Show national affairs affair written for the park record by FRANK P r LITSCHERT according to associated press dispatches irom from moscow an increase of nearly rubles has hag been arvide in the estimates for national defense in the budget presented to the central executive committee by N P Brukha nov commissar lot lor finance who declared that the increase was needed to improve the edL education catt 0 system and general expense ot of the farmy army it was also explained that aside from this there was en an increase of five per cent in national undertakings I 1 0 0 0 e this may mav be ot of only passing interest to some americans who may mav fall to see how an increase of a hundred millions in the budget tor for national russian defense could have any effect on oil the united states neither did we see at the time how the assassination of an austrian prince in an obscure province of the em cm pire could have any effect on our fortunes but it did ultimately dragging us into the world war and the soviets are an already waging a war ot of propaganda against modem nio deria society 0 I 1 it Is important to note that it Is not only in russia that there are increased preparations for war practically every country in europe la Is feverishly at work i increasing its armament either in its land forces its naval fortifications or in its navy the russian reds claim that I 1 their armament Is tor for defense that 1 they are about to be sissi assailed fied by the cap nations of the world other na tiona believe that russia Is getting ready I 1 to try to further its communistic doc i brines trines against them by force of arms therefore other nations are arming tor for what they consider the detente of their national interests there forc ore bore spots the russian boundary in the balkans and on the frontiers of austria end nd italy just what it to is all coming to if anything nobody mn can of course ton foretell tell 01 01 0 it sa is eange however that in view of at all this very tory evident feverish military preparation in burcope there axe some americans who believe that the united states la is threatening the world by preparing to build fifteen new cruisers ships which are needed not to give our navy a commanding place anthe ocean but to keep it from deteriorating into a third class navy it Is at least a coincidence that some of the most moat insistent of these pacifists paci fists have in times past expressed some admiration for the russian system of government and have thought that the united states ought to recognize the soviet government they fall fail to see anything wrong with russian defense but think it imperialism when uncle sam barn decides to replace 9 a few chips in his navy why all this silence as to the arming in russia and other european states and the accompanying outcry against the cruiser bill in our own congress for the flood of propaganda against our navy has been let loose again As the washington star well put it recently it Is not easy to reason with advocates of pence peace by unprepared nesa th they c Y have contempt for facts impatience wit with h the stern realities of international relations and profound ignorance of the conditions which guide the nations responsible leaders in formulating defense policy when a man like president elect hoover pleads for sea power th that at will keep america respected it Is the dogmatic conviction of pacifist minded zeal that the first quaker elected to the presidency plots in reality a fleet that will make america aggressive |