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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact has obviously escaped Mr. Roosevelt's notice that Palestine at present is occupied not by German troops but by the English," said the Führer in his best ironic tone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hitler's Inning | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...present Greater German Reich contains no territory which was not, from the earliest times, a part of this Reich, which was not bound up with it or subject to its sovereignty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hitler's Inning | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Present basic individual income tax rate (highest in the world) is 5 ½ shillings on the pound (in the U. S. that would be 371 cents on the dollar) for incomes above $625 a year. That rate will remain, but to make conscription of manpower more palatable to the lower classes, the Government also made a gesture of conscripting wealth. Surtaxes on incomes from $10,000 to $40,000 were raised 5%, on those above $40,000, 10%. Sample taxes: on a childless married man's income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: We Can Take It | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Duty on tobacco was increased 21%, which will mean that a package of popular priced cigarets will now cost about 27? instead of 25? as at present. Another effect: some 350,000 cigaret-vending machines (used mainly after 7 p. m. when all tobacco shops by law must close) are now obsolete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: We Can Take It | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...tell him to disobey. . . . He won't do it if I do tell him. ... All I can do is attempt . . . to induce the patient to behave in a way less harmful to himself and society. . . . Instinct should tell the western statesmen not to touch Germany in her present mood. She is much too dangerous!" Practical political suggestion by Dr. Jung was for the western statesmen to turn mystic Herr Hitler's attention away from the West. "Let him go to Russia. That is the logical cure for Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Two Diagnoses | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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