Army Estimates Passed
British Force Smallest of the Great Powers
GREATER TERRITORIES TO GUARD THAN OTHERS
United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Tuesday, 7 p.m. LONDON, March IS.
Captain D. H. Racking, Under-Sec-retary for Home Affairs, presenting the Army Estimates, declared that, at this moment of uncertainty when they might even be approaching another crisis in the history of the Empire, it was surely desirable, wise and statesmanlike that all parties should show' a united front in their determination that the Army should be efficiently and adequately equipped. The British Army in peace-time had more varied tasks than those performed by any other army in the world. Policing the Empire, it guarded territories greater than any foreign State, yet it was smaller than the army of any great Power.
Mr J. J. Lawson (Lab.) said the most significant thing about the Estimates was that they, for the first time since the war, completely departed from a reliance on collective action. Mr Hareourt Johnstone (Lib.) said the Liberals would vote against the Estimates as a mark of disappointment with the Government’s foreign policy. The Estimates were carried by 206 votes to 44.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 66, 20 March 1935, Page 7
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