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...Plan in public was when Minister Without Portfolio Baron Hankey told the House of Lords that, "It has not been rejected." A forced loan was out of the question, said Lord Hankey, while the Government is still trying to see whether the same object cannot be attained voluntarily. In retort last week Professor Keynes snorted: "To depend on voluntary methods, when the Treasury has to take half the national income, is comparable to relying on these methods to raise an army...
...President's retort : As for those $9 billions, the AAA report had been mis taken, had made certain duplications...
...hearlings on the Naval Appropriations bill in Washington Plumley labeled R.O.T.C. units at Harvard and Yale as clubs for gentlemen, but a student enrolled in Naval Science parrled with the retort, "If midshipmen at Annapolis are taught to be gentlemen officers, why not at Harvard...
Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels keynoted the Frederick II theme last week in a speech at Posen, in which he quoted the great ruler's retort to his generals when they refused to follow him: "Then I will continue the war alone." This savored of an ultimatum from the Nazi Party to those German generals who are known to have obstructed Adolf Hitler's plans for a westward Blitzkrieg last autumn. Promptly. Col. General Walther von Brauchitsch, Commander in Chief of the Armies, affirmed the military's allegiance in an article for the Völkischer Beobachter...
Oswald Garrison Villard, onetime publisher of the New York Evening Post and The Nation, is 67 years old, but when he went to Germany last October he nervily decided to answer the Nazis' "Heil Hitler!" with a "Heil Roosevelt!" Nobody gave him the chance to make such a retort. In fact, Mr. Villard reports in an 86-page booklet, Inside Germany,* just published in London, almost no one except Party members and officers in uniform now gives the "Heil Hitler!" greeting...