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...Abolish the Paupers. Elder Statesman Alcide de Gasperi talked the new line: "We must transform our party into an instrument fit for the times.'' Of Italy's 11.5 million families, he said, 1,375,000 could be called "paupers," 1,345,000 more are underprivileged, and only 1,274,000 have a "high standard of living." De Gasperi summed up: "Our notion of social justice is to raise the poorer classes to a higher standard of living, to narrow the difference between all classes, and, above all, to abolish the pauper class." It was the voting, however...
...abolish the 16th [income tax] Amendment, some people will say, 'How are we going to pay the expenses of the Government?' To hell with that! I want to know how I am going to pay my own expenses." Many who could remember the hey-dey of a dashing Prince of Wales were reminded of their own advancing years when, in Paris, the gaunt, slightly bent Duke of Windsor awoke one morning last week and found himself 60 years...
...Abolish all poll taxes and property qualifications for voting...
Bills providing for Japanese rearmament with U.S. aid (opposed by the left-wingers) had been passed. Yoshida wanted one more piece of legislation disposed of: a bill to abolish local police forces in favor of a national force organized by prefects. Opponents argued that this would bring back the prewar totalitarian character of Japan's police. Yoshida's Liberals replied that the country could not afford overlapping police forces, and that there was no danger that a national force would become oppressive, since it would be supervised by a civilian commission...
Such speed seemed like a filibuster, by contrast to the rate at which Senator William Langer's Judiciary Subcommittee was spawning constitutional changes. In rapid succession last week, Langer recommended to the full committee, which he also heads, amendments to 1) abolish poll taxes, 2) give the President the power to veto individual items in appropriation bills, and 3) lengthen Congressmen's, terms from two years to four. Since his brief hearings on these matters were largely unencumbered by the presence of other Senators, Chairman Langer got subcommittee approval by quick telephone calls to his colleagues. This procedure...