Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 May 1947.
Sir Walter Fletcher
, Bury
12:00,
13 May 1947
That is not a satisfactory answer. Will the Chancellor explain whether in his view it is wise to expend a high proportion of our dollar loan on buying tobacco and cigarettes which are then sent to soft currency areas, even though they are in the British Empire?
