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Reaction. Mr. George upon hearing of Sir Alfred's resignation publicly branded him by an indirect reference to the biblical Judas, and directly charged that he had abandoned the Liberals because he saw "poor prospects for an ambitious man" in sticking to them, now that the party has lost its War preeminence...
...Treasury important sums of which there is immediate need. France will treat with severity those who lead her into another phase of inadequate taxation followed by inflation and ultimately by disaster!" The Significance. Financial experts noted that the Doumer scheme rests squarely upon the single principle of "indirect taxation" (taxes to be paid in the form of a disagreeable little stamp every time anybody buys anything): the 3,800,000,000-franc "taxes on business transactions." Such taxation is relatively easy to enforce, and of course sure to be extremely unpopular. Hence the virtual "impossibility" of getting it voted...
...watched the operation with the understanding gained in his early days as a medical student. He had seemed to rally. But the long precedent persistent dyspepsia, which had made nutrition insufficient for "his active life, had been an incubus to his strength. Food he swallowed he could not assimilate.* Indirect feeding, and his powerful will-to-live, sustained him until that day. That Saturday morning the death passion set in. To his sagging jaw, as he lay propped up on his white pillows in the clinic of St. Jean in Brussels, a sad nursing sister held tenderly the rubber tube...
...first was the Briand-Doumer plan, featuring the enactment of legislation which would levy much heavier "indirect taxes...
...Rumors were shelved, as the Finance Committee of the Chamber played a concrete trick on M. Briand by voting to reject the keynote of the Briand-Doumer measure, the increased "indirect taxation." This was regarded as a body blow to Briand, since in order to overrule the Committee he would have to go before the Chamber on this one point alone. Nobody believed that even M. Briand could get the Deputies to stick an obnoxious tax stamp squarely on their constituents' cigarets without the enveloping camouflage offered by the Briand-Doumer scheme as a whole. The action of the Committee...