The housing question

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Identifikator:: 1023104237

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-61777

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The housing question

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (125 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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THE HOUSING QUESTION 109 spirit as well as in the letter the promises made to them by the late Minister of Health with regard to their financial commit ments ? Mr. Chamberlain : " Undertakings given by the Government are not affected by changes of individual Ministers and the Government have no intention of departing from any pledges given to local authorities with respect to financial commitments entered into by them with the approval of the Ministry of Health.” Mr. Thomson : “ If local authorities are anxious to extend their health services, will the Right Hon. Gentleman see that they are not restricted and curtailed by the Government’s econo mical policy ? ” Mr Chamberlain : " No pledge will be dishonoured because there has been a change of Ministers. That does not mean that the policy of the Government as explained in the circular issued in the Autumn will be altered. In view of the present financial situation the economical restrictions imposed by the Government must continue.” The form of the reply is significant. It is clearly an intimation that housing was to be curtailed by the economic policy of restrictions put forward by the Government in the Autumn of 1920. Mr. Chamberlain overlooked the fact that he had told Mr. Billing that Housing Schemes would not be affected by the new policy. The reader has perhaps had his fill of the sonorous insincerities emitted by the Coalition Government from 1918 to 1921 when they wished the electors to believe in their good faith. Let us contrast with these a few of their later utterances, which probably represent more faithfully their true souls : Hear first Sir Alfred Mond. He is speaking to a

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