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...hitting its full, expensive stride, U.S. citizens last week got a close-up view of what war taxation meant in dollars & cents, a possible preview of U.S. taxation in the uncertain years to come. In Ottawa, Canadian Finance Minister J. L. Ilsley stood up in Parliament to introduce the Dominion's biggest budget ever ($1,760,000,000), to suggest the biggest tax bill ($1,450,000,000) Canadians have ever paid...
...threatened the whole Moslem area of Empire-India as well as the Arab world. Disaffections, torn loyalties, old grudges: all these might even swing the Moslem parts of the Empire into the enemy's arms. The disaster of Greece (see p. 38) had brought up Dominion jealousies, which did not amount to much as yet but might another...
...London Prime Minister Winston Churchill asked Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies to postpone his trip to the U.S. and remain for a conference of Dominion leaders: New Zealand's Prime Minister Peter Fraser, on his way to London, South Africa's Jan Christiaan Smuts and Canada's William Lyon Mackenzie King, if they could leave their problems at home. The long-awaited Axis drive against the bastions of British sea power, the drive to capture the subject countries of the British Empire and to isolate the English-speaking ones, had begun in earnest...
...duration, was sold to an American friend last October. The $25 she got went to print cards that said: "Is your name Dorothy? If so, rally around and help buy a Spitfire for Britain."* The cards, in turn, went to every Dorothy in the Dominion that she and her friends could think...
...other hand it is by no means certain that Germany intends ultimately to try to crown her unsubtle dominion abroad by conquest of the United States. Military authorities say that an invasion of the continental United States by any combination of powers now foreseeable is not possible. Such an attempt would transfer to our enemies all those difficulties of distance, geography, transportation and morale which America will face if we attempt to carry on total war in Africa or the China...