PRINCIPLE, OR MENACE?
There has been a great deal of discussion lately about the rearming of Germany, of which there is now no mystery or doubt. Ihe question is whether this policy the Hitler Government is pursuing is actuate! by principle, or is designed to constitute a menace to peace. Lord Allen of Hurtwood, a figure formerly prominent .in the British Labour Party, and now a Labour 'supporter of the National Government, inclines to the former view. The evidence supports it. Among tne obligations contracted by the Allied and Associated Powers when t.icy signed the Peace Treaty was a definite promise to reduce armaments progressively. ■ This promise has never been fulfilled by any one ot them except Great Britain. On the contrary, expenditure on armaments by some of them has increased enormously. lhe I’rench estimates for the current year are six times what they were in 1914, Italy s and Japan’s five times, and that of the United. States three t'n ies ’ The British increase is just over half as much again as it was in 1914 , her downward progression has halted.. Since the other Powers have failed to come down, Germany has insisted on her right to come up to their level. The only thing to be done is for all the Powers to assent to the principle of equality, thereby opening the way for Germany to return to the League, and then to set about the business of disarming in accordance with the provisions of the treaty with real sincerity and determination of purpose. The peril of the present situation is that Germany may enter upon a programme of competitive arming that sooner or later may become highly provocative, and a menace
io .peace.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 106, 29 January 1935, Page 8
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286PRINCIPLE, OR MENACE? Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 106, 29 January 1935, Page 8
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