MAD EXPENDITURE
"Do we realise the colossal expenditure‘that wo are making on the maintenance of our present forces ? I am -saiyng nothing of the cost of war debts and war pensions. I am thinking ol the present expenditure, the preparation for future wars, if you like. Me aro spending at the rate of 0200 a minute and more on that. At the same time we are spending in the interests of the one great peace organisation or the world at the rate of a halfpenny per head of the population per annum. Yet one has found more enthusiasm in some quarters about reducing tliar amount than in reducing the callosal expenditure on armaments. We are sepnding £2OO a minute and more lor .something that does not fulfil the purpose j for which it is designed; we are spending it when trade is depressed; we are spending it when 1,.250,000 of our fellow-beings are out of work eating the bread of idleness, losing their manhood and their womanhood, dropping down fig; ladder rung by rung; we are spending it alien we do not know where to turn to find a few paltry millions to support the necessary social services.”—Mr G-lassev, AI.-P., in a speech in the House of Commons.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1932, Page 6
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208MAD EXPENDITURE Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1932, Page 6
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