Word: britons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average U.S. citizen now pays more tax, dollar for dollar, than the average Briton. That was the shocking claim made by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week to U.S. taxpayers, who feel that, although they have suffered much, British taxpayers have suffered far more. If the Chamber of Commerce is right (and not all tax experts are prepared to admit that it is), in fiscal 1942 the average U.S. citizen will pay $168 in taxes; the average Briton will...
...Liverpool convalescent home last week death came to a trim little Briton named Alfred Charles Nunez Arnold, who had apparently lived 112 years. Alfred Arnold could never prove his age. There were no such things as birth certificates when he was born. He himself admitted that the only evidence he had was a book an uncle had inscribed to him "on his twelfth birthday, Nov. 9, 1840." But people who knew Alfred Arnold never questioned this evidence. For one thing, Alfred Arnold never tried to capitalize on his age. He had much else to do. His life was as full...
Like Herbert Hoover, Pundit Lippmann apparently assumed that the war against Hitler is already on the way to being won. Like many another American and Briton, he failed to recognize that the summer of 1941 has shown not the strength but a basic weakness of the alliance against Hitler: for a whole summer while the Nazis were busy fighting Russia, Britain did not have the strength to launch a single attack of importance on Germany...
Titled Onward Comparatively Christian Soldiers, this sly hymn was published last week in London's liberal-to-leftish New Statesman and Nation, but the sentiments in it were not limited to the left. Many a Briton, irrespective of politics, badly wanted to know the answers to some important questions. When and how was Britain going to help Russia? When was Britain going to attack Germany except in the air? Whose war was this anyhow...
With stubborn Russian resistance to the Nazis on the east and U.S. aid on the west, many an ebullient Briton has come to believe that World War II is as good as won. Such optimists, surprised and petulant when the Roosevelt-Churchill meeting did not hatch an outright U.S. declaration of war, have been inclined to complain about U.S. timidity both in private and public...