ECONOMY CRY
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SECURITY DEMANDS CIVIL DEFENCE PLANS MEETING EMERGENCIES (Reed. Oct. 20, J 5.40 p.m.') ■LONDON, Oct. 19. Speaking in the House of Commons, the Home Secretary, Sir John Anderson, referred to the clamour for reduction of expense. He said there , efiuld not be any question* at present of wholesale demobilisation 6f the civil defence personnel. No one at the outbreak of the war had been able to foretell the extent of the emergency ahead. Consequently the civil defence organisation had been called into action to meet intensive and perhaps continuous aerial attacks.
Any other assumption would have been grievously at fault. “We must not be lulled into a sense of false security because hitherto we have not been involved in battle,” he declared.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20074, 21 October 1939, Page 7
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