• A similar clash between the principles of National security
and the rights of public opinion to control public policy developed on Tuesday night when the Opposition brought up the ease of five employees dismissed from the dockyards. I have never heard a higher level of debate sustained in this Parliament. Mr. Greenwood, Who opened for the Opposition, often has an unfortunate tendency to spoil a good case by an extravagant over- indulgence in superlatives. But this time he showed a real appreciation of the occasion and, speaking with unwonted restraint and a strict adherence to the issues involved, was the more effective in consequence. Sir Samuel Hoare, when he replied for the Go' vernment, • spoke deliberately and with a meticulous choice of words that seemed to bear out his contention that the whole matter was one to be handled with extreme caution. He could hardly have made a better defence and lie left the House impressed, but very far from convinced.
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