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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 16.
Kansan Comments
Huge Military Costs Revealed In Survey
The New York Times has just published a report on military expenditures throughout the world that is worth noting. The survey, directed by Hanson W. Baldwin, is compiled from information collected by New York Times correspondents. Part of the material was also gathered from military representatives of foreign countries in the United States.
The report points out that accurate information was difficult to secure. There has been no specific data collected on military strength throughout the world since the last Armaments Year Book of the League of Nations, covering 1939 and 1940.
Difficulty in getting precise figurues was attributed to a carry-over of wartime secrecy, world tension, and nationalistic and regional suspicions. Virtually no facts could be secured from official Russian sources, and British officials refused to make any breakdown of their present or future military services.
The survey showed that nations are devoting the following percentages of their budgets to military purposes.
United States 34
Great Britain 27
Russia 40 to 50
France 33
China 80
Canada 12
Argentina 39
Spain 38
Greece 34
Turkey 19
Yugoslavia 35 to 45
According to the report, there are about 19 million men under arms in the world today. Ground forces are evidently still held in high esteem by military men for they total nearly 16 million men. Forty nations are spending a total of at least 27 billion, 400 million dollars for military purposes each year.
Nations are spending about 10 billion dollars more for armaments than on the eve of World War II in 1938. However, it should be remembered that part of this increase is not real but is due to inflated currency in most countries of the world.
The strength of national armies and navies compares like this, according to the Times' survey.
Armies (as of July 1947)
United States 670,000
Great Britain 1,210,000
Russia 3,800,000
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France 430,000
China 5,750,000
Spain 422,050
Turkey 675,000
Greece 146,000
Naval tonnage (battleships,
battle cruisers, aircraft
carriers, cruisers, destroy-
ers, and submarines)
United States 1,320,000
Great Britain 1,531,600
Russia 445,000
France 250,000
Greece 15,000
Turkey 39,688
Mr. Baldwin added this comment in making the report:
It is interesting to note that Turkey, the nation to which we are to extend 100 million dollars in military aid, is revealed to have a larger army than we have.
"Today millions, perhaps billions of dollars in concealed funds, only a fraction of which are reflected in this survey, are being spent on research and development into the atomic bomb, bacteriological warfare, guided missiles, jet planes, and other new weapons."
Although the report is admittedly not completely accurate, it shows the tremendous military burden under which most of the nations of the world are struggling. Sound economic systems and thorough postwar rehabilitation seem doomed to wait as long as the present armament race is carried on.
Canuteson Back From N.Y.Meeting
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the student health service, has returned from New York where he attended the third national conference on health in colleges. Four former students were among the 450 delegates.
Dr. Canuteson, chairman of the conference, considered all aspects of health and health education among colleges.
The four former students were Dr. John Gawhill, director of the health service at New York University; Dr. Myron Messenheimer, a psychiatrist with the University of Colorado health service; Dr. Vernon Kidd, director of the health service at the University of Oklahoma medical school; and Elsie Fleeson Jordan, who is with the National Tuberculosis association.
Miss Margaret Anderson, associate professor of speech, gave a talk explaining the method of speech defect screening and subsequent corrective follow-up at K.U.
Dr. Canuteson attended a post-convention meeting of the planning committee Monday where tentative plans for a fourth conference were discussed.
The Great Valeau Goes Over Big,
Colorado State College, Hesperus,
Colorado. "I found my work the cleverest and most convincing of any I have seen to date."
Appoint New Staff On Kansas Engineer
Adv.
New staff members of the Kansas Engineer, the official publication of the School of Engineering, have been announced by Joe Beeler, editor. Staff members are Joe Beeler, editor; Fred Gartung and Barbara Hume, associate editors; John Thiele, feature editor; Morris Borene, business manager; Joan Ruese, assistant business manager; George Holden, circulation manager; Dave Hay, assistant circulation manager; and Bill Saffell, advertising and publicity manager.
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