He argued that in such a case the position was simplified, for, if the Government took action, no complications, he inferred, could arise with any other Power—least of all, he suggested, with any other Power represented on the Non-Intervention Committee, which must share British feelings regarding these attacks on merchant ships operating within the provisions of the non-intervention system and under the surveillance of the officers of the Non-Intervention Board.
He could not understand, therefore, why the Prime Minister had said that the Government could do nothing about it.
A British ship, Mr. Attlee proceeded, was as much a part of British territory as Gibraltar, and a British sailor just as much a British subject as any other person.
The Prime Minister, he concluded, must be more specific if he wanted ihe-House to believe that he could not defend them.
The Labour Motion stated,—Reuter. was lost} as
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