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After only a month on the job as Minister of National Defense for all three services, Brooke Claxton last week swung his new broom. Calling in reporters, he laid out his plans to sweep out all fuss & frills from the Army, Navy and Air Force, chop $50 million off the $440 million in this year's defense budget...
...announced that he was consolidating all three armed services under one head: the Defense Ministry for the Army & Navy was being combined with the Air Ministry. The new and more powerful Defense Ministry-an integration of armed forces such as Great Britain achieved recently-will be headed by Brooke Claxton, who has been Health Minister. Secretary of State Paul Martin was moved up into the Health Ministry, and Air Minister Colin Gibson got Martin's post...
...relief of war-torn countries, Canada appropriated $77,000,000 for UNRRA. Last week, on the eve of an UNRRA convention in Montreal's Windsor Hotel, Dominion Delegate Brooke Claxton reported...
Taxpayers' Money? Where was the money coming from? The Government did not say. Nearest thing to an official answer came from the Prime Minister's parliamentary assistant, Brooke Claxton, who made hopeful noises about increasing "the consuming and purchasing power of the whole community," presumably increasing tax revenues without upping tax rates. Said Mr. Claxton: "This is a great step forward in the equalization and fair distribution of income . . . one of the greatest and most daring . . . economic measures ever put forward." So far, the Mackenzie King Government has been no believer in deficit-finance, has met a good...
Prime mover against this unchristian hoodlumism was a Methodist, Dr. Allen E. Claxton of the Broadway Temple. He organized an interfaith (Christian and Jewish) group, got 90% of Washington Heights Protestant pastors to preach Sunday sermons against antiSemitism, carry on a day-by-day agitation for religious and racial tolerance. Recognizing that anti-Semitism is not wholly a one-sided matter, the rabbis in the group will also preach to their Jewish congregations on tolerance. Children will receive special instruction at Sunday schools and recreation centers...