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...jealous Treasury. The Treasury objected to the fact that Mr. Ruml's idea involved "forgiving" 1941 taxes, which would admittedly have given a break to big earners in 1941 who were small earners in 1942. (Among the beneficiaries would have been the Treasury's No. 1 Congressional pleader, obstinately high-minded Randolph Paul, who was a prosperous corporation-tax lawyer...
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...live perpetually under the threat of German air power, that power must be destroyed at its base: Germany must be invaded and conquered. This job the British Empire is no longer strong or rich enough to do. At this point the cat pops out of the bag. Pleader Brailsford declares that only the U. S. can reconquer Nazified Europe-and that means another U. S. expeditionary force. Or perhaps it means that Liberal Brailsford is too logical to make a good prophet...
...Arab cause in Palestine has no more expert pleader than polished scholarly George Antonius. An Arab Christian (110,000 of Palestine's 1,000,000 Arabs are Christians) educated at Cambridge, Mr. Antonius was, like Colonel T. E. Lawrence, a British official in Egypt during the World War. After the War he was a member of several British diplomatic missions and an assistant secretary in the Palestine Government until 1930. Mr. Antonius has been to many a foreign correspondent a sort of unofficial spokesman for the Arab High Committee...
...steady job was found for Jeff Davis, and none has yet been found for Jan Masaryk, for 15 years Czechoslovakia's Minister to Great Britain and the strongest pleader for his country in western Europe. The Nazi tied government of his homeland is now busy tearing down statues and paintings of Jan Masaryk's father, cofounder with Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia. Soon after Munich, Minister Masaryk's Legation in London, ordered to remove resigned President Benes' portrait, complied. A second order, requiring removal of a portrait of Jan's father, was not immediately obeyed...