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Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps walked into the House of Commons and presented his first budget. He was a brisk and confident man, for passage of ERP in the U.S. Congress helped him meet Britain's most pressing economic problem-the shortage of dollars. But how to check inflation? And how to induce people to work harder when there was still too little in British shops to buy? Cripps was characteristically clear and crisp. M.P.s did not like all he said, but they enjoyed the performance. When Cripps had finished his 2¼-hour speech...
...sseldorf, General Sir Brian Robertson, Britain's commander in Germany, addressed himself to the North Rhine-Westphalia Parliament. Cried he: "Come forward determined to make the best of the largest part of your country. . . ." For the foreseeable future, Russian obstruction had made one Germany impossible. On the far side of the Iron Curtain was "unity," Robertson said, but it was "unity with the Czechs and other people of Eastern Europe in a common bondage...
Cripps called his new gadget a "special once-for-all levy." But the conservative Daily Telegraph assailed it as "class legislation of the worst type. ... A budget professedly designed to stimulate incentive studiously ignores the risk-taker." Indignant investors were reminded that when Sir Robert Peel proposed an income tax in 1842 he had said: "I think it just to limit the duration to three years...