ARMAMENT DANGERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1938, Page 5

ARMAMENT DANGERS

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S LAMENT DESIRE FOR UNDERSTANDING WITH OTHER NATIONS. PRESENT COURSE LEADING TO DISASTER. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 11.25 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, July 14. President Roosevelt, in an address before reviewing the United States Fleet, said: “Every right-thinking man and woman in the United States wishes it were safe for the nation to spend less from our national Budget on the armed forces. All know that we are faced with a condition, not a theory and that the condition is not of our choosing. “Money spent on armaments does not create income-producing wealth, and about the only satisfaction we can take from the present world situation is that the proportion of our national income spent on armaments is only one-quarter to one-third of the proportion most of the other great nations are spending. We fervently hope the day will come when the other leading nations of th'e world will realise that their preesnt course must inevitably lead them to disaster. We stand ready to meet them and encourage them in any efforts they may make towards a definite reduction of world armaments.

“The year 1939 would be one of world-wide rejoicing if we could mark definite steps towards permanent world peace. That is the hope and prayer of an overwhelming number of men, women and children all over the world today.”