LAST WAR'S GRIM LEGACY
•I have, 20 years after the Great War, still on the books of my Ministry 420,000 war pensioners, and besides them about 500,000 dependents," said the British Minister of Pensions, Mr H Ramsbotham. in a recent speech. "There are on any day in the year about 2000 patients in my hospitals, and I wish that some of those who. after the danger of the recent crisis has passed, glibly demand firmer stands and stronger measures would spend a few days going round those hospitals and seeing for themselves the wreckage that still remains from a war fought nearly a quarter of a century ago. I am still payini out in pensions about £39,000,000 a year, and the total expenditure on war pensions from 1914 to March 31. 1938. amounts to £1,275,000,000. or double the whole of the National Debt before the war."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23691, 24 December 1938, Page 4
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