Secretary, repudiated Mr. Morrison's statements on the Government's foreign policy.
The Government, he said, was bent on avoiding a division of the world, upon ideological grounds, into opposing camps, Sir Samuel passed on to domestic affairs after recalling that Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, would deal with foreign affairs on Monday.
The Home Secretary cited a number of statistical indices to show the great economic activity in the coun-(ry, which, he claimed, fully justified the Government's economic policy.
He argued that it was easy to exaggerate the part played by rearmament orders in the stimulation of trade, but regarding rearmament, Sir Samuel thought an important stage had now been reached when they would see big production.
Turning specifically to air-raid precautions, he said that, in the course of a week or two, he would be in a position to introduce a bill allocating duties and making clear the financial relations between centre and local authorities, and providing for a general ce-ordination of activities to be mobilized in this new field of defence
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