DEBATE ON DEFENCE.
PREMIER TO SPEAK
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Feh. 18,
A two-day debate on defence in the House of. Commons will open on Monday, when Sir John Simon (Chancellor of the Exchequer) will move a financial resolution to increase to £800.000,000 the Government’s borrowing powers lor defence. According lo the lobby correspondents of the newspapers, the first day's debate is likely to relate more particularly to the financial aspects of the programme, and on Tuesday, when it is thought that Mr Chamberlain will speak, attention will turn to the character of the defence programme itself and its relation to considerations of strategy and foreign policy. ft is expected that the final spokesman for the Government will he. Mr W. S. Morrison, who, in his new office of Chancellor of the Dueliv of Lancaster, speaks in the House of Commons for Lord Chatfield, recently appointed Minister of Co-ordination of Defence.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 70, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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