EXPENDITURE BY BRITAIN
MACHINERY SAID TO CLAIM PRIORITY
(Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, July 25. “We must acept the need for curtailing expenditure on housing, schools and hospitals: we must give priority to machinery.” said Sir Clive Baillieu. a former president of the Federation of British Industries, sptaking at Birmingham. “We must ask the Government to shed the country of illusions and paper schemes, create wealth and restore freedoms, incentives, and conditions where men will take risks. The Government. if the country is to be saved from a calamity beyond anything envisaged. must constitute itself in fact a truly national Government.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25247, 28 July 1947, Page 3
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