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Politically the expansion of the President's multimillionaire plan into a general tax bill did great credit to the Roosevelt acumen. He had spoken only for taxing the very rich. The rest had followed of its own accord. He pointedly told his press conference that he had not agreed with Chairman Doughton to put any taxes upon "little fellows": he had merely told Congress to write its own bill, promised that the Treasury would supply facts and figures, recommend nothing. Thus his political position was perfect: his Treasury would be replenished by new taxes, the "Share-the-Wealthers" would...
...ever made. Said he with peasant bluntness: "In this world there are five or six men upon whom peace depends. Destiny has placed me among them. ... If an agreement with Berlin is impossible, I shall not hesitate to conclude it, but if there is to be such an accord it cannot be between two nations only but with several...
...attempted to invoke the League of Nations to restrain Italy, and on the other hand, Britain sanctions with Germany treaty violations presumably repugnant to all good league members!" exclaimed Il Duce's family newsorgan Il Popolo d'Italia. It added sarcastically: "Maybe, some day, the British-German accord will be pompously registered with the League, presumably, too, with the assent of the Delegate of Ethiopia...
...happened many times before, German foreign policy last week had Herr Hitler in an uncomfortable position. Constant sabre-rattling had driven France and Italy together, brought about the Franco-Russian accord and seemed likely to cost Germany all her recent gains with Poland. Private reports from Premier Göring's secret conversations with France's Laval in Poland showed that now if ever was the time to curry favor by beating a strategic retreat. That it should seem no retreat at all to Nazi ears, Realmleader Hitler shrewdly decided to beat it in as loud a voice...
...other nations, we hold out to them a currency of such steadiness that the normal tendency may very well be for the rest of the world to move gradually toward practical exchange stabilization. If that can be achieved, the final step should come easily and almost of its own accord...