London, Mar. 6.
"1 cannot dismiss the hope that we and the nations of Europe will preently finnd. some. less. suicidal way of ending our fears and suspicions of tone another before we are all ruined by our own efforts to defend our selves" declared the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Me. Neville Chamber= lain, speaking of the cost of the British defence programme "ina speech at Edinburgh.
"You can understand the feelings of a Chancellor." he proceeded, "who has been labouring now for a number fof years to build up the finances of {he country. He hes seen his efforts bearing fruit.and. his anticipations more than fulfilled, and just at "a lime when he might hope to reap a harvest in the shape of remissions of taxation, he is. obliged to divert his surplus to the forging of weapons of defence which bring in no economic "Nothing but stark necessity would have made me confess to such nega ion' of common-sense and common
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