PUBLIC EXPECTATIONS
EXCESS DEPEECATED
CHAMBERLAIN'S WARNING
DEMANDS OF DEFENCE
(Erltlsa Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, February 25.' Speaking at Plymouth last night, the .Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. .Neville Chamberlain, warned the public, not to let their expectations in regard to the coming Budget be too high. ' . . Nobody was more anxious than he to mitigate the burden of taxation and restore cuts in pay and allowances, but unfortunately expenditure could not remain stationary. There were certain charges which went on increasing automatically; for instance the charge for old age and widows' pensions. Again, the subsidy for housing had not yet reached its peak. ' j
As to defence forces, in an effort to cope with the financial stringency and give a lead to other countries .in disarmament, Britain had reduced'her defence to a dangerously low level. . Reductions of expenditure had been effected by the postponement of building and the postponement of replacing stores. These could* not be indefinitely put off. No country had done as much to demonstrate a desire for, peace by actual disarmament as Britain, but there was a limit beyond which they could not go.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 49, 27 February 1934, Page 9
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