Modern warfare is no inexpensive pastime although Hitler and his colleagues. thine lightly Jot it in comparison with the achievement of their ambition, The time has pnased when a few thousand men could be flung into we tion and wage a victorious war by feeding on the hapless countryside and the share of spoils. With millions of men to be mobilized, vast organiza tions to be maintained, and the utilization of munitions "and other resources in rapid and incalculable quantities as conditions require, toe financial side ix of nitride Incomprehen~ sible to. the marism-the-street accustomed. 10
Jdcaling in tent or hundreds of pounds. Bat the resistance 10 the colossal movement of aggression which has developed in Furope, the British Government lits shown that no pri foo high to defeat it and maintain the common Jdccencies of life and rights of liberty and frec= dom to which every people is entitled to enjoy The first War Emergency Budget has passed al stages in Parliament and has received the Assent. It provides for an. estimated revenue fof 995,000,000 and an expenditure of 1,033, 900,000 over an indefinite period for it this sum Inadequate further credits must be. voted.
This reveals not only the nation's determina ion to carry its intentions to the—utmost limit, but also the resources available against the extent of Germany's effort. The budgetary estimate represents one of the lark= Jest ever voted for war purposes by any nation Jat the beginning of hostilities, but it is by jeans the largest, It is indicative of the prob-fable cost of the War and the sacrifice which the pation must be prepared to save. Britain entered the last war with an ordinary: budget.
litre "over £200,000,000 a, with supptementary estimates for war purposes, £56!
'000. By: 1916, with an ordinary budget of }000,000, the total with for war purposes was Lord Ged Tu this the British Empire's ability to f [Germany cannot stand is a potent councils of the attempting, Europe into anarchy, despotism and deste
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