A MIGHTY ARSENAL.
"England's efforts in connection with the Disarmament Conferenee have failed. Five years ago the conferenee started. Its first president, Mr. Arthur Henderson, is dead. And Europe to.day is a inighty arsenal," obs.erved Beriiner Borsenzeitung. ' ' Tewnty per cent. of England's national revenne is to-day spent on armaments. She has a war power of 2;000,000 men and the number of aeroplanes owned by the Air Force is 3500. The Disarmament Conferenee, so hotly supported by Englancl, has only aggravated the politieal tension betwe.en the countries. "Faced by such stupendous armaments, Germany followed suit in reconstructing her defensive forces so that she may no longer be militarily impotent in the midst of neighbours armea to the teeth."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 72, 12 April 1937, Page 6
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117A MIGHTY ARSENAL. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 72, 12 April 1937, Page 6
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