THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 28, 1938.
The China Mail
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ments. Added to the normal wheat surplus in the United Kingdom, the stores should be sufficient for three months' sup- ply. This glimpse of careful planning behind the scenes has been the more. gratefully received because of the disquieting revela- tions of hitches in the carrying out of factory orders for aero- plane construction, and inadequa- publication should be addressed to cies in measures for protection of civilians against air raids. Two the Editor, and be accompanied by vital steps have now been taken to remove these charges. The ap-
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perties will not be increased for rating or income tax because of inprovements. for protection against air raids in another. Meanwhile, the debate made it clear that while taxpayers will shoulder the necessary burdens in the proper, spirit, they must be assured that they are getting full value in all arms, above all tremendous in the air, for the expenditure demanded of the country. As Chancellor last year, Mr. Chamberlain deplored, in language that any Socialist would Sir John Simon experienced welcome, the waste that this ar- little difficulty in disposing of mament outlay represents even the Labour challenge on the Fin-with the best return; after such ance Bill. The figures advanced
an introduction of the defence by Mr. A. V. Alexander to show. the influence of "spendthrift" programme, there must be
toleration of any waste which habits on the National Debt organisation should avoid in de- were revealed as, in the main, sign or production of equipment. paper figures, with tangible as- sets on the contra side of the
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balance sheet. In his answer to Phenomenal Mr. Luce
the purists who would have him
no
meet all the extraordinary de- In London last week arrived fence expenditure out of current is a close friend of Mr. Kennedy, revenue, and to those who would the American Ambassador. This save their 6d. in the £1 and bor- was Mr. Henry Robinson Luce, row it all, he was on even surer probably the most remarkable ground. The principle followed by phenomenon in American journa- the Chancellor of the Exchequer lism to-day.
an
was established and accepted by Fifteen years ago, with the Commons a year ago. He is abandoned New York brewery for maintaining the undertaking an office and two hired type- given by Mr. Chamberlain that writers, he and another young a fair proportion of the total man just down from Yale-pro- outlay on defence may justly be duced the first number of the laid upon posterity: and the news magazine, "Time." To-day amount to be borrowed does not its weekly circulation is 800,000. exceed the prescribed limit.
Then, in the depths of Ameri-
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This is what outstaying rival ca's worst depression, Mr. Luce nations means. While others set started "Fortune," which deals this desperate pace in rearma- with business and industry, costs ment, Britain has no resort but a dollar a copy, and is the heav- to follow. After all, the British fiest magazine in the world.
It proved an enormous suc- well as guns; the extra twopence cess, and so has his latest ven- on tea will touch every family in ture, "Life," a weekly illustrated the land, but the incidence of the magazine. When he acquired and war-time income tax is tempered transformed it he hoped to start in favour of smaller incomes, and off by selling 300,000 copies. Now there are also to be concessions in the second year of his to industry to anticipate any prietorship it is selling 2,000,000. effect upon employment. The copies a week: popular response to the rearma- At 40 Mr. Luce has an yearly ment effort during the past income which has been reliably twelve months has been sound estimated at close on £200,000. and resolute; and there is, in Efficient and abrupt, he lacks the Britain as here, a determination flamboyance of Mr. Hearst, with that national activity in social whose methods he has little welfare and the amelioration of sympathy.
pro-
the distressed areas shall not he Unlike Mr. Hearst, he has abated under the urgency of a kept out of politica. Whether he mighty defence programme. Sir will continue to do so is John Simon said "we shall spend blematical.
2.
pro-
no
this vast sum for the sake of
Although he has shown liberty which as it gets rarer, public sign of any such ambi- get dearer, but for its precious tion, Mr. Luce's name has been liberty the country is prepared mentioned recently as possible to pay the price."
Republican candidate for the The British people, and the Presidency. world generally, learned with His past history, however, is surprise, from the Budget speech not in accordance with the theory that, under the policy of storing that the best candidates are born food supplies against war emer-in log cabins. He was born in gency, the British Government China where his parents were has secretly bought 40,000,000 missionaries, and later he became bushels of wheat, 400,000 tons of an Oxford undergraduate.