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...Treasury set out to combat Franco-British propaganda against "U. S. debt Shylocking" by announcing over Mr. Mellon's signature: 1) that under the Mellon-Berenger agreement, if and when ratified, France will repay a sum roughly equivalent to only her post-War borrowings from the U. S., and may therefore be said to have been forgiven her War debt entire; 2) that "England borrowed a large proportion of its debt to us for purely commercial, as distinguished from War, purposes to save borrowing from its own people." (i. e. Britain deserves no cancellation of these "commercial" camouflaged...
Manhattan. Here 500 owners of Florida property banded into the Florida Property Owners Association to combat false propaganda against Florida, to concentrate information about their land troubles; above all to manage somehow to get extensions on their mortgages and reductions on their interest rates...
After some hesitancy, Secretary Mellon undertook a "common sense" defense of everyone's expenses. Wages of political workers had risen like other wages, he said. It had cost $42,000 merely to mail one letter to every registered Pennsylvania voter. Huge advertisements had been thought necessary to combat the appetizing Vare beer cry. Political moneys spent in Pennsylvania were "as legitimate as money given to a church." If there was a culprit it was no man but the direct primary itself...
...diehard, militant Fundamentalists, led by Dr. Clarence E. Macartney of Philadelphia, who interpret Holy Writ literally; insist that all Presbyterians shall thus interpret it; and put a candidate into the field to combat a supposed menace to the "historic, blood-bought standards of the Presbyterian Church...
...Program. General Bonzani, Italian Undersecretary for Aviation, announced last week that Italy now possesses 800 "front line combat airplanes,"* and that "the Department of Italian Industry is making satisfactory progress on 600 new planes, 250 of which will be of all-metal construction of the most recent type...