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But it is a fallacy, if one is examining the methods by which security can be attained, to start upon the assumption, as so many hon. Members do, that we get security by an increase of air armaments or an increase of any other form of armaments.

— Stafford Cripps

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Speech in the House of Commons opposing the National Government's decision to expand the Royal Air Force (30 July 1934)

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