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Britain's Honest Budget
Hutchison, Keith | April 21, 1951 issue

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Hugh Gaitskell, Great Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that the budget he had presented to the House of Commons was not the kind he could have introduced if Korea and its consequences had not happened. But for the need to divert resources to the rearmament program, he continued, his budget "could have been quite a popular affair, some reward for all the hard work and waiting, for the big rise in production, for the dollar gap filled, for export targets hit, for getting the country on its feet again. The budget, in fact, includes only one minor blow at the social services the proposal to charge Health Service patients half the cost of dentures and eyeglasses, now supplied free.

See Also:

BUDGET; GAITSKELL, Hugh, 1906-1963; MEDICAL care; GREAT Britain -- Foreign relations; KOREA -- Foreign relations -- 1945-; GREAT Britain. Parliament. House of Commons; GREAT Britain; KOREA
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