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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxpayers not on any public payroll, the rise of reciprocal taxation presented food for a happy thought: that making taxes more real to public officials might make them more chary with public funds...
Gallup Polls, which probably lead public opinion as well as record it, last week showed striking increases in the strength of leading popular choices for the 1940 Presidential nominations. Among Democrats, John Nance Garner rose from a 20% choice (December) to 42%. Trailing him in order: Jim Farley, 10%; Cordell Hull, 10% ; Harry Hopkins...
Promptings. Despite the fact that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has publicly buried his own appease-the-dictators policy, it was evident last week that such an old habit would die hard. Correspondents even suggested that the Cabinet's Stop Hitler campaign was welded more by the white-heat of public indignation than by any new warmth for a showdown by the Government. Mr. Chamberlain admitted, however, that the present was no moment for him to go flying to see Führer Hitler again as he did last September...
...chagrin of the U. S. Secretary of State, Henry L. Stimson. Sir Samuel's big try at appeasement came in 1935, when with French Premier Pierre Laval, he arranged a deal to give Benito Mussolini a big chunk of Ethiopia. He had to resign because of public indignation, but soon found another Cabinet job. That the Prime Minister's indignation at Adolf Hitler may be only temporary was hinted at last week when Mr. Chamberlain took pains to assure Germany that Britain would not interfere with her "reasonable efforts . . . to expand her export trade...
Early in the week a Frenchman named Hubert Lagardelle, who lives in Rome and hobnobs with Signor Mussolini, went to Paris supposedly charged with a secret mission. Before long everyone knew the secret. He called on a Daladier lieutenant, Public Works Minister Anatole de Monzie, and suggested that he tell his boss the time was ripe for Paris to woo Rome. Next day King Vittorio Emmanuele read his mild-as-milk speech before the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations. Day after that France's Ambassador in Rome, Andre François-Poncet, called on Crown Prince Humbert...