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MIRROR OF OPINION
bought these bills and even paid for the privilege of doing so actually saved money themsel-
ves.
The banks by turning funds in- to bills saved insurance on the deposits, while the large deposi- tors avoided deposit taxes as levied by some states. Also the banks were able to do a little win- dow dressing, making their year
end statements look better by switching funds from their al- ready over-extended cash item into the more agreeable" one of government holdings. Everybody was pleased with their part in the transaction--and, it wasn't done with mirrors. “Christian Science Monitor.'
Sir John Anderson's statement about air raid shelters, contained some satisfactory features. But large parts of his scheme are totally inadequate to the dangers and needs of the situation. Steel France is faced with the most supports for basements have been vital problem of its whole history. tried in Barcelona and were" re- It has to decide whether it pre-jected under the experience of fers to be a first-class power, at war. The small steel shelters for the price of a regimentation not private houses may help against dissimilar from that of totalitar blast and splinters, ian countries; or whether it is content to count less in European politics than it has in the past, but remain free, intellectual, and happy.
but do not provide any real security. When they are put up, vast sections of our population will still be worse off than in Barcelona, where deep and wholly bomb-proof shelters have been found the only true Many people will find that an extreme way of expressing the safeguard. More unfortunate is dilemma of France. Yet it is only the attitude he adopted that we cannot have such shelters with- necessary to read the newspapers to discover that a consciousness out becoming a nation of trog- of the choice has reached those down to the shelters during raids lodytes. In Barcelona people go whose business it is to think and come smiling afterwards.
is about France's future. It realised that to keep step with And, in case, it is surely for us to choose whether we will be tem- highly organised countries like Germany, there must be not only truth is that in the matter of porary troglodytes or dead. The a complete change of industrial shelters, as in all other questions methods, but a corresponding relating to defence, the Govern change in the political and moral ment's attitude is hopelessly woo- spheres. In other words, France
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Magdalene Laeuffer.will have to imitate much that den and conventional, its policy. Ania Dorfmann. it has hitherto condemned in dic-feeble and inadequate and the re- sult a national danger which the tatorship countries.
Even in England, which has country cannot and will not per- manently accept.-"Time and always been far more disciplined Tide." than France, there are hints of a certain restriction of liberty in order to keep pace with German I hear many people talking of production. Mr. Anthony Eden peace as if it were a plaster that says that "the, whole tempo of could be stuck onto the face of our lives will be radically altered, Europe. This is dangerous. In and changes may be called for in a world in which there are men. our social and economic structure of power who make no distinc- as far-reaching as those which tion between might and right have taken place elsewhere. and there always have been such We must sink differences of part-men-peace is a state of balanc- les and class in a supreme na-ed power which makes the pro- tional effort." Obviously if such bable price of loot an unattractive words have any meaning they are one to contemplate. As of old, an appeal for discipline and unity so now, let all who seek peace to which a good deal of freedom and who in this country does must be voluntarily sacrificed-
not?prepare themselves for Sisley Huddleston.
war; mentally, morally, physical- and ly and materially. Thus
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The United States Treasury thus only can we defend against has performed that Alice-in-Won-any aggressor our liberties, our derland feat of being paid to bor-freedom, and all else that makės row money. Just before Christ our heritage and go forward mas, Secretary Morgenthau sold with stout hearts to establish the the Treasury's weekly discount peace we all seek. Sir Auckland bills, over $100,000,000 of them, Geddes in an interview by the at par or better. On $100,000 of “Observer.” this amount the Treasury actual- ly obtained a premium. People so -anxious to lend Uncle Sam money · More people are dying every that they pay him to take it! day from criticism than from To the hungry-eyed youngster cancer. More people are suffer- with his nose pressed against the ring each hour from lack of bakery window, the Treasury's charity of heart than from pov- experience may be a ray of bright erty. The inhumanities of life hope. Perhaps after all that are more dreadful than disease. day is not too distant in which Dr. George Parrish. he can get that apple tart in the
Parting dow, get it for nothing, or better still be paid for taking it. Unfortunately for him there is a
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war as he WBB. They had to deviate.
aimple explanation of this By unusual phenomenon in the Unite ed States Treasury. For the "banks" and largë depósitors who
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