§ LORD FISHERMy Lords, I ask leave of your Lordships to make a statement. Certain references were made to me in a speech delivered in the other House yesterday by Mr. Churchill. I have been sixty-one years in the service of my country, 337 and I leave my record in the hands of my countrymen. The Prime Minister stated yesterday that Mr. Churchill had said one or two things which he had better not have said, and that he had necessarily and naturally left unsaid some things which will have to be said. I am content to wait. It is unfitting to make personal explanations affecting national interests when my country is in the midst of a great War.