AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE
NEWSPAPER’S CRITICISM LONDON, July 7.’ The “Observer” says: “Australia’s larger expenditure -on defence will be received with mixed feelings. While the Commonwealth can judge its own needs and destines, the economist will maintain that the money could be better spent on reproductive industry and trio planner could express the opinion that the strength of a young nation could more effectively be increased by development of the soil .and resumption of immigration. M.eanwliile, the Australian’ scheme may react on European armaments and affect naval dispositions and strengths in the North Sea anti elsewhere. The defence of the Empire as a world unit is one, but the responsibility under the Statute of Westminster is divided. Let us see that such an awkward antilogy does not become absurd or even dangerous,"
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18764, 22 July 1935, Page 7
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