The Keynes scheme was also mentioned in the House of Lords, in a debate on national economics, Lord Hankey, Minister without Portfolio, in replying to the debate, said that the economic scheme had been deferred and not rejected by the Government.
He intimated that before adopting compulsion, the Government must see whether the ends could not be obtained voluntarily, and quoted figures showing that there had been a reduction in civilian buying.
As the war effort developed, he said, there have been certain curtailments in civilian consumption.
Lord Stamp, however, declared that much retrenchment was possible in civilian buying before the nation, as a whole, had to live on a lower standard than ín 1914—Reuter.
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