GROUND FOR HOPE

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 111, 12 May 1934, Page 13

GROUND FOR HOPE

SOUND FOUNDATIONS

TO BUILD BETTER BRITAIN

BALDWIN LOOKS AHEAD

(British OtDclal Wireless.) (Received May 12, 11 a.m.) KUGBY, May 11. Speaking at tho Albert Hall, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, dealing -with the gen- '■ era] outlook, said that there was a reasonable ground for fresh hope in the steady fall of unemployment among men, women, and juveniles. The Government had laid sound foundations which would require much work and statesmanship to bring to full fruition. It was satisfied that what had been done would enable succeeding Governments to build a better country and a better Empire. Regarding the restoration of national finances, he said that the sacrifices which every class had made had enabled that position to be secured. They had seen the full restoration of unemployment cuts and half of the cuts in other directions, as well as an easement of income tax. He had every hope that a complete restoration of all cuts would be made before the natural term of the Government had come to an end. On the subject of housing, Mr. Baldwin declared that before the next Government had been in office two or three years the slum problem, as they had known it, would be practically at an end.