AMERICAN UNEMPLOYED

Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1931, Page 6

AMERICAN UNEMPLOYED

SENATOR BORAH’S APPEAL. United Press Association.— tiy Electric telegraph.—Copyright. J WASHINGTON, November 28. Senator Borah, in a radio address, asserted that the public must..“use-the lash” if mounting war .budgets were to'be cut. He alleged that- the Governments of the world had failed to redeem the disarmament pledges <yf the world war treaties, and he challenged the “security” argument of France for relative arms strength, asserting it stood in the way of future dis-' armament. He declared: “The wellbeing of the citizen's, not of the army and the navy, is the first line of defence. The present increasing armament is causing slow, but inevitable, national suicide. While millions are on the verge of starvation and are growing restless and ugly, nearly five billion dollars are expended annually for armaments, and eighty to eightyfive per cent, of the taxes extorted from the people go for war purposes. If anything is to be accomplished, it wall be because people are using the last. Thp only hoe for the cause of peace, which is l .the cause of civilisation itself, lies- in an aroused, -wellorganised and well-directed public opinion. ,