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ARMY EXPANSION ORGANISATION WORK SERVICES RECOGNISED OPINION OF PREMIER EVIDENCE OF ACCORD (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 11.30 a.m. RUGBY, Jan. 7. The wide changes and reforms carried out in the British army during Mr. L, Hore-Belisha's tenure of office as Secretary of State for War, and the accord between him and the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, as evidenced m letters .between them, lead the press to draw the infeience that the change in the occupant of office does not foreshadow a change of policy. Typical of British public opinion on this aspect is the comment by the Sunday Times: “No changes are intended in policy. It is not the least of the achievements for which he deserves ungrudged recognition—and for which no one throughout the country has more consistently given him recognition and support than the Prime Minister —that the whole problem of army expansion is going forward smoothly to a solution on univer-sally-agreed lines. “The adoption of conscription, the methodical calling up of conscripts, the arrangements made for equipment and training on a vast scale —these measures, like the reforms to which we already have alluded, are settled gains of which no succeeding War Minister will deprive us."
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20139, 8 January 1940, Page 7
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