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...Thomas was a thumping $135,000 as Attorney General. He will receive only $25,000 per year in his new post, where he will have a major voice in the spending of Empire billions for armament (see p 25). A good coordinator would equalize the amount of "drag" or "pull" possessed by each of the three fighting services and traditionally used to warp Government decisions in favor of that service. The British Admiralty naturally has always been strongest in these contests, the Royal Air Force has shot up recently to second place in "drag" and the Army makes a poor...
...Debated His Majesty's Government's "blank check armament program" (TIME, March 16), the House having to decide whether to vote approval of unlimited armament expenditure, with $1,500,000,000 understood to be the total provisionally favored by Stanley Baldwin...
Definitely a godsend to Stanley Baldwin this week was Adolf Hitler's rupturing of treaties. As the Armament debate opened in the House, the Prime Minister, famed for the amazing succession of lucky breaks with which his career is strewn, was able to point, by implication, at scrap-of-papering Germany and intone: "One nation might make war; it might take 50 to secure peace. We must have increased armaments...
...apart, a God is dethroned, Religion and Church are rooted out-thus laying waste the world beyond. . . . Imperial and kingly domains fall and eradicate themselves-even from memory! . . . Democracies are relinquished. . . . Terrors of unemployment . . . terrors of hunger. . . . Astounded peoples see that the God of War has not abandoned His armament but, on the contrary, strides over the earth more heavily armed than ever...
...County, got its white-thatched black-browed Dr. Ball in 1931 by the usual Methodist method: accepting the man assigned by the local conference. With increasing apprehension Dr. Ball's congregation listened to Sunday sermons out of a liberal's bag of tricks-against "economic greed," against armament appropriations, against restrictions of civil liberties, in favor of all manner of social legislation. Preacher Ball also went outside to lecture for the American Civil Liberties Union, the American League Against War & Fascism. Church members who deplored all this lately obtained outside encouragement when the Chicago laymen's group...