BRITISH POLITICS
DEBATE ON DEFENCE MATTERS BIGGER BORROWING POWERS AN INCREASE TO £800,000,000 (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LIONDON, Feb. 18 A two days' debate on defence will open in the House of Commons on Monday, -when the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon, will move a financial resolution to increase to £800,000,000 the Government’s borrowing powers for defence. According to lobby correspondents of the newspapers, the first day of the debate is likely to relate more particularly to financial aspects of the programme, while on Tuesday, when it is thought Mr Chamberlain will speak, attention will turn to the character of the defence programme itself and its relation to considerations of strategy and foreign policy. It is expected that the final spokesman for the Government will be Mr W. S. Morrison, who, in his new office as Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster, also speaks in the House of Commons for Lord Chatfield, Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20735, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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161BRITISH POLITICS Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20735, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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