Sitting of 2 August 1945

Preamble
The House met at a Quarter before Three of the 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 acknowledgment 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
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remain in their benches until I have indicated what 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., Borough of Stepney (Limehouse Division).

Right honourable Herbert Stanley Morrison, Borough of Lewisham (East Division).

Right honourable Arthur Greenwood, C.H., Borough of Wakefield.

Right honourable Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, County of Durham (Bishop Auckland Division).

Right honourable Albert Victor Alexander, C.H., Borough of Sheffield (Hillsborough Division).

Right honourable Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, Burgh of Edinburgh (East Division).

Right honourable James Chuter Ede, Borough of South Shields.

Right honourable William Whiteley, County of Durham (Blaydon Division).

Right honourable Ellen Cicely Wilkinson, County of Durham (Jarrow Division).

Right honourable Joseph Westwood, Stirling and Falkirk District of Burghs.

Right honourable Thomas Williams, County of York, West Riding (Don Valley Division).

Right honourable Wilfred Paling, County of York (Wentworth Division).

Right honourable Sir Benjamin Smith, K.B.E., Borough of Bermondsey (Rotherhithe Division).

Right honourable Sir Charles Edwards, County of Monmouth (Bedwellty Division).

Right honourable George Henry Hall, Borough of Merthyr Tydfil (Aberdare Division).

Major the Right honourable James Milner, Borough of Leeds (South-East Division).

Sir Robert Young, O.B.E., County of Lancaster (Newton Division).

William John, esquire, Borough of Rhondda (West Division).

Frederick Montague, esquire, Borough of Islington (West Division).

Arthur Jenkins, esquire, County of Monmouth (Pontypool Division).

Right honourable John James Lawson, County of Durham (Chester-le-Street Division).

George Mathers, esquire, County of Linlithgow.

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Ernest Thurtle, esquire, Borough of Shoreditch.

George Tomlinson, esquire, County of Lancaster (Farnworth Division).

Robert John Taylor, esquire, Borough of Morpeth.

Arthur Henderson, esquire, County of Stafford (Kingswinford Division).

Arthur Woodburn, esquire, County of Stirling and Clackmannan (Clackmannan and Eastern Division).

Aneurin Bevan, esquire, County of Monmouth Ebbw Vale Division).

William Dobbie, esquire, Borough of Rotherham.

Lewis Silkin, esquire, Borough of Camberwell (Peckham Division).

Philip John Noel-Baker, esquire, Borough of Derby.

John Wilmot, esquire, Borough of Deptford.

Right honourable Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, C.H., Borough of Woodford.

Right honourable Robert Anthony Eden, County of Warwick (Warwick and Leamington Division).

Right honourable Oliver Lyttelton, County of Hants (Aldershot Division).

Right honourable Oliver Frederick George Stanley, Borough of Bristol (West Division).

Right honourable William Shepherd Morrison, County of Gloucester (Cirencester and Tewkesbury Division).

Right honourable Robert Spear Hudson, C.H., Borough of Southport.

Right honourable Richard Austen Butler, County of Essex (Saffron Walden Division).

Captain the Right honourable Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, County of Parts of Lindsey (Gainsborough Division).

Right honourable Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, G.B.E., City of London.

Right honourable Henry Urmston Willink, Borough of Croydon (North Division).

Right honourable Osbert Peake, Borough of Leeds (North Division).

Right honourable James Scott Cumberland Reid, K.C., Burgh of Glasgow (Hillhead Division).

Right honourable Sir David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, K.C., Borough of Liverpool (West Derby Division).

Right honourable Edward, Earl Wintenon, County of West Sussex (Horsham and Worthing Division).

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Right honourable James Stuart, M.V.O., M.C., County of Moray and Nairn.

Robert Villiers Grimston, esquire, County of Wilts (Westbury Division).

Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller, esquire, County of Northampton (Daventry Division).

Quintin McGarel Hogg, esquire, commonly called the honourable Quintin McGarel Hogg, Borough of Oxford.

Major Arthur Stewart Leslie Young, Burgh of Glasgow (Partick Division).

Nevil Alexander Beechman, esquire, M.C., County of Cornwall (St. Ives Division).

Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, esquire, County of Bedford (Mid Bedford Division).

James Purdon Lewes Thomas, esquire, County of Hereford (Hereford Division).

Commander Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, Burgh of Glasgow (Pollok Division).

Ernest George Hicks, esquire, Borough of Woolwich (East Division).

Major the Right honourable Gwilym Lloyd George, County of Pembroke.

Sir Henry Morris-Jones, M.C., County of Denbigh (Denbigh Division).

Charles Williams, esquire, County of Devon (Torquay Division).

Colonel Sir Charles Glen MacAndrew, County of Ayr and Bute (Bute and Northern Division).

John Scott Maclay, esquire, commonly called the honourable John Scott Maclay, Montrose District of Burghs.

Patrick George Thomas Buchan-Hepburn, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (East Toxteth Division).

Tom Smith, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Normanton Division).

Cedric Drewe, esquire, County of Devon (Honiton Division).

Rhys John Davies, esquire, County of Lancaster (Westhoughton Division).

Right honourable Sir Robert William Hugh O'Neill, baronet, County of Antrim.

Right honourable Sir James Arthur Salter, University of Oxford.

Major Charles Edward Mott-Radclyffe, County of Berks (Windsor Division).

Commander Peter Garnett Agnew, R.N. (Retired), County of Cornwall (Camborne Division).

Commander Sir Archibald Richard James Southby, baronet, R.N., County of Surrey (Epsom Division).

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Samuel Philip Viant, esquire, Borough of Willesden (West Division).

Robert John Graham Boothby, esquire, County of Aberdeen and Kincardine (Eastern Division).

George Steven Harvie Watt, esquire, K.C., Borough of Richmond.

William Foster, esquire, Borough of Wigan.

Evelyn Walkden, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Doncaster Division).

Hector Samuel James Hughes, esquire, K.C., Burgh of Aberdeen (North Division).

Gilbert McAllister, esquire, County of Lanark (Rutherglen Division).

George Albert Pargiter, esquire, County of Middlesex (Spelthorne Division).

Henry Norman Smith, esquire, Borough of Nottingham (South Division).

Cecil Aubrey Gwynne Manning, esquire, Borough of Camber well (North Division).

Norman Noel Dodds, esquire, Borough of Dartford.

William Noble Warbey, esquire, County of Bedford (Luton Division).

Captain Arthur Blenkinsop, Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (East Division).

Charles James Simmons, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (West Birmingham Division).

Lieutenant Thomas Cecil Skeffington-Lodge, R.N., County of Bedford (Bedford Division).

Jennie Lee, County of Stafford (Cannock Division).

Dr. Santo Wayburn Jeger, Borough of St. Pancras (South-East Division).

Captain George Jeger, County of Hants (Winchester Division).

Lewis John Edwards, esquire, Borough of Blackburn.

Frederick John Bellenger, esquire, County of Nottingham (Bassetlaw Division).

Barbara Anne Castle, Borough of Blackburn.

Michael Mackintosh Foot, esquire, Borough of Plymouth (Devonport Division)

Ronald Arthur Chamberlain, esquire, Borough of Lambeth (Norwood Division).

John Diamond, esquire, Borough of Manchester (Blackley Division).

Thomas Williamson, esquire, County of Parts of Lindsey (Brigg Division).

Major Woodrow Lyle Wyatt, Borough of Birmingham (Aston Division).

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Samuel Sydney Silverman, esquire, Borough of Nelson and Colne.

James Harold Wilson, esquire, County of Lancaster (Ormskirk Division).

Benn Levy, esquire, County of Bucks (Eton and Slough Division).

Frank Fairhurst, esquire, Borough of Oldham.

Harold Davies, esquire, County of Stafford (Leek Division).

Haydn Davies, esquire, Borough of St. Pancras (South-West Division).

Captain John Baird, Borough of Wolverhampton (East Division).

William Thomas Proctor, esquire, Borough of Eccles.

John Kinley, esquire, Borough of Bootle.

William John Brown, esquire, County of Warwick (Rugby Division).

Reverend James Little, County of Down.

Clement Edward Davies, esquire, K.C., County of Montgomery.

Edgar Louis Granville, esquire, County of East Suffolk (Eye Division).

Thomas Lewis Horabin, esquire, County of Cornwall (Northern Division).

William John Gruffydd, esquire, University of Wales.

Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Charles Byers, County of Dorset (Northern Division).

George Wadsworth, esquire, County of York, East Riding (Buckrose Division).

Evan Roderic Bowen, esquire, County of Cardigan.

Squadron-Leader Emrys Owain Roberts, County of Merioneth.

Major Sir Jocelyn Morton Lucas, baronet, Borough of Portsmouth (South Division).

Henry Victor Alpin Raikes, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (Wavertree Division).

Patrick William Donner, esquire, County of Hants (Basingstoke Division).

Rhys Hopkin Morris, esquire, County of Carmarthen (Carmarthen Division).

Captain Sir Peter Drummond Macdonald, K.B.E., County of the Isle of Wight.

John Hamilton M'Kie, esquire, County of Galloway.

Lieutenant-Colonel Uvedale Corbett, D.S.O., County of Salop (Ludlow Division).

Robert Craigmyle Morrison, esquire, Borough of Tottenham (North Division).

Archer Ernest Baldwin, esquire, M.C., County of Hereford (Leominster Division).

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Charles Vernon Oldfield Bartlett, esquire, County of Somerset (Bridgwater Division).

Percy Lionel Edward Shurmer, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (Sparkbrook Division).

Captain Cecil Charles Poole, County of Stafford (Lichfield Division).

Oliver Baldwin, esquire, commonly called Viscount Corvedale, Burgh of Paisley.

Elizabeth Leah Manning, County of Essex (Epping Division).

Denis Nowell Pritt, esquire, K.C., Borough of Hammersmith (North Division).

Sir George Thomas Broadbridge, baronet, K.C.V.O., City of London.

Neil Maclean, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Govan Division).

Edith Summerskill, Borough of Fulham (West Division).

James Dixon Murray, esquire, County of Durham (Spennymoor Division).

Thomas Judson Brooks, esquire, M.B.E., County of York, West Riding (Rothwell Division).

Joseph Binns, esquire, Borough of Rochester (Gillingham Division).

Charles Frederick Grey, esquire, County of Durham (Durham Division).

George Arthur Griffiths, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Hemsworth Division).

Tom Cook, esquire, Burgh of Dundee.

John Rankin, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Tradeston Division).

William Gallacher, esquire, County of Fife (Western Division).

David Kirkwood, esquire, Dumbarton District of Burghs.

William Leonard, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (St. Rollox Division).

William McLean Watson, esquire, Dunfermline District of Burghs.

Adam Storey McKinlay, esquire, County of Dumbarton.

John C Forman, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Springburn Division).

John Lloyd Williams, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Kelvingrove Division).

Jean Mann, County of Lanark (Coat-bridge Division).

Percy Gott Barstow, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Pontefract Division).

Harry Bernard Taylor, esquire, County of Nottingham (Mansfield Division).

James Hutchinson Hoy, esquire, Burgh of Leith.

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Eustace George Willis, esquire, Burgh of Edinburgh (North Division).

George Alfred Brown, esquire, County of Derby (Belper Division).

George Saville Woods, esquire, County of Lancaster (Mossley Division).

Edward John Williams, esquire, County of Glamorgan (Ogmore Division).

George Daggar, esquire, County of Monmouth (Abertillery Division).

Grace Mary Colman, Borough of Tynemouth.

Gordon Lang, esquire, County of Chester (Stalybridge and Hyde Division).

Margaret Herbison, County of Lanark (Northern Division).

Goronwy Owen Roberts, esquire, County of Carnarvon.

William Reid Blyton, esquire, County of Durham (Houghton-le-Spring Division).

Evan Frank Mottram Durbin, esquire, Borough of Edmonton.

David Johnstone Pryde, esquire, County of Midlothian and Peebles (Peebles and Southern Division).

Major Frederick John Wise, County of Norfolk (King's Lynn Division).

John Corlett, esquire, Borough of York.

Ivor Owen Thomas, esquire, County of Salop (The Wrekin Division).

John Richard Thomas, esquire, County of Kent (Dover Division).

Emanuel Shinwell, esquire, County of Durham (Seaham Division).

William Nicolson Cuthbert, esquire, County of East Sussex (Rye Division).

Rupert De la Bère, esquire, County of Worcester (Evesham Division).

Major John Granville Morrison, T.D., County of Wilts (Salisbury Division).

Sir William Young Darling, C.B.E., M.C., Burgh of Edinburgh (South Division).

Commander John Francis Whitaker Maitland R.N. (retired), County of Parts of Lindsey (Horncastle Division).

Major Tufton Victor Hamilton Beamish, M.C., County of East Sussex (Lewes Division).

Anthony Marlowe, esquire, K.C., Borough of Brighton.

Ian Leslie Orr-Ewing, esquire, County of Somerset (Weston-super-Mare Division).

Arthur Jared Palmer Howard, esquire, C.V.O., commonly called the Honourable Arthur Jared Palmer Howard, Borough of Westminster (St. George's Division).

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Edward Carson, esquire, commonly called the Honourable Edward Carson, County of Kent (Isle of Thanet Division).

Colonel Arthur Douglas Dodds-Parker, County of Oxford (Banbury Division).

David McAdam Eccles, esquire, County of Wilts (Chippenham Division).

Air-Commodore Arthur Vere Harvey, C.B.E., County of Chester (Macclesfield Division).

Group-Captain Hon. John William Maxwell Aitken, D.S.O., D.F.C., Borough of Holborn.

Roland Jennings, esquire, Borough of Sheffield (Hallam Division).

Alexander Cadwalladar Mainwaring Spearman, esquire, County of York, North Riding (Scarborough and Whitby Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel John Hugh Hare, commonly called the Honourable John Hare, County of East Suffolk (Wood-bridge Division).

Sir Waldron Smithers, County of Kent (Orpington Division).

James Hindle Hudson, esquire, Borough of Ealing (West Division).

Konni Zilliacus, esquire, Borough of Gateshead.

William Glenvil Hall, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Colne Valley Division).

Terence Norbert Donovan, esquire, Borough of Leicester (East Division).

Albert Edward Davies, esquire, Borough of Stoke-on-Trent (Burslem Division).

Walter Henry Ayles, esquire, Borough of Southall.

Flight-Lieutenant Frank Beswick, County of Middlesex (Uxbridge Division).

Squadron-Leader Geoffrey Stanley de Freitas, Borough of Nottingham (Central Division).

Richard Clitherow, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (Edge Hill Division).

Joseph Gibbins, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (West Toxteth Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel David Rees Rees-Williams, Borough of Croydon (South Division).

Barbara Ayrton Gould, Borough of Hendon (North Division).

David Thomas Jones, esquire, Borough of The Hartlepools.

Wilfrid Andrew Burke, esquire, Borough of Burnley.

Lieutenant-Colonel George Edward Cecil Wigg, Borough of Dudley.

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Ronald William Gordon Mackay, esquire, Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull (North-West Division).

Dr. Barnett Stross, Borough of Stoke-on-Trent (Hanley Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Cecil Russell Moore, C.B.E., Ayr District of Burghs.

Sir Frank Bernard Sanderson, baronet, Borough of Ealing (East Division).

Sir John Serocold Paget Mellor, baronet, County of Warwick (Sutton Coldfield Division).

Joan Viscountess Davidson, O.B.E., County of Hertford (Hemel Hempstead Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Derek Colclough Walker-Smith, County of Hertford (Hertford Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel William Morgan Fletcher Vane, T.D., County of Westmorland.

Lieutenant-Colonel James Riley Holt Hutchison, Burgh of Glasgow (Central Division).

Commander Allan Hubert Percy Noble, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N., Borough of Chelsea.

Eric Leslie Gandar Dower, esquire, County of Caithness and Sutherland.

George Benson, esquire, County of Derby (Chesterfield Division).

Henry Charles Usborne, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (Acocks Green Division).

Joseph Herbert Alpass, esquire, County of Gloucester (Thornbury Division).

William Coldrick, esquire, Borough of Bristol (North Division).

Arthur Moyle, esquire, County of Worcester (Stourbridge Division).

Joseph Reeves, esquire, Borough of Greenwich.

Thomas James Brown, esquire, County of Lancaster (Ince Division).

Edward Porter, esquire, Borough of Warrington.

Joseph Henderson, esquire, Borough of Manchester (Ardwick Division).

Ernest Albert John Davies, esquire, County of Middlesex (Enfield Division).

Charles Frederick White, esquire, County of Derby (Western Division).

Percy Henry Collick, esquire, Borough of Birkenhead (West Division).

Moss Turner-Samuels, esquire, Borough of Gloucester.

Sydney Scholefield Allen, esquire, K.C., County of Chester (Crewe Division).

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William Henry Guy, esquire, Borough of Poplar (South Poplar Division).

Louis Tolley, esquire, County of Worcester (Kidderminster Division).

Edwin George Gooch, esquire, County of Norfolk (Northern Division).

William McAdam, esquire, Borough of Salford (North Division).

Ernest Popplewell, esquire, Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (West Division).

Thomas Reid, esquire, County of Wilts (Swindon Division).

David Gilbert Logan, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (Scotland Division).

William Keenan, esquire, Borough, of Liverpool (Kirkdale Division).

Francis Campbell Ross Douglas, esquire, Borough of Battersea (North Division).

Captain Raymond Jones Gunter, County of Essex (South-Eastern Division).

Lieutenant-General Sir Frank Noel Mason-Macfarlane, K.C.B., D.S.O., M.C., Borough of Paddington (North Division).

Major John Freeman, M.B.E., County of Hertford (Watford Division).

Tom Steele, esquire, County of Lanark (Lanark Division).

Sir Patrick Joseph Henry Hannon, Borough of Birmingham (Moseley Division).

Sir William Henry Davison, K.B.E., Borough of Kensington (South Division).

Sir Herbert Stanley Reed, K.B.E., County of Bucks (Aylesbury Division).

Clifford William Hudson Glossop, esquire, County of York, East Riding (Howdenshire Division).

Colonel Malcolm Stoddart-Scott, O.B.E., T.D., M.D., County of York, West Riding (Pudsey and Otley Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Allan Fenwick Thorp, O.B.E., County of Northumberland (Berwick-upon-Tweed Division).

Christopher Henry Maxwell Peto, esquire, County of Devon (Barnstaple Division).

Major John Cyril Maude, K.C., Borough of Exeter.

Brigadier Otho Leslie Prior-Palmer, D.S.O., County of West Sussex (Worthing Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Benedict Clifton-Brown, County of West Suffolk (Bury St. Edmunds Division).

Major Henry Reginald Spence, O.B.E. (Mil.), County of Aberdeen and Kincardine (Central Division).

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William Smith Duthie, esquire, O.B.E., County of Banff.

Major Edmund McNeill Cooper-Key, Borough of Hastings.

Squadron-Leader Sir Gifford Wheaton Grey Fox, baronet, County of Oxford (Henley Division).

Captain George Burnaby Drayson, County of York, West Riding (Skipton Division).

Captain William Robert Stanley Prescott, County of Lancaster (Darwen Division).

Squadron-Leader Maurice Christopher Hollis, County of Wilts (Devizes Division).

Francis Beattie, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Cathcart Division).

Thomas Scollan, esquire, County of Renfrew (Western Division).

Maurice Orbach, esquire, Borough of Willesden (East Division).

Thomas O'Brien, esquire, Borough of Nottingham (West Division).

Maurice Webb, esquire, Borough of Bradford (Central Division).

Percy Daines, esquire, Borough of East Ham (North Division).

Walter Monslow, esquire, Borough of Barrow-in-Furness.

Captain Harold Richard Adams, Borough of Wandsworth (Balham and Tooting Division).

Sub-Lieutenant Herschell Lewis Austin, R.N.V.R., County of Lancaster (Stretford Division).

Captain Julian Ward Snow, Borough of Portsmouth (Central Division).

Hubert Moses Medland, esquire, Borough of Plymouth (Drake Division).

Major Donald William Trevor Bruce, Borough of Portsmouth (North Division).

Edgar Grierson, esquire, Borough of Carlisle.

Lieutenant Herbert Delauney Hughes, Borough of Wolverhampton (West Division).

Captain Stephen Thomas Swingler, County of Stafford (Stafford Division).

Charles Rider Hobson, esquire, Borough of Wembley (North Division).

Clarence Barton, esquire, Borough of Wembley (South Division).

George Henry Rowland Rogers, esquire, Borough of Kensington (North Division).

Lieutenant Leonard James Callaghan, R.N.V.R., Borough of Cardiff (South Division).

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Captain Charles George Percy Smith, County of Essex (Colchester Division).

Philip Asterley Jones, County of Hertford (Hitchin Division).

Commander Harry Pursey, R.N., Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull (East Division).

Octavius George Willey, esquire, County of York, North Riding (Cleveland Division).

Flight-Lieutenant Aidan Merivale Crawley, County of Buckingham (Buckingham Division).

Colonel Leonard Ropner, M.C., T.D., County of York, West Riding (Barkston Ash Division).

Professor Hilary Adair Marquand, Borough of Cardiff (East Divison).

Philip Piratin, esquire, Borough of Stepney (Mile End Division).

Wing-Commander Geoffrey Cooper, Borough of Middlesbrough (West Division).

Squadron-Leader Ernest Kinghorn, Borough of Great Yarmouth.

Flight-Lieutenant John Edwin Haire, County of Buckingham (Wycombe Division).

Sidney Dye, esquire, County of Norfolk (South-Western Division).

Sir Joseph Stanley Holmes, County of Essex (Harwich Division).

Sir Murdock MacDonald, K.C.M.G., C.B., County of Inverness, Ross, and Cromarty (Inverness Division).

Herbert Walter Butcher, esquire, County of Holland with Boston.

Edward Percy Smith, esquire, County of Kent (Ashford Division).

Major Basil Edward Nield, M.B.E., K.C., County of Chester (City of Chester Division).

Sir John Denman Barlow, baronet, County of Chester (Eddisbury Division).

Norman John Hulbert, esquire, Borough of Stockport.

James Henderson Stewart, esquire, County of Fife (Eastern Division).

Captain John MacLeod, County of Inverness, Ross and Cromarty (Ross and Cromarty Division).

Major Niall Malcolm Stewart Macpherson, County of Dumfries.

George Lambert, esquire, County of Devon (South Molton Division).

Major Hon. Kenneth Gilmour Younger, Borough of Grimsby.

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Clifford Kenyon, esquire, County of Lancaster (Chorley Division).

Charles Royle, esquire, Borough of Salford (West Division).

Percy Laurence Wells, esquire, County of Kent (Faversham Division).

Sydney Robert Charles Lavers, esquire, County of Durham (Barnard Castle Division).

Thomas Frederick Hubbard, esquire, Kirkcaldy District of Burghs.

Hubert Beaumont, esquire, Borough of Batley and Morley.

John Lewis, esquire, Borough of Bolton.

Hartley William Shawcross, esquire, K.C., Borough of St. Helens.

George Reginald Ward, esquire, Borough of Worcester.

Campbell Stephen, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Camlachie Division).

John William Sunderland, esquire, Borough of Preston.

Wing-Commander John Roland Robinson, Borough of Blackpool (South Divison).

Brigadier Austin Richard William Low, Borough of Blackpool (North Division).

Reginald Thomas Paget, esquire, Borough of Northampton.

Commander Christopher Nyholm Shawcross, County of Lancaster (Widnes Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Granville Maynard Sharp, County of York, West Riding (Spen Valley Division).

Major Christopher Paget Mayhew, County of Norfolk (Southern Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Henry Bromley-Davenport, County of Chester (Knutsford Division).

Ness Edwards, esquire, County of Glamorgan (Caerphilly Division).

Tudor Elwyn Watkins, esquire, County of Brecon and Radnor.

Thomas George Thomas, esquire, Borough of Cardiff (Central Division).

Sir Charles Ernest Leonard Lyle, baronet, Borough of Bournemouth.

John Robert Leslie, esquire, County of Durham (Sedgefield Division).

Major Arwyn Lynn Ungoed-Thomas, County of Glamorgan (Llandaff and Barry Division).

Edward Evans, esquire, County of East Suffolk (Lowestoft Division).

Ian Mikardo, esquire, Borough of Reading.

William Albert Wilkins, esquire, Borough of Bristol (South Division).

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Jennie laurel Adamson, Borough of Bexley.

Hector McNeil, esquire, Burgh of Greenock.

Robert Michael Maitland Stewart, esquire, Borough of Fulham (East Division).

Alice Martha Bacon, Borough of Leeds (North-East Division).

Henry Hynd, esquire, Borough of Hackney (Central Division).

David Weitzman, esquire, Borough of Stoke Newington.

Frederick Thomas Willey, esquire, Borough of Sunderland.

Joseph Alfred Sparks, esquire, County of Middlesex (Acton Division).

Right honourable Ernest Bevin, Borough of Wandsworth (Central Division).

James Harrison, esquire, Borough of Nottingham (East Division).

Alfred Robens, esquire, County of Northumberland (Wansbeck Division).

David Rennie Hardman, esquire, Borough of Darlington.

George Douglas Wallace, esquire, County of Kent (Chislehurst Division).

Edward Arthur Hardy, esquire, Borough of Salford (South Division).

James Griffiths, esquire, County of Carmarthen (Llanelly Division).

George Alfred Isaacs, esquire, Borough of Southwark (North Division).

Malcolm Kenneth MacMillan, esquire, County of Inverness, Ross and Cromarty (Western Isles Division).

Dr. Hyacinth Bernard Wenceslaus Morgan, Borough of Rochdale.

John Burns Hynd, esquire, Borough of Sheffield (Attercliffe Division).

Arthur William Lyne, esquire, O.B.E., County of Stafford (Burton Division).

John Timmins, esquire, County of Lanark (Bothwell Division).

Alexander Anderson, esquire, County of Lanark (Motherwell Division).

John McKay, esquire, Borough of Wall-send.

James Edward Glanville, esquire, County of Durham (Consett Division).

Harold Roberts, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (Handsworth Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William James Allen, knight, K.B.E., D.S.O., D.L., County of Armagh.

Savory, Professor Douglas Lloyd, Queen's University of Belfast.

Lieutenant-Commander Joseph Gurney Braithwaite, County of York, East Riding (Holderness Division).

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Captain John Ellenborough Crowder, County of Middlesex (Finchley Division).

Major Ernest Guy Richard Lloyd, County of Renfrew (Eastern Division).

Sir Arnold Babb Gridley, K.B.E., Borough of Stockport.

Sidney Horatio Marshall, esquire, Borough of Sutton and Cheam.

General Sir George Darell Jeffreys, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.M.G., County of Hants (Petersfield Division).

Charles Stuart Taylor, esquire, County of Sussex (Eastbourne Division).

Colonel Claude Granville Lancaster, County of Lancaster (Fylde Division).

Norman Bower, esquire, Borough of Harrow (West Division).

Harold Sutcliffe, esquire, County of Lancaster (Royton Division).

Sir Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Lucas-Tooth, baronet, Borough of Hendon (South Division).

Godfrey Nicholson, esquire, County of Surrey (Farnham Division).

David Rees Grenfell, esquire, C.B.E. County of Glamorgan (Gower Division).

Major Basil Hamilton Hebden Neven-Spence, County of Orkney and Zetland.

William Frederick Neill, esquire, Borough of Belfast (North Belfast Division).

Frederick William Skinnard, esquire, Borough of Harrow (East Division).

Frank McLeavy, esquire, Borough of Bradford (East Division).

Evelyn Mansfield King, esquire, County of Cornwall (Penryn and Falmouth Division).

Muriel Edith Nichol, Borough of Bradford (North Division).

Frederick Messer, esquire, Borough of Tottenham (South Division).

John Paton, esquire, Borough of Norwich.

Florence Beatrice Paton, County of Nottingham (Rushcliffe Division).

Fred Longden, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (Deritend Division).

Wesley Perrins, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (Yardley Division).

Victor Francis Yates, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (Ladywood Division).

Joseph Percival William Mallalieu, esquire, Borough of Huddersfield.

Dryden Brook, esquire, Borough of Halifax.

David Griffiths, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Rother Valley Division).

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Frederick Arthur Cobb, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Elland Division)

William Thomas Paling, esquire, Borough of Dewsbury.

Major William Thomas Wells, Borough of Walsall.

Gilbert Richard Mitchison, esquire, County of Northampton (Kettering Division).

Bertie Victor Kirby, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (Everton Division).

Major Frederick Elwyn Jones, Borough of West Ham (Plaistow Division).

Arthur William John Lewis, esquire, Borough of West Ham (Upton Division).

Sir Peter Frederick Blaker Bennett, knight, O.B.E., Borough of Birmingham (Edgbaston Division).

Cyril Osborne, esquire, County of Parts of Lindsey (Louth Division).

Sir Joseph John Jarvis, baronet, County of Surrey (Guildford Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Conolly Hugh Gage, Borough of Belfast (South Belfast Division).

Major Samuel Gillmor Haughton, County of Antrim

Lieutenant-Colonel John Adrian Hope, commonly called Lord John Hope, County of Midlothian and Peebles (Northern Division).

Major Simon Ramsay, M.C., County of Forfar.

Captain Michael Langhorne Astor, commonly called Captain the Honourable Michael Astor, County of Surrey (Eastern Division).

Colonel Frederick James Enroll, Borough of Altrincham and Sale.

Lieut.-Colonel Mervyn James Wheatley, County of Dorset (Eastern Division).

Valentine La Touche McEntee, esquire, Borough of Walthamstow (West Division).

Arthur George Bottomley, esquire, Borough of Rochester, Chatham Division).

Frank Anderson, esquire, County of Cumberland (Whitehaven Division).

Thomas William Stamford, esquire, Borough of Leeds (West Division).

Meredith Farrar Titterington, esquire, Borough of Bradford (South Division).

Major David Lockhart-Muir Renton, County of Huntingdon.

George Porter, esquire, Borough of Leeds (Central Division).

Arthur Seymour Moody, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (Fairfield Division).

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Megan Arvon Lloyd George, commonly called Lady Megan Lloyd George, County of Anglesey.

Wilfrid Hubert Wace Roberts, esquire, County of Cumberland (Northern Division).

Harry Ripley Mackeson, esquire, Borough of Hythe.

Brigadier Antony Henry Head, County of Surrey (Carshalton Division)

Major Edward Alexander Henry Legge-Bourke, County of Isle of Ely.

Herbert William Butler, esquire, Borough of Hackney (South Division).

Henry Edwin Goodrich, esquire, Borough of Hackney (North Division).

Major Lyall Wilkes, Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Central Division).

John Henry Jones, esquire, Borough of Bolton.

Percy Morris, esquire, Borough of Swansea (West Division).

Henry Richard Nicholls, esquire, Borough of West Ham (Stratford Division).

Lieutenant William Griffiths, Borough of Manchester (Moss Side Division).

Louis Comyns, esquire, Borough of West Ham (Silvertown Division).

Scott-Elliot, Captain Walter Travers, Accrington.

John Rose Battley, esquire, Borough of Wandsworth (Clapham Division).

Richard Sargood, esquire, Borough of Bermondsey (West Bermondsey Division).

Daniel Chater, esquire, Borough of Bethnal Green (North-East Division).

Albert Eric Bechervaise, esquire, Borough of Leyton (East Division).

Flight-Lieutenant Benjamin Theaker Parkin, County of Gloucester (Stroud Division).

Lieutenant Thomas Frederick Peart, County of Cumberland (Workington Division).

Flying Officer Herbert William Bowden, Borough of Leicester (South Division).

Maurice Edelman, esquire, Borough of Coventry (West Division).

David Llewellyn Mort, esquire, Borough of Swansea (East Division).

Richard Ewart, esquire, Borough of Sunderland.

Humphrey Cooper Attewell, esquire, County of Leicester (Harborough Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Morris, Borough of Sheffield (Central Division).

Fred Marshall, esquire, Borough of Sheffield (Brightside Division).

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Arthur Pearson, esquire, County of Glamorgan (Pontypridd Division).

Captain George Roland Chetwynd, Borough of Stockton-on-Tees.

George House, esquire, Borough of St. Pancras (North Division).

Alfred John Barnes, esquire, Borough of East Ham (South Division).

George Henry Walker, esquire, Borough of Rossendale.

Lucy, Baroness Noel-Buxton, Borough of Norwich

Somerville Hastings, esquire, Borough of Barking.

Alfred Edwards, esquire, Borough of Middlesbrough (East Division).

Arthur Cecil Allen, esquire, County of Leicester (Bosworth Division).

Stanley Tiffany, esquire, County of Northampton (Peterborough Division).

Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, esquire, County of Essex (Maldon Division).

George Russell Strauss, esquire, Borough of Lambeth (North Division).

Leslie Judah Solley, esquire, County of Essex (Thurrock Division).

Dr. Leslie Haden Guest, M.C, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Borough of Islington (North Division).

Henry George McGhee, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Penistone Division)

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Cuthbert Morley Headlam, baronet, D.S.O., O.B.E., T.D., Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (North Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Walter Smiles, C.I.E., D.S.O., County of Down.

Sir Ronald Deane Ross, baronet, M.C., County of Londonderry.

Lieutenant-Colonel Derrick Heathcoat Amory, County of Devon (Tiverton Division).

Major Kenelm Simon Digby Wingfield Digby, County of Dorset (Western Division).

Major Henry Grey Studholme, County of Devon (Tavistock Division).

Douglas Marshall, esquire, County of Cornwall (Bodmin Division).

Brigadier Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean, C.B.E., County of Lancaster (Lancaster Division).

Major Christopher York, County of York, West Riding (Ripon Division).

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Lancelot William Joynson-Hicks, esquire, commonly called the honourable Lancelot William joynson-Hicks, County of West Sussex (Chichester Division).

Brigadier Ralph Rayner, M.B.E., County of Devon (Totnes Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Evelyn Nigel Chetwode Birch, County of Flint.

Alexander Victor Edward Paulet Montague, esquire, commonly called Viscount Hinchingbrooke, County of Dorset (Southern Division).

Colonel Alan Gomme-Duncan, County of Perth and Kinross (Perth Division).

Major John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames.

Sir Ralph George Campbell Glyn, baronet, M.C, County of Berks (Abingdon Division).

Sir William Wavell Wakefield, Borough of St. Marylebone.

Lieut-Colonel Sidney Shepherd, County of Nottingham (Newark Division)

Captain Alfred Ernest Marples, Borough of Wallasey.

Captain Leonard David Gammans, Borough of Hornsey.

Colonel Ralph Stephenson Clarke, County of East Sussex (East Grinstead Division).

Percy Holman, esquire, Borough of Bethnal Green (South-West Division).

Charles William Gibson, esquire, Borough of Lambeth (Kennington Division).

John William Belcher, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Sowerby Division).

Thomas William Burden, esquire, Borough of Sheffield (Park Division).

George Samuel Lindgren, esquire, County of Northampton (Wellingborough Division).

Harold Boardman, esquire, Borough of Leigh.

Thomas Macpherson, esquire, Borough of Romford.

Victor John Collins, esquire, County of Somerset (Taunton Division).

Walter John Farthing, esquire, County of Somerset (Frome Division).

Wing-Commander John Strachey, Burgh of Dundee.

Freda Künzlen Corbet, Borough of Camberwell (North-West Division).

Thomas Braddock, esquire, Borough of Mitcham.

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William Hannan, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Maryhill Division).

James Ranger, esquire, Borough of Ilford (South Division).

Mabel Ridealgh, Borough of Ilford (North Division).

Harry Enos Randall, esquire, County of Lancaster (Clitheroe Division).

William Richard Williams, esquire, Borough of Heston and Isleworth.

Caroline Selina Ganley, Borough of Battersea (South Division).

Major Frank Soskice, Borough of Birkenhead (East Division).

Elizabeth Margaret Braddock, Borough of Liverpool (Exchange Division).

Hugh Todd-Naylor Gaitskell, esquire, Borough of Leeds (South Division).

Ellis Smith, esquire, Borough of Stoke (Stoke Division).

Vice-Admiral Ernest Augustus Taylor, C.M.G., C.V.O., R.N. (Retired), Borough of Paddington (South Division).

Daniel Leopold Lipson, esquire, Borough of Cheltenham.

Lieutenant-Commander George Ian Clark Hutchison, R.N., Burgh of Edinburgh (West Division).

William McNair Snadden, esquire, County of Perth and Kinross (Kinross and Western Division).

Major Duncan McCallum, M.C., County of Argyll.

Squadron-Leader Edward Lascelles Fleming, K.C., Borough of Manchester (Withington Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Martin Alexander Lindsay, D.S.O., County of Warwick (Solihull Division).

Will Nally, esquire, Borough of Wolverhampton (Bilston Division).

Harry Thorneycroft, esquire, Borough of Manchester (Clayton Division).

Frederick Lee, esquire, Borough, of Manchester (Hulme Division).

Captain Hugh James Delargy, Borough of Manchester (Platting Division).

Henry White, esquire, County of Derby (North-Eastern Division).

Harold Neal, esquire, County of Derby (Clay Cross Division).

John James Roberston, esquire, County of Berwick and Haddington.

George Deer, esquire, Borough of Lincoln.

Frank Collindridge, esquire, Borough of Barnsley.

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William Henry Oldfield, esquire, Borough of Manchester (Gorton Division).

Squadron-Leader Samuel Segal, Borough of Preston.

Hugh Lester Hutchinson, esquire, Borough of Manchester (Rusholme Division).

William Sampson Cluse, esquire, Borough of Islington (South Division).

Stanley Stephen Awbery, esquire, Borough of Bristol (Central Division).

Arthur Joseph Champion, esquire, County of Derby (Southern Division).

Alfred Balfour, esquire, County of Stirling and Clackmannan (Western Division).

John Edmondson Whittaker, esquire, County of Lancaster (Heywood and Radcliffe Division).

Charles Leslie Hale, esquire, Borough of Oldham.

Arthur Massey Skeffington, Borough of Lewisham (West Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Marcus Lipton, Borough of Lambeth (Brixton Division).

Thomas Fraser, esquire, County of Lanark (Hamilton Division).

William Thomas Adams, esquire, Borough of Hammersmith (South Division).

Reginald William Sorensen, esquire, Borough of Leyton (West Division).

William George Cove, esquire, County of Glamorgan (Aberavon Division).

Arthur Hugh Elsdale Molson, esquire, County of Derby (High Peak Division).

Barnett Janner, esquire, Borough of Leicester (West Division).

Eric George Molyneux Fletcher, esquire, LL.D., Borough of Islington (East Division).

Harry Wright Wallace, esquire, Borough of Walthamstow (East Division).

Julius Silverman, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (Erdington Division).

Flying-Officer Norman Harold Lever, Borough of Manchester (Exchange Division).

Anthony Richard Hurd, esquire, County of Berks (Newbury Division).

Lieutenant-Commander John Anthony Lanford Holt, R.N., County of Salop (Shrewsbury Division).

Sir Rudolph Dymoke White, baronet, County of Hants (Fareham Division).

Sir James Douglas Wishart Thomson, baronet, Burgh of Aberdeen (South Division).

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Major Ernest Everard Gates, County of Lancaster (Middleton and Prestwich Division)

Brigadier Frank Medlicott, County of Norfolk (Eastern Division).

Frederick Seymour Cocks, esquire, County of Nottingham (Broxtowe Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Alan Vincent Gandar Dower, County of Cumberland (Penrith and Cockermouth Division).

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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ian William Joselyn Fraser, C.B.E., County of Lancaster (Lonsdale Division).

ADJOURNMENT
Resolved: "That this House do now adjourn."—[Mr. Greenwood.]
Adjourned accordingly at One Minute past Seven o'Clock, until To-morrow, at Eleven o'Clock.

Preamble
The House met at two of the clock. Sir WILLIAM ALLEN JOWITT sat Speaker.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR.
VISCOUNT ADDISON: My Lords, I have to acquaint the House that His Majesty has been pleased to create the Right Honourable Sir William Allen Jowitt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, a Peer of this Realm by the title of Baron Jowitt of Stevenage in the County of Hertford.
The Lord Chancellor, having retired to robe, was (in the usual manner) introduced.
House adjourned during pleasure.
House resumed.

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS (THE LORD CHANCELLOR, VISCOUNT FITZALAN OF DERWENT, VISCOUNT STANSGATE, LORD STANMORE AND LORD MOTTISTONE) being seated in front of the Throne, and the Commons, having been sent for, being at the Bar:—
MR. SPEAKER-ELECT (COLONEL THE RIGHT HONOURABLE DOUGLAS CLIFTON BROWN), addressing the Royal Commissioners, said: My Lords, I have to acquaint your Lordships that, in obedience to His Majesty's commands, His Majesty's most faithful Commons have, in the exercise of their undoubted rights and privileges, proceeded to the election of Speaker, and that their choice has fallen upon myself. I now present myself at your Lordships' Bar and submit myself with all humility for His Majesty's gracious approbation.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR: Colonel Clifton Brown, we are commanded to assure you that His Majesty is so fully sensible of your zeal in the public service and of your ample sufficiency to execute the arduous duties which his faithful Commons have selected you to discharge that he does most readily approve and confirm you as their Speaker.
MR. SPEAKER: My Lords, I submit myself with all humility and gratitude to His Majesty's gracious commands. It is now my duty, in the name and on behalf of the Commons of the United Kingdom, to lay claim by humble petition to His Majesty to all their ancient and undoubted rights and privileges, especially to freedom of speech in debate, to freedom from arrest, and to free access to His Majesty whenever occasion shall require; and that the most favourable construction shall be put upon all their proceedings. In regard to myself, I pray that if in the discharge of my duties I should inadvertently fall into any error, it may be imputed to myself alone, and not to His Majesty's most faithful Commons.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR: Mr. Speaker, we have it further in command to inform you that His Majesty does most readily confirm all the rights and privileges which have ever been granted to or conferred upon the Commons by His Majesty or any of his Royal predecessors. With respect to yourself, Sir, though His Majesty is sensible that you stand in no need of such assurance, His Majesty will ever place the most favourable construction upon your words and actions.
Mr. Speaker and the Commons then retired.
House adjourned during pleasure.
House resumed.
Several Lords—Took the Oath.

LORD SANDFORD.
Sir Albert James Edmondson, Knight, having been created Baron Sandford of Banbury in the County of Oxford—Was (in the usual manner) introduced.
Several Lords—Took the Oath.
House adjourned at half past four o'clock.