THE PEACE OF THE WORLD.
It has sometimes been stated that Britain is the most peaceful of the great European nations. In the light of that statement, the following diagram, published in the October number of “Foreign Affairs,’* possesses considerable interest:—
The “Economists" • are terrified by what we spend on the League. If the annual cost of the League to Britain were multiplied by ten, it w’ould not then amount to one-hundredth of one per cent of what we are spending unon the Navy, the Army, and Air. Actually, the cost of the League to us is not one-ihousiuidth of our present expenditure on the war services. The late war cost us at the rate or aJK>ut five millions sterling a (lay. That is to say, the cost of one day’s war would pay our contribution to the league for fifty y ears. The cost of one week’s war would pay our League expenses for three hundred years—From “Foreign Affairs.*’
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White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 403, 18 February 1929, Page 8
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