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Page 3225and reason of maintaining confidence Rager22 thef 253 Mason that without announcing a reversal of Government policy we can make no practical difference in the execution of the programme for 1953, I ask my colleagues not at this stage to make any change in the programme I have planned and put in hand for 1953. I shall, of course, do all I can to carry it out as economically as I can both in finance and in materials.

I do not seek now a decision on 1954. There is still time for a fuller examination of our programme for that year.

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Ministry of Housing and Local

Government, S.W.1.,

15TH JULY, 1952.