INSTANT PREPAREDNESS
READINESS IN FIRST' HOUR. “If it is asked,” said Sir John Simon. Chancellor of the Exchequer,- in a speech on the Conscription Bill, “why we should carry this measure in time of peace, when the voluntary effort of the country is so great, and when all men of goodwill are striving to avert war, the answer is to be found in the speed with which modern events take place. If trouble comes we have to be ready in the very first hour. If ever we had to face a European conflict we could not begin to build-up our armed forces, as Lord Kitchener did a quarter of a century ago, after the conflict had started. The need to show our strength and our preparedness will exist in the first hour." ■
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1939, Page 7
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132INSTANT PREPAREDNESS Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1939, Page 7
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