"The reason why it seemed to the Government that such an admittedly drastic regulation was necessary was that the over-running of Holland, Belgium and part of France brought home to us the fact we were exposed to perils of a kind that most of us had never imagined, even in a nightmare," Sir John said. He contended that a k drastic procedure was inadequate.
"In these circumstances of dire peril,' declared Sir R. Ackland, Liberal member for Devonshire, Barn-staple division, "the powers Sir John Anderson has demanded would enable him to do all kinds of things, far beyond the emergency he has described." Mr. W. Gallacher, Communist member for Fife, West division supported the motion.
Sir Donald Somervell, Attorney-General, said that the Home Secretary had made an unanswerable case for the power of rapid executive action in an emergency.
Sir George Hume, Conservative member for Greenwich, and Mr. Vernon Bartlett, Independent member ior Somerset, Bridgwater division, criticized the provision for appeal to the House of Commons, instead of after publication had been motion was deleatnst 60.—Reuter.
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