Mr Butler’s Statement
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- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Why the Cuts? - Mr Butler Explains. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. Butler seated at table - MS various lenses of Butler speaking on why he enforced the cuts, & what we must do to help the country back to recovery. Butler says In the last few months every family in the country, every week has been using up over a pounds worth of food and materials that hasn’t been earned by our exporters and has to be paid for out of our savings. That’s deadly serious isn’t it! It’s got to be stopped! Foreigners don’t owe us a living. We live by trading and if we can’t earn enough by trade we can’t get enough to eat or enough materials to enable us to keep our jobs. What’s more if we don’t get things right quickly the world will lose confidence in us and a bad position will get worse. We must become strong and independent again, so that we can look the whole world in the face. What we want to do is produce more so that we can export more and that is the key to every thing. When we can do this there will be enough at home as well as for export, and only then we shall have the good start at home ourselves. Now you will ask what can you do to help. Turn out more goods and use a bit less at home. Well we are a democracy here and you must decide this question for yourselves. But for all our sakes, and for our children we must do that now! We must work and sell more abroad so that once again as a country we can pay our way.
- Keywords
- Politics and government; Economics
- Locations
- London; Treasury
- Card file number
- 56717
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Norman Fisher
- Length of story (in feet)
- 197
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'Mr Butler’s Statement', British Movietone News Issue No. 1183, 4 Feb 1952. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/17589 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)