Big Financial Sacrifices For Victory
LONDON, May 23
Moving the second reading of the Finance Bill iri the House of Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Kingsley Wood) said that the London War Weapons’ Week was already within striking distance of the target of £100,000,000, says a British Official .Wireless message.
He noted with gratification that the figures of small savings showed a further advance over the earlier part of the year.
Sir Kingsley pointed out that the rapid growth of expenditure was not in itself evidence of waste, but rather of growing production. Britain had now reached a rate of expenditure double that of last year.
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Northern Advocate, 24 May 1941, Page 2
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