Territorial Army (Recruitment)

Part of Orders of the Day — Army Estimates, 1950–51 – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 March 1950.

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Photo of Mr Anthony Head Mr Anthony Head , Carshalton 12:00, 20 March 1950

The hon. Member is doing me a great courtesy by giving way. What he has just said is said all over the country by no less a person than the Minister of Defence—he is always saying it. Our point is that it is founded entirely on a fallacy. If the unemployment and recruiting graphs for the period between the wars are compared, it will be found that when unemployment was high, recruiting, if anything, fell off, and that when unemployment came down recruiting rose. It is very important that hon. Members opposite should realise that, because they have been talking this rubbish for several years without ever checking it with the facts.