GUNS BEFORE BUTTER.
We are fighting an enemy who, over a period of years, lias preferred guns to butter, writes a correspondent to ti'o “Spectator.” We may continue, for a, time, to cling desperately to our preference for butter, hut-, if we do, we must not be surprised if our troops find themselves out-gunned. I believe that the British people, faced with the gravest crisis in its history, is ready for sacrifices even greater than those which proved necessary to our victory in 3918. If I were not confident of this I should feel less sure of our ultimate victory. What Englishman, realising that it is n choice between Sunday joyrides and adequate armaments for our troops, would opt for his joyride? Thanks tq a tragic, misconception on the part of those whose duty it was to inform us, we have been allowed, during ten months of war, to retain a disastrous illusion—namely, that it is possible to combine the winning of a “total war" witli the maintenance of pre-war standards of ease and comfort.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 25, 9 November 1940, Page 4
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