White there will be every sympathy with Mr. [Sumner Welles in his mission to cal conditions in Europe for t President Roosevelt, the possi being any moves to Stop hart it Is dependent on who! miracles in To Pa Allies and Germany so far apart that Jeannot be any com wrennd upon which the fehanees "of peace could reasonably be Boor Pac nurse for the quae ter endings December 31, 189, Tibet Yous Tibetan troup, Jeverywhere but preserve may in the future play a Arcot part in reinouldjing tie basis of this ancient. kingdom. wail cosy profes' canerois Terate the long. run, and it is for this reason that the {our is Being watched with considerable into: ext. No information. has been vouchsafed concerning the results of his visit to Rome. Indeed it would be premature to do so. at such a stage as this, and in all probability no slate ment of what has been done will be made unfit The hax returned to the United States and Laid his findings before President Roosevelt, Tt woul bbe the height of optimism to expect that any thing will result from the talles with the varlets leaders in the immediate future, for so Joni as the Allies are determined that the menace to Europe of the Nazi-controlled Reich has to be removed these hostilities must proceed. Tt ix quite true that the Nazis are Oghing for' their Very existence, and may be expected to regard the prospects of peace as being just as scant ax do the Allies. The latter anna hone for any durable pence in Europe until Here Hitler ana his satellites. are removed from power, and. a responsible Government installed in their place, tone por whic' the rest of the world can place that faith which der Fuehrer haz so grievously betrayed. 'To price any great hopes for im= mediate "developments on' this present tour would, therefore, only lead 10 sad disappoints tient, and that at this Juncture Is te be avoicted, German Finances controled as the German press does manage every now an am) unexpected eat out of the ba in recent weeks it hax been telling of the diMiculty of ihe trader and the worker in paying their way and meeting their bills and commit. ments, Ten direct taxes are paid by. the Germans, me turnover tax, proerty' and tanspore tax, corporation. lax, War Tovy and others. Very few allowances are made, In other words. vim pressure is being brought to bear upon German workers and business. 50 that the Nazis may pay for their war, which recording to the Berlin correspondent' of the Danish paper "Politiken" is, on its present scale, Jeostiny: no Tess a stim than £8,000,/000,000 a year. How this enormous expenditure is to be met by a country, already #0 greatly impoverished by the Nazi demands which have been made upon it. it Is not easy to understand, The Nazis have eaten into the nation's reserves, the money raised by confiscating Jewish property, by ininit Jews has all been spent, and the gold reserves taken from Austrian and. Czechoslovak banks have disappeared, The burden upon the Germa citizen may be expected to xrow heavier as the war progresses, and as guns had to come before butter. people are now asking what 1s to come after the guns, The British effort on the other ins near exhaustion. 1 ig true that the income tax has been considerably. in-eased, but there is a firmly held opinion that wore further lifted to #s, Gd. or even 10s. in the pound, so heavy' a' burden would be willingly met to finance the victory Xpun which depends the existence of de> racy. From a. finane!al point of view Gor-already ina bad way, and it will be considerable Interest that' the world. will Await {0 see how the German veonomie experts {il devise means of escaping from the perilous situation which, German lack of Anancial reserves is bringing about, The Civilian "V.C."
Six months of war hay produced as many ian acts of bravery as military, and not the tes distinguished have occurred in the British mercantile marine service, which hag borne the brunt of Nazi attacks by submarines, aniness and ireraft, Nokody minimizes the losses inflicted on. the British merchant fleet and in the struggle which is steadily intensifying more losses are to expected before an end has been put 10 tion, Ta the meantime, there are stt= ts of bravery being demonstrated reif the indomitable courage of the civilians sea which neither mine, torpedo nor_bormb will destroy. An interesting disclosure is that medal of which hardly has ever heard exists for gallantry and below the Victoria Cross in official esti this is formally called the Medal of the Excellent Order of the British Empire, but als ome name is the Empire Gallantry Medial, itis entitled to the initials after hig name.
[One of the first of th decorations was poste to Commander F, It. Jolly xs, who died of dus after gallant conduct attack on the destroyer until it became sion was that die
tint the pat, fo which lie public. refer hiss been made, is actually a borderline th the Ve. While this was the first ward, the ne dal, unlike. the may be ale raids on Bue provide opportunities, for sich oodlly portion of Br teh civ already daily "la the According to a Naval Corresnondent, while the the saver important ase ext to the Victori Chen the Order of the British Empire is 9 roared as next portant tw the Order of the Bath in wil cone to than the e2.
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