19 OCTOBER 1945, Page 13

SPENDING AND HAVING

Sta,—Your contributor, W. G. Moore, quotes a sentence we often hear: "If they can spend millions a day on a war, why can't they do it for the things we need in peace?" and says all issue are simplified to this level. Well, what is the answer? What explanation reasonably short and suit- ably plain can we give when this question turns up?—I am, yours faith- fully, F. A. HEATON. St. Michael's Vicarage, Tenterden, Kent.

[Surely that because we have been spc-nding 15 millions a day, and have to pay heavy interest on the debt thus incurred, we are under the need of economising heavily in every possible direction.—En., The Spectator.