Talk of troops being brought in to deal with prisoners who are normally dealt with by trained staff means that we are at panic stations.
We said that we had the facts in a file which was about a foot thick and there were immediate panic stations around the place.
It will not reach that degree of panic stations in such a short space of time as it did in 1949.
It is not exactly a model of a rational decision but rather a case of panic stations.
It must not however lead us on to panic stations, and my noble friend is the last to do that.
Nothing has been done about what we said at that time, and now it is panic stations.
Let us bear that in mind before anyone sounds panic stations.
They took up their usual panic stations.