WAR EXPENDITURE

Evening Star, Issue 25083, 26 January 1944, Page 5

WAR EXPENDITURE

£13,250,000 SPENT DAILY £80,0&G.GOO FOR U.H.R.R.A. (Rec 11 i.m.) RUGBY, Jan. 25. A British contribution of £80,000,000 to tho United Nations' Relief and Rehabilitation. Administration was proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he asked the House of Commons to giant a supplementary vote of £750,000,000 and a new vote of £1,000,003,000 for war expenditure. Sir John Anderson said in recent weeks the war expenditure had averaged a little over £13,250,000 daily, of which about £11,000,000 was for the fighting and supply services. The remainder was for miscellaneous war services. He wanted votes totalling £5,000,000,000 for the whole year. The areas which would be brought under the control of the United Nations marked a now phase of the war. It was an essential part of the complex task confronting Britain and ner allies that the liberated countries should be restored. He praised the preliminary work done in Washington and London. The Minister of State (Mr R. KLaw) said the U.N.RIt.A. was not even a benevolent dictatorship. If the country preferred to get on without it it could do so, but a natiqn which did not ask for assistance would not be at liberty to go into the world's markets and buy regardless of the arrangements made by the U.N.R.R.A. "Last war relief was financed by loans of which very few wore repaid, and they lingered to poison international relationships for many years. This time there would he no question of loans. Those who could pay would, and those who could not would have a gift from countries mora fortunate. The machinery for the production of relief supplies was geared with the machinery for the production of war supplies.