"Guns Before Cheese,” Says Labour M.P.

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22917, 8 April 1949, Page 5

"Guns Before Cheese,” Says Labour M.P.

LONDON, April 6. Mr. Anthony Eden, deputvLeader of the Opposition, speaking in the House of Commons on a resolution to amend the law relating to the national debt, said: “No one could have listened to the Chancellor’s statement without rating it technically among the best ever put forward.

“The manner in which he gave us occasional symptoms of encouragement salted with rebuke, which no doubt our national resurgence required, was very skilful. “The House will congratulate him on a speech of outstanding brilliance. When we criticise its contents, we will do so with the recollection of a performance for which we are all grate.ful.” Mr. E. L. Granville, Labour,' said there was no incentive in the Budget for a worker to put in the extra work that the Chancellor asked foY. Sir Richard Acland, Labour, said the Budget would be a shock to public opinion.

Mr. Emrys Hughes, Labour, said: “We laughed wnen Goering spoke about guns before butter, but now, five years after the war, the Chancellor is talking about guns before cheese.

Sir Henry Morris-Jones, Liberal National, said the Chancellor, at the expense of unpopularity in his own ranks and for the sake of the country, had applied a brake to the Socialist dreams.

Mr. J. H. Hudson. Labour, said the increases in the cost of food would make it difficult to secure from the workers the enthusiasm that the Chancellor sought.