting a Special Crisis, and that when that crisis was over I thought that the people of this country would expect that the first to receive relief should be those upon whom those special burdens had been then imposed.

Trade Union Congress, Special Crisis Committee, 60.

Special Crisis Committee, 59–60.

I think at the moment there is a Special Crisis among medical staff in the hospital service and that we must pay attention to their morale.

I illustrate this by describing to the House one aspect of my experience as Chancellor when I attended the two Special Crisis meetings of the Group of Ten, the principal monetary powers of the world.

Unless the Government can give that, people will be asking why, if the Government cannot help in This Special Crisis, they should support the Labour Government.

We also owe my right hon. Friend a considerable debt for his steady leadership in times of Special Crisis - acts of terrorism, hijacking or even the major riots.

I shall draw attention to one Special Crisis point - I hesitate to say "bone of contention" in that context - of funding in my constituency, concerning the A4229 link from the M4 near South Cornelly down to Porthcawl, where that A road is nothing more than a country lane for a few miles.