$40,000,000,000 to Protect $130,000,000
Kansas City, Apr. 8.
Regardless of huge expenditures for military purposes, the United States would be unnbla to protect its invest ments in China if war ever broke out, was asserted here to-day by Mr. Frederick Libby, secretary of the National Council for the Prevention of, War.
This country, Mr. Libby declared, reads the world in military expendi tures, He predicted that more than $1,000,000,000° would be spent for military purposes ju 1937. "But we ave an investment of $190,000,000 in China," he pointed out, "and st would. cost" $40,000,000.000 to protect them if became necessary."—United
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