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...Issue of domestic bonds based on these loans. These bonds would be presented as long-range savings and it would be hoped that they would 1) absorb some of the recklessly printed banknotes; 2) deter some of the hoarding, which is a form of short-range savings...
...today, there are those who persist in their efforts to deter and delay us. According to them, we brought the Japanese onslaught on ourselves; or that it was a British plot; or that it was the plot of Jewish international finance...
...high bag of night attackers may have caused the Germans to take pause. In May the British claimed 156 German night raiders, compared to 90 in April, 47 in March, 15 each in February and January. But even this rapid progression was probably not enough in itself to deter the Germans, for the bag never ran higher than about 10% of attacking planes, and that only on a few fair moonlit nights...
Unfavorable outside publicity is often advanced as an argument against any relaxing of present restrictions, but the thought of Mrs. Grundy didn't deter the reformers at Yale and Princeton. If the Council report confirms the current doubts as to the utility of the specific parietal rules under attack, the time for action is now, for change...
...German air attacks on Britain during most of last week were on a smaller scale than the week before. German communiques indicated that flying weather was bad, but except on one night bad weather did not deter the R. A. F. from bombing German factories, freight yards, airports, canals, and forcing all German radio stations to shut down...