(Continued. from. page 7) sion should be made for those who would have to remain and carry on the production of the country. He hoped that the House of Commons would be assured that the Government was not afraid to ask for means of constructing deep bomb-proof shelters.
The Labour Party, Mr. Dalton went on, had no reason to feel any confidence in the Government's plan for defence.
Tt was said, he continued, that there had been increased production, but he felt that there had been no real or substantial improvement since last September, "when revelations were made regarding the equipment for defence services."
Sir Hugh Seeley, Liberal member for the Berwick-on-Tweed division of mot let us blink our eyes to the fact that all this money is being spent because of the German menace. If we are going to spend this money, let us see to it that we have defence if the menace comes."
The question of an expeditionary force, he continued, was bound to be a very large one.
"We are faced," he declared, "with.a more serious situation in many ways than before the war as regards land forces, because we know that the German peace army is about 1,000,000 men.
"In spite of the enormous sums being spent in this country, we are P faced with the big question as to whether we are going to have an army to work in conjunction with a continental army abroad."
Sir Hugh Seeley did not think that a continuation of piling up armaments would bring the fullest possible security and that something more had to be achieved on the lines of collective security,
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