Show national affairs nv mink P LITSCHERT great Is going through a financial alisis second only in severity to the one by belmany a few weeks a ago go T the h e labor government has fallen and a coalition nationalist government has taken its place every american ot of course hopes and believes that england will weather the storm and get back to something approaching appi appio caching aching normalcy noi malcy even though normalcy in england these there days 1 t wh what t it used to be 0 0 40 0 the labor government split on ane rock 01 0 economy and the dole A budget deficit of something like oooo wits was disclosed the extreme wanted this made good by the imposition ot of more taxes the conservatives declared that that this would only further impede business lc le covery and that the deficit should be made good in a different way they are said to have proposed that one fourth ot of the deficit be made up by additional dit ional taxes and three fourths by a reduction of expenditures including a decrease in the dole to this the labor ites itea refused to agree premier macdonald Is said to have sought a compromise by which halt half ot of the deficit would be made up b by increased taxes and half through a reduction in governmental salaries and the dole the compromise was not agreed to and the government fell ell the he new cabinet Is to be made up of i conservatives on liberals and labor leaders wit with h mr macdonald retaining the post of P premier I 1 so each party and each faction of of the thu labor party had a remedy for the deficit I 1 i but there Is one point which ought to strike americans as significant and that I 1 Is that in all of the programs proposed for balancing the budget there was vas no proposal tor for a reduction in the expenses i of the navy or naval construction to j one unacquainted with the situation it would seem that the easiest way to pare expenditures in the big navy country of 0 the world would be to pare the naval budget but not even el en the more radical lab labovites laborites orites those left wingers who shout militarism to the other nations at every opportunity proposed a plan of balancing the budget in part by a reduction in the expense of the navy or in the nav naval al building program there something a little significant in this with the country already r staggering tag gering under a load of taxation i needing to cut salaries and the dole of the unemployed 1 there Is no suggestion that the problem might be solved in part by naval limitation it Is to be hoped i that some borne of our ardent pacifists paci fists in the united states will think this over care fully they seek from time to time to I 1 put uncle sam in the wrong to show that other nations are eager and anxious to disarm and that it Is up to the united states to lead the way yet in prance france the leading military power ot of the world and in great britain the leading naval power ot of the world there ther c I 1 I 1 seem to be the slightest disposition to disarm further even a crisis binl in the british budget bring such a suggestion from the supposedly pacifist left wing ot of the labor party they might advocate a tariff even but no ledu i educing deducing cing naval expenditures i 0 O at 0 e wrong with this picture anyhow somebody evidently has been feeding us some particularly unintelligent and misleading pacifist fist propaganda wont some leading professional pacifist now arise and explain the british situation tion to us no such explanation will be forthcoming unless our professional pacifists paci fists can find some way to blame it all on to uncle sam in which case care of course explanations will be both frej quent and voluminous |