Commons Sitting of 2 March 1950

Preamble
The House met at Half Past Two o'Clock, and Mr. SPEAKER-ELECT (Colonel the Right Hon. DOUGLAS CLIFTON BROWN) having taken the Chair,
Message to attend the Lords Commissioners by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod.
The House, went, and having returned,
Mr. Speaker: I have to report to the House that, in the House of Peers, His Majesty, by his Royal Commissioners, has been pleased to approve the choice made of myself for the office of your Speaker, and that I have, in your name, and on your behalf, laid claim, by humble petition to His Majesty, to all your ancient and undoubted rights and privileges, particularly freedom of speech in Debate, freedom from arrest, freedom of access to His Majesty whenever occasion may require, and that the most favourable construction may be placed upon all your proceedings. All these, His Majesty, by his Commissioners, has been pleased to allow and confirm, in as ample a manner as they have ever been granted or confirmed by himself or any of his Royal predecessors.
My first duty to the House is to repeat my very respectful acknowledgments and grateful thanks for the great honour which you have conferred upon me in placing me again in the Chair.
I must now call upon the Members of the House, according to the usual custom, to take the Oath of Allegiance at the Table of the House, first doing so myself.
Thereupon Mr. SPEAKER first, alone, standing upon the upper step of the Chair, took and subscribed the Oath.
Mr. Speaker: I am now going to call on the Members on the two Front Benches to take the Oath, Members on the Government Bench first, and Members on the Opposition Front Bench second. After that, I shall call upon Privy Councillors and ex-Ministers; and then I shall call upon other Members, bench by bench, first from one side of the House and then from the other. Perhaps Members will be good enough to retain their seats, and remain in their
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benches until I have indicated which bench is being called.
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:
Right honourable Clement Richard Attlee, C.H., Walthamstow, West.
Right honourable Herbert Stanley Morrison, Lewisham, South.
Right honourable Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, K.C., Bristol, South-East.
Right honourable Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Bishop Auckland.
Right honourable James Chuter Ede, South Shields.
Right honourable George Alfred Isaacs, Southwark.
Right honourable Emanuel Shinwell, Easington.
Right honourable Thomas Williams, Don Valley.
Right honourable George Tomlinson, Farnworth.
Right honourable William Whiteley, Blaydon.
Right honourable James Griffiths, Llanelly.
Right honourable James Harold Wilson, O.B.E., Huyton.
Right honourable Philip John Noel-Baker, Derby, South.
Wing Commander the right honourable John Strachey, Dundee, West.
Right honourable George Russell Strauss, Lambeth, Vauxhall.
Right honourable Arthur Henderson, K.C., Rowley Regis and Tipton.
Right honourable Alfred John Barnes, East Ham, South.
Right honourable Hilary Adair Marquand, Middlesbrough, East.
Robert John Taylor, esquire, Morpeth.
Right honourable Maurice Webb, Bradford, Central.
Captain Robert Michael Maitland Stewart, Fulham, East.
Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, esquire, Battersea, North.
Alfred Robens, esquire, Blyth.
George Alfred Brown, esquire, Belper.
Charles James Simmons, esquire, Brierley Hill.
Squadron Leader Geoffrey Stanley de Freitas, Lincoln.
Arthur George Bottomley, esquire, Rochester and Chatham.
Frank Collindridge, esquire, Barnsley.
Ernest Popplewell, esquire, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, West.
Ness Edwards, esquire, Caerphilly.
Right honourable Edith Summerskill, Fulham, West.
Right honourable Patrick Chrestien Gordon-Walker, Smethwick.
William Albert Wilkins, esquire, Bristol, South.
Charles Rider Hobson, esquire, Keighley.
Thomas Fraser, esquire, Hamilton.
Frederick Lee, esquire, Newton.
Major John Freeman, M.B.E., Watford.
Flying Officer Herbert William Bowden, Leicester, South-West.
Lieutenant Leonard James Callaghan, Cardiff, South-East.
David Rennie Hardman, esquire, Darlington.
Harry Bernard Taylor, esquire, Mansfield.
Right Hon. John Thomas Wheatley, K.C., Edinburgh, East.
Tom Cook, esquire, Dundee, East.
James Edward Glanville, esquire, Consett.
William Hannan, esquire, Glasgow, Maryhill.
Captain Hugh James Delargy, Thurrock.
Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas Johnston, K.C., Paisley.
Captain Arthur Blenkinsop, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, East.
Charles Royle, esquire, Salford, West.
Major the right honourable Richard Rapier Stokes, M.C., Ipswich.
Right honourable Aneurin Bevan, Ebbw Vale.
Arthur Pearson, esquire, Pontypridd.
Right honourable Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, O.M., C.H., Woodford.
Major the right honourable Robert Anthony Eden, M.C., Warwick and Leamington.
Right honourable Edward, Earl Winter-ton, Horsham.
Right honourable Oliver Lyttelton, D.S.O., M.C., Aldershot.
Right honourable Richard Austen Butler, Saffron Walden.
Right honourable Maurice Harold Macmillan, Bromley.
Captain the right honourable Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, Gainsborough.
Patrick George Thomas Buchan-Hepburn, esquire, Beckenham.
Right honourable Walter Elliot Elliot, M.C., Glasgow, Kelvingrove.
Right honourable Robert Spear Hudson, C.H., Southport.
Right honourable Sir David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, K.C., Liverpool, West Derby.
Right honourable Osbert Peake, Leeds, North,
Right honourable Malcolm Stewart McCorquodale, Epsom.
Right honourable Sir Robert William Hugh O'Neill, baronet, North Antrim.
Right honourable Duncan Sandys, Wandsworth, Streatham.
Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller, esquire, K.C., South Northants.
Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, esquire, Mid-Bedfordshire.
Right honourable Geoffrey William Lloyd, Birmingham, King's Norton.
Commander Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, Glasgow, Pollok.
Right honourable Richard Kidston Law, Kingston-upon-Hull, Haltemprice.
Major Sir Thomas Lionel Dugdale, baronet, Richmond (Yorks).
Robert Villiers Grimston, esquire, Westbury.
Major Sir Arthur Stewart Leslie Young, baronet, Glasgow, Scotstoun.
Right honourable James Stuart, M.V.O., M.C., Moray and Nairn.
James Purdon Lewes Thomas, esquire, Hereford.
Cedric Drewe, esquire, Honiton.
Major Roger John Edward Conant, Rutland and Stamford.
Major Henry Grey Studholme, Tavistock.
Major Mervyn James Wheatley, C.B.E., Poole.
Major Kenelm Simon Digby Wingfield Digby, West Dorset.
Lieutenant - Colonel Walter Henry Bromley-Davenport, Knutsford.
Brigadier Harry Ripley Mackeson, Folkestone and Hythe.
Captain Charles Waterhouse, Leicester, South-East.
Gerard Spencer Summers, esquire, Aylesbury.
Right honourable Arthur Greenwood, C.H., Wakefield.
Major the right honourable James Milner, M.C., T.D., Leeds, South-East.
Right honourable William George Glenvil Hall, Colne Valley.
Right honourable Arthur Woodburn, East Stirlingshire.
Captain the right honourable Frederick John Bellenger, Bassetlaw.
Wilfrid Andrew Burke, esquire, Burnley.
Robert Donald Scott, esquire, Penrith and the Border.
Right honourable Clement Edward Davies, K.C., Montgomery.
Right honourable George Mathers, West Lothian.
George Samuel Lindgren, esquire, Wellingborough.
Ernest Thurtle, esquire, Shoreditch and Finsbury.
John Burns Hynd, Sheffield, Attercliffe.
John James Robertson, esquire, Berwick and East Lothian.
Sir Herbert Geraint Williams, Croydon, East.
Right honourable David Kirkwood, East Dunbartonshire.
Henry George Strauss, esquire, Norwich, South.
Right honourable Charles William Key, Poplar.
Alexander Frederick Douglas Home, commonly called Lord Dunglass, Lanark.
Samuel Philip Viant, esquire, Willesden, West.
John Parker, esquire, Dagenham.
Robert Richards, esquire, Wrexham.
Hamilton William Kerr, esquire, Cambridge.
Lieutenant-Colonel the right honourable Sir Cuthbert Morley Headlam, baronet, D.S.O., O.B.E., T.D., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North.
Samuel Sydney Silverman, esquire, Nelson and Colne.
Charles Frederick Grey, esquire, Durham.
Emrys Hughes, esquire, South Ayrshire.
Thomas George Thomas, esquire, Cardiff, West.
Flight Lieutenant Arthur William James Anthony Greenwood, Rossendale.
James Dixon Murray, esquire, North-West Durham.
Thomas Judson Brooks, esquire, M.B.E., Normanton.
Thomas Reid, esquire, C.M.G., Swindon.
Elizabeth Margaret Braddock, Liverpool, Exchange.
Henry Norman Smith, esquire, Nottingham, South.
Walter Henry Ayles, esquire, Hayes and Harlington.
John Kinley, esquire, Bootle.
Norman Noel Dodds, esquire, Dartford.
Right honourable Ernest Bevin, Woolwich, East.
Reverend George Saville Woods, Droylsden.
Leslie Maurice Lever, esquire, Manchester, Ardwick.
John Cooper, esquire, Deptford.
Michael Mackintosh Foot, esquire, Plymouth, Devonport.
Charles William Gibson, esquire, Wandsworth, Clapham.
Margaret Herbison, North Lanarkshire.
Lieutenant-Colonel Marcus Lipton, O.B.E., Lambeth, Brixton.
Archibald Fenner Brockway, esquire, Eton and Slough.
Walter Ernest Padley, esquire, Ogmore.
Ronald William Gordon Mackay, esquire, Reading, North.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Walter Dorling Smiles, C.I.E., D.S.O., North Down.
John Hamilton McKie, esquire, Galloway.
Major Sir Jocelyn Morton Lucas, baronet, M.C., Portsmouth South.
Wing Commander Henry Reginald Spence, O.B.E., West Aberdeenshire.
John McGovern, esquire, Glasgow, Shettleston.
William Gordon Bennett, esquire, Glasgow, Woodside.
John MacLeod, esquire, Ross and Cromarty.
Rupert De la Bère, esquire, South Worcestershire.
James Carmichael, esquire, Glasgow, Bridgeton.
Colonel Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson, M.C., T.D., K.C., Ilford, North.
Major Peter Geoffrey Roberts, Sheffield, Heeley.
Major Charles Stuart Taylor, Eastbourne.
Colonel Colin Norman Thornton-Kemsley, O.B.E., North Angus and Mearns.
Charles Williams, esquire, Torquay.
Major Christopher York, Harrogate.
Greville Reginald Howard, esquire, St. Ives.
Martin Alexander Lindsay, esquire, D.S.O., Solihull.
Squadron Leader Maurice Christopher Hollis, Devizes.
Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Frederick Brittain Bennett, Gosport and Fareham.
Percy Morris, esquire, Swansea, West.
James Hindle Hudson, esquire, Ealing, North.
James McInnes, esquire, Glasgow, Central.
David Johnstone Pryde, esquire, Midlothian and Peebles.
Alice Cullen, Glasgow, Gorbals.
Jean Mann, Coatbridge and Airdrie.
Archibald Clark Manuel, esquire, Central Ayrshire.
Maurice Orbach, esquire, Willesden, East.
Thomas Frederick Hubbard, esquire, Kirkcaldy Burghs.
James Clunie, esquire, Dunfermline Burghs.
Captain William Winter Hamilton, West Fife.
Hector Samuel James Hughes, esquire, K.C., Aberdeen, North.
Malcolm Kenneth MacMillan, esquire, Western Isles.
William Reid, esquire, Glasgow, Camlachie.
John Calder Forman, esquire, Glasgow, Springburn.
John Timmons, esquire, Bothwell.
Andrew Gilzean, esquire, Edinburgh, Central.
Dryden Brook, esquire, Halifax.
Major William Ross, Kilmarnock.
Frederick Arthur Cobb, esquire, Brighouse and Spenborough.
Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, esquire, Coventry, East.
William Thomas Williams, esquire, Hammersmith, South.
Daniel Granville West, esquire, Pontypool.
Barnett Janner, esquire, Leicester, North-West.
Harold Anthony Nutting, esquire, Melton.
Captain Robert Edward Dudley Ryder, V.C., Merton and Morden.
Colonel Alan Gomme-Duncan, M.C., Perth and East Perthshire.
Walter Fletcher, esquire, C.B.E., Bury and Radcliffe.
Major John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, Kingston-upon-Thames.
Brigadier Otho Leslie Prior-Palmer, D.S.O., Worthing.
Commander Douglas Marshall, Bodmin.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Hugh Turton, M.C., Thirsk and Malton.
Brigadier Austin Richard William Low, C.B.E., D.S.O., Blackpool, North.
William Robson-Brown, esquire, Esher.
Samuel Storey, esquire, Stretford.
Henry Alfred Price, esquire, Lewisham, West.
Colonel Cyril Banks, Pudsey.
Geoffrey Audus Nicholson Hirst, esquire, Shipley.
Lieutenant-Colonel Cuthbert James McCall, Alport, Colchester.
Lieutenant Commander Peter Henry Berry Otway Smithers, Winchester.
Gerald Wills, esquire, Bridgwater.
Frederick- Frank Arthur Burden, esquire, Gillingham.
Captain Malcolm Bullock, M.B.E., Crosby.
Major William Whitehead Hicks-Beach, Cheltenham.
Colonel Claude Granville Lancaster, South Fylde.
Lieutenant-Colonel Connolly Hugh Gage, Belfast, South.
Major John Cyril Maude, K.C., Exeter.
Brigadier Sir George Steven Harvie Watt, baronet, K.C., T.D., Richmond (Surrey).
Lieutenant Edward Carson, commonly called the honourable Edward Carson, Isle of Thanet.
Brigadier Anthony Henry Head, C.B.E., M.C., Carshalton.
Lieutenant-Colonel Harford Montgomery Hyde, Belfast, North.
Frederick Seymour Cocks, esquire, Broxtowe.
David Rees Grenfell, esquire: C.B.E., Gower.
Frank McLeavy, esquire, Bradford, East.
William Elwyn Edwards Jones, esquire, Conway.
William Keenan, esquire, O.B.E., Liverpool, Kirkdale.
Stanley Stephen Awbery, esquire, Bristol, Central.
Dorothy Mary Rees, Barry.
Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, baronet, Gravesend.
Will Nally, esquire, Bilston.
George Darling, esquire, Sheffield, Hillsborough.
Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, esquire, Sowerby.
Colonel George Edward Cecil Wigg, Dudley.
Flight Lieutenant John Edwin Haire, Wycombe.
Alice Martha Bacon, Leeds, North-East.
William Thomas Proctor, esquire, Eccles.
David Thomas Jones, esquire, The Hartlepools.
Eirene Lloyd White, East Flint.
Goronwy Owen Roberts, esquire, Caernarvon.
Right honourable Ralph Assheton, Blackburn, West.
Colonel Sir Charles Glen MacAndrew, Bute and North Ayrshire.
Brigadier Robert Allan Fenwick Thorp, O.B.E., Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Aubrey Jones, esquire, Birmingham, Hall Green.
Colonel Malcolm Stoddart-Scott, O.B.E., T.D., Ripon.
Priscilla Jean Fortescue, Lady Tweedsmuir, Aberdeen, South.
Colonel William Morgan Fletcher Vane, Westmorland.
Edward Birkbeck Wakefield, esquire, C.I.E., West Derbyshire.
Brigadier Christopher Henry Maxwell Peto, North Devon.
Frances Joan Viscountess Davidson, O.B.E., Hemel Hempstead.
Captain George Burnaby Drayson, Skipton.
William Smith Duthie, esquire, O.B.E., Banff.
Frederic Walter Harris, esquire, Croydon, North.
Hugh Geoffrey Bird Wilson, esquire, Truro.
Harmar Nicholls, esquire, Peterborough.
George Beresford Craddock, esquire Spelthorpe.
Major Edmund McNeill Cooper-Key, Hastings.
Lieutenant-Colonel Derrick Heathcoat Amory, Tiverton.
Lieutenant-Colonel Hendrie Dudley Oakshott, M.B.E., Bebington.
Martin Redmayne, esquire, Rushcliffe.
Lieutenant Commander George Ian Clark Hutchison, Edinburgh, West.
Captain Arthur Christopher John Soames, Bedford.
Claude Nigel Byam Davies, esquire, Epping.
Gordon Cosmo Touche, esquire, Dorking.
Charles Ian Orr-Ewing, esquire, Hendon, North.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Hugh Hare, commonly called the honourable John Hugh Hare, Sudbury and Woodbridge.
Wing Commander John Roland Robinson, Blackpool, South.
Ronald Stanley Russell, esquire, Wembley, South.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Cecil Russell Moore, C.B.E., Ayr.
John Albert Hay, Esquire, Henley.
Major James Richard Edwards Harden, D.S.O., M.C., Armagh.
David Treharne Llewellyn, esquire, Cardiff, North.
Captain Lawrence Percy Story Orr, South Down.
William Johnson Taylor, esquire, Bradford, North.
Kenneth Pugh Thompson, esquire, Liverpool, Walton.
George Richard Hodges Nugent, esquire, Guildford.
Major Quintin McGarel Hogg, commonly called the honourable Quintin McGarel Hogg, Oxford,
Moss Turner-Samuels, esquire, K.C., Gloucester.
David Gilbert Logan, esquire, C.B.E., Liverpool, Scotland.
Captain Geoffrey Henry Cecil Bing, Hornchurch,
John Rankin, esquire, Glasgow, Tradeston.
Arthur Moyle, esquire, Oldbury and Halesowen.
Edward Arthur Hardy, esquire, Salford, East.
Harold Boardman, esquire, Leigh.
Arthur Joseph Champion, esquire, South-East Derbyshire.
Walter Monslow, esquire, Barrow-in-Furness.
Barbara Anne Castle, Blackburn, East.
Captain George Roland Chetwynd, Stockton-on-Tees.
Captain Thomas Frederick Peart, Workington.
James Johnson, esquire, Rugby.
Wing Commander Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, O.B.E., Preston, South.
Harry Thorneycroft, esquire, Manchester, Clayton.
Hervey Rhodes, esquire, Ashton-under-Lyne.
Sidney Dye, esquire, South-West Norfolk.
William Thomas Paling, esquire, Dewsbury.
George Albert Pargiter, esquire, Southall.
Percy Henry Collick, esquire, Birkenhead.
Squadron Leader Emrys Owain Roberts, Merioneth.
Evan Roderic Bowen, esquire, Cardigan.
Captain Edgar Louis Granville, Eye.
Megan Arvon Lloyd George, commonly called Lady Megan Lloyd George, Anglesey.
Donald William Wade, esquire, Huddersfield, West.
Archibald James Florence Macdonald, esquire, Roxburgh and Selkirk.
Major Joseph Grimond, Orkney and Zetland.
John Scott Maclay, esquire, commonly called the honourable John Scott Maclay, West Renfrewshire.
Sir Joseph Stanley Holmes, Harwich.
Rhys Hopkin Morris, esquire, K.C., Carmarthen.
Eric Edward Bullus, esquire, Wembley, North.
Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Kaberry, Leeds, North-West.
William Arthur Steward, esquire, Woolwich, West.
Lieutenant-Commander Richard Hilton Marler Thompson, Croydon, West.
Herbert Walter Butcher, esquire, Holland with Boston.
James Henderson Stewart, esquire, East Fife.
Squadron Leader Emlyn Hugh Garner-Evans, Denbigh.
Cyril Wilson Black, esquire, Wimbledon.
Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, esquire, Maldon.
Major Woodrow Lyle Wyatt, Birmingham, Aston.
Major Cecil Charles Poole, Birmingham, Perry Barr.
Tudor Elwyn Watkins, esquire, Brecon and Radnor.
Alfred Hargreaves, esquire, Carlisle.
Henry George McGhee, esquire, Penistone.
Desmond Louis Donnelly, esquire, Pembroke.
Victor Francis Yates, esquire, Birmingham, Ladywood.
Henry Hynd, esquire, Accrington.
Percy Dairies, esquire, East Ham, North.
William Henry Oldfield, esquire, Manchester, Gorton.
Thomas Charles Pannell, esquire, Leeds, West.
Kenneth Robinson, esquire, St. Pancras, North.
Austen Harry Albu, esquire, Edmonton.
George Porter, esquire, Leeds, Central.
William Henry Mainwaring, esquire, Rhondda, East.
Henry White, esquire, North-East Derbyshire.
Mark Hewitson, esquire, Kingston-upon-Hull, Central.
Ronw Moelwyn Hughes, esquire, K.C., Islington, North.
Charles Leslie Hale, esquire, Oldham, West.
Frank Harold Hayman, esquire, Falmouth and Cambome.
Sir Arnold Babb Gridley, K.B.E., Stockport, South.
Alfred Charles Bossom, esquire, Maidstone.
William Arthur Colegate, esquire, Burton.
Flight Lieutenant Henry Victor Alpin MacKinnon Raikes, Liverpool, Garston.
Major Ernest Guy Richard Lloyd, M.C., East Renfrewshire.
Alexander Victor Edward Paulet Montagu, esquire, commonly called Viscount Hinchingbrooke, South Dorset.
Michael Langhorne Astor, esquire, commonly called the honourable Michael Langhorne Astor, East Surrey.
William McNair Snadden, esquire, Kinross and West Perthshire.
Commander Allan Herbert Percy Noble, D.S.O., D.S.C., Chelsea.
Captain John Frederick Ellenborough Crowder, Finchley.
Frederick Petre Crowder, esquire, Ruislip—Northwood.
Captain Leonard David Gammans, Hornsey.
Professor Douglas Lloyd Savory, South Antrim.
Ian Leslie Orr-Ewing, esquire, Weston-super-Mare.
Henry Lennox D'Aubigne Hopkinson, esquire, C.M.G., Taunton.
Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith, Glasgow, Hillhead.
Norman Adolph Henry Bower, esquire, Harrow, West.
Lieutenant - Colonel Anthony Alfred Harmsworth Marlowe, Hove.
Major Howard Sydney Johnson, esquire, Brighton, Kemptown.
Somerset Struben de Chair, esquire, Paddington, South.
Colonel Oliver Eyre Crosthwaite-Eyre, New Forest.
Cyril Osborne, esquire, Louth.
Right honourable Sir Ronald Hibbert Cross, baronet, Ormskirk.
David Llewellyn Mort, esquire, Swansea, East.
Major Gilbert, Richard Mitchison, K.C., Kettering.
Joseph Slater, esquire, B.E.M., Sedgefield.
Frederick Messer, esquire, Tottenham.
Percy Laurence Wells, esquire, Faversham.
Patrick Bartley, esquire, Chester-le-Street.
Edward Warner Moeran, esquire, South Bedfordshire.
Albert Edward Davies, esquire, Stoke-on-Trent, North.
Barnett Stross, esquire, Stoke-on-Trent, Central.
Edwin George Gooch, esquire, North Norfolk.
Frances Elaine Burton, Coventry, South.
Stanley Norman Evans, esquire, Wednesbury.
Maurice Edelman, esquire, Coventry, North.
George Craddock, esquire, Bradford, South.
Richard Emanuel Winterbottom, esquire, Sheffield, Brightside.
George Henry Rowland Rogers, esquire, Kensington, North.
Gilbert McAllister, esquire, Rutherglen.
Santo Wayburn Jeger, esquire, Holborn and St. Pancras, South.
Squadron Leader Ernest Kinghorn, Yarmouth.
Sir Waldron Smithers, Orpington.
Kenneth William Murray Pickthorn, esquire, Carlton.
Margaret Patricia Hornsby - Smith, Chislehurst.
Archer Ernest Baldwin, esquire, M.C., Leominster.
Lieutenant-Commander Ronald McMillan Bell, South Buckinghamshire.
Major Dennis Forwood Vosper, Runcorn.
Walter Richard Austen Hudson, esquire, Kingston-upon-Hull, North.
John Henderson, esquire, Glasgow, Cathcart.
Jack Nixon Browne, esquire, C.B.E., Glasgow, Govan.
Stephen James McAdden, esquire, Southend, East.
Bernard Richard Braine, esquire, Billericay.
Alexander Cadwalladar Mainwaring Spearman, esquire, Scarborough and Whitby.
David McAdam Eccles, esquire, Chippenham.
George William Odey, esquire, C.B.E., Beverley.
Air Commodore Arthur Vere Harvey, Macclesfield.
Colonel Ralph Stephenson Clarke, East Grinstead.
Sir John Serocold Paget Mellor, baronet, Sutton Coldfield.
Sir Patrick Spens, K.B.E., K.C., Kensington, South.
Percy Belgrave Lucas, esquire, Brentford and Chiswick.
Major John Baker White, Canterbury.
Sidney Horatio Marshall, esquire, Sutton and Cheam.
Angus Edmund Upton Maude, esquire, Ealing, South.
Eveline Hill, Manchester, Wythenshawe.
Sir Ronald Deane Ross, baronet, M.C., Londonderry.
Major Charles Edward Mott-Radclyffe, Windsor.
Sir David Robertson, Caithness and Sutherland.
Henry Channon, esquire, Southend, West.
Joseph Alfred Sparks, esquire, Acton.
William Coldrick, esquire, Bristol, North-East.
George Oscar Sylvester, esquire, Pontefract.
Horace Edwin Holmes, esquire, D.C.M., Hemsworth.
Captain Raymond Jones Gunter, Doncaster.
Stephen Owen Davies, esquire, Merthyr Tydfil.
David Emlyn Thomas, esquire, Aberdare.
David James Williams, esquire, Neath.
Captain Julian Ward Snow, Lichfield and Tamworth.
Caroline Selina Ganley, Battersea, South.
Sydney Scholefield Allen, esquire, K.C., Crewe.
Robert Joseph Mellish, esquire, Bermondsey.
Roy Harris Jenkins, esquire, Birmingham, Stechford.
Charles Anthony Raven Crosland, esquire, South Gloucestershire.
Albert Evans, esquire, Islington, South-West.
George Jeger, esquire, Goole.
David Griffiths, esquire, Rother Valley.
Harold Neal, esquire, Bolsover.
Arthur Seymour Moody, esquire, Gateshead, East.
Alexander Anderson, esquire, Mother-well.
Harry Wright Wallace, esquire, Waltham-stow, East.
Reverend Gordon Lang, Stalybridge and Hyde.
James Hutchinson Hoy, esquire, Edinburgh, Leith.
Frederick William Mulley, esquire, Sheffield, Park.
Joseph Reeves, esquire, Greenwich.
Eric Martin Smith, esquire, Grantham.
Flight Lieutenant Luke William Burke Teeling, Brighton, Pavilion.
Colonel Sir Ralph George Campbell Glyn, baronet, M.C., Abingdon.
Lieutenant-Commander Harold Arthur Watkinson, Woking.
Major Edward Alexander Henry Legge-Bourke, Isle of Ely.
James Latham Clyde, esquire, K.C. Edinburgh, North.
Brigadier John George Smyth, V.C., M.C., Lambeth, Norwood.
Major Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, M.C., Hitchin.
Air Commodore Lionel Frederick Heald, K.C., Chertsey.
John Sinclair-Wemyss Arbuthnot, esquire, M.B.E., Dover.
Flying Officer Stephen Gerald Howard, Cambridgeshire.
John Michael Clifford Higgs, esquire, Bromsgrove.
John Granville Morrison, esquire, T.D., Salisbury.,
Anthony Richard Hurd, esquire, Newbury.
Irene Mary Bewick Ward, C.B.E., Tyne-mouth.
Captain Richard Oliver Stanley, commonly called the honourable Richard Oliver Stanley, North Fylde.
William David Ormsby-Gore, esquire, commonly called the honourable William David Ormsby - Gore, Oswestry.
Julian Amery, esquire, Preston, North.
Brigadier Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean, C.B.E., Lancaster.
Reginald Maudling, esquire, Barnet.
Morgan Philips Price, esquire, West Gloucestershire.
Horace Maybray King, esquire, Southampton, Test.
Iorwerth Rhys Thomas, esquire, Rhondda, West.
Thomas James Brown, esquire, Ince.
Arthur Cecil Allen, esquire, Bosworth.
Mont Follick, esquire, Loughborough.
Ernest Fernyhough, esquire, Jarrow.
Major Malcolm MacPherson, Stirling and Falkirk Burghs.
John McKay, esquire, Wallsend.
Richard Ewart, esquire, Sunderland, South.
Alfred Balfour, esquire, West Stirlingshire.
William John Irving, esquire, Wood Green.
William Reid Blyton, esquire, Houghtonle-Spring.
John Thomas Hall, esquire, Gateshead, West.
Major Wilfrid Foulston Vernon, Camberwell, Dulwich.
Major Kenneth Gilmour Younger, commonly called the honourable Kenneth Gilmour Younger, Grimsby.
Octavius George Willey, esquire, Cleveland.
Julius Silverman, esquire, Birmingham, Erdington.
Squadron Leader Albert Edward Cooper, M.B.E., Ilford, South.
Colonel Frederick James Erroll, Altrincham and Sale.
Squadron Leader Sir Peter Drummond Macdonald, K.B.E., Isle of Wight.
Sir William Harold Webbe, C.B.E., Cities of London and Westminster.
Group Captain George Reginald Ward, commonly called the honourable George Reginald Ward, Worcester.
Richard Fort, esquire, Clitheroe.
William Francis Deedes, esquire, Ashford.
Wing Commander Geoffrey Paul Stevens, Portsmouth, Langstone.
Major David Lockhart-Mure Renton, Huntingdonshire.
Major Tufton Victor Hamilton Beamish, M.C., Lewes.
Edward Herbert Keeling, esquire, M.C., Twickenham.
Gerald David Nunes Nabarro, esquire, Kidderminster.
Harold Roberts, esquire, Birmingham, Handsworth.
Sir Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, baronet, Lewisham, North.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Dudley Robert Tarleton Tilney, Liverpool, Wavertree.
Sir Peter Frederick Blaker Bennett, O.B.E., Birmingham, Edgbaston.
John Dennis Profumo, esquire, M.B.E., Stratford.
Major Hugh Charles Patrick Joseph Fraser, commonly called the honourable Hugh Charles Patrick Joseph Fraser, Stafford and Stone.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Adrian Hope, commonly called Lord John Adrian Hope, Edinburgh, Pentlands.
Captain Sir Harold Roper, C.B.E., M.C., North Cornwall.
Sir William Young Darling, C.B.E., M.C., Edinburgh, South.
James Harrison, esquire, Nottingham, East.
Clifford Kenyon, esquire, Chorley.
Ian Winterbottom, esquire, Nottingham, Central.
Ivor Owen Thomas, esquire, The Wrekin.
William James Field, esquire, Paddington, North.
Flight Lieutenant Frank Beswick, Uxbridge.
Reginald William Sorensen, esquire, Leyton.
Ralph Morley, esquire, Southampton, Itchen.
John David Mack, esquire, Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Harold Josiah Finch, esquire, Bedwellty.
Ronald Watkins Williams, esquire, Wigan.
Edward Lancelot Mallalieu, esquire, Brigg.
Lieutenant William Griffiths, Manchester, Exchange.
James Eugene MacColl, esquire, Widnes.
Percy Holman, esquire, Bethnal Green.
Alfred Booth, esquire, Bolton, East.
Joseph Hale, esquire, Rochdale.
George Deer, esquire, Newark.
Rhys John Davies, esquire, Westhoughton.
Somerville Hastings, esquire, Barking.
Frank Anderson, esquire, Whitehaven.
William George Cove, esquire, Aberavon.
Edward Evans, esquire, Lowestoft.
David Weitzman, esquire, Stoke Newington and Hackney North.
Herbert William Butler, esquire, Hackney, South.
Flight Lieutenant Aidan Merivale Crawley, Buckingham.
John Henry Jones, esquire, Rotherham.
Colonel Leonard Ropner, M.C., T.D., Barkston Ash.
Richard Reader Harris, esquire, Heston and Isleworth.
Brigadier Terence Hugh Clarke, C.B.E., Portsmouth, West.
Leonard Robert Carr, esquire, Mitcham.
Iain Norman MacLeod, esquire, Enfield, West.
Gilbert James Morley Longden, esquire, South-West Hertfordshire.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Cutts Lockwood, Romford.
Robert Fisher Crouch, esquire, North Dorset.
General Sir George Darell Jeffreys, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.M.G., Petersfield.
Lieutenant-Colonel Dennis Coleridge Boles, Wells.
Godfrey Nicholson, esquire, Farnham.
Charles Hill, esquire, Luton.
Lieutenant-Colonel Evelyn Nigel Chetwode Birch, West Flint.
Hugh Nicholas Linstead, esquire, O.B.E., Wandsworth, Putney.
Arthur Hugh Elsdale Molson, esquire, High Peak.
John Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan, esquire, Reigate.
John Charles Rodgers, esquire, Sevenoaks.
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Richard George Heath, M.B.E., Bexley.
Lieutenant William Stanley Shepherd, Cheadle.
Thomas O'Brien, esquire, Nottingham, North-West.
George Benson, esquire, Chesterfield.
Captain John Baird, Wolverhampton, North-East.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Jocelyn Ian Fraser, C.B.E., Morecambe and Lonsdale.
Right honourable Brendan Bracken, Bournemouth, East and Christchurch.
Brigadier Frank Medlicott, Central Norfolk.
Henry Brooke, esquire, Hampstead.
Reginald Thomas Paget, esquire, K.C., Northampton.
Albert Raymond Blackburn, esquire, Birmingham, Northfield.
Hyacinth Bernard Wenceslaus Morgan, esquire, Warrington.
Brigadier John Galway Foster, Northwich.
Roland Jennings, esquire, Sheffield, Hallam.
Wing Commander Geoffrey Cooper, Middlesbrough, West.
ADJOURNMENT
Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. R. J. Taylor.]
Adjourned accordingly at Five Minutes to Seven o'Clock.