RANDOM OPINIONS
Economic Pressure Economic forces play a large part in making peace or war. Throughout history the pressures of over-population, the cravings for security of supply of raw materials and places to sell surplus products' have led to incessant friction, hate, ' fear and war. Insistence that “trade follows the flag” has cost rivers of blood. The economic aftermaths of the First World War were among -the primary causes of the collapse of the world into this Second World War. But economic forces have also in other times and other circumstances acted as a restraint on war. The relief from economic pressures which make for war is one of the most difficult of all problems that must be solved by the peace. This problem falls into two categories: that which instantly arises from the disruption of war and the long-range task of rebuilding prosperity in the world. —Herbert Hoover and Hugh Gibson in “The Problems of Lasting Peace.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 262, 23 August 1950, Page 4
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158RANDOM OPINIONS Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 262, 23 August 1950, Page 4
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