HEAVY DRAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 126, 31 May 1939, Page 9

HEAVY DRAIN

COST OF RE-ARMAMENT

SOME MAY STARVE

HOPE OF SETTLEMENT

{By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.)

(Received May 31, 12.30 p.m.)

LONDON, May 30,

The effect of re-armament on the standards of living was discussed in a report by an American, Mr. J. G. Winant, who was recently appointed Director of the International Labour Office. In the report, which will be presented at Geneva next week, Mr. Winant expresses the view that a diversion of a substantial part of j the total income of any nation from useful production services to armaments reduces the standards of living. Costs are added to each loaf of bread and to every acre of land cultivated, and the working day is lengthened. The point may come, says the report, when defence expenditure will cause actual starvation in nations of the lower income groups. It is hoped that before this happens some general international settlement will intervene.