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Onward & Upward. Last July's Democratic platform made no mention of that fiscal dodo, that old museum piece: a balanced budget. Franklin Roosevelt held to precedent-he didn't mention it, either. In its place he substituted a picture of a fertile, high tableland of national income, its rare air oxygenated by Federally subsidized public works, after defense spending ends. He termed the U. S. tax burden "moderate" compared to other countries -somewhat as a doctor might advise a patient suffering from pneumonia in one lung that other people had double pneumonia...
...recognition of ex-Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia as an ally was the signal for all good Ethiopians to come to the aid of a wrecking party, some elements of which were made clearer last week by a correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor lately returned from the mountainous tableland whose capital, is Addis Ababa...
North Anchor of the British blockade in the Atlantic is the volcanic tableland called Iceland, which, until April 10, shared Christian X with Denmark as her King. British warships took Iceland under patrol, British troops were sent there "protectively" while the Nazis rampaged through Norway. Last week, following reports of a German expedition about to sail to seize Iceland, Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada announced that a Canadian force had landed at Reykjavik, home of the world's oldest parliament (930 A.D.). Should the Germans arrive and fight, the Battle for Iceland would bring World War II within...
Gloucester arrived in Australian waters early in October on H. M. S. Sussex, which dropped him off at Perth, capital of Western Australia. Climbing into a private car, he rolled for days through the vast desolation of the Yilgarn Goldfields, the Hampton Tableland and the red-soiled Nullarbor Plain to Adelaide (1.600 miles). There the Sussex picked him up. carried him 500 more miles to Melbourne. Six bay horses with postilion riders bore H. R. H. in the Victorian State carriage to Parliament House where he read a message from his father: "A country so richly endowed by Nature...
...strike got under way slowly. Members of other unions in the Telefonica refused to go out with the Syndicalists, nearly normal service was maintained for three days. Then wire-cutters got to work. Somewhere in the desolate tableland south of Zaragoza the main line to Barcelona was severed. Other snippers cut Spain from the outside world for a time by breaking the international line just outside Madrid...