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...rather awkward at this time," said another type of Briton, "but it's really a good thing, you know. . . . There is an enemy we can beat...
Whitsuntide, when the dead Christ's Apostles began work in earnest, had been chosen by Adolf Hitler to get his total war under way. Whitsunday is a big British holiday but the holiday was canceled and the Government called on every Briton to keep a sharp eye aloft for Nazi invaders. King George called 2,500,000 more conscripts to the colors, and the War Office announced that soon there will be in the British Isles some 4,500,000 prospective soldiers in various stages of training...
Stern Home Secretary Sir John Anderson announced that seven years of penal servitude or a fine of $1,750 or both is now the penalty for any Briton caught "systematically" fomenting opposition to the war, but still permitted were mere "expressions of opinion." This week Sir John will ask the House of Commons to enact "A Bill To Make Further Provision and Punishment For Treachery," imposing death as the penalty for serious cases of spying. Detectives this week were busy trying to catch up with quislings who plastered northeast London with stickers urging everyone to listen to "the new British...
...British income and supertax payers are being assessed 85% -basic British income tax rate is 37½%. The Chancellor last week invaded lower brackets, making supertax begin at incomes of $5,250 instead of $7,000, and again treating the British white-collar class rough. A married but childless Briton making $1,050 whose income tax was $17.50 the year before last and $24.50 last year will...
...George Bernard Shaw believes in going to church when nobody else is there. An agnostic, he is not a member of the Church of England, but as an educated Briton he knows the Church services. They annoy him. Cheery, bustling vicar of London's famed St. Martin's-in-the-Fields is the Rev. Pat McCormick, who edits an unparochial magazine, St. Martin's Review, with a worldwide circulation of over 10,000, a host of famed contributors. In the April Review George Bernard Shaw had his heretical say about the Church of England's Prayer...