BALDWIN'S PLEDGE
SERVICE TO COUNTRY
"ALL 'THAT IS IN ME"
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(Received November 11, 12.30 pan.)
RUGBY, November 9.-
In his final election (broadcast last night, {he Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, referred to the question of international disarmament, to promote which, he said, no country had done more than Britain, but in this matter agreement must be secured among a number of countries, among which were to be found every variety "of conditions in their history in their surroundings and ways of life, in their I strength, and in their weakness. , That explained why progress had been much slower than people in this country would have wished.
There . was no foundation, he' said, for the suggestion that. newly-increased expenditure on defence would prevent the Government from going ahead with its programme of social improvement
"I pledge myself to you," •he con* eluded, "that if you give me confidence now I will give you all that is in me to give you during the. few-years that can only remain- to me. at^my present age, and I pledge that service to you,and to my' country."
BALDWIN'S PLEDGE
Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 115, 11 November 1935, Page 10
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