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Dragging a $156,710,400 deficit behind it the French budget moved from the Senate to the Chamber of Deputies last week. MM. les Deputies proceeded to increase the deficit by 846,000,000 francs and sent the budget back to the Senators again. Premier Daladier's is the job of forcing some sort of a compromise, and bringing the budget to final vote without losing his government, a business which Deputies, Senators and Cabinet all view with marked disfavor. Canny Socialist Deputies found a way of postponing the fateful day by attaching a rider to the budget giving...
There will be no such delay if French taxpayers have their way. Protests at the unbalanced budget poured into Paris from all quarters last week. The National Committee of Economic Understanding called upon all Paris shops to close for a half-day in protest. Wrote the sober Temps, even before the Chamber increased the deficit...
...budget of 49.000,000,000 francs which the Senate proposed signifies, if it be allowed to stand, a permanent deficit and certain inflation. . . . The hour is approaching when a choice must be made between the Left majority and France...
Temporarily sidetracked by the budget discussion last week was General Weygand's request to the War Council to increase the enlistment term for French War Babies, now of military age, from a year to 18 months (TIME, May 29). The army was still much in the government's mind. In his capacity as Minister of War, Premier Daladier lately discovered that not only is there a scarcity of young conscripts to fill the ranks, but that the young men available are showing an alarming tendency to refuse service, as conscientious objectors. From the headquarters...
More important perhaps, is the question of room rents. In spite of the concessions which the University has made in the teeth of its own restricted budget, room rents on the whole are still demonstrably too high. The possibility of a further revision, at least as great as that which was made last year, ought to be investigated carefully. One possible way of making such a revision would be to abandon the present arrangement by which tutors in the Houses are not charged for the rooms they occupy. Whether or not this would work too great a hardship financially...