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...There is not an economy for peacetime and an economy for wartime. There is only a war economy, because historically, considering the number of years of war, it has been demonstrated that a state of armed warfare is a normal state of the people, at least of those living on the European Continent, because even in years of so-called peace other types of war are waged, which in their turn prepare our armed warfare...
Whether anything would come of all the union talk that was going on, at least it showed that big Europeans were able to think lofty socio-economic thoughts-if only in wartime...
Reilly. Meanwhile, the 220,000 Dutchmen in the East Indies live the life of Reilly. No white man is so poor he cannot afford at least two servants at salaries ranging around $8 a month, and the usual staff of a well-to-do household numbers six or seven. No white woman need lift her little finger around the house. U. S. films now arrive in Java, Sumatra and Borneo with little delay, and few are the Dutch Colonials who do not own a U. S.-made car. Tinned foods from home are always available, but the most famous East...
Almost all the well-to-do families in The Netherlands have their East Indian securities, and not the least investor is the House of Orange-Nassau. Century ago King William I invested $1,600,000 in the East. Large profits accrued, the capital multiplied many times again. Wilhelmina, an astute business woman herself, is a large owner of tin mines, just as she has a moneyed finger in the pie of nearly every enterprise of magnitude in Holland. Her income was once estimated at $5,000,000 a year, making her by far the richest monarch of Europe...
...week. No newcomer to Harvard or to teaching, Robert Frost was successively English Professor at Amherst, and Poet in Residence at the University of Michigan; at Harvard for three years gave the popular Charles Eliot Norton poetry lectures. Harvard hopes he will sit in the Emerson Chair for at least two years...