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“Not Only Exaggerated But Dangerous” QUESTION IN COMMONS Mr. Chamberlain Refuses To Accept Implication GREAT BRITAIN’S TRADE (British Official Wireless.) (Received December 15, 5 p.m.) Rugby, December 14. The Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, replying in the House of Commons to a request for a statement of the Government’s policy “to meet the unemployment problems that threaten the country in view of the oncoming slump,” said :— “I do not accept the implication in the question. I consider any talk of an oncoming slump not only exaggerated, but also dangerous. This country is in a far better position to meet any temporary decline in trade than at anytime since the war.”
“There is no reason for the slightest fear of gloom or depression,” said the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, Sir Thomas Inskip, at a manufacturers’ lunch, in London. “The rearmament programme will not slow down for four or five years.”
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 70, 16 December 1937, Page 7
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