BRITISH WAR PENSIONS
; • , i ; ; STATEMENT BY MINISTER (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, April 26; Asked in the House of Commons if, in view of the improved national finances, more generous consideration would be given to applicants for war disability pensions, Mr G. C. Trydn (the Pensions Minister) said it would bo generally agreed that no grounds existed for the suggestion that the pensions had been ungenerous. In Britain, in spite of the recent severe depression, which necessitated reductions in public expenditure, no cuts .whatever were made in grants, war pensions, and allowances, nor had the principle of their administration been allowed _ to be affected; whereas other countries made considerable changes in the rates of_ war pensions and the practice of pensions’ -administration. •
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Evening Star, Issue 21706, 28 April 1934, Page 15
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124BRITISH WAR PENSIONS Evening Star, Issue 21706, 28 April 1934, Page 15
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