NECESSITY ADMITTED.
DIPLOMATIC ADVANTAGES. PEACE POLICY UNALTERED. LONDON, ManTi 5. The necessity for the increases in the Defence Estimates is reluctantly admitted by most of the papers this morning, although Liberal and Labour journals are critical and consider the increased expenditure on defence premature and provocative. “The Times” points out that, while •British armaments by sea and land will not be on a larger scale, Britain, undoubtedly, has fallen too far behind in the air arm, as also in anti-aircraft defences. It is unworthy of Britain s position in the world that she should remain fifth or sixth, in the scale of air Powers, and it renders her less fit to perform the treaty obligations which she has already assumed. There must be a political foundation for the limitation of armaments, and in,spite of all efforts of the last three years this has not yet been laid.—British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 124, 7 March 1935, Page 5
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