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...ultimately followed her rustling mother out of Parliament. Lusty as ever rose the famed Dutch cheer for Royalty: "Orange Boven! Orange Boven!" ("Orange up! Orange up!").- To Parliament next day Finance Minister Dr. D. J. de Geer sheepishly reported that for the first time in seven years the Dutch budget is out of balance, shows a small deficit of $3,615,300. This in part the Government proposes to make up by "increasing the liquor excise" and "economizing." Two days after good Queen Wilhelmina failed to name a fiance, the Swedish press heard that the name is "Sigvard...
...Passed by a decent majority of 38 and sent to the House of Lords Chancellor Philip Snowden's long debated budget bill carrying payments ("doles") to the unemployed of more than $1,100,000 per day. The usual cat-&-dog fight between Chancellor Snowden and ex-Chancellor Winston Churchill was avoided when the latter statesman shifted from direct attack to drawling, honeyed words. "How pleasant it must be," he remarked, "for the Chancellor to see the fruits of the Labor Government's policy so speedily mature" (a reference to the fact that with 1,800.000 unemployed, Great Britain...
...Iron Cross" during the War and was hand-picked for his mettle by old Paul von Hindenburg (TIME, April 7). dissolved the Reichstag by presidential decree when it would not vote the money he wanted. Last week came the final Bismarckian move. Herr Brüning placed his rejected Budget Bill before Old Paul in the form of a decree, and the President, like Kaiser Wilhelm I before him, signed...
...Traitor" King. In their campaign speeches Bachelors Bennett and King have made amply clear that each is resolved to deprive the U. S. of any undue tariff advantage. The recent budget, brought in by Mr. King's Finance Minister, the Rt. Hon. Charles Avery ("Charlie") Dunning (TIME, May 12). wobbled as far from traditional free trade as did the Al Smith- Democratic platform...
...President von Hindenburg was in ripe mood for drastic action when Chancellor Heinrich Briining of all Germany reported that in the Reich- stag the national Socialist party was continuing to hamstring his fiscal program. Already two luckless Finance Ministers had been forced to resign. The Socialists were blocking the Budget. What should two old soldiers do about these pesky Socialists?for Herr Briining too is an old soldier (Iron Cross...