EMPIRE DEFENCE
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No New Policy Imp'ied in Recent Speeches BASED ok CO-OPERATION
^xC6C©ivea &oj J-JUU u.ui.j EUGBY, Feb. 22. The Prime Minister was questioned In the House of Gommons on Sir gamuel floare *s speeoh at Bradford on February 3 regarding Dominion co-opora-tion in Imperial defence. Mr Baldwin gaid; "The First Lord of the Admiralty «tiade no new statement of policy. While explaining that the chief burden of defence expenditure falls on Britain, the First Lord once again declared that it wOuLd be a great mistake to% impoge soane rigjd plan on other members of the Empire. Sunilarly, as to economie questions, he ma.de it clear that any ngreement that had been ur might be xeaehed must result from a commoa outlook And a spontaneou* desixe for co-operation."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 33, 23 February 1937, Page 5
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