May I, Sir, at the outset, most sincerely congratu'alke my hon. Friend the Member for Point Pedro (Mr. C'T. G. Ponnambalam) on his very exhaustive and, might I add, somewhat exhausting speech ? In the first place, he exhausted the subject lie was dealing with ; and, in the second place, he exhausted himself. He told us during the early sta;es of his marathon performance that he had been specially requested to put forward the case from the nvint of view he was urging it as fully as possible. I think we must admit that he has done so I do not think there (an be anyone who made that special request to him who could in the least be disappointed with the very lengthy detailed speech he made.. I would only like to make at this stage, one remark on that speech, and that is this : there is such a thing as over-emphasis and there is such a thing as over­repetition-faults that vitiate whatever effectiveness a point of view mi;ht intrinsically have in itself.

The speech of the hon. Member for Point Pedro was a sort of command performance-noblesse oblige, if I may follow him in making a quotation from a language for which he has such a lingering liking still. A man must give of his best at a command performance, and the hon. Member has given of his best-all honour to him.

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