In the first annual report for which he has been responsible since he succeeded Mr, Harold Beresford Butler as Director of the International Labour Office, Mr. John Gilbert Winant refers to the effect of the arming of the nations upon their standards of living.
He points out that the diversion of a substantial part of the total income of any nations from useful production and its services to armaments involves reduced standards of living. The costs are added to each loaf of bread, to every acre of land cultivated and to the length of the working day.
Rearmament, he adds, could not continue at the present rate of acceleration without eventually absorbing so much of the national income of many countries as might cause actual starvation in the lower income groups—Wireless through Reuter, Foreigners Allowed to
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