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The Sun in particular, stressed that the fact that the soldiers had contributed to the 'anti inflation gramme' through helping to probreak the firemen's strike is in itself sufficient qualification for a 30% pay rise (which, of course, would have no effect on inflation!).

But the Daily Telegraph has a far more developed position. Less than two weeks ago the paper was arguing that those MPs who were prepared to name Colonel WC.C Johnstone were not fit to be trusted with the security of the state, and should therefore be removed from Parliament.

Now the Telegraph has compared the high ranking servicemen who are providing the paper with its leaks&to the civil servants and military who kept Churchill armed with statistics in the 1930s.

Such leaks undoubtedly made mischief for Ministers who were anxious to convince the public that the nation's defences were in good hands.

On the whole, however, historians havo nondl.dad every reason to be grateful to those who had risked their careers to ensure that those who were campaigning for rearmament in the 1930s knew what they were talking about.

So it is today.

With a somnolent Defence Minister and a Cabinet which is split between those who think of the Armed Forces as a barrier to good relations with cuddly Mr. Brezhnev and those who reckon that low pay is the appropriate regard for professions such as the armed forces which do not belong to the TUC, the national defences are dangerously at risk.

The Telegraph's assessment of the Cabinet is of course ludicrous, and they know it.

By raising the question of the organs of the state acting independently of Parliament and the Government-and if necessary dispensing with both- The Telegraph hopes to push the Lib-Lab Coalition to further concessions building up the army and police with one aim in the forcible sunression of tha

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