We are all very well aware of the extent to which the economic Crisis of the Years around 1930 contributed to the rise of Hitlerism and the degeneration of the world situation; and we must, if we are to establish peace, pay as much attention to economic as to political problems.

As the hon. Member for Hornsey said, they have been gradually trained, owing to the various constitutional changes which have taken place in Ceylon; they have learned the arts of administration and of politics; they are responsible, level-headed men, and, in my opinion, their statesmanship has been first-class throughout the Crisis of Recent Years.

Yesterday we heard that, at a time when we are faced with what may be our gravest financial Crisis in Recent Years, we are about to pay £750,000 for a fun fair at Battersea.

Unless he realises that we will get the usual once-every-two-Year Crisis.

They could not get the ships quickly enough, and the result is that, although the Government told us time and again that the real Crisis of the Year would be in February and March, not all this coal, which is being specifically imported to help us to meet this crisis which the Government so lately realised was to come upon us, is going to be here by that time.

As the hon. Member, who has come rather recently to this field, will be aware, his own Government when in office had a ten-Year Crisis in Gibraltar and it was very largely their actions and the tactless way in which they introduced the present Constitution which was responsible for the crisis we are in now.

It must be done even now unless we are to face a worse possible Crisis in the Year ahead.

The exceptionally generous RSG settlement last year, our joint success in restraining expenditure, followed now by a fair settlement this year, mean that, after the chaos and Crisis of the Years 1973 and 1974, local government finances are now in a far healthier condition, and the public can face next year's rate increases with reasonable equanimity.

When will the Secretary of State and the Minister be able to give us some indication of the Government's plans for steel, an industry in which Scotland is facing the greatest Crisis in Years?

I believe that an increasing number of people recognise that no incomes policy can be effective if the general mood in the country is that it will not last, or that the Opposition of the day are committed to abolishing it, or that the Government of the day simply see the policy as a one or two-Year Crisis measure.

Where will the Minister then go for the ships that the Tyne supplied when Britain faced its greatest Crisis of Recent Years?

As the Prime Minister has now accepted the extent to which teachers' salaries in Scotland have fallen behind since the Houghton report, when may we expect a Government statement about how they will resolve the two-Year Crisis that faces Scottish education?

Even if the Government were unable to address that Crisis in This Year's settlement, it will not be forgotten next year.

I know that the Leader of the House thinks that it is in order for an answer to be given to a written question on the agriculture summit today, but it is not appropriate for my farmers, who are suffering the worst Crisis in Years.

Every major Crisis in Recent Years has required the application of military force at the crucial point in a much shorter time scale.

We are not therefore considering a one-Year Crisis; it will linger in schools for years.

He looked imaginatively and openly at bids for specific pots of funding that might meet the Crisis in Year.

It is helpful to reinforce the point that, in any event, we are dealing with an extraordinarily challenged area of the world, which has a year-on-Year Crisis; that is no exaggeration.

As I said last time, this is part of a 40-Year Crisis of the Muslim Middle East and will go on.

I believe that in time, as we look back on the Crisis in the Years to come, that breach of international humanitarian law will be one of the most telling aspects of it.