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Commons Hansard for 22 November 1939 (Volume 353)
From the digitised editions of archive material. Last updated
13 May 2018 at 3.46am.
Commons Chamber
Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.
House Of Commons
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New Writ
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Private Bills And Private Business
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Adjournment Motions Under Standing Order No 8
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Closure Of Debate (Standing Order No 26)
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Public Bills
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Public Petitions
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Select Committees
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Sittings Of The House And Business Of Supply
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Standing Committees
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Oral Answers To Questions
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China And Japan
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Hapsburg Monarchy
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Anglo-Italian Agreement
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British Council
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Sir Nevile Henderson
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Poland
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Royal Institute Of International Affairs
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Royal Air Force
Press Duties (Journalists)
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Observer Corps
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Materials (Purchase)
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Billeting (Payments)
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Distinguished Flying Cross
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Leave (Free Railway Warrants)
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Vaccination And Inoculation
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Post Office
Air Mail Services
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Deliveries
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Letters And Parcels (French Troops)
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Mails To Neutral Countries
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Royal Navy
Commissioned Accountant Officers
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Re-Employed Officers (Uniform Allowance)
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His Majesty's Ship "Thetis" (Salvage)
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Steamship "Athenia"
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German Mine-Laying
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West Indies (Commission's Report)
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Palestine (Jews Under Detention)
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Jamaica (General Election)
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Gold Coast (Gold Companies' Profits)
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Trinidad And Tobago (War Gift)
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Transport
Railways (Government Control)
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Railway Station Names (Illumination)
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Grain Cargoes (Discharge, Plymouth)
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Facilities (Manchester And Salford)
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Pedestrian Traffic
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Public Appointments
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Ministry Of Supply
Pulp (Paper Controller's Purchase)
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Wool
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Pit Wood
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War Materials (Orders Abroad)
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Factory Premises
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Staffs
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Contact With Industries
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Export Trade (Applications For Raw Materials)
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Armament Workers (Release From Defence Forces)
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Food Supplies
Butter
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Herring
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Feeding-Stuffs
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Questions To Ministers
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Sittings Of The House
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Message From The Lords
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Land Warfare
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Orders Of The Day
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Official Secrets Bill Lords
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Clause 1—(Amendment Of 10 And 11 Geo 5, C 75, S 6)
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House Of Commons Members' Fund Act, 1939
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Unemployment
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Written Answers
Content for Written Answers.
Written Answers
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Motor Taxation
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Government Departments
Civil Servants (Pensions)
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Publicity
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Hotels (Requisitioning)
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Military Service (Exemption)
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Ministry Of Food
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Food Control Boards
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Machine Tools (Imports)
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Trade And Commerce
Fruit And Vegetables (Import Restrictions)
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Toys
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Paper
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Electric Torches (Batteries)
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British Representatives (Neutral Countries)
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Chicory
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Cheap Grapes
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Palestinian Oranges
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Prices Of Goods Act (Referee)
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Armed Forces
British Troops, Iraq (Duty Free Tobacco)
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Special Allowances
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English Beer, France (Price)
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Prisoners Of War (Cost)
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Post Office
Callington (Building Site)
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Mails (France, Italy And Switzerland)
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Mails (Switzerland)
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Postmen (Electric Torches)
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Transport
Road Accidents
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Cromwell Road (Extension)
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Motor Car Licences
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Railway Facilities, Christmas And New Year
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Women (Railway Facilities)
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Railway Companies (Compensation)
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Road Accidents
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Royal Navy
Mails
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Retired Officers (Uniform Allowances)
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Fishing Industry (Assistance)
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Sunken Wrecks
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Food Supplies
Feeding-Stuffs
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Imported Fruit
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Meat
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Currants And Raisins
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Bacon And Ham
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French Walnuts
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Milk Products
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Butter
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Farmhouse Butter
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Bulls
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Fish
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Seed-Wheat
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Milk
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Registration
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Bacon And Butter (Rationing)
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Cold Storage
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Distribution
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L I Co-Operative Society, Leeds
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Meat Grading
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Pigs
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Salaries, Glamorgan
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Retail Licence Refused, Ipswich
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Palestine (Terrorism)
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Slaughter-Houses (Fair Wages Clause)
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Unemployment
Assistance Board (Offices, Romford Division)
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Assistance
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Statistics
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Lord Lloyd
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Military Training (Medical Examination)
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War Aims
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Coal Industry (Rationing)
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Petrol Rationing
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Poor Persons Legal Aid Committees
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Courts (Emergency Powers) Act (Debts)
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Cornwall County Council (Police Grant)
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Economic Warfare (Neutral Shipping)
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Refugees (Emigration To Palestine)
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Scotland (Cammo Golf Course, Midlothian)
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