GOVERNMENT WILL DO ALL POSSIBLE FOR DISARMAMENT.
BRITAIN'S AIR DEFENCE LAGGING BEHIND. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received December 6. 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, December 5. In the House of Commons in the course of the disarmament debate. Sir Samuel Hoare, who was "Air Minister in the last Government, compared the relative positions of the air armaments of the leading Powers. He stated that the expenditure on tli-> air had risen; since 1925 in Italy by 28 per cent, in France by 92 per cent, and in the United States by 126 per cent. Exclusive of the cost of civil aviation in Great Britain, it had been lowered by 10 per cent. Replying for the Government, Mr A V. Alexander agreed that a grave risk of war continued so long as the nations refrained from making mutual progress towards disarmament. As long as such a reserve of possible and immediate inflammable material existed, so long would there be constant danger of the outbreak of a conflagration. Mr Alexander said that the present Government had devoted a large portion of 'its energies to the matter of disarmament and would continue to do absolutely everything in its power to that en d.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18937, 6 December 1929, Page 1
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