WHY DOES BRITAIN REARM?
~ "It is noteworthy that on the very day when three or four orators in the House of Commons went out of their way to declare that British armaments are intended only for the preservation of peace, General Goering, in Berlin, was justifying German armaments on precisely the same groitnd," writes Dr. L. P. Jacks, in the Observer. "From which it should be evident that the rhetorical dedication of armaments to peace has no effect whatever in checking the race for them, useful though it be for placating the Noncomformist conscience and making it easier for our patriofcic bishops to reconcile the function of armaments (provided they are British) with the teaching of Christianity. But would not the case be more fairly stated, and our bona fides less suspected abroad, if we abandoned our attempts to invest British rearmament with the air of a philanthropic enterprise, and claimcd no other motive for it than the very proper one of protecting our very highly vulnerable Empire from attack? /
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 141, 1 July 1937, Page 4
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170WHY DOES BRITAIN REARM? Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 141, 1 July 1937, Page 4
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