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Professor Warren
- The man" behind the scenes in the recent Anglo-American-war. | debts- talks in Washington was
Professor Warren, the President's- adviser on currency.
FRIDAY DECEMBER 15, 1933.
BRITAIN NEEDS 5.000 WAR PLANES
FUTURE OF COUNTRY LIES IN AIR
POLICY OF SUICIDE
(By Viscount Rothermere)
3. The professor; a middle-sized, grey-haired, man, not unlike - Mira Norman Davis in build and appear- ance, is the economist of Cornell
London. ditions it is anything but the most University and a former pupil of In the most vital of all depart recklessly foolish of economies to Professor Irving Fishermentments of our national defance be insufficiently defended in that -->He is a front-rank advocats at the British Government la gravely most vulnerable of all areas, the the commodity dollar, which he has neglecting its duty
[sky above their heads.. christened the "rubber dollar.” Not since the Dutch Fleet burat Great Britain is the last nation His book, "The Dishonest Dollar, British shipping in the Medway that can afford to stake her very Is the Bible of the American farm-250 years ago has Britain been so existence upon the continuance of ers, who are solidly behind him. inadequately protected against the world peace. No other country on His views on finance are much possibility of foreign attack as it earth is so exposed to devastating more radical than those of the Feis to-day
air attack. Her capital city offers deral Reserve and Treasury officials The fifteen years that have pass-an almost ideal target for enemy with whom Sir Frederick Leithed since the Great War have seen bombers. It lies in the corner of Ross negotiated.
as much progress in armaments as the kingdom which is most acces the fifty that preceded them,, Dur sible to air-raiders, with a broad Strategy-la Two Moves
ing that time other nations have estuary to guide them to its heart.. Professor Warren's conquest of kept up with the requirements of Not only is it the centre of Govern- the White House is a strategic les-their-security; Britain has fallen ment but it forms the greatest con- son in two moves.
far behind hers.
centration of wealth and energy in His first advance was on that: The next war in Europe will be the country, and through It one- fateful Sunday of March 5 which as different from the last as that third of the nation draws its, sup was the prelude to the closing of was different. from the Grimená plies of food, which aerial bombing the American banks: Stepping in-campaign. It will began with mass would, Instantly disorganise, to his air-plane at Ithaca, where aeroplane attacks upon the great Though she were to double: the Cornell is situated, he flew to the cities of the weaker power. It may size of her Navy and Army, she- White House and spent the day even end with them--and that could at present be decisively and alone with the Prealdent,
[right speedily-for, as Marshal definitely defeated in any new European war by serial action
by "owing to their crushing alone. moral effect upon a nation, may "Generations of immunity from in- Impress public opinion to the vasion, based on former prepond point of disarming, the Govern-jerance at, sea, have given the Bri- ment, and thus become decisive. (tish nation a false sense of security. Britain is powerless to resist That immunity exists nó longer.
His bly chance time during the Foch warned, such attacks. World Economic Conference. In the absence of Professor Moley and other members of the Braid Trust in London he established himself Armly in the President's favour.
For the moment his position is
completely new national service unshaken, and he must now be these perils. Successful defence The Navy in which she use to trust af Unemployment Assistance. considered one of the most influen-in the air requires a preponderance is not only powerless to shield her Here wo pass definitely outside tial forces in the United States. of af least two to one. Her home from the new danger to which she Hong Kong, Friday, December 18, 1933 the field of insurance. Those Yet be does not, figura in the defence force of, 400 machines is exposed but would be in itacif
to be "assisted" are the abfe- American "Who's Who bodied unemployed who have either never been in insurance
Providing For Britain's Unemployed.
at all or have fallen out of in- surance through having cz- hausted their right to benefit.
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would be fortunate if it were not in petll. It is a matter of common outnumbered in similar, proportion knowledge that in any future war by that of an other European State in which Britain was engaged no with which we might come into battleship or cruiser would be able conflict...
to navigate her home waters with- Of all the Great Powers Britain out meeting almost certain destruc. is a short-sighted, Geneva-doped Naval Power Inadequate is the weakest in the air. There [tion from the air. section of public opinion in the Yet while the British Air Force country which find great satisfac remainit hopelessly inadequate, tion in such a state of affairs: To there are people so blind to obvious- their perverted minds there ap-facts that they are urging the Gov pears to be a virtue fu 'defenceless ernment to squander millions of
disposition. Even the people of today, without landing a" single the United States, isolated as they soldier on her shores or fighting's are by thousands of miles of ocean, single-naval. - engagement, Ger And it natural that the American many, when she starts to equip Air Force should possess 2,820 herself with aerial armaments Įmachines,
based on her already, huge civilian The taxpayers of these countries flying industry, will surpass Pri- ate just as reluctant as the British|tain almost overnight. From the to see their money wanted, but they nearest point of German territory, new The man who had just got en-have too much common sense to be bombing squadrons could"-reach gaged and hadn't penny In the leve that under present world con-. (Continued on Page 11)
Insurance cannot/necessity for such a new Board] A lass and a lack.
ment, as it would be to get a the pretendo-of transitional
benefit, will cease. It is doubt-, bird's-eye view of an entire conful whether in theory the relief A fim-actress has got married tinent." Only its salient features of these people should be the again. Perhaps she was afraid ness, though they would be the first money on building more warships, can be considered in a first re duty of the State or of the local that we hadn't noticed her first to be seized with hysterical panie Though. I myself was one of the view. The general Unemploy authorities. An extremely marriage,
it we ever had to pay the natural founders of the Navy League at the Insurance Scheme, of strong case can be made on
penalty of the risks we are so rashly end of last century, when naval course, stil stands. But with either side. But in fact the de- Short, Stort Story,
running.
power was the beat guarantee of one vital difference. It is to be cision imposed. During the "You've earned your
France Has 3,000 Planes. security, most strongly oppose any worked henceforth strictly on pradonged industrial depression keep." The speaker was a humor- Though I am a constant traveller, further expenditure upon the Fleet. the principles of sound insurance, the numbers became so large as ist, giving his lawn mower joke I have never heard a French until Britain's first line of defence. A new Statutory Committee to be more than the local author permission to sleep till spring man express the view that his coun- which is now the Air Force, has try was too lavishly-equipped with been raised to at least thras times will be set up, charged with the ties could properly
FORCE OF HABIT. the 3,000 aeroplanes it maintains its present strength. duty of reporting annually to Again, the standard of municipal
5,000 wer-aeroplanes are needed Parliament on the financial post-politics has been palpably lower It is understood that the driver in constant readiness for national
ed by rates of transitional bene of a motor-lorry which ran into defence No Italian criticises his if she is not to remain for ever at tion of the scheme, while the fit being made an instrument of a suburban garden claims that the Government as extravagant for the mercy of her neighbors. Minister will be empowered to class and mass bribery, A new house was on the wrong side of the Having 1,507 war-aeroplanes at its France could conquer England make such changes as may be Central Authority, the. Unem road..... necessary to deal either with deployment Assistance Board, ̈is ficit or with surplus. The apto be created, which will work. palling deficit of £115,000,000; through its own officials, from The chief reason why so many which, more than any other single whose decisions there will be widows succeed in marrying again factor, precipitated the financial right of appeal to local appeal is that dead men tell no tales.
Many regret the crisis of 1931, has had its salu-tribunals. tary effect.
and its concomitant, be safely mixed with
bureaucracy, but that the catching or with political senti necessity exists cannot be denied, world. mentalism. No one, indeed, in the proved breakdown, in so can guarantee future Ministers many places; of the local au- of Labour or future Parliaments.thorities. But the fact that But if they have the will to run the Board is empowered — jt straight, here is a trusty guardian might well be required to set for the track This Statutory (up Jocal Advisory Committees is Committee will have power to welcome. All will be eligible for assistance who are be recommend amendments over a the widest possible ground, butween the ages of 16 and 65, if with the ~ amendments it must|
their normal occupation, is in The Dore of employment subject to contribu-Aised, easily also include estimates of cost tona, under the various. Pensions of doves. She's the ong Another duty imposed is that of Acts, or if they show that "they black eye. drawing up a scheme for the lo-might be expected to have been bewe surance of agriculture, which so employed but for the in- Facts You Did Not cannot be brought into the dustrial circumstances of the existing system, because both district in which hey work." employers and employed in the They must also be apable": "of industry are quite
for wo unable to pay the present scale of contribu- tions. Few, however, will be satisfied to leave agricultures permanently uning
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