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...wage earner also needed encouragement. Said the Finance Minister: "Our present high personal income tax [is] discouraging work and initiative in all groups at a time when we need a rapid expansion of employment and a willing mobility of labor. . . . I recognize that . . . wartime taxation has begun to blunt incentives." Therefore, personal income taxes would be cut 16%, retroactive...
...British Government was torn between its moral obligation to the Jews and its material dependence on the Arabs in the Middle and Near East. Observed the London Times: "[This is] a conflict not of right with wrong, but of right with right." Prodded by President Truman's blunt request for the immediate admission of 100,000 Jews to Palestine, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin conferred with Reuven Zaslani, chief of the Jewish Agency, and with the new Arab League's Secretary-General Abdel Rahman Azzam Bey. Afterward, both breathed fire. Said Zaslani: in the event of bloodshed, "the Jews...
...famed diatribe against Samuel Richardson's much-revered classic, Pamela, Henley insisted that it was Britain's mealy-mouthed writers, not her realists, who made "fornication [not] a detail (as it is in life)" but "the staple of the book." Readers were not accustomed to such blunt talk in the '80s, and under Henley's editorship, one magazine after another lost the bulk of its subscribers...
...inescapable fact was as blunt as a rifle butt. From France's current budget of 385 billion francs ($7,700,000,000), the armed forces (current size: 1,400,000) have been skimming off 175 billion...
Died. André Tardieu, 68, bustling three-time Premier of France (1929, 1930, 1932), last surviving French signer of the Treaty of Versailles; after long illness; in Menton, France (according to the Swiss radio). Once known as "L'Américain" for his blunt, go-getting ways, he said before the war that Germany "neither wants nor is able to make...