Secretaries report on German aims and world reactions
Foreign Secretary Simon returns from talks with Hitler and reports Germany demands include a large army a parity in air with Britain and a navy equal to a third of the British fleet. Hitler seeks colonies and measures against Czechoslovakia while urging nonaggression pacts. Also notes Lithuania executions and ongoing debates over New Deal relief funding and federal expenditures.
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Simon
Hitler
Oreign
England
Germany
Britain
MacDonald
George
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Austria
Berlin
Lithuania
Memel
Manchukuo
Orient
Japan
Yosuke Matsuoka
Watkdrawal
League
Manchuria
Asia
Great Britain
United States
Koki Hirota
Tokyo
Nde Sarat
League of Nations
Foreign policy notes and defense bills advance in 1937
The article outlines Rex Tugwell's potential farm policy shift replacing the AAA with a Department of Agriculture plan under a public land program. It also covers Mussolini proposing talks with Abyssinia and Britain and France favoring direct negotiations. U S Navy bills pass with $88 million appropriation for coast, Hawaii, Canal Zone defense and officer increases.
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AAA
Department of Agriculture
OUSBE
Navy
Hawaii
Canal
Hoover Attacks Roosevelt in California Letter
Erbert Hoover breaks with the Roosevelt administration in a Sacramento letter to the California Republican assembly. He urges a revived party and faulted federal policy while noting rising debt, centralized bureaucracy, and increased dependence on relief. Senate moves to repeal publicity about the 1934 income tax act with changes to tax return disclosure.
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Erbert Hoover
California Republican Assembly
Sacramento
Roosevelt
Republican Party
Hoover
Abraham Lincoln
Washington
Mr. Hoover
Senate
Houses
Internal Revenue Department
Evolution's Riddle Probed by Historians and Anthropologists
Historians led by Arnold Toynbee discuss the twentieth century impact of western culture on the East, warning that nationalism and Western ideas sparked deadly antagonisms. Anthropologists debate human origins and the role of evolution, noting failures in using ape blood groups to illuminate origins or relationships among races.
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Arnold J. Toynbee
London
East
Near East
Europe
Tax loopholes let millions in Britain evade income tax
More than half of the 9,000,000 people in Great Britain and Northern Ireland whose incomes were within the taxable limits escaped taxation last year through various allowances.
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Great Britain
Northern Ireland
Sunlit Hope and Burden Across the Journey
The quote compares hope to the sun, guiding progress while casting shadows of the burdens we bear. It reflects on perseverance and forward movement despite challenges.
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Samuel
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Western Newspaper Union
House
Thomas
Oklahoma
Treasury
Russell Labor Com Somk
Bega
Coi
Fed
Ea Allatral Board
Ate
PWA
Harry L. Hopkins
Florida Sun
Rexford G. Tugwell
National Capital
Harold Ickes
RFC
R. G. Tugwell
Assolini
2 Duce
Abyssinia
Mussolini
Herbert Hoover
Garfield
Leita Coe
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