London, Dec, 15.
"How far does aggression pay the ordinary man, even in successful aggressor nations?" asks the bingham Post" in a leading article today.
"This point will occur to many readers," the paper goes on to say, "nothing simultaneous disclosures of the coming budgets of Italy and Japan.
"Alike, both countries' expenditure is due to the policy which sets force before agreement.
"Italian and Japanese tax-payers are asked for sacrifices which would have been unnecessary if Rome and Tokyo had observed loyally their pledges to Geneva.
"It Japan pushes on with her war in China à outrance, and still fails, the reaction which dogs the steps of all extremes' will produce a Red Japan."
If Italy pushed her Mediterranean ambitions too far, her foreign policy would fail, and the industrial, commercial and financial set-back thus engendered would easily create an anti-Fascists revolution.
"These two budgets," declares the "Birmingham Post," "underline the moral already written in plain letters—the citizen is asked to accept big sacrifices for big future gains which are incompatible with any reasonable, peaceful, political world system.
"Surely the non-aggressor Powers, with Britain and America leading the way, may reasonably consider the use of their present economic system as a political asset to be used actively, instead of a liability, to be defended passively."—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.