ARMS AND SUPPLIES
BIG DRIVE IN BRITAIN LONDON, May 22. Entain's home forces are gathering for a tremendous arms drive. The general secretary of the Trades Unioa Congress, Sir Walter Citrine, has prepared a secret report after consultation* with the Minister of Aircraft Production, Lord Beaverbrook, the Minister of Supply, Mr. Herbert Morrison, and the Minister of Labour, Mr. Ernest Bevin. ..'... - ■■; Mr. Morrison is resigning the chairmanship of the London County Council and is throwing all his energies into the drive for supplies. The Secretary for Mines, Mr. Grenfell, in a broadcast, appealed to thousands of former miners to return to the coalfields. He said that numbers of young men under military age were also required. The Government-was preparing for the production this year of 200,000,000 tons of coal for internal consumption—easily the highest total in the country's history. In addition, he said, there was a great dfemand for coal to export, especially to France.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 121, 23 May 1940, Page 11
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