Expenditure on armaments
Sir,—Mrs ■ Thatcher recently visited Hungary to explain how small nations can help to create a warmer climate for the superpowers to renew negotiations. I found this news interesting, and it tied in with Garry Arthur’s article on Malcolm Moore — “a still, small voice against the official line.” That all the peoples of the world could be fed, clothed and kept healthy for $l7 billion a year — the amount spent fortnightly on
armaments — was the crux of the matter for me. How can we throw up our hands in horror when we read of malnutrition, when we see television footage of dying children, if we do not then raise our own small voice against the obscenity of spending on armaments. You can not hug a child with nuclear arms. — Yours, etc., JILL WILCOX. April 24, 1984.
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