FUTURE OF WALES
Debate In Commons
(British Official Wireless.) (Received October 18, 7.30 p.m.) RUGBY, October 17.
The House of Commons today for the first time in the uearly-four century period since the Welsh members returned to the House gave up a whole day for the discussion of Welsh affairs.
Miss Megan Lloyd George opening the debate said there was a considerable measure of prosperity in Wales today. Her main anxiety was tliat Wales should not return to the economic bad old days and “our young people are not forced by economic circumstances to leave their native land again.” She asked, for the establishment of a separate Secretary of State for Wales. Colonel Evans supported her request. He said: "We are no longer to be regarded as the orphans of the storm.” Other members also emphasized that Wales was a separate nation, Mr. D H. Mainwariug (Labour) stating that Wales was more interested in post-war reconstruction plans than any other part of Britain because she suffered more than tiny other part in the inter-war period.
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 21, 19 October 1944, Page 5
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