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Mr. Neville Chamberlain's refusal to tax foreign meat needed any justification it would have found it abundantly in the observation casually dropped by Mr. Duff Cooper in introducing the Army Estimates on Tuesday, that, " if British meat were bought for the Army it would add £200,000 or 3300,000 to the estimates without adding to the efficiency of the troops, and therefore, speaking as the mouthpiece of the War Office, he could not support the suggestion." A tax on foreign meat, with the object of bringing its price up to the level of the home-raised product, would have for the ordinary consumer the effect Mr. Duff Cooper cannot face for the Army. That needs to be borne in mind in view of rumoured move to set up some meat quota scheme that will spell protection and increased prices in another form.
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