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Confidence
THE initiative in Europe has changed hands. To-day the deeds are coming from the Democracies; the words from the Dictatorships.
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Mussolini spoke at Turin yes- terday. His remarks will not ***** | arouse
much interest in Britain AS the Anglo-Italian football match.
Now, through British diplomacy
rearmament, there is a growing confidence that peace will prevail.
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Britain is rapidly reaching a position from which she will be able to see that peace is kept.
The Peace Front becomes more extensive, more powerful. Turkey is the most important member enrolled to date.
One big gap remains--Russia. This week there will be re-. doubled efforts to close it,
Even more impressive than these moves 38
of n sign democratic determination is Britain's huge rcarmament. That--and that alone-has given heart to our friends.
No nation in all peace-time history has ever made a com- parable effort. On land we have At sea we are Conscription. launching a warship a week. In the air our margin of inferiority is fast disappearing at the rate of 100 new warplanes a week.
Britain, after nearly 20 years, is approaching a point at which her armed forces are strong enough to support her diplomacy.
Mussolini claims that the Axia is marching forward to give Europe "peace with justice." But Britain and France are right to guard
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HE proposition that with- out adequate supplies of raw materials for arma- ments no nation can carry on a war for any length of time is too obvious to require argument.
Mr. H. Morgenthau, the United States Secretary of Treasury, has recorded that in General Wangenheim sald to August, 1914, the German him: "If we do not get to Paris in 30 days we are beaten." Later -after the German defeat ou the Marne--the General added: "We have made a mistake in not laying in supplies for a pro- tracted struggle. It is an error,, however, which we shall not |-repeat."-
IN face of this supreme importance of abund- ance of suitable raw materials to the successful con- duet of n war, the peace-loving nations of the world should realize that they hold what is possibly the
ong infalible means of creating
and maintaining permanent peace. If the peace-loving democracies united in a refusal to supply raw materials to the war-like Powers, they could hamstring the war machines of those Powers; and aggression would become Impos- utble.
The English speaking peoples nione control something like 75 per cent, of the world's raw mate- rials, while none of the aggressor countries has more than a very small quantity of these essentials. There are 25 materials con- sidered by experts essential to the manufacture of armaments:
Mica Molybdenum Nickel Petroleum Platinum
Aluminium Antimony Cadmium Chromium Conl
Cotton Copper Fluorspar Graphite Iron-ore Lead-ore Magnesite
Manganese
Mercury Rubber Sulphur
Tit Tungsten Wool Zine
Of these the British Empire has an adequato supply of eighteen. America bas twelve, Japan has only four, and no other country except Russia has more than four, while it is doubtful if Italy has an adequate supply of any of them except mercury.
NO dictator country has more than a small frac- tion of the oil required oven for peace time needs. Ger- many's air strength has, of course, been greatly exaggerated, but if she actually bad the number of planes credited to her, the argu- ment put forward here would gain added force-because even at their present strength she could not keep her air fleets operating with out
imported all.
by
ALFRED
EDWARDS
Labour M.P. for Middlesbrough, E.
blockade, as her war time require- ments would be nearly twenty mii-
on tons a year.
Japan is at present waging war on China with materials largely supplied by the British Empire and United States. Without assistance from the English-speaking peoples Japan could not support the war for any length of time.
Why, then, should we not con- sider the question of controlling at least our own supplies of raw materials to aggressors and poten- tial aggressors?
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IT seems almost provi- dential that at least 75 per cent. of the mate- rials essential tó war are controlled by the British Empire and the United States of America,
The present state of affairs in this matter of exporting raw mate- rials is as farcical as it is tragic. Two days before Hitler told us he was going to march into Czecho- Slovakia a cargo of four thousand tons of British copper left s Canadian port for a German port and we might have been at war In a week!
The United States has recently taken a stand in refusing to allow certain materials to go abroad, But what was the position in America last year?
The President was sending Notes to Japan protesting against the brutal murder of the Chinese people, whille United States indus- trialists were shipping cargoes of munitions to Japan to keep up the supply of murdered Chinese!
GERMANY, Italy and Japan could not havo reached their Dresent armed strength without supplies regularly and increasingly obtained from the British Empire and the United States.
The Prime Minister recently stated that the time was approach ing when he hoped to discuss an agreement for the limitation of armaments. No sooner had ho made this statement than the Munich agreement was torn to shreds and thrown in his face ́by'
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the conquest of Czecho-Slova- kin. Why, then, should we con- tinue to supply raw materials to Germany materials with which she bullds up her armed forces in order to threaten helpless countries, and disturb the safety
of the British Empire?
Is it not time we limited armaments by limiting the sup- ply of raw materials with which armaments are made?
FT is important to indi- cate that the door would at all times be left open for any nation seeking economic rellef and adjustment by peaceful means. No nation should be com-
strangulation.
No Number
LITTLE ring of silent,
brooding people. Silent from fear of repri- sals, from apathy, from bit- ter experience?
Small street urchins, now as ever eager for excitement even at the expense of others, rush shouting to the fray.
Passers-by are attracted by the sharp, shrill crack of splitting timbers, by the clouds of acrid dust which rise and hover on the golden morning air. Possibly the
pelled to resort to war as a means-unusual-quietude--springs- of saving itself from economic from a knowledge of their defenceless and, strictly speaking, indefensible posi- tion.
It should be made clear that if a potential aggressor is willing to give an undertaking to renounce the savagery of war, then we will be willing to give an undertaking to renounce the selfishness and greed of monopoly.
Let us in this way demonstrate that the civilised methods outlined in the Kellogg Pact-a pact which already bears the signatures of 04 nations, including. Germany, Italy, Japan, England, and the United States-con and will succeed.
The way will then be open for convening, with some reasonable expectation of duccess, the World Economic Conference proposed by the President of the United States.
WE must, however, make it clear that wo will apply this economic boycott rather than permit any nation to make economic adjust- menta by war or the threat of war. We should act on these lines with- out delay for, unless we use our strategic economic advantages promptly, the loss of geographic strategical positions may Impair the economic advantages we hold.
As I have already stated, an effective boycott on raw materials would so cripple the war machines of aggressive nations that wa would become impassible.
But the maintenance of world peace, or the mere absence of war, la by no means the sole boneft which would result,
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The impossibility of successful war must inevitably lead to a general disarmament, and to n consequent vast release of wealth for constructive social services and the general well-being of mankind.
The
millennium night then be only "Just round the corner ”—if men were wine enough to And their.. way to it.
Relief Boards Mis-named
HARTFORD, Conn.
A few blue-clad officials direct the operations; they have their orders, The red-faced, rather truculent looking fellow possibly thus masks his distaste and. stcels his heart, as surely he must. The thin, palish catches my enquiring eye-and quickly looks away. Not a job after their own hearts, evidently.
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HE entire green and sparkling hill- side is strewn with the pluful debris of what once were home--not the homes of such as you, certainly, but equally as essential to the mourn-- ful dispossessed. Roof rushes and. mals are torn apart by the seemingly atolld coolica; planks are thattered; household utensila sent rolling down the incline to foregather dismally in a nestling hollow,
An old greyhead darts into her half-demolished hut seeking to TC- trieve a few decrepit pots and pans. before it is too late.
That most courageous of creatures, the mother cat, distressfully walls at the indecent unvelling of her still blind kittens which she had-so she thought-so successfully hidden from the eyes
of men,
A B A small saw of most distasteful proportions lumbers squealing from the clamour as best she may, pursued by a distracted owner. A variety of safe distance, our dogs stand at and but occasionally does one emit a hall-hearted, yelp.
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Bellove it or not, a tiny, skewbald Szechuan pony is led away, snorting and baulking, his glaring eyes all but popping from his chunky little head. How did he get there?
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TN contrast to the uncanny: silence-
of the majority, a buxom, fresh- faced, black-clad, tidy and youngish woman raises Cain in her veherment, raging protests against tho desecra tion. No one interferes with her either to solace or to reprovet
the
They are justified by experl- ence--and by: memory of the Actually she controls only some Patriotic Italian women coon will. So many persons misunderstood the raving clamour rings in vain upon Duco's former doods. Long be-
time requirements
save leather and help the campaign let that the General Assembly voted the scene of desolation; the entire
national self-sufficiency. If she wore allowed to subjugate | for
to change the name to Boards of Tax fore the democracies began to
Rumania, this would give her an range of these shoes, made from the Rovlow. Legislators were told that fifteen huts are prone. Dust, dirt, Jitter, demolition and despair; silent rearm ho frequently glorified. extra supply of some six million skin of a certain large kind of fish, persons on relief had been applying apathy and frate, incoherent re- tons of oil annually. But even then were a feature of the Fishery Fair to the boards of relief for grocery
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orders.
thing like 30 per cunt, of her peace be wearing shoes made of fibh-skin to functions of inunicipal Board of Re-morning sir.
Now not a plank is upright upon