Word: kingsley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press-released "commentary" a self-appointed brain trust of liberal intellectuals, calling themselves the 1941 Committee, handed out stinging criticism to the British Government, suggested a broad program of war and peace aims. Signed by Julian Huxley, H. G. Wells, Kingsley Martin, veteran editor of the liberal New Statesman, and J. B. Priestley, the "commentary" suggested that Britain must "win the peace" as well as the war, should start right away. Excerpts...
History 1 will be open to all students and officers of the University today at 9 a.m. in the New Lecture Hall when Charles Kingsley Webster, Stevenson Professor of International History at the London School of Economics, will be guest lecturer on "Problems of Collective Security...
...staggering tax load Britons have been carrying, this week a few more pounds were added, not to make Britain's budget balance (which is impossible) but to forestall threatening inflation. Into the House of Commons strode Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood with a new war budget, calling for a record outlay of ?4,207,000,000 ($16,828,000,000) in the next twelve months. The basic income-tax rate was upped from...
...were cut from ?170 to ?140 ($560) for married taxpayers, from ?100 to ?80 ($320) for single men. But these additional taxes will not be an outright gift to the Government. They will be credited to the taxpayer's account in postal savings after the war. Thus Sir Kingsley produced what was, in effect, a long-expected compulsory war-savings system for Britons...
...goods is inadequate. One way to keep prices down is to cut the public's purchasing power. This is a device with which Hitler has forestalled a new German inflation for several years past, and Britain had to come to it. Britain's new taxes, said Sir Kingsley frankly, are not intended primarily to raise more revenue, but "to make a considerable cut" in the public's power to buy in order to "avoid the ever-present dangers of inflation...