DISARMAMENT.

Thames Star, Volume LIX, Issue 16656, 28 November 1925, Page 8

DISARMAMENT.

DEFENCE AND EMPLOYMENT. There is one very important aspect of disarmament which receives too little consideration, says the Naval and Military Record. “What is to become of the men whom it is proposed to disarm? It is all very well to cut dbwn or totally destroy a great profession, but unless another equally wide avenue of employment can be correspondingly opened, a Very serious state of things is bound to result. And in the present condition of national affairs the possibility of creating another such avenue is very remote indeed. To add to the almost countless multitude of ex-service men who are wearily seeking for something to do would be a legacy of trouble which we do not believe the pacifists quite realise. Nor is it only the men of the fighting forces who would be affected by any great measure of retrenchment. It is estimated that the building a cruiser implies work for 3500 men for thirty months. The clothing, victualling, fuelling <nnd general maintenance of th ; Fleet give regular occupation to more people than all the railways of England employ. ;