Geneva, May 3.
Four-million "peace-time" soldiers, farmed and ready for trouble, are guarding Europe's uneasy frontiers.
The moment war is declared Europe another 82000000 men, ready trained and representing Europe's "war-time" army, can be called to the colours Such is the calculation of Europe's present military strength according to military experts.
Burope's 24 nations, they estimate, Jcould put 36,000,000 trained men into the field in the event of war. One-ninth of these men already are uniform.
This means that nearly one per cent. of the total population of each [European country is actually bearing farms. It also means that " approximately ten per cent. of the total population can be furnished with weapons and sent to battle at a few minutes' notice.
The British draft convention, it will be recalled, attempted to limit the maximum "peace-time" strength of each major European country to 300,000 conscript soldiers. Tt is hardly likely this figure will be accepted, According to one expert, Soviet Russia has the largest number of men
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