“It is extraordinarily difficult to secure the right outcome for this resultant of many separate policies. It depends on weighing one advantage against another. There is hardly a conceivable decision within the range of the supply services which does not affect it.”

Source: How to Pay for the War (1940), Ch. 1 : The Character of the Problem

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