THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 25, 1941
PRICE OF AMERICAN SECURITY
Mr. Morgenthau On New Tax Bill
"A SMALL PRICE to pay for American PIECEMEAL
security" was the description given by Mr. Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury, of the request for $3,500,000,000 in new taxes which he has made to Congress for greater defence production.
In a formal statement to the House of Re- presentatives' Ways and Means Committee, Mr. Morgenthau said: "We are faced with a greater challenge than any in the history of the Republic. It calls for a much greater res-
than yet made.
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DEBATES
PROBLEM
A move towards an Em. pire-wide synchronisation of parliamentary debates on the war was made in the House of Commons yesterday.
When Mr. Winston Churchill the forthcoming was announcing parliamentary programme and leftj The date for the war debate open. Lord Winterton drew attention to the forthcoming debate of the Australian Parliament and thought| it would he taost tfortunate if information was given in another Porta v which was not available in Britain,
ULSTER THANKS EIRE
PLEDGED WORD
Passage for British troops through Iraq con- tinues to be the main topic of discussion in the Arabic Press in Bagdad.
The newspaper "AI states: "Honouring the word does not Belfast recent
Paying a tribute in Belfast yesterday to the assistance sent by Eire to ease the position
in
after the heavy German raid, Mr. McDermott, the Ulster Minister of Public Security, told the Ulster Commons: "It was above and be- It was yond politics.
based on common humanity and we in
the six counties ac-
Aswal" pledged in any
circumst tances conflict with the sovereign rights of independent Iraq,
Fulfinent of her undertakings to ነ friendly state passing through the must dangerous stage of her history is striking evidence of Iraq's resolve to maintain her dignity and political honour. Thus she will promote greater confid- ence in herself among the Powers with whom she has political trea- ties.
Reuter,
CANADA'S
cept and acknowledge AIRCRAFT
it as such."-Reuter.
SOVIET SHIP'S CREW
ALMOST ALL WOMEN
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The Soviet od
The Prime Minister replied that; were, it would be an innovation or us to
We must necessarily, have it Women's SAY
ide bate on the aire day as Austri- Era una t would 30 Se an intrusion upon the Dommun zeptate independent rights.
Nevertheless, there was obyne
[1] debates Hoxer, who is mister of givenven ence SI Nimen's Church, Glasgow hold piecemeal. explained:
"The food was wasted and
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good many hearts were broken." the Rev W. N. G. Boxer said. Mc
When it was taken up after- wards was found to be due to Jack at interest on the part of the ! offiers comeerned The men had not had a chance to know.”
"Those Brass Hats"
being
tanker
Emba
OUTPUT
Canada's aircraft
ders for 1941
or-
were ap- proximately $100,000,000,
stated the Home Minister
for Munitions in an inter- view in Toronto yester- day.
(7,886 tons), plying regularly the Caspian Sea, ha
He added. "New plants opening sisting almost entirely of women.
fur prodtic m are increasing. I The captain is Twenty-five
steadily. We are doing all right now. We were in closest touch with year-old girl named Maria Bryz | We have managed to iron out a te Dominion governments of galova
She has received a thor= |lot of our transport difficulties and Australia, New Zealand, Canada Ough training, serving first as within the next few months and South Africa and an effort duck-hand on a training ship.
plants will I turning out im- would be made, as far as pos rible. without the slightest pre
mense quantities of war supplies.
"Even now they are turning out
The boatswain is only nineteen Four of the sailors ᎥᎢ Ꮕ young
farmers. Reuter,
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our
judice to independent or separgie's who formerly were collective thousands of tons of supplies."——
ate action, to arrange these de bates.
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In the meantime, Mr. Churchill In some instances he found in-
snid he was informed that th vitations bad been put up on
Australian Parfument was !dingy noticeboard and no effort likely to asemble before the first
made to find out how many mum week in May.
they would be going and how could reach the meeting place,
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Mr. hope." continued
He said that the tax program- e firstly presented a methead of "paying as you go fur able proportionate
reason-
secondly it was designed so that, Boxer, it will be brought home
all sections of the people will bra
a fair share of the buidea; Bord-
ly to help the United States re-
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for defence by reducitig amount of money spenda? Je
brass hats to these
who
those gen- crals who make such general Statements about things. speak about the great hospitality of Glasgow, and so on, and forget best use is not being
e les aportant things, fourthly: that the
the carelessness at
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de aphed to prevent a getter- ! made of that hepitality owing to al e in prices by keeping pur- chong perfection
Han oud manning tom of young subalterns to whom!
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relegat si."
Heuter.
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Reuter.
SWAPPED WIVES
Two women of Rock- ford, Illinois,
who swapped their
'Reuter
ARAB WORLD REPROVED IN "SPECTATOR"
IN AN OUTSPOKEN ARTICLE IN THE have "SPECTATOR" ENTITLED "ARAB VACILLA- husbands TIONS," A WRITER DESCRIBED AS "A SPE- and children, announce CIAL CORRESPONDENT,” ASKS: COULD THE that "everything is work- ing out fine."
ARABS BLAME BRITAIN IF SHE EXCLAIMED TO-DAY: WHO IS NOT WITH ME IS AGAINST
They are Mrs. Ruth Schune- nun, formerly Mrs. Forbes, and ME ? Mrs. Ethel Forbes, formerly Mis Schuneman,
Last summer, Mr. and
Mrs. [ww
The article proceeds: "If the Arabs Lloyd Schuneman and the examine the balance judiciously, they must Toby Schuneman children became admit that Britain need not be ashamed of her
fendly with Mr. and Mrs. Mer-
ton Forbes and the two jolly past record.
Forbes children.
terest as
One day Mrs. Schuneman Once glance at Syria demon- 20 months, Egypt and Iraq have confessed she had fallen in love strates the difference between the refrained from helping Britain in with Mr. Forbes, and
their struggles waged in
In- Mrs. British approach to the Arabs and Forbes sald che was in that of other European nations.
much as in her own. love with Mr. Schuneman,
Whereas Britain fulfilled me- So for Britain has done every- The husbands made similar ticulously all her promises
the to thing in her power to meet confessions.
But Egypt and to Iraq, France failed wishes of her Arab friends. to ratify the Treaty of 1936 and all the giving cannot be on one, In December the women got still keeps♦Syria more or less in side. Divorces. Mrs. Forbes became the state of a Colony. Mrs. Schuneman and Mrs, Schune- man became Mrs. Forbes.
The Schuneman children went to live with the Forbesca and the Forbes children with the Schunemans,
Ultimate Outcome
Where Germany rulea ax- clusively through her marti- nets, Britain has always on- The British are justified in re- couraged native talent to come minding their friends in the Mid- to the fore.
dle East that they would no be Since 1939, British soldiers have human if, after the war, they did been defending the fight of the not remember who was with them Wealthy Mrs. Marie Dicker- Arab countries to their indepen-and who was not and act accord- man, of Pittsburg, is asking for adence, their right to live their ingly. divorce from her husband, Robert. own lives, to worship God in their The ultimate outcome of the Judge Patterson has asked for own way, to preserve what their war, fought by the greatest Em- time to consider the case because cultural traditions and racial in-pire, with the full backing of the Marle's love letters to Robert have dividuality render precious to richest and mightiest Industrial impressed him so much, while her them. stories of being kicked five times
out of bed have impressed him
equally
British Sacrifice
country in the world, can be in no doubt.
It is Britain, whose support of Arab aspirations, both politi- cal and economic will be.of.con- Bequence.
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If Mrs. Dickerman was real- If it were not for the sacrifice ly ill-treated, asks Judge Pat of British lives, the Arab coun- terson, why should she have tries would to-day find them- The future of the Arab world written, Mr.. Dickerman thirty-selves in the position of starving depends primarily upon British eight torrid letters and alght Poland or enslaved Norway. **** goodwill. "If the Arabs forget telegrame after she had
foft.
After paying tribute to King this; if they stoop to embroil Ibn Saud of Baudi-Arabla, the themselves with the godless intri→ writer says: But no amount of gues of the Axis, they will assur-“ sophiatry or good will can die edly betray the truest interest of guise the fact that for the last their own civilisation.--Reuter
him? Tel. 21463.
"After reading these I myself should be able to write a good love, letter." sighed Judgo Patterson,