6. Mr. Gresham Cookeasked the Postmaster-General when he will issue a British motor racing stamp to mark the world-wide achievements of British racing motor drivers and cars.
§ Mr. Joseph SlaterWe shall certainly bear this in mind when choosing future stamp programmes.
Mr. CookeWill the Assistant Postmaster-General bear in mind the unequalled pre-eminence of British racing motor cars and British racing drivers in the last few years and recall that it is the only sport in which the British have been consistently pre-eminent year after year and, therefore, they deserve a stamp?
§ Mr. SlaterMany hundreds of subjects are suggested to us for commemoration by the issue of a stamp. My right hon. Friend has a difficult task in choosing be- 1616 tween them. Inevitably, worthy subjects can be excluded and people are disappointed, as applies in the case the hon Gentleman has suggested.
§ 18. Mr. Hooleyasked the Postmaster-General if he will issue a special stamp on 24th October, 1970 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations.
§ Mr. Joseph SlaterWe have not yet decided the anniversaries to be celebrated by special stamps in 1970, but I can assure my hon. Friend that this anniversary is on the list and is being seriously considered.
§ Mr. HooleyI am grateful to my hon Friend for that assurance. Will he pay special attention to the suggestion, since there is a case for getting away from too narrow a nationalism in the design of our stamps?
§ Mr. SlaterWe fully recognise the importance of the organisation and the occasion, but we issued two special stamps for the United Nations in 1965, and we do not normally commemorate the same organisation twice in five years. But we are still considering the matter.