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...from existing sources of revenue, to get $353,500,000 by additional taxes (including a wholesalers' sales tax whose rate will be set by the House), and to borrow the remaining $4,662,000,000. Many defense items appeared in the new budget in token form and Sir John frankly guessed when he put the "presumed cost of war" in at the round figure of ?2,000,000,000 ($7,000,000,000). As the London Financial News said afterward, "The war will cost whatever it costs, and that's that...
Between these extremes are friendlier Republics (like Colombia), which recognize the need of settling the bond question in a way that will make new U. S. loans respectable. In the middle too is the State Department, patiently trying to worm token payments out of defaulters to justify new credits and get the trade ball rolling...
...life of the order of St. John the Evangelist is not always one of monotonous spirituality. In 1932, for instance, a devout believer is reported to have sent the fathers two cases of beer, as a token of his gratitude to God for the repeal of Prohibition. The fathers promptly celebrated; unfortunately so did a party in the apartment-house next door. According to the tale, the party eventually addressed their neighbors as "swizzling monks", and the brothers leaned out of the window to reply. Their exact answer has never been recorded...
...flying cavalry patrols were ranging as far east as Poland on night reconnaissance flights, Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood went to the House of Commons for approval of an "unprecedented" budget estimate for the Air Ministry, promptly got what he asked for by way of a ?100 token appropriation...
...more & more frightening costs of World War II. This was accomplished when Mr. Chamberlain caused to be read in the House of Commons a quiet little Treasury minute. It explained that henceforth His Majesty's Government, when it needs more millions, will simply ask the House to appropriate "tokens" nominally of ?100 ($400)-each token to stand for whatever vast sum is secretly decided by the War Cabinet...