REARMAMENT COSTS
MUST MEAN LOWERING OF LIVING STANDARDS LEAGUE OFFICIAL’S SURVEY. ULTIMATE STARVATION FOR POWER NATIONS. P.y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, May 30. (The effect of rearmament on standards of living is discussed in a report by an American, Mr. -J. G. Winant, recently appointed Director of the International Labour Office, which is being presented in Geneva next week. Mr. Winant expresses the opinion that the diversion of a substantial part of the total income of any nation from useful production and services to armaments reduces standards of living. Costs are added to each loaf of bread, to every acre of land cultivated and to the length of the working day. A point may come when defence expenditure will cause actual starvation in nations of the lower income groups. It is hoped that before this happens some general international settlement may intervene.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1939, Page 6
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146REARMAMENT COSTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1939, Page 6
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