12
Page 24
9.
Summary.
To sum up: I ask the Cabinet to agree that national service officers should be given the recent increases in officers' marriage allowances on the grounds that:
(a) this is clearly implied by the terms of my
recent statement in the House;
(b) the majority of the married officers concerned
are professional men, commissioned direct from civil life, of whom many are over the age. of 25;
(c) there should be little difficulty in justifying
the distinction between officers and other ranks;
(a)
the cost is small.
Ministry of Defence, S.W.1.
1ST MARCH, 1949.
Page 24
-3-
A. V. A.
Page 24