London, Apr. 28.
The depute on the Budget w ned here yesterday by Mr. F. W.
thick-Lawrence (Labour, E, Edinburgh) for the Labour Opposition.
The Budget was not merely de. pressing, it was deplorable, he said. I: placed burdens on every section of the community by adding to taxation and tying up posterity with increasing burdens ai debts Faltering finance had marked the conduct of the last war, but this time it had started before the war had begun.
The: Government were asking for unity and sacrifices. For a policy that would secure the world against war, the Labour Party and the whole country would face great sacrifices. But the Opposition could see no evidence that the policy of the Government was one to command the united sentiment of the nation.
it seemed rather that they were asking for sacrifices, not for things for which unity could undoubtedly be obtained, but for the triumph of aggression and the suppression of democracy.
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