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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 11, 1939.
The China Mail Ninety-Third Year of Publication 8A Wyndham Street, Hong Kong Telephone 20022 London Office:
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for
capita consumption of almost every main ingredient in the national diet sub- is below-in some instances
the level of 10 stantially below years ago.
In
the other hand case, on
economy,
the strength standard of of our living of the masses is demonstrably at least as high as it was before we began our rearmament program-
me.
features in 7, Garrick Street, Londou, W.C.2.
Among the curious
the nations Notice To Contributors,
the situation is that which are always complaining of All communications intended
extent of the fall in national stam |publication should be addressed to their "poverty" are the very ones the role of which have chosen the Editor, and be accompanied by pacemakers in rearmament. Great the Writer's Name and Address, Britain, who can afford a good deal, the race till lagged far behind în not necessarily for insertion but, as she was forced into it by the rapid of some of armaments expansion a guarantee of good faith.
the soi-disant "have-nots" Germany, the biggest pacemaker of them all, ís Subscription Rates.
a country of whose lack of resour- ces her rulers are constantly
Japan, the minding the people. poorest of them all, is the country for which is always standing out larger and more expensive battle- ships. In the case of Germany the ingenuity of Dr. Schacht has
shrouding ceeded in
3 Months
6 Months
H.K.$ 9.00 H.K.$18,00
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H.K.$36.00 Postage Abroad Extra
re-
suc- the public
total Hong Kong, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 1939. finances in a veil of complete mys-
tery. No one knows the
or the amount of the revenues, amount of public borrowing, or how much from either source is spent on armaments. But we have it on high authority that "the National-
Government will
BURDEN OF ARMAMENTS
never
bread- The greatest these "economic tasks" is, of
It would be difficult, in the annals Socialist of human folly, to discover, any-tolerate material. hindrance to the thing quite so fantastic as the pre-execution of its great economic tasks sent prodigious squandering of the arising from any kind of wealth of nations on the creation of down in financing." instruments for their mutual des- of truction. Hardly a week passes course, that of meeting the bill for but the report comes from one quar-armaments, and we may take it that ter or another of new outlays, fresh the only limit is the degree of sacri- burdens and growing budget deficits. fice which the public is prepared to
race.
totalitarian
intensifies the
come
In 1937, according to the League tolerate, or is compelled to tolerate. On of Nations Armaments Year Book, The same probably applies, though the aggregate world expenditure on in a lesser degree, to Italy.
£2, the other hand, the armaments was estimated at 400,000,000, a figure which probably rulers are under the ever-pressing errs, if anything, on the low side. need of showing spectacular "re- At the existing rate of expansion it sults" to compensate for the sacri- can only be a matter of a year or fices--a process which, by its reac- And SO the two till the £3,000,000,000 mark is tions abroad, only reached. Even in 1932, before the armaments armaments race began, the world circle becomes every more vicious.
A point must obviously expenditure, at £1,300,000,000, 'was already sufficiently colossal, yet to where the pinch can no longer be Upon this it is as certain day we look back upon it as an borne.
as anything can be that great Bri- ideal to which we would all of us only too gladly return if we could. tain and the United States are the able to last the we two that will be That, unhappily, is more than
Our armaments bill is a dare hope. But no one can refrain longest.
much grievous burden which is annually from asking himself how longer the nations can go on stan- enlarging our already mountainous But ding not only the material but the national debt and imposing heavy
Cham-sacrifices on the taxpayer. psychological strain. Mr. berlain, in a recent speech, sounded our public finances, through it all, the note of warning when he re- remain absolutely sound, and will marked that "the process of piling continue so. Moreover we are ob- up armaments, for whatever cause, taining, and shall continue to ob-
all the imports of must in time exhaust the resources tain,
which, materials that we need, without any of any nation"-resources as he humanely added, "should pro-imposition of restrictions of perly be devoted to the advancement trol, and without any straining after of the prosperity and happiness of an impossible self-sufficiency. Above all, the Government and the nation its own people."
sacrifices To assess with any precision the are unanimously and inflexibly extent of the fall in national star-solved to face whatever dards of living through the cost of may be required to put the country
It is not easy.
is in a state of impregnable defence. rearmament especially difficult in the case of one All these considerations apply in an of the most lavish of the spenders, equal, or even greater, degree to the
example, United States, whose resources Germany, Nothing, for
raw
con-
re-
are
can be deduced from the German inexhaustible, and who has made it for plain that she will not stint in their cost of living indices, which some years have remained remarka-utilisation for ensuring the safety of bly and suspiciously stable. Thanks the country, partly to a totalitarian system of price control, partly to the inclusion of items which are rarely, if ever, obtainable in the shops, the indices are largely fictitious. But by a con- sensus of opinion among compe- quantity tent observers both the and the quality of many of the or dinary necessaries of life have pro- In Italy's gressively diminished. case it is sufficient commentary on per existing conditions that the
us.
Nevertheless, we are engaged in a competition which was not of our seeking and which we would only too willingly abandon if the other participants would agree with This is an aim shared by the whole nation without division of party. Is it impossible to hope that turning sanity may yet bring to a tortured world relief from the hide- ous infliction under which all the nations are now groaning?
a re-