It was necessary to make further provision for Meeting Such a Crisis as we went through five years ago, when we had to improvise an Army almost equal in numbers to a Continental Army—an Army of 500,000 men.
Mr. WISE: Is it not the case that the Macmillan Committee drew attention to the weak position of the Bank of England in regard to the possible withdrawal of short-term deposits from London, and urged a mobilisation of securities with a view to Meeting Such a Crisis as has in fact arisen?
If a child has a disastrous accident and comes home from school having ripped a pair of trousers and it is a question whether he gets to school the following day, they may well be making the right choice in spending the rent money on Meeting Such a Crisis and going a day or two in arrears with the rent rather than facing up to the other consequences.