Britain’s Army
ESTIMATES ADOPTED NEED IN TO-DAY’S CRISIS Received March 19, 6.44 p.m. LONDON, March 18. Captain D. H. Hacking presenting the Army Estimates, declared that “at this moment of uncertainty when we may even be approaching another crisis in the history of the Empire, it surely is desirable, wise and statesmanlike that all parties should show a united front in a determination that the Army shall be efficiently and adequately equipped. ” The British Army in peace time had more varied tasks than were performed by any other army in the world. In 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 (Labour) said the most significant thing about the Estimates was they, for the first time since the war, completely departed from the reilace of collective action. Mr. Harcourt Johnstone (Liberal) 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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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 66, 20 March 1935, Page 7
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