§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Popplewell.]
§ 11.48 p.m.
§ Mr. Quintin Hogg (Oxford)I desire to raise with the representative of the War Office, which is the responsible Department, the question of a war trial.
I wish to begin with this observation about my general position in regard to these trials. I am not one of those who have criticised war trials. On the contrary, I have always thought, as one who wishes to see the rule of law in international affairs, that, painful as they were, difficult as they were for a victor to conduct, it was absolutely essential that they should be conducted and that the more
§ penses of works and lands, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1950."