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i ; ‘lt has become a hahit with nearly every Kuronean State' to hlamo the •debt-collecting harshness of America for the economic difficulties with which iit has now to struggle. This criticism ; will not hear close inspection in so far ns the Central European States are concerned. There the root of the economic evils is the. lavish expenditure ,on armaments. Czccho-Slovakia, with a population of 13,000,000, has a standI iug armv of 150,000 men. 500 aeroplanes. 100 tanks, and 330 batteries, j Jngo-Slavia, with 12.000,000 inhabij tai'ts It is an army of 115,000 men, 270 aeroplanes, and 186 batteries. Boumania with a population of 18.000,Ot>. has 113.000 men, 250 aeroplanes, 00 tanks and 330 batteries; while Poland with a population of 27,000,000, nearly half of whom are not Poles, has a standing army of 303.000 men, 510 aeroplanes. 220 tanks, and 4-11 batteries. The Ameriduis see no reason why they should forgo their debts merely b. cause eerta'ii ;• lopean nalius refuse to rut their coat according to t heir cloth." -A writer in the London “Evening Standard.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1927, Page 4
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179WHAT ABOUT THIS? Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1927, Page 4
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