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The Aftermath
Mr. Attlee's speech in the House of Commons debate on the world food crisis was simple and straightforward. He outlined the causes of the present senseity, Some are of Man's own making
BUDGETS TO BE "NORMAL"?
By J. C. Johnstone
THE FOLLOWING EXTRACTS ARE TAKEN FROM AN INTERVIEW GIVEN BY DR. KARL BARTH, THE EMINENT SWISS THEOLOGIAN, TO A REPRESEN- TATIVE OF "DIE WELTWOCHE," OF ZURICH).
NORMAL"? A Pilgrimage
It has
will erc
Witness
I was
Was borne
not
To Germany
its
Even
not yet fully
The Chancellor of the Exche-1 A matter demanding close at-, *300,000,000 a year," but it is
It was not only a tiring but↑ (enforced conformity), held from them.is striking back with quer described his interim Bud- tention is the possibility of still staggering enough.
almost an adventurous journey aloft the spirit of humanity such devastating force that it get of last October as "the first changing the incidence of in- The avowed purpose of the that I had recently in Germany, and communicated it to their amounts to an irrefutable de of a series which, I hope, will come-tax no an to remove the subsidies is to keep prices and on this journey
able students,
facto refutation of Nazism and to talk once more
with my clearly exhibit an ever develop-deterrent effects of P.A.Y.E. Aswagen on an even keel.
Thirdly must be mentioned an irresistible de facto, finding iug nod expanding plan for a things are now the harder aken achieved in the case of friends of the past and, to re-the workers. I talked with two of guilt. One can only wishi fuller national life." Actually, man works the higher in the rate prices but not at all in the case war. This brought home to me had carried on their illegal cell exults at the German humilia- knit the bonds broken by the Communists in Frankfort who that every Swiss person who neither the interim Budget itself of tax on his additional carn- of wages. Last May it was most vividly the rightness of activities during the whole time tion, and thinks no court of jus- nor the speech which introduced ings. This is notoriously amated that the effect of the view I had firmly held
at all of oppression. The Communist tice could be too severe, could it offered more than the slen-potent cause of the current ten-food subsílias was to save a
the only fully or spend, a quarter of ́an hour in derest cluen to the character of dency to slackness and of not rise in the total cost of living times, that the Gorman people Party was
was never the uniform diainclination the plan, no doubt because the infrequent
to index of 11 per cent. Yet since behind Hitler that it was de Social Democrats and the Libe- he could cast a glance at Silenia block gantsed underground, while the Freiburg or Frankfort and that time was not yet ripe. The work overtime.
then wage rates have already clared to be in Goebbels's pro-rals are struggling to this day or Pomerania, where the Gor- main interest of tomorrow's The solution is not easy and risen by six per cent, and their paganda and could not but em with the difficulties of forming man population Budget will be to see how far | might involve a complete recast-continuing increase
is being sys- it has taken shape in the intering cf the Income-tax system. long cancel out the whole 11 in the apparent absence of all a political group that could come tematically handed over by the
open opposition.
forward immediately in serried Poles to death from starvation. per cent, saving on the cost of val and what manner of plan
living.
To begin with there was the ranks after the collapse, as it
It is striking how little of it is.
was already strong nucleus. It may be reniarked here that
Where is the rhyme or rea-Church,
the true Nazi ideology as set though the idea of
In face of these opposition out by Rosenberg has struck "Berlut"
son in allowing these enormous with the same courage among groups we should get out of the root. I am perfectly sure that Budgets ls new it is not a speel-
subsidies to be stultified by the Catholics and Protestants, by habit of seeing in the Germans even the youth, who are regard- feally socialist idea. When, for
complete lack of any wage persona who, as clearly recognis
simply one is the aftermath of the war example, Mr. Dalton spoke in Neverthelese
great horde it in well worth policy? It is the urgent duty able exponents of realstance, Nazis. It is simply impossible infected, will not long remain ed by many people as incurably It is a retribution which falls on October of "balancing, over a undertaking now that the in- of the Chancellor to demand on never made any concession even for the imagination to grasp under
surpluses against come-tax on wages has come to behalf of the
anin externala. This taxpayers
influence, the innocent for the general follies period,"
common what a Terror on such a scale though Nazi influence reached front, effective quid pro quo.
incidentally. of Mankind." Others are wholly deficits," he was merely echoing stay.
worked
had the power to do; the con-out to if E.P.T. Ware Repealed
the two tinual awareness
the whole life of the of Nature's making. The White the policy outlined in the Coali
Supposing that the food sub-powerfully to bring
of standing Next there is E.P.T.
only need the In his sidy remains at, say £250,000, confessions together,
young, it will with one foot in the grave could creation of the right environ- Paper which the Governmess tion Government's White Paper
on Employment.
October Budget speech Mr. Dai-20, and taking into account the much in dogma as
in human not but have, in the course of ment to turn them quite or- published,, showed beyond ques-
It is, indeed, now generally ton deferred the question of its her argumptions we have relations,
years a paralysing effect. Peo-ganically into different beings. tion how the devastations of war accepted that the Budget of the repeal pending the study of the made, we get a future cost for For the rest, the Protestant ple shake their heads today over The Allies have had been supplemented by future can no longer be confined possibilities of a better alterna- Items 1, 2 and 3 of 41,475,000 side offers a much lean uniform the fact that nobody will admit realised what must be the very phenomenal incidence of wither simply to estimating the year's live tax on profits. What he 000, representing a reduction ing drought and destructive storm expenditure and providing the falled to explain was why there on this year's figure of £1,317,- Picture than the Catholic. The having been a Nazi, and they beginning of the great work of ecclesiastical struggle produced set this down to contemptible re-education: they are still try- in some of the richest food-pro- revenues to meet it, but must be should be a supplementary tax 000,000,"
a aplit among the Protestants cowardice. k. anyone who ing the effect of wireless lec- ducing areas of the Earth. Mr. integrally related to the working on profits at all over and above-
that has only now been actually knows the conditions must ad-tures and films for instructing Attlee did not in the least glass of the economic system as the standard income-tax.
bridged over. It has been a mit that that repudiation E.P.T, was instituted to "take"
In the great majority one thing will be of any real is the German people, while only over the difficulties which fase whole, this involves looking weil
If we could futher suppose mistake to draw a sharp distinc-honest. he hungry nations today. Ar beyond the limits of a particular the profit out of war." That it that Item 4 would remain more tion between black sheep and of cases, in point of fact, peo-use-their own example. The year in drafting and expounding achieved well and truly, but or less stable at 1,042,000,000, white, "German Christians" ple were not pro-Nazi, but Na- better outlook on the world must present, he said, we were facing a that year's Budget.
there is no sort of case, other we should get an annual nation- and the Confessional Church.
not be administered in lessons "grin period" in which Britain
Such View cannot apply than one founded on doctrinaire al expenditure, in a normal year Only in Prussia was there ac-
but demonstrated in practice. must reduce her demands to the without some modification in the Socialism, for taking the profit of some £2,500,000,000.
BY KARL BARTH But tually an open struggle, In
"That object-lesson," people said utimost, and in particular must present year, when the abnormal out of peace.
Item 4 will not remain stable, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, and else
to me ironically in Germany, avoid waste, so that there shall conditions of the transition from
In October Mr. Dalton Every year there will be auto-where the members of the Con-
"has unhappily not yet begun.” the snore food available for the war to peace still prevail. No timated that continuance of thematic increases in respect of fessional Church
remained an zism carne apon them, as it As yet there is no sign of any countries where the needs kername would suggest, for instance tax on the then existing 80 per such services as
Rocial insur-element
territorial were, as a frightful catastrophe, strong religious movement in Yet his speech was in no that the aim of "balancing, over cent basis would yield only arce, education, and housing, to Church and had mainly to carry and their real guilt consists in the country. The advancing la period, surpluses against de £250,000,000, as compared with mention only the most impor. on a struggle against the grey their passivity, their inability tide in the life of the churches
should begin to take 345,000,000 last year, the fall
that was to be observed under tant These increases will far aheep, if the term may be per- to be herbes. effect in a year with a prosper reflecting the cessation of war more than offset the annual de pensers, those who believed that mistaken to try to set up a great has unfortunately largely ebbed mitted the luke-warm, the ap Consequently it in entirely the shadow of Nazi dominance live deficit due to war's after-profits. From this has to be creases to be expected on such math of some $1,900,000,000.
subtracted *60,000,000 due to
in order to maintain their the 25 per cent. reduction in the charges as war pensions (now church and their confession Germans of Nazism; that curcing with great devotion at the
costing £102,000,000) or the Fillip To Production
rate as from Jan, 1, 1946, leav-Control office in
they must submit to the Nazis Germany ing a net yield of £190,000,000. 80,500,000).
in externals. Abolition of the tax would in- Nevertheless, this year has its
Thus on the present allowing
These groupings show plainly, problems The Prime immediate
calling valve an actual loss to the exche-it seems as though we must an any case, not only Minister bad ahrady shown how urgently for budgetary sequer not of $150,000,000, but of ticipate a "normal" future Bud-people as a whole, that during a single minute, that Ilitler was than, for instance, in Switzer-
churches but for the German Britain, by a policy of planning, tance in their solution. Of these that amount less 9s in the pound get of something well over this war and this tyranny down and devil in one. had provided "a fair share for all" the chief is the supremne need income-tax, which gives ahout 500,000,000, even if the Socialist very considerable "starvation on the one hand and futput, with a "Budget of incen-Chancellor were to repeal E.P.T.no more expensive projects. If opposition throughout. I rande not started so long as one talks clined to elude political respon-
est.
sense he
depressing. "I
said, "that when the present difficulties are got over we shall be inving into an 90 in which, by utilising the resources.
that of the world, we shall see there is no starvation, en under- nourishment, in any part of the world at all."
Meits"
1
Automatic Increases
default of stern intervention by the Chancellor it is difficult to 18ee any other alternative.
The Biggest Incentive
In that event, what becomes
of the
for the
number of
cover of
plan of re-education to cure the again. The pastors are work-
the church was effectent long ago by the cure of souls, but force of facts; out of hundreds acrvices I was able to attend in of people there will not be one cellars and in the crypt of the to be found with whom it will wreeked cathedral at Bonn are not be agreed, in the course of no better attended AB A rulo
Jand.
No, the real discussion has The religious German is in-
"We have
were
my
If tomorrow the Government were to
introduce during the war, and had avoided for the expansion of the national £105,0,000.
brave people maintained their tives" as its appropriate coun-with effect as from Jan. 1, 1947, that is a correct picture the out-acquaintance with a second locus
to the Germana only about sibility by immersion in reli- lavish consumption on the other."
terpart.
the loss to the Exchequer of look is grim indeed. At the ex of resistance,
Hitler. The crucial point is gious forms. It is significant And Mr., Hudson's speech was Mr. Dalton has every reason? £105,000,000 would
the universities. not accrue isting level of taxation revenues I visited Freiburg, Marburg, comes to Bismarck. When the inge I attended there was much reached when the discussion that at the theologians' meet- not only an acknowledgement of to cast about for the means of till 1913, since the tax is assess-appear unlikely to exceed about and Bonn, and in all three met the wisdom of such planning it affording all the psychological cd and collected a year in ar- £2,850,000,000
Nazi plaster has fallen away talk of demons. In this or any a body of courageons professors in dust there is revealed in the locked Satun in the face"such was a demand for planning on a filip he can in support of the rear. Nothing could be better year hereafter.
of all, faculties-philosophers,
uttered almoat. wider scale. The question now Government's production drive calculated to stimulato enter-
prise than to announce outright taxation is to remain about jurista-who,
Are we then to conclude that natural scientists, historians, those who have been active in with enthusiasm. Over against
majority of Germans, even in phrases were is whether a policy of planning, What means are there?
The £1,000,000,000 of fair shares, and of co-operative
would appear to permit him little countervailing substitute.
little repeal on these lines without any where it is forever and nye? In the formal gleich-schaltung opposition, the solid brickwork that demonised world help and
They comfort and deliverance of German nationallam. enterprise in the production of
scope for substantial tax romis-
sacrament, the regard Nazism as a regrettable offered by the foodstuffs,
be Call
extended
sions this year over and above
Peace-Time Expenditure
incident, but all before it is be- liturgy, with its invocations and throughout the world. That will the income-tax concessions of
pounds, shillings and peace are yond criticism. They do not responses. I listened to all this be ascertained when, un May 20, last October costing £283,000,-
Let me now turn to a subject
far indeed from being meaning-understand that Naziam was talk of demons for a time; in the United Nations hold a con000, which take effect in the which must form the core of any
less symbols."
nothing else than the final out- the end 1 could keep silent no ference at the bidding of their coming Budget. Moreover, with budgetary planning such as the
begin- To talk of a "plan" under such come of the Bismarckian policy, longer. "Are you not own Food and Agriculture Or the continuing acute shortage of Chancellor adumbratca. I refer of Mr. Dalton's hopes of "an conditions would be a travesty, which forged Germany with ning to slip into a magical view ganisation. They launched the consumer goods in the shops he to the future permanent level of
plan for a fuller national life?" of one. If Mr. Dalton has real-Socialist, capitalist, Imperialist friends. "Why are which might led down to the normal routine getary landscape. Instead of a the summer of 1943, and at that risk of inflation
arise if he made any large reef peace, say, two or three years fuller national life we shall g
to absolve the nation, from an ger of the vital freedom of Why do you not say plainly, "We time their delegates were re-
have been political idiots"? lease of purchasing power by erice. This is a matter on
intolerable servitude to the tax 1848. one crippled by a paralysing gatherer, The promise and dis- The Germans no longer need Please, allow your Swiss collca- forward to post-war needs. Post time.
the ration into his, confidence war needs are now present and It therefore seems probable without delay.
their cost that biggest of all incentives. guilt. The wave that went out more ratlonal terms." clamant. They can be inct if the that he will restrict any down-prospects of his being able to nations approach the task with ward revision of taxation to hold out the promise of a reduc- the unity, the enterprise and the minor adjustments. There is a tion in expenditure such as will determination which they were strong case for a further reduc afford substantial relief from tion or abolition of purchase-tax the-present gruelling burden of displaying under mortal pressLTE from Hitler in 1943. And, as an essentials over and above the taxation?
Mr. Sol Hogwasch, always last I should no doubt have gone and that the influx of customers | wooer was $10,000,000 conceded in October. Let us take
would interfere with the normal menace to civilisation, Hunger When we consider, for example, point this year's expenditure, led to the conclusion that it is In Passing
as our starting at the starting gate, has craw-raving mad.
business of the bank. day is as potent as was Hitler yes the difficulty of bringing down which may be classified for our time he made a big musical film terday.
the high cost of new houses it purposes as follows: 000,000 about the life of a famous com account of a buzzard seen by a A friend of mine sends me an
keeper in Richmond Park. The 1,667 Johann Sebastian Buch, and the one
on account closca thus: "Thus is more Intimate encounter
ever developing and expanding It would be the very negation blood and iron into a National of the world?" I asked
you just. Organisation at Hot Springs in is bound to guard against the expenditure when we have got it vanishes utterly from the bud-ly got a plan it must be such as Reich and so into the gravedig- talking all the time of demone?
markably prescient as they looked way of tax reliefs at the present which Mr. Dalton should take loan of taxation. Socialists will closure of it now would be the today to be convinced of their gue to urge you to think in
NEW GOLD STRIKES REPORTED
What are the
is astonishing that there is stili 1. Nat. Debt and Consol. 100 per cent, tax on so necessary
Eund Services
a fitment as bathroom mirrors. 2. Defence (incl. supply)
Earned-Income Relief
3. Transitional War Ser- One of the main criticisms
vices.... levelled against the interim Bud- 4. Civil and Revenue Ser-
vices in the get was the omission to make any reduction of the earned in- come allowance for income-tax One bore hole was sunk jointly now, standing
Johannesburg, Apr, 26. Three more rich gold strikes in the Orange Free State vicinity of Odendaalsrust were Announced yesterday.
ed Press. 2
granted.
Total
discover to
BY THE WAY
poser.
625
Ilia choice has fallen
Lantern-Motal Form
By BEACHCOMBER.
1. Have you had jaundice since 19267 (Block lettera.)
2. Why?
3. Have yu sworn before a
something in tho City-(ahal something pretty frightful in the City, my poor little simpleton)has not. quickly discovered after mar- ringe that her hero's pinstripo trousera reek of sulphur and tasteful brimstone, that the black. felt hat covers two horns,
film is, at present, to be called added to Greater London's age- J.P. that your furnituro was that the shiny shoes enclose two 600 "The Flaming Soul." It will tell long if intermittent association
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a copy of your.
7. Do you own a canary, pur- rot, ape, lizard. tortoise, frog For ostrich?
8. State your requirements. 9. Do you collect string? 10. How many times have you completed this form before? Interlude
Prodnose: Surely that's the wrong form. There's no men- tion of lantern-metal,
hairy hoofn, and that office hours
Drank D.D.T.: Open Verdict
The first recorded case of a death in Britain and the second only in the world from D.D.T. insecticide was investigated by Mr. C. Bolton, the South-West Lancashire Coroner, at an ad- journed inquest at Formby, near Southport,
the atory
of how the young with the nobler birds of prey." not amuggled into England? 1,042 Bach, while a student in Leip My friend points out that "in-
4. Where do you intend to go? are one long witches' Sabbath. 5. Give reasons for what you zig, met Lotto von Ricschingen, termittent" is a very delicate 3,834 the girl who inspired him all his and tactful way of referring to are doing.
6. Paste on The first item appeare to offer life. Several fugues will at one-tenth
be the prison sentences which from by Dlinkpoorts and Free State against one-sixth at development Companies, two and break of war. The cost of the calla for no comment,
the out- little scope for diminution and danced, and there will be a big time to time banish many noble | grandfather's marriage.certi- ! half miles south of the site of full restoration of the one-sixth
acene in Paris, with Bach sub-birds of prey from the restaur-fiente (in duplicate). Given reasonable tranquillity bing George Sand at a ball given ant. last week's strike, and another four miles east of Odendanlegust allowance would be. 105,000,000, abroad Item 2 will fall rapidly by the Turkish Ambassador. was reported to have recovered and Mr. Dalton stoutly resisted, after this year and might find The part of Buch will probably on the ground of the Inflation-Its level at somewhere about be played by Mr. Clark Gable, rich anmples.
- The Amorlenni experiment as Mr. Edward G. Robinson is of having music in banks will, A test east of Odendaalsrust ro- Jary risk, the addition of so largo 700,000,000. covered rich samples in. twe neum to the £283,000,000 in in- The total of £600,000,000, in at work on "Macbeth." etrata, the report said.--Associat-como-tax concessions already Item. 3 is made up as follows: Tivoli
if it spreads do something to 4000,000 "For once in a while, to go
coften the atmosphere of cold That argumont la possibly
benstlinesn cheerfully mad and break things which daunts the customer,
and Impersonal AIN EXPERTS MEET still valid. At the samo time,
117
Immenso satisfaction," до says a writer in a daily paper. But other improvements are Paris, Apr. 25. Technical, nis
I wonder if he was over in the needed. Why not train roses on expects of 22 doubtedly be considerablo. nations met today in Paris to pool might well result in an additional
gardens called Tivell in Copen-that romantic trellis or grille their acronautical knowledge in output of goods greater than the
lingen. I remember a booth at which separates the cashier from an efort to standardize and male additional purchasing power in
which you paid to have a shy at the bank's victim? I like to safe the network
of air routes the hands of the people; thereby
crockery. But, the thing was think of the victim pushing his done on the grand scale. Thero cheque through a kind of frag- covering Europe and the Mediter- nullifying the inlationary risk. If the Chancellor cannot do it
were mounds of the stuff. You iant bower, and perhaps getting The conference,, held wader the this year he could at lenat pro-
The Coroner said the only grow, slowly excited. The crasha full-blown Mrs. Grin Perfec auspices of the Provisional Intermine it, for next, subject por Of these charges all excepting and tinkling became ex- tion, or a Gloire de Maidstone] that, the City is full of racke other known cand of poisoning sation GAC) is exparted to last
Civil Aviatieii' Ormishaps to the proviso that it do the last may be presumed to quiaite music. You paid and paid with his money.
teers there are a few slubberde- by D.D.T. was that of a child pended on an adequate Increase diunppear, but the ong Kemain- and paid, beginning to about Charllo Suct's achome for seil- gullons ready to play the. In Afrien, Medical evidence Technical comproduction. There is a good ing presents. considerabio diffi- wildly as you throw your ing fish in batiks has never been cherub, to raise their brows in showed that Geoghegan had practicable, It In pained ourprigo, and to defend taken G oz of tlio concentrated to deal with individu ardent to be said under existing culties. The figuro in the es missiles and to datice about and thought militro Jints was drafted from numerous conditions for holding out future timmates is indeed below the rear with foughter, when you pointed out, that the fish would with their life's sawdust that form of D.D.T., which wna 409 delegates and is to start work benefits in return for greator Chancellor Deheimnistic Lorg- saw the result of your dfforts. bu in the way, that the californ hot-bed of ideallam Yet how times stronger than that used Immediately Router..
prosent effort,
cast Inat October of at least find I not been dragged away would have no time to sell it. I many a country-bred girl, whoso as an insecticido,
ranean area,
tion
at
lenat n
Today
the stimulus to effort would un-
It
Ministry of Transport
war Servicea Min. of Fuel & Power
Sorvices
15
Home Office Services U.N.R.R.A...
02
Aid to Burma, Govern-
ment
30
Advances to Allien Miscellaneous (about) 50 Food subsidies
20
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482 888
Recording an open verdict, be found that Michael Geoghegan, Myself: That's what Mrs. 32 Irish farm labourer, died Dulcle Milbound said. But it from the toxic effects of drink.
Ing a quantity of mushroom got her nowhere.
Prodnone: Well, I can't under-fly D.D.T. concentrated emul- alon. There was no ovidence to stand it.
Myself: Nor can she,
show in what circumstances ho took it. Something in the City.
Every time somebody, says
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