With the British Dole fund already $437,000,000 in debt last week, Scot MacDonald's Government asked authorization from the House of Commons to borrow another $121,500,000 from the Exchequer.
"This sum will last until next January if we have only 2,500,000 unemployed," said the Minister of Labor, Miss Margaret ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield. "With 2,750,000 unemployed it will last until November; and with 3,000,000 it will last until October."
The $121,500,000 demanded last week roughly equals half the cost of the Royal Navy for a year. The House of Commons...
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