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...gentleman-at-large" had driven away from Buckingham Palace, another motor had passed him on the Mall going in the opposite direction. Sitting in it ramrod-stiff was hawk-nosed, sallow-skinned Chancellor of the Exchequer Arthur Neville Chamberlain...
...prodigiously slow, sedate, the cadence of Empire. King George breaks his tempo when, before being robed in the garments of state and beneath a canopy that screens him from nearly all, he whisks off the red robe that he has been wearing, passes it briskly to the Lord Great Chamberlain, who was supposed to divest him ceremoniously. The Lord Great Chamberlain looks bewildered. Lady Reading, widow of the onetime Viceroy of India, observes: "Like a man handing his bathrobe to a valet.". . . In a Yorkshire cave 300 ft. underground a knot of people sit round a radio, listening intently. They...
Casually announcing that the Government will spend a total of $4,315,500,000 in 1937, $324,755,000 more than last year-most of it on warplanes,ships and guns-Mr. Chamberlain let fly two hammer blows: 1) Britons' basic tax on net incomes will be raised to live shillings in the pound (25%). A Briton with a wife and child who earns $5,000 a year would pay, after benefiting from various exemptions, $585 to the Exchequer, more than seven times as much as a U. S. citizen in the same position pays to Washington...
...House recoiled from this nose punch, Mr. Chamberlain tried to strike a more cheerful note by declaring that he would show no mercy to tax-avoiders, who deprive the Exchequer of millions of dollars each year. This raised a cheer but the House soon relapsed into gloom...
This week Mr. Chamberlain announced that the Government would shortly issue ?100,000,000 ($500,000,000) in 2½% National Defense Bonds, priced at 99½, all to be redeemed...