The Archive · 1940

National Income Increased

Washington, Jan, 4.

Programmes other than national defence, it is estimated, will swallow $1,300,000,000 on relief work, $900,- 000,000 for agriculture, $1,100,000,000 for public works and investments, $1,200,000,000 on pensions, $1,100,- 000,000 interest on public debt, $1,000,- 000,000 on the operation of government departments, The President declared the credit of the Federal Government had never been higher, Reviewing his fiscal policy, Mr. Roosevelt pointed out that the deliberate use of Government funds to energize private enterprise profoundly (Continued on page 8, col. 6) since the British battleship Royal Oak was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in October. "We put our own ship against one of the islands, debarked and dynamited her so now she is settled on the bottom," they said.—United Press. of which came from sources in the United States, the Justice Minister, Mr. Gerald Boland, revealed in the Dail yesterday.

During the debate on the internment bill, Mr. James M. Dillon, the Deputy Opposition leader, said it is

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