EQUAL NUMBERS
WORKERS AND FIGHTERS
MECHANISED WARFARE
DOMESTIC GOODS CUT
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, November 16.
The President of the Board of Trade, Captain Oliver Lyttelton, in a broadcast, said: "After nine months of war the Board of Trade enforced the first restriction on the sale of a great number of personal and household things. This has not been enough, and therefore the Board of Trade has now announced more severe restrictions.
"In the last war one munitions worker supplied two fighting men with weapons and equipment; now, because of the development of the air arm, greater fire power and mobility required by the modern army, and the vast number of auxiliary craft required at sea, it takes two workers to supply two fighting men. That is why w.e must tighten our belts.
"I want your view to be realistic and not alarmist. In spite of the restrictions we are providing more than^double the German standard of comfort."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 121, 18 November 1940, Page 8
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158EQUAL NUMBERS Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 121, 18 November 1940, Page 8
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