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What of the debate which followed? For the moment I

pass over the fine laudatory speeches of Privy Councillors Lees- Smith, Percy Harris, Hore-Belisha, Winterton and Sinclair. These are at any rate noticed in the daily Press. More inter- esting were the notes sounded by others, Colonel Moore- Brabazon in an original speech packed with common sense and knowledge; Mr. Profumo, in uniform, deadly sincere; Mr. Quintin Hogg, in uniform, and Mr. Bellenger, who was at Dunkirk, each blunt and at times indignant; Mr. Rathbone, in Air Force blue, revealing something of the modesty and forth- right feeling of his great Service—these and many others. What did they say? * * * *