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Y the time you have finished reading this article-it should take you about ten minutes- another £60,000 will have been spent on war preparations.
That gives you some idea of the tremendous rate at which the nations of the world are rearming.
Every minute of every day and night £6,000-more than a good many people earn in a lifetime is spent on guns, on bombs, on battleships, and on other instruments of war.
And the pace is ever quickening. This ime last year the world was spending £5,000 a minute.
And in 1914, elimax of the last arms race, it was spending a mere £1,100 a minute.
Reflect on this: In 1931, after two years of Labour Government in Britain, with the late Arthur Henderson as Foreign Secretary, the world was spending £1,500 a minute on arms-just a quarter of what it is spending to-day.
And think what that meant. Every minute of the day there was an extra £4,500 to spend on food and milk for children, on health services, on building decent homes.
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'HO Is the pace-maker in to-day's
gigantic arms race? There doubt about It: Hitler.
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And no one is more conscious of this than Hitler himself. Bis Government is the only Government in the world that dare not state what it is spending on arms to the editors of the "Armaments Year Book," Intest edition of which is issued to- day by the League of Nations (Allen and Unwin, 255.), Germany's entry appears with nothing but a little row of dots.
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Yet the truth cannot be hidden. It so happens that three detailed investigations The authors of these have been made. three Investigations were Mr. Winston Churchill, the "Banker" and the "Daily Herald."
Three estimates were made of Ger- many's arms bill, and though they were mado separately they all hit on a figure of about £1,000 millions a year.
The true size of Hitler's preparations for war will bo understood when it is realised that this sum is almost a third of the total arms bill of the world. It is also more than twenty Umes as much as Ger- many was spending on arms before the Nazis seized power.
H
ITLER'S colossal expenditure has meant, of course, that the peace- ful nations have had no choice but to spend heavily also.
The Soviet Union, for instance, which spent £56 millions in 1932, before Hitler came to power, is now spending £750 millons-n thirteenfold increase.
Even the United States has felt the pressure and has increased Its firms bill by 55 per cent.
And little Turkey, gateway to Asia, Is not only spending 45 per cent, more on arms than in 1932, but is imposing military conscription on women as well as on men.
Indeed, rearmament is almost every- where curtailing individual liberty.
The way in which conscription laws are being tightened up is a good example of this.
We have now reached a stage when. within a few hours of the outbreak of war, the nations could put thirteen million trained soldiers into the field.
The small nations as well as the big are being hurried along In this scramble. But these small nations cannot afford to spend so heavily as their big neighbours.
The seven great Powers Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Italy. Japan and the Soviet Union-are spending
The £2,000 millions a
year on arms.
remaining 67 countries are spending a mere £380 millions a year-not so very much more than is spent by Great Britain alone.
These minor Powers know that they cannot compete against the great Powers In lavishing money on battleships and planes and heavy guns. And so they have hunk to the level of mere pawns in the war game,
But not entirely. There is one bright spot in this gloomy Year Book, something which shows us the way out.
These minor. Powers may lack ex- pensive equipment; but they have one grent source of strength, Within their boundaries live the great mass of the peoples of the world.
Figures speak for themselves. The population of the countries outside the League of Nations, even now that Italy ins become one of them, is only 380 millions.
And more than a third of these are citizens of the United States, which has no aggressive intentions.
Its What about the League itself? members. have a population of 1,050 mil- llons. Only 250 millions of these live in Britain, France and the Soviet Union. The remaining 1,400 millions are citizens of minor Powers.
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SHADOWS OVER the LAND
UR countryside is pos!- tively littered with aerodromes these days. Travel around with me, and you would see that nearly every rural county already has its five or six aplece.
That is no military secret. The massive hangars rear into the sky -for-any-passer-by, to soc.-Nor, odd as it may seem, have they added to our rural pence, Rather have they destroyed the sense of security from war's alarunts that being buried in the country used to mean.
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Folk who can afford it vacate, one by one, the residential proper- ties in the aerodrome's immediate vicinity. One by
these houses become occupied by the fly- Ing squadron's officers, or blossom out as hotels, providing accommo- dation for the squadron's visiting relatives.
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One hundred thousand of our best farming acres have now been taken over for the lay-out and construction of these, aerodromes. That it should be so may also be accepted as a military necessity.
Bang go all pretty schemes for town and country planning in those sequestered neighbourhoods.
Countryman's Log-by John Sussex
Rough-ahod, a thousand years of parochial customs and privileges are swept aside. Boundaries are torn up, footpaths are closed-even the most radical of resisters sub- merges beneath the urgency of the grim imperative.
Sad as all-this may be,-the-thing that hurts the most is the sense of contrast, the invasion brings with
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For years some of us have had visions of farming as it might be-- foundation and background
of a thriving countryside. Visions of the countryside as it might be: the skilled men of the Belds paid twice the money they are, and paying a fair rent for a sound cottage, built to their women's liking.
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The farms themselves laid out to do their business properly-the Irregular hedges euminated make cultivable units, economic in size and shape for the use of machinery-the soll drained and fertilised.
Villages were to have lost their siums the leaky roofs, dripping .walls, primitive sanitation, and
polluted wells should have gone by
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this time. Every one to have its nursery school-life's beginning at any rate to be a playtime. But then the aerodromes came, and all that could not be done for farming and our
countryside,
springs up, as by the waving of some magic-wand, for the bombing aerodrome. So the men are now leaving the tending of the crops and cattle for the building of hangars and officers' quarters, for twice the money per day, per week. They knock off at noon on a Satur- day-free men until Monday.
And what fine cottages they build for the airmen recruits to live in We never dared even to dream of cottages like these. All have electric light and a proper drainage system. Bathrooms, of course; some say even hot linen- ronds cupboards; macadamised and footpaths.
Queer what a rumpus they raise about the nationalisation of land how
for productive use - but quietly they take it when it is a question of an aerodrome.
Yet it is nationalised property none the less and when the day is here (if it ever comes) for the
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aerodrome to be dismantled and demilitarised, then will come chance to show how farming in this country could be made to pay.
Then I will be the turn of the airmen to move out of the cottages and the land men to move in.
The drone of the aero-engine will give place to the drone of the tractor-within sound, but out of sight, the one so like the other.___
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But the hurt remains, to think that the farmer should be obliged to Aght so with his men over a paltry rise of is. a week while the Government contractor down the rond holds out two shillings for every one that the farmer can afford.
There Is something pitifully wrong with our way of looking at things, when a nation will spend money to make a paradise out of an aerodrome and flaunt the pro- digality in the face of a hundred pauperised and poverty-stricken rural parishes.
To-day's Thought HE who first called money the Binews of affairs seems to have said this with special reference to war.
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