Military Spending
in the Mid-Thirties

• The Literary Digest, 1935 •

Attached is an article from 1935 which presented a chart indicating the European military expansion and then concluded by stating:

"It seems fair to offer the opinion that a major war is likely within the next ten years because the pressure of rising armament expenditure promises to be so great as to develop the explosion that bound to come."

In 1940, former W.W. I British Prime Minister Lloyd George wrote an editorial in which he condemned the leaders of Europe for procrastinating rather than dealing with Hitler
when Germany was still weak
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