Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Government Departments. – in the House of Commons at on 5 December 1939.
Captain Harry Crookshank
, Gainsborough
The demand for goods of a vast number of types has been swollen by war expenditure. It is highly desirable that those productive resources of the country which are not required or not yet required for war purposes should be fully employed in supplying consumers' needs, but the dislocation arising from the transition from peace to war requires some little time to cure.