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Ernest Bevin

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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.
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Hansard, House of Commons, 5th series, vol. 376, col. 1336.
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Speech in the House of Commons, 4 December 1941.

 
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