Ernest Bevin (1881–1951) British labour leader, politician, and statesman
Western Daily Press, 30 March 1942.
“The fact of it is that all of us agreed to save 6d. in the Income Tax by breaking up the Army in peace-time and not having it prepared when war broke out…I will never be a party to it again.”
Hansard, House of Commons, 5th series, vol. 376, col. 1336.
Speech in the House of Commons, 4 December 1941.
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