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Show DEFENSE A TREMENDOUS JOB Some idea of the task ahead of the United States in the matter of complete defense is evident when one hears that Germany is spending upwards of two and a half billion dollars a month and that the United States has paid out only approximately four billion dollars since the start of the defense program. While the United States has authorized the expenditures of large sums for national defense and to aid Great Britain, the nation has a long way to go before it will equal Germany's armament arma-ment industry. It is estimated that Germany, in addition to her present immense expenditures, had spent not less than $50,000 000 on armaments before the rest of the world realized the menace and took up the challenge. Donald Nelson, speaking to the Defense Conference Confer-ence on Consumer Goods, in Washington, recently pointed out that Germany "stripped her society of every single feature that did not contribute directly to military strength" and that the nation became a vast workshop. This is the sober truth. Hitler has developed the German nation as a machine for war, not for service to civilization in time of peace. lie has sacrificed every freedom free-dom and driven his people into his workshops to produce arms and equipment for his soldiers. Mr. Nelson wonders whether the people of the United States have any idea of the vast expansion of arms production which has taken place in Europe, where Germany now has the benefit of the productive produc-tive capacity of France, Belgium, Holland, Norway, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia' and the Balkan areas. |