Minister quits and tells why
London (April 23): Mr Aneurin Bevan, who resigned as Labour Minister yesterday, said to-day that the 'extravagant' American rearmament programme threatened to do more damage than the behaviour of the Soviet Union.
Mr Bevan said the British rearmament programme of GBP4,700,000,000 'is already dead' because it could not be started on that scale.
He said: 'It is now perfectly clear to anyone who examines the matter objectively that the lurchings of the American economy, the extravagant and unpredictable behaviour of their production machine, and the failure of the American Government to inject the arms programme into the economy slowly enough, have already caused vast inflations of prices all over the world . . . If it goes on, more damage will be done by this unrestrained behaviour than by the behaviour of the nation the arms are intended to restrain.'
Price of vice
London (April 20): The high cost of tobacco smoking in Britain is driving more people to snuff. The paradox apparently is that you do not pay through the nose for tobacco if you take it via the nostrils.
The discovery by the public has led to a big increase in business, leading snuff shops report. One expert said today that an ounce of good snuff will last even a heavy addict a week and cost him only five to six shillings. Cigarettes stand at 3s. 6d. for 20.