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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.

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