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...none of her unwilling provinces does the Third Reich find stiffer, more stubborn resistance than in The Netherlands. Focus of stolid Dutch hatred of the Nazis is a secret society called "Les Gueux" (The Beggars), blamed by the Germans for recent widespread riots. Fortnight ago, breathing brimstone, a German military court sent 18 of the Beggars to face a firing squad, imprisoned 19 more, hoped without conviction it had broken the Beggars' back...
...utterly opposed to sales taxes or processing taxes which do not disturb profits, but soak the consumer. Ability to pay he fixed as the guiding principle. From these clues taxperts could guess the shape of the bill that will destroy next spring's beauty for many a citizen: stiffer excess-profits taxes* (not a straight-out increase in regular corporate income-tax rates); another increase in surtax rates on incomes, probably on those in the so-called "savings" brackets, between $15,000 and $500,000. In the making, taxperts guessed, was some bludgeon being tooled to club upstanding...
...living. Since September 1939 Canadians have watched the necessities of war nibble away at that standard - first by requiring them to turn in their holdings of foreign exchange, then by a 10% tax on imports, by forbidding the use of funds for travel in the U. S., by imposing stiffer and stiffer taxes on goods and incomes. Last week the standard toppled...
...game of pressure diplomacy across the frontier. In the last two months Japan's hell-for-leather Army mission had twice pushed negotiations with French Indo-China to a stalemate, had threateningly packed its bags, then backed down. But each time the Japanese came back with even stiffer demands. Last week they pushed hard for the most drastic terms...
...Moscow suddenly discovered that the little Rumanian Army was trying to pick a fight with the big Red Army along the Bessarabian frontier. Premier Molotov sent an outraged note to Bucharest. The Rumanian Army was withdrawn from the Prut River to the Siret. This gesture only brought forth a stiffer note from Comrade Molotov. It looked very much as if Russia were about to protect herself by moving farther into...