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Tuesday Evening, February 10. 1942If YouLook/Like Those TaxesBritain, Says MurrowAmericans haven’t seen anything yet when it conies to financing a war through taxes, Edward R. Murrow. authoritative commentator on the British scene through years of broadcasting in London, told an Abilene audience last night.He illustrated that a man with an income of $2,000 pays $700 in direct income taxe.s “deducted by his employer at the source.“A man with $5,000 income pays $2,000, and a man with $50 000 income nays $37,000.” Murrow said.“Winston C hurchill, with a salary of $45,000 as prime minister. pays $32,000 of it to the government in income taxes,” Murrow said.An audience of several hundred In the Hardin-Simmons universityauditorium listened at tentativelyfor almost two hours a.- Murrow gave a clear eye-witness picture of the war. seen at close range Dean L Q Campbell had introduced him.“London, where most homes are broken, is still a city of humor and courage. It is not vet entirely fashionable to be shabby, but there is a curious varietv of shortages,” he said, naming cigarettes. lipstick and “hot water bottles, a most important item in an English winter.Men, Women Over 40 Don’t Be Weak, OldFeel Peppy, New, Years YounQerT akr* Osirex lt;ontaliin K*ner:tl t utltnuitini* ** t*rj needed after 40 -bv bodies lacking Iron, ml-num phosphate and Vitamin IV \ 7,-vear-lt;ld doctor writes: It did ao much f*»r patients, l took myself Results v\pre fine.'* .special lntroductorv»'/e lt;)8tre\ Tonic Tablets costs on y ;r« ;sarttelling peppier and year- younger, tbla very day. * or sale at all good drug at ores• 50( Jown, iUt A Week^)LENSES DUPLICATEDDR R E. CARDH*Tblfrp4 Opiomrtrut olTKi 41134 PINE ST.as some of them PRAISES ( 111 IU HILLGasoline allotments are enough to permit only 60 miles of driving a month, “but automobiles are curiously unimportant when a nation is fighting for its life, hesaid.Murrow praised Churchill, first citizen of London, as an “indestructible juvenile.” whom critics once referred to as “half American and wholly undesirable. * but a figure of courage who “is one of the greatest statesmen and certainly one of the greatest actors of his time. ‘A longtime foe of Chamberlain’s appeasement policies, it was nevertheless characteristic of Churchillthat one of his first utterances aft-ei becoming head of the government was that “political recriminations because of the past Is a luxurv we cannot afford.’’ a policy steadfastly followed.The British Lies, a haven for all refugees from nations overrun by the nazis. he described as a “curious combination ot club and Noah’s ark. It is a little piece of free soil where men may fight to be free,” he said.The British have consistently permitted criticism of the government. by press and radio, when itdid not involve information of possible value to the enemy. “Tired and dogged, the British are united 011 the war effort On peace aims and economic objectives, just as in our own country, there is much division of ooinion,” he declared.“I am told.” he said “there is a great spiritual revival on in England. About that. I cannot judge, but I can give this observation For two days during Dunkirk, all thechurches were filled, then the British organized the strangest armada in history, and went over and brought the boys back in the greatest withdrawal of the war.”On his return to the United States “just before Pearl Harbor.’’ the commentator “heardmore comnlaints in three da vs%»than in three months in England.”It was his privilege to spend the Sunday night of Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, at the White House, and at 1 the next morning, at the end of an arduous day. “President Roosevelt was the calmest, coolest and toughest statesman I have ever seen in time of national emergency.” Murrow said.Soberly he declared, “Britain apparently is losing Singapore tonight. and let us not forget that it is partly our fault.He predicted a “trouble phase for Anglo-American relations, citing that axis propaganda is dinning the British with the theme that“the United States is after vour*empire, while for American ears the tune is “Britain is just waiting for America to come on and winthe war for them ”Murrow said “as a reporter I am impressed with the fact that almost every great man eschews prophecy, or is a miserable failure when he engages in it, but took a look at the future in concluding his talk “Germany may trv for an inva-v r vsion of Britain this spring, or may try a pincers movement at both ends of the Mediterranean,he said.In a question box hour. Murrow gave reasons why Germany did not invade England, in response to a query from the floor.“Hitiei overran his time table in Fiance, the nazi high command did not have the blue print ready,the German generals are notably not good at improvising, many of the nazi leaders believed Britain would be reasonable after the collapse of France, and finally, the high command decided to first win control of the air before invading. which was never done.’’ Murrow said.In answer to another question, he quoted a remark by “our Welch maid, who said one morning when I asked her how she liked the war, ‘there’s too much of the strategy of retreatin’ in it for me .”Murrow ate a big thick steak and drank a mug of “my first rootbeer in years” after his lecture. He departed early today for Dallas, and will fix back to New York Hewhas Clipper reservations for a return to England in March.
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