The Archive · 1941

Post War Aims

Britain Will Be in No Mood for Speculation On Stock Exchange

London, Mar, 27, Britain will be in no mood for stock exchange gambling after the war, Mr. Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour and National Service, said up yesterday, Speaking at a luncheon in the Chamber of Trade, Mr. Bevin explained that "at the end of the last war the nation was in a mood to capitalize on results of the war. Their actions took the form of wild flotations and dissipations of our re-Serves which resulted in ultimate disaster for many businesses."

"Millions of people, as a result of propaganda, poured their war savings into those wild flotations and lost everything," Mr. Bevin continued, "But today the grimness of our situation is realized.

"These attacks on our cities and our homes have forced us to the realization that when the war is ended and we can call our souls our own, the ational will' must be devoted to tasks of teconstruction—wiping out slums, preserving the countryside, establishing the correct equilibrium' between town and country and developing great public services," Mr. Bevin said—United Press, .|No S. African Troops Outside Continent Parliament to Be Called If Move is Desirable Cape Town, Mar, 27, The question of the use of South African troops outside Africa was raised in the House of Assembly yesterday, The Prime Minister, Gentral Jan Smuts, stated that the Government intended to abide strictly by the decision taken by Parliament at the beginning of the war oversea expeditions, If circum. stances arose which, in the opinion of the Government,' made it necessary to send troops outside the African Continent, Parliament would be summoned, he' promised.

General Smuts declared the Government was entitled to use its troops in any part of Africa and would do 80, if necessary.

No South African troops were at present fighting in Greece or anywhere outside Africa, he added—Reuter,

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