COST OF ARMS RACE.
■ _ Nobody knows exactly what “civilisation” is spending on armaments. Figures given some time ago have no doubt increased, says the “Daily Mirror.” They were £2,632,000,000 a year divided among the-world’s seven leading nations. This means a cost of £SOOO a minute. Think for a moment standard of living all over the world could be raised were even part of this sum diverted to constructive work. Disarmament has always been regarded as Utopian and impracticable. Perhaps it is, hut may we ask whether the frantic armaments race, largely the result of power politics, is really practical or even sane?
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 19, 2 November 1938, Page 4
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