Defence Need Urged
“Although there is some ground for encouragement in the work done by the United Nations, it is still too early for this nation or any other nation to rest on its arms, with the assurance that there will be no aggression,” said the Minister of Defence (Mr Brooke Claxton) introducing in the Canadian House of Cofrimoris defence estimates totalling 240,900,000 dollars. He said that the amount to be spent ori defence was about 12 per cent. of the national Budget. In 138-39, the cost of defence wa5..34,000,000 dollars.—Ottawa, July 9.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 July 1947, Page 2
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