The Archive · 1922

The Call for Economy

One of the last issues of the "Times" from Home states that the Report of the Economy Committee, Presided over by Sir Eric Geddes, which the Government appointed last September to consider how economies might be effected in national expenditure, recommends changes which would save £200,000,- 000. It is a question of policy, we are told. Change that and the {money can be saved. And as the Chancellor of the Exchequer recenttly announced that he would need £175,000,000-more to make this year's budget balance, there is sound

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