NOT TOO QUICKLY
DEFENCE PREPARATIONS
CHANCELLOR'S REPLY TO
CHURCHILL
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, April 24.
The main Budget debate in the House pi Commons was continued last night and the formal resolutions accepted without division.
In replying to the debate, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, dealt with the. criticisms of Mr. Winston Churchill of the pace at which the Government was pursuing its preparations for defence. He said that no doubt if powers were taken to control the country's industries, combined with some control of labour, the Government's programme could be speeded up materially, but many other implications were bound to be associated with a step of that kind.
Everyone could imagine circumstances in which it might become necessary to take such powers, but if they assumed them prematurely the Government'would have to bear responsibility for the dislocation of industry which would result. The action the Government was taking in pursuing preparations for defence under the direction of the Minister for Co-ordina-tion of Defence was the most they could do in peace-time conditions.
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Evening Post, Issue 98, 27 April 1936, Page 9
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