DEFENCE OF LONDON
LADY HOUSTON'S OFFER
■-.-■ „ . LONDON, May 2. Lady Houston, sent the following message to Lord Londonderry, Secretary_of Air: "In order/to commemorate the Kmg's Jubilee, atk in view of the dire necessity, I renew my offer of £200,000 for the air defence of London." She recalled Mr. Neville Chamberlain's previous rejection of the offer, as, he said, it was impossible to accept gifts in excess of expenditure Parliament had approved. - -
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 104, 4 May 1935, Page 9
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71DEFENCE OF LONDON Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 104, 4 May 1935, Page 9
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