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Territorial Army establishment by approximately 185,000-men.”
Defence expenditure thus rais- ed to £630,000,000, and still tak ing no account of conscription costs, the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer found himself compelled to look round for new sources. of revenue to the tune. of £24,000,000 more than he expect- ed six weeks ago, and he appears to have done his best to distribute direct and indirect taxation, The the total fairly evenly between increase in the h.p. tax is cal- culated to arouse the A.A. and the R.A.C., not to mention manu- despair at the injustice of it all, facturers, to a gesture of, maybe,
but no-one ever welcomed new taxation and the decision to leave income tax undisturbed is 8 stabilising and consolatory factor for those people in a position to afford cars.
On the whole, Sir John Simon may be credited with having done a fair job of a task unlikely to add to the popularity of any Chancellor of the Exchequer. His main aim now, as Sir Archibald Sinclair pointed out, must be to see that the defence expenditure, representing more than half the full total, is economically admin- Announcement of the Govern- istered and spent so as to pro- ment's decision to introduce aduce the maximum concrete re modified form of compulsory mil-sults. Were that wholly assur itary service came as no sured, few would cavil at the weight prise, in itself. Feelers put out of the burden. in the last few weeks, and in- tensified last week-end, in the way Generalisation Governments have of doing these things, undoubtedly provided Mr. Chamberlain with an eminently satisfactory answer and, despite the National Council of Labour, no cogent reason for delay re- mained.
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The Chairman of the Urban Council appears to have develop- ed the knack recently of treading, upon corns. This time they are ours.
The "China Mail" (and it is Except one. And that seems to not alone in this) has not con- us to be the most significant fac-cerned itself in the slightest with tor in the Cabinet's decision. the controversy raised concern- The diplomatic situation, asing the letting of stalls in the seen by the Prime Minister dur- new Central Market. Our view, ing the week-end, clearly recom- from the beginning, has been one mended the use of Britain's as approving, in principle, the pro- sent to the principle of conscrip- posal for closed and open tender- tion, as a bargaining weapon in ing. It has seemed to us just peace pressure upon Herr Hitler and logical that priority letting Two days before Herr Hitler's should be the right of former speech, when its effect one way stall-holders who were compelled or the other could have been ob- to move to temporary stalls at served, the Cabinet was suddenly the Western Market when called together and decided to act old Central Market was pulled at once.
down. Our only surprise was that the privilege was withheld from the fruit and vegetable sec- tion.
the
Many explanations are, of course, possible. The rebuff to Sir Nevile Henderson may have been an influence, though it is That, nevertheless, did not pre. open to doubt whether Ministers, vent the Chairman of the Urban in. times like these, would show Council from an all-inclusive ac- their displeasure by a step which cusation of unnecessary sensa- is just as complete a reversal of tionalism against the local Press the traditions of British policy as at Tuesday's meeting. This
was to don was the decision to undertake charge of "sensacionalism" is the
specific military commitments in easy retort of all who find them- Eastern Europe.
selves involved in undesired pub-
The true reason for anticipat-licity, and it is particularly pro- ing Herr Hitler's reply is more voking when the facts plainly re- likely to be found in the receipt veal the newspapers concerned to in Downing Street of informa be acting, in their considered tion revealing that the threat opinion, in the public service. If had no bargaining value and that they should be mistaken, nothing instant action, was likely to should be easier than to prove achieve more.
them so, without unnecessary in- It means, on this basis, not vective only that the British people are
We would ask the Chairman willing to accept their respon- of the Urban Council to note that sibilities, but that there is a the newspapers have a public duty sense at Nos. 10 and 11 that those just as he has himself. We responsibilities are not likely to would, particularly ask him to be lessened by Hitler's reply to note that our criticism is not President Roosevelt.
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