PEACE INVESTMENT
“ The British contribution to the League of Nations has been increased this year by £52,000. Foreign Office travelling expenses have increased by £12,000,” says the London Daily Herald). “There will presumably be the usual howl of protest from the antiLeague press. Their public will be told once more that the taxpayers’ money is being squandered on perilous adventures in Geneva. The fact is, of course, that this sum of £164,000 represents the cost of our participation in th© Disarmament Conference. On disarmament, £64,000 a year; on armaments, £100,000,000 every year. Sixtyfour thousand pounds spent in an endeavour to get some reduction of that annual burden is astonishingly good business.”
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Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3183, 28 May 1932, Page 3
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111PEACE INVESTMENT Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3183, 28 May 1932, Page 3
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