is Navy ihe British Estimates Reveal New Tendency of Defence Gigantic Effort London, Mar. 4, For the first time in the history of Great Britain, air estimates exceeded naval estimates in a Budget When 25 this year's figures were revealed.
Although indications as to the motives for this were practically absent in the official note accom-
-pan the estimates, it is under-that a gigantic effort is being furnished in the aviation sphere. "The number of volunteers to be di for instance, is six timës as any year before the execu-the five-year rearmament plan d. An examination of the d to' the various reserve Teveals the importance of [118009 ofters ana men forthe regia which can, be mobilized:
Force Reserve e. the Royal Air 77,000 the Royal Air creer Sap 27,000 for Auxiliary Air Force and Auxiliar Air Force Reserve, or a total of 222, 000 officers and men. This figure does Jot include officer-pilots and specialists: "lent" to the air forces in the Dominions or accomplishing a period of service with the Navy as instructors, nor does it include the reservists being trained for the "Civil Air Guard."
Furthermore, the world must know "that a population of 80,000,000 inhabitants cannot remain indifferent if. its economic base is too narrow to allow it to live and work".
Commencing his address, Dr. Goebbels declared that Germany's decadence until 1933 was due to false economic principles.
"The German debacle of 1918 resulted in the country no longer enjoying the powerful protection which a nation gets from a strongly organized government while responsible personalities committed the error of believing that order can be brought into an economic situation without the nation itself possessing necessary and decisive strength, alone capable of ensuring this result," the Minister continued.
This viewpoint is all the more important now that Germany finds herself in a "closely limited" economic situation and "it is dificult for us to furnish the German people with indispensable foodstuffs "This scarcity exists not because we did not show sufficient application of intelligence and activity, but because, in the distribution of the earth's riches, Germany did not find her share," he continued.
Germany found herself among the non-possessing nations, a situation which compelled the leaders of the state to take "a series of unpopular measures the reasons for which often escaped the public."
"Dr. Goebbels then criticized the attitude of the Western democracies, particularly Great Britain, "whic! maliciously jeered at these measures." The democracies, he added, are in the "happy situation of being able to dispose of grest riches in many raw materials and vast colonial territories without the necessity of a superior intelligence or of extraordinary application,"
World War Mistakes extremely reliable the present rate of junts to 400 planes per doubled shortly. developing in the event a prolong-lewed in an opit is recalled that those quasi-militarization of industry, are to be obtained without any large-scale modification in the peacetime economic situation.—Havas.
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