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...know that during the present crisis some in Congress have failed to grasp the requirement of our times, have clung to old formulas in a world of basic change; that some Republican Party leaders were slow, very slow, to appreciate the fundamental issues involved in the present armed conflict. I know that there have long been in the Republican Party forces which really believe that a political party exists solely for the advancement of private, selfish, material interests, and who would . . . turn back the clock of social progress; that negative and subversive elements flock to the party out of power...
Socialist C.C.F. Leader Major James Coldwell emphatically agreed. Said he: "The genius of the British Commonwealth is its recognition of basic unity in diversity. Lord Halifax proposes that we abandon this historic principle. Such rigidity would destroy the Commonwealth...
...favor government ownership of the basic industries such as coal and iron mines, electric power, railroads, telephones...
...intolerable. Seasonal rice workers earn 4.29 yen a day (before war-time inflation, the yen was quoted at 23½ U.S. cents), war workers six yen. Japanese will pay a general income tax of 10 to 20%, a sales tax of 20 to 120% on all commodities except basic foods and cotton textiles. Eighty percent of the national income will go to the Government in taxes and bonds...
...credited with coining the word "Nazi" - as a term of contempt, because in Bavaria "nazi" was a slang term for a country bumpkin. He "marched" surreptitiously with the Nazis in their beer-hall Putsch, later saw the doors of Landsberg Prison clang behind Hitler. He wrote two of the basic works on Hitlerism: the History of National Socialism and Hitler (TIME, May 25, 1936). Driven under ground by the Gestapo in 1933, he escaped to France in 1935, fought Naziism in books and magazines, fled to Manhattan after the fall of France...