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...hour address to proletarians at Hamburg, Labor's Ley key- noted : "Those German employers who dare to rate machines higher than men are going to be given plenty of opportunity to arrive at a contrary opinion in concentration camps!" In Italy's present production spurt toward rearmament, Labor's Cianetti dashes incessantly about the kingdom, addressing workers' meetings, hearing grievances and badgering big Italian employers like the Agnelli ("Ford of Italy") family in Turin whose members huff at mention of his name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY-GERMANY: Fuller Lives | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...dictatorships are better to prepare for war, democracies are better to finish wars. Despots have forced America and Britain to undertake rearmament and, having undertaken it, we must necessarily win the rearmament race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Starters & Finishers | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...French franc (see p. 17) were major indirect factors working against the Spanish Leftists. 3) Mr. Chamberlain's speech gave the impression that he thought Mussolini & Hitler were right, from their points of view, in thinking that now was the time, before Britain has completed her rearmament, to throw heavier forces into Spain and try to secure on that peninsula a Fascist triumph which the stout-hearted Britons of 1914 would have resisted to the utmost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tantrums Into Triumphs? | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

...John, when he recently became Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in charge of a new tax trap designed for Rearmament profiteers but so objectionable to many potent Britons that there was nothing to do but hastily scrap the design. Its inventor was the Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain, now Prime Minister, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer when he introduced it in the House of Commons as the National Defense Contribution (TIME, May 3). This bill was to help hugely in paying for Rearmament by taxing of British firms on a sliding scale proportionate to the rate at which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Simple Simon's Tax | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...firms with annual net profits of more than $10,000 per year. It is a supertax. Its intent is to raise the existing average 25% income tax on British firms to 29% in the case of partnerships, 30% in the case of corporations. Exempt from such super-taxing for Rearmament are to be salaried employes, doctors, lawyers, accountants and professional people generally-very few of whom in Britain earn as much as $10,000 per year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Simple Simon's Tax | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

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