The Land-hungry Nations
Sir,- —European affairs have degenerated and nations still conceal their aims with subterfuge. The fact that international goodwill seems a pious but futile hope has given rise to a belief in the inevitableness of war. This has manifested itself in a rising expenditure on armaments which can only undermine financial stability and thus give impetus to undercurrents of revolutionary intrigue. One thousand five hundred million pounds sterling can never insure London against the devastating air-bomb or the Communist. In the British Empire there are huge tracts of superfluous pasture. Would it not be fair aud wise to divide this among land-hungry "nations contemplating aggression because they are denied their rightful portion of the world’s wealth? There are sixty-nine. million Britishers controlling a quarter of the earth, and seventy million Germans confined to about a quarter of Europe without Russia. Neither armaments • nor treaties can abolish the horrors of war if some nations are denied their rightful portion of the globe.—l am, etc., BRITISH PRIDE. Wellington, February 23.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 130, 26 February 1937, Page 13
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