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Preparations

IN FIGHTING wars, or in preparing to fight wars, the world is now spending some- thing like £12,600,000 a day- over half a million pounds sterling an hour.

There is, of course, not nearly this amount of money in the world and no nation is attempt-

ing to meet the colossal bills that are piling up. They are being left for future genera- tions, on the supposition, pre- sumably, that if the war is lost it won't make any difference and if it is won the enemy enn-

pay.

The question of who is to be the enemy of who is not quite certain.

Japan is spending her portion

of £1,500,000 a day in pursuing an expensive war in China and war against in preparing for every other country in the world except Italy and Germany.

The United States is spending £900,000 a day in preparing for a war with any nation that tries

to stick its nose in the affairs of the Americas,

many

A Super

THESE

HAWORTH

are the first detalled pictures permitted by the Air Ministry of the interior of one of Britain's secret, now Short Sunderland type "aying battleships."

A fleet of these giant warplanes is being built for the RAF. They are ahead of anything else in their own clars in the world; are developed from the famous 10-ton 200 m.p.h. Imperial Airways Empire boats. Their job is long-distance patrolling of Empire sea routes. A squadron of them are now at Singapore for the defence of the Straits. One day we may have them in Hongkong.

The "ying battleship" welghs twenty-two lons, carries 2,000 gallons of petrol, a big load of bomba-where and how is still kept secret-ammunition for six guns, Its food and water, bedding, radio, and heating pipes. engines develop 4,000 horse-power.

It cruises at 180 m.ph, and will cover 2,300 miles non-stop at this speed. [England to Egypt is 2,300 miles.] Here is the Lelter Key to the drawing above:-

A. Nose

turret

Touch a switch and the J. Navigator at desk.

quickly K. Cook in galley.

swlucls turret

to Crough

follow diving enemy planc.

B. Anchor and windlass. C. Boathook.

D. Ladder to pilots' cabin.

E. One of two pilots.

F. Stack of Very lights.

G. Officers' wardroom has

bunks and table.

a L. Engineer in oflee with 30 dials connected with en- pines.

M. Ladder to top deck.

N. N.C.O bunks and table.

O. Gunner in mid-skips pun

port, one either side.

P. Ladder to gun platform. Q. Catwalk to

R. Rear gun turret,

gunner. H. Radio operator,

disturb the peace of the world, the citizen of his lawful rights.

Add to the resources of these those of

must surely realise by now that there is a grim determination on two great Powers the part of the Empire to do France, and of all other nations everything possible in the inter- who love and jealously guard est of preserving national and freedom, and what is there to

fear? individual independence.

PESSIMIST

- by

JOHN BLUNT

W

tion

simist!

DON'T WORRY about politics. complex which

AND YET the

Pessimist continues to

moan.

Actually, he is

to pitied, Ho suffers from a is really more

It doesn't matter whether it of a curae to himself than to

is a question of democracies or autocracies, as long as the foun- dation is based upon justice and equity..

ithers.

I have heard of the super-pessimist. who happened to be a Government servant, and who in the extremista of his unfortunate complaint, decided (or endeavoured) to insure his pen- ston. I ask yout

Is to blame.

blems,

ance,

and Great Britain as potential gloomy and ever ready to extent that any aggressor would arms to-day.

think twice before risking a It might well have been tion as the heartleas and brutal per-

get is also secret, believes it will

Britain.

clash.

Britain Great

The

I do not know who first coined HAT AN abomina- A FEW YEARS AGO, there

Then there are some of our now is the pes-

was serious reason for Bri. the word "dictator" but in actual tish people to worry about practice it is not nearly as fear- called business men, who bewail some as it sounds. If, however, everything at the least provocation. complain about that, but all the time He is to be discovered things internationally, for efforts the dictator mentality happens They complain about this and they Great Britain is spending everywhere. One of the to encourage universal disarma- to suit some people, it is none of they fail to realise that it is their own £1,000,000 a day in a frantic noxious weeds in the garden ment, left us very much "in the our business, as long as the peo- ineptitude and lack of foresight which

ple concerned mind their own.

It may take some time before na- effort to gain what she should of humanity so difficult to cart.'

conjec- nover have lost through dis- eradicate. Always

A war at that time would have The examples of the wars in Lions of the world enjoy the blessings of universal brotherhood, but surely. armament. France counts Ger-turing what is likely to found Britain unprepared, but Spain and China are surely en- it is worth while hoping that one of and Italy as possible happen if such-and-such a since then, defensive measures lightening, and serve to illustrate these days there will be a greater de- Intolerance must give way to toler- enemies. Italy counts France thing should occur. Always have been carried out to such an the sheer futility of resorting to sire to understand ont-another's pro- and such ugly blots on civilisa- aggressors, and also has a costly search for the clouds.

thought that General Franco, secution of the Jews, must, and sure- finger in the Spanish pie. Russia

This time last year, he pro-

has arisen with the support he has receiv- ly will be removed.

Only one alm can triumph, and keeps her war budget a secret but is concentrating all her rophesised that 1988 would be a Phoenix-like from the ashes of ed, would have crushed Spain that is the ensuring that only equity and fair-play shall be the objective! most dismal year. The Colony her ill-advised work of disarm into subjection long ago. sources and energies on prepar- would go to pot, and trade would ing, and stands to-day calm and same assumption applies equally of all races and creeds.

☆ ing for a war with Japan or vanish into thin air.

stronger than ever. The pessi- to the Sino-Japanese war. Germany. Germany, whose bud-

does this THE BRITISH EMPIRE Is bullt As usual, he was wrong, but mist citicises Mr. Chamberlain's How much more

upon foundations which bave be France, Russia and Great being incurable, ho now directs action in going abroad in order apply to any nations in Europe stood the test of time, and will con- do so. This assertion is not his moan to 1939. True, both to make his tremendous contri- who might have the senseless- tinuo 1938 and 1939 dawned under the bution to, Peace. It is even as- ness to start a war on a wide made in a spirit of bravado. Nor is spirit of pseudo- superiority. The fact that It is a peculiar thing, in this shadow of clouds, but why not serted that by so doing he not scale? Neither Germany nor it made to a

the num- mad race of re-armament, that make an effort to move forward only humiliated himself, but his Italy can afford to challenge the ber of aliens of all nauenalities who

Rubbish! I prefer rest of the world, and I believe seek to

to become naturalised the countries who refuse to run into happier and more prosperous Country. in circles at the thoughts of the times, instead of running around to think that the Premier do- that nobody knows that better subjects increases every year, is sure- cided that it would be a proper than themselves. Bluff is all y sumcient evidence that there is something about the British way of future are the ones who don't with tail between the legs?

thing to do to "beard the lion" very well, but it must be exposed doing things, that is desirable. have to join in the vicious circle Even the optimistic admits in his own den.

sooner or later.

It is also significant that the only of mounting armament costs. that there exists a mistrust in

other nations in the world which have The United States has shown a similar experience in the matter of Switzerland, Holland, Norway, the world which is unparalleled, I quite agree that Herr Hitler Sweden and Denmark have com- but even so, he cannot believe should have evinced a willing- in no uncertain manner that she allens seeking naturalisation, are the- paratively small

per capita that any nation will be so foolish ness that the second conference will not tolerate any challenge United States and France.

Years ago, the pessimist was pET- defence budgets and, as a rc-

as to provoke a world war. should have taken place in Lon- to her own democratic principles, sonined by Alfred Lester in the when his "Always sult, the Swiss, Dutch, Nor-

don, if only from the standpoint and her opinion must be res "Arcadians Tho pessimist almost eagerly of courtesy. wegians, Swedes and Danes are

He should have pected in the councils of the Merry and Bright" song created such

a furore. In recent times, Clealy · Hitler's the only people who sleep well awaited Herr

last offered to go to London; but the world.

Courtnéidge and Jack Hulbert kaya nt nights.

apeech, whereas the optimist re- fact that ho didn't is no reflec-

The fact that John Bull no had a dig at the pessimists in their There can be no doubt that at fused to allow himself to be tion on the splendid attitude

“Things are Looking Up" number. heart all peoples of the world worried as to what or what not which the British Premier longer refers to naval parity"

with Uncle Sam is, in itself, am- desire peace more than they de-Germany's Dictator would have thought fit to adopt.

ple proof that the greatest de TUERE IS a vart difference between sire anything else. But the to say. Rather he adopted the

Britain may have been apprehen- war preparations are a defiant view that while any dictator has It is abundantly clear that, mocracies ever known, have. apprehension and pesalmtam, p

was nothing to fear from each other. sive concerning the possibility of war, challenge to the wish for peace, the right to blow as hard as he whether Mr. Chamberlain

A war propared for as likes for the consumption of his right or wrong, his intentions Rather do they formulate their but she has never been pessimistic.

The unanimity of all parties in thoroughly as the world is pre-own people, his words actually have not been misunderstood by policies in mutual understanding, Parliament on the question of Defence paring for the next one in a war cut little ice with those who do the vast majority of British in order to show a common and is quite mufficient assurance that there any nation united front against those whose are no grounds for: peșalmian--so whose coming is quito definitely not come directly under his people, and that facilitated.

spell.

whose actions may threaten to doctrine is calculated to deprive why not look ahead optimistically?

Brilish

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