Personal. ENGLAND started the last war with a National Debt of £700,000,000. At the end of it the debt was £7,000,000,000. At the end of 20 years’ straining and struggling to pay it off they found they were £8,000,000,000 in debt even although they had paid out £5,600,000,000 in interest on loans. We ought to finance the war by interest-free money. —Thus said R. R. Stokes, M.P. (Ipswich), Subscribe to: “ DEMOCRACY ” BOX 34W — AUCKLAND.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32479, 13 September 1944, Page 6
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