Word: wars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prosperous Britons were pelting the Treasury last week with a patriotic shower of valuables to help win the war. Voluntarily they sent silver heirlooms, wedding and engagement rings, gold coins and even historic strings of family pearls. This mood of sacrifice was die-hard Britain at her best, but Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, while giving thanks, was obliged to announce that Britain can meet the mounting cost of World War II only if the whole population submits to "the most fearful sacrifices, some of which we have hardly begun to dream...
...John implied that the already crushing British income tax, which long ago ceased to be purely a "soak-the-rich" proposition, will have to be extended downward from the white-collar to the soiled-collar class. Britain is spending half her national income on the war, the Chancellor warned, yet even with armament plants going full blast 1,400,000 workers are still unemployed. Sir John, with typical British forthrightness, declared that a war of this magnitude cannot be fought on any easy assumption that it will not depress the existing standard of living in Britain and elsewhere...
Also annoyed at the British censorship last week, chiefly for not matching the Nazis in supplying good war photos, was the British weekly magazine Picture Post. In the Nov. 4 issue the magazine shows a blacked-out countryside with a sign hung in the foreground: This is a private war. The War Office, the Admiralty, the Air Ministry and the Ministry of Information are engaged in a war with the Nazis. They are on no account to be disturbed. Nothing is to be photographed. No one is to come near...
...Great Britain the honorary president of a vast pyramid of women's war organizations is Queen Elizabeth, whose wardrobe contains a choice assortment of female uniforms (TIME, Oct. 9). Last week in Paris petite Eve Curie, newly installed as Chief of the Feminine Section of the Ministry of Information, made it very plain to the press that most French women, unlike their British sisters, have no time for flossy uniforms, showy organizations. From the French point of view, the fact that Britain still has less than 1,000,000 men under arms, whereas France has more than...
...from Government buildings and be whisked away. There are no French sailorettes like the pert British "Wrens." At French air fields no uniformed female auxiliaries lunch gaily with pilots just back from showering Germany with leaflets. The wives of French bigwigs, from Mme Albert Lebrun down, simply do such war work as they can, are notably chary of becoming "honorary president" of this or that...