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Even without Commander Woodrooffe, the review that took place earlier that day was a naval occasion no Briton should forget. Between Portsmouth on the Hampshire shore and the green Isle of Wight lie the most famed yachting waters in the world. Here in a carefully marked out area of 24 sq. mi. were assembled 277 ships ranging from the world's greatest warship, the 42,000-ton battle cruiser Hood, to a proud delegation of British herring trawlers. Wardroom statisticians quickly figured that the 143 British warships in line alone displaced 670,000 tons, cost British taxpayers...
...bachelors, bicycles, cats, dogs, debutantes, fiction, loudspeakers and other things. . . . None of these things is of any use to me." His audience tittered nervously, and shrewd Neville Chamberlain followed up with the handsome announcement that he proposed to abolish the "trousers tax" of 15 shillings a year, which every Briton who employs a manservant has hitherto had to pay. After this he got down to brass tacks and his pop-eyed listeners learned how the British Government proposes to pay for its five-year $7,500,000,000 rearmament program...
Casually announcing that the Government will spend a total of $4,315,500,000 in 1937, $324,755,000 more than last year-most of it on warplanes,ships and guns-Mr. Chamberlain let fly two hammer blows: 1) Britons' basic tax on net incomes will be raised to live shillings in the pound (25%). A Briton with a wife and child who earns $5,000 a year would pay, after benefiting from various exemptions, $585 to the Exchequer, more than seven times as much as a U. S. citizen in the same position pays to Washington...
...weeks ago, however, the British Theatre was shaken by news that Strip-Tease Dancer Diane Raye had arrived from Manhattan to do her act at the London Palladium. Though the average Briton did not know what "striptease" meant, he knew it was a Broadway specialty, suspected that therefore it was probably indecent. So much hubbub foamed up in London's press that the staid Palladium canceled the act and the more racy Victoria Palace grabbed...
Happening to be named Edward Windsor and having nice eyes set in haggard sockets, a nonchalant young Briton some weeks ago put up at a flattered Paris hotel, showed his passport and began running up right royal bills. Presently sued for "fraud" by the proprietors, the bright Briton was cleared of this aspersion on the name of Windsor last week when the strict French court ruled there had been no fraud "because Mr. Windsor never told or gave the hotel management to understand he was the former King...