Britain could readily accept a broad promise of postwar disarmament because substantial reductions were already expected. The figure used here for 1941 is about 38 percent of national output spent on defence. A return toward the suggested peacetime level of roughly 3 percent would entail extensive reductions in forces and armaments. In this reading, the eighth principle committed Britain to a general direction that the end of wartime mobilization would bring about anyway.
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Expected postwar cuts made disarmament easy to accept
The expected fall from wartime defence spending made a broad promise of postwar disarmament easy for Britain to accept.