Germany was spending at the rate of £800,000,000 per annum on military preparations, and the proportion of the total German budget devoted to the Army and Navy had reached the striking Qgure of 46 per cent.
Sir Samuel also referred to the rearmament programmes of France, Russia and the United States. No wise, patriotic citizen, he declared, could ignore those figures.
ness, of the British Empire The weakness, oF supposed weak: proved, by bitter experience, a disturbing factor in International politics.
Referring tothe British re-armament, Sir Samuel said that the naval construction
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