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Winston Churchill, in the first post-war speech to combine realism with authority, proved himself yesterday to be a good Englishman and a good European. His national post-war policy endorsed in fact if not in name the Beveridge Plan for compulsory social security; he pledged himself to abolish the old school tie tradition, to rid England of drones, whether they be aristocrats or pub crawlers. And showing the type of realism which differentiates constructive planning from political promises, he offered a definite financial program calling for high taxes and stabilized prices to avoid inflation. Social legislation would...
People's Rights. From Tennessee's pre-Civil War capitol came the most statesmanlike action of the week, though hardly a credit to the legislators. Once before they had refused to abolish the State's poll tax, seemed set to do so again. But the State's press reminded wealthy, irascible Governor Prentice Cooper of his campaign promise to repeal the tax. One by one, Prentice Cooper-who fondles his pet parrot "Laura" while transacting State business-called in the legislators, demanded their votes. From Memphis came the affirmative nod of white-haired Democratic Boss...
...Dutch) a day, as against the Dutch rate of 75?. Discipline was encouraged by public beheadings. Oil was said to be flowing toward Japan. Japanese-language study and close haircuts á la Nippon were ordered for Java's millions of schoolboys. The Japanese were reported confident enough to abolish blackouts, curfews. But the warehouses were jammed with tin, tea, coffee, tobacco, sugar and coconuts, and there were no ships to move them. The U.S. submarine campaign (see p. 27) was helping to keep Japan from reaping the spoils of victory...
...spite of our democratic structure, this paradoxical poll-tax situation exists today. In spite of American democracy, a bill to abolish that tax was buried in a reactionary Judiciary Committee for three years. But precisely because of those same democratic methods, the anti-poll tax bill was petitioned out of committee and passed by the House of Representatives on October 12 by an overwhelming majority. It now rests, with Senator Pepper's similar measure, in the hands of the Senate Judiciary Committee...
...that a break was coming occurred in August: the Maharaja announced a new constitution that would abolish the burden of debt on his peasantry. He invited foreign friends to a durbar to celebrate. They found the Maharaja held virtually incommunicado by his ministers. Hundreds of village chieftains waited patiently for him. So did huge ceremonial elephants, with painted toenails and hats like those of Dumbo's mother. When the Maharaja finally showed up, his Magna Charta looked greatly altered. His ministers looked smug...