If they do, I will add that the same claim which I make for myself I put forward with an equal measure of assurance for my new colleagues, who in the same temper and spirit, felt it their duty to respond to my invitation to associate themselves in a Supreme National Crisis with lifelong antagonists.
This House, after all, was mainly elected to deal with a Supreme National Crisis.
If the Minister really believes that we are in a Supreme National Crisis, he should not deprive us of foreign currency merely because the National Coal Board want to have more powers.
We stand by paragraph 9 of the Nassau Agreement, where we explicitly reserve the right, which President Kennedy fully accepted, for Britain to withdraw our forces for our own purposes in Any Supreme National Crisis.