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■HUntiitglon Star North Carolina's Oldest Daily Newspaper s- Published Daily Except Sunday By The Wilmington Star-News R B. Page, Publisher _ Entered as Second Class Matter at Wilming ton N. C., Postoffice Under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.__ SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY CARRIER IN NEW HANOVER COUNTY Payable Weekly or In Advance Combi Time Star News nation 1 Week _$ .30 $ .25 $ .50 1 Month . ............. 1-30 1.10 2.15 3 Months- 3.90 3.25 6.50 ■ 1 Year11* ’**1111""" 15^60 13!oO 26!<M) (Above* rates entitle subscriber to Sunday issue of Star-News)_ " By Mail: Payable Strictly in Advance 2 Months - $2.50 $2.00 $3.85 a Months —_ 5-00 4.00 7.70 . c Momns . w 00 8 oo 15.40 (Above rates entitle subscriber to Sunday issue of Star-News) _ WILMINGTON STAR (Daily Without Sunday) ■ % Months-$1.85 6 Months-$3.70 1 Yr.-$7.40 When remitting by mail please use checks or U. S - P. O. money order. The Star-News can not be responsible for currency sent through the mails.__ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . AND ALSO SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS f With confidence in our armed forces—with the unbounding determination of our people— we will gain the inevitable triumph—so help ns God. Roosevelt’s War Message. SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1945. TOP ’O THE MORNING The older of two men was once nrging npon the younger the claim of Christian work in mission countries, and the latter 1 answered with a a excuse that had a fami j liar ring: "But I have never felt any com pelling call to give my life in that way” ; : "Are you sure that you are within calling distance?” Was the disquieting reply The "Christian Herald” TT Now Is Time To Act •• Petroleum products are again moving through the port of Wilmington. Even without tonnage figures no one can doubt it by merely , comparing the absence of gasoline tank trucks during the war in Europe and their increasing presence on the streets today. Favorable as this is, and despite the prom ise it holds of still greater movements of commerce as the sealanes open for cargo carrying ships, it presents a problem to the City Council which should be solved once and for all without delay, not only for the accom modation of the growing volume of traffic but for the safety and well-being of the com munity. Gasoline tankers, now as always, move through the downtown district and thickly pop ulated areas without restraint at any hour of the day or night. Their noise is intolerable, particularly during hours properly dedicated to sleep, which they frequently prevent. This alone is sufficient reason to forbid them the use of streets lined with homes. But it is not as serious, in the final analysis, as the threat of fire their presence both there and on business streets creates. An accident involving the overturning of a gasoline truck and the firing of its contents could come very near to wiping out the business district. Even though there is foamite at fire stations and some filling stations it is questionable if the quantity is sufficient to extinguish a flam ing stream of gasoline gushing downhill to ward Water street. The need is not so much for means of com batting a gasolline fire in the business district, with questionable results, as for a truck lane outside the business district and away from closely-built dwellings. The matter of a truck lane has been before the city administration since long before the war. In the brave new world to come it ought to be created where the hazard of accident arc costly property damage would be mini mized. -v Plenty Of Butter There is no good reason to continue ration ing butter. There is plenty on hand to meet civilian demand and either it should be as point - free as coffee or the exhorbitant point value substantially cut. This is the view of Alfred Rich, business ; manager of the Butter and Egg Merchants " Association in New York, who would seem to be very close to the true situation. He says - the 24-poinl requirement is “ridiculously high.’’ There is sufficient butter, he adds, for the government to take it off the ration list. It may become a glut on the market in a few months because of the lack of points to ob tain it. Mr. Rich frequently hears of ship ments received for which there is no storage apace. ftiis is typical of OPA administration It will be remembered that not so long ago tons of butter had to be reprocessed because it ■j had become rancid and was unuseable and unsaleable. Some of it finally found its way 1 into the open market as second-class stutf and was never palatable. It will also be re called that when the hue and cry was loudest in a former sugar ‘‘crisis’’ refinery ware houses were so overstocked vast quantities of cuban raw sugar were shipped back. As there is no reason to expect the OPA to do anything about butter, or anything else, we can only wait for Representative Anderson to take over at the Agriculture Department ard bring a little common sense into the food program. -V Where’d It Go An inquiring home maker, visiting a meat counter and finding hog jowls at one end and pig tails at the other, wants to know what became of the in-between p Chiang Is Confident \ ■ Chiang Kai-shek, generalissimo of China’s republican armies, is confident that Chinese troops can defeat all Japanese forces in that great area within a year if given sufficient supplies and equipment. If the sample of fighting ability offered by Chinese soldiers in the battle around Liuchow and other parts of south-central China, where the enemy has been resisting and not merely withdrawing, is typical of the new Chinese armies and spirit, the generalissimo probably is not so far from the truth as many might think. There would still remain the friction between Chiang’s forces and the communists in north China to be overcome, however, before the American Pacific command could give his troops a leading role in the battle of China. With theii help, or even possible leadership, the conflict on Asia’s mainland doubtless would move faster toward victory, for they are hard figters, well trained, and as wily as the Japanese. It is to be hoped that Doctor Soong’s trip to Moscow will clear up much of the mystery enveloping the communist situation in China as well as Russia’s policy on the war against Japan. It would be fitting for China to have the star’s role in the war drama enacted on the Chinese stage, particularly as it is this na tion’s policy to let the forces of Japanese occupied countries, or of sister countries with the same allegiance, free themselves as far as they are able to do so. The Filipinos had an important role in freeing the Philipp nes. The Australians are leading the attack in Bor neo. Australians and New Zealanders have been mopping up on New Guinea. Inevitably the Dutch will have a major part in driving the Japanese from Java and other uutcn is lands in the southwest Pacific. It would be on ly right, therefore, for the Chinese to lead the attack on the enemy on their soil. But they could not do the whole job. The direction and manipulation of forces in China would demand the greater skill in modern warfare possessed by American commanders and the services of American forces trained on the battlefields of Africa and Europe, ac customed to the operation and maneuvering of armored equipment, and an unlimited num ber of American warplanes which would have to be manned by American crews. It is heartening, however, to know that Chi ang is ready to take the offensive in a big way after so long a time devoted to retreat ing in depth, if we but give him the supplies so essential to victory. -V Pat Each Other’s Back The part the United States played in defeat ing Germany in the former World war was generally undervalued by the British people, many of whom viewed it as no more than token assistance. This is why it is pleasant to find Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery saying that Britain was “finished” in 1941 and could not have survived but for the United States. Upon several occasions Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain has in effect said the same thing. But this acknowledgement from the British commander outweighs Churchill's because it has no political impli cation and gives well deserved praise to the American forces who met and overcame the best Germany had to offer. It is the praise 01 a great ngnung man ior great fighting forces — a fighting man who knows the part America played in turning Rommel back in Africa and the irresistable striking power of American armed might in France and Germany. At the same time that we cuddle “Monty’s” fine tribute to our hearts, we also must re member that in the dark days of 1941 Britain was our own front line of defense and but for her will to carry on we would soon have been Hitler’s principal target. So gregt was the German threat not only to Britain but to our own nation that anything less than our all-out effort to prevent her fall would inevitably have brought our owm con quest, or if not that a long, costly, and possibly disastrous defense o' our shores. We had no choice but to employ our every resource in industry, natural resources and manpower in the war against an enemy who surely would have put us in bonds if Britain, down but not out. had not gone on. -V Swallows Use Radar The Power that notes even the sparrow’s fall has endowed the lower animals with attri butes man is but slowly understanding and putting to use. For example radar, one of the greatest forces harnessed for war purposes, has been used by swallows presumably since the first of the breed tried out its wings when the world was young. Here is a story brought to our attention by a nature lover who vouches for its accuracy. Five tiny swallows, nest and all, tumbled down a chimney wall of a woman's home on Market street last Friday. Being a member of the Board of Charities she placed them under a Star-News in her backyard and fed them buttermilk through a dropper. If there was any static on radios in Wilming ton on Saturday, it may have been due to the radar these little swallows resorted to, which scientists say they have practiced for year? in flight. Every time a bird or plane passed over they set up a rat-tat-tat, as penetrating as anything that ever came out of a small throat. It was an S. O. S. which the mother bird was certain to get if even miles away. Sure enough on Sunday morning she got the message. Now they are under her care, and may soon be winging their way to South America* Fair Enough (Editor’s note—The Star and the News accept no responsibility for the personal views of Mr. Pegler, and often disagree with them as much as many of his read ers. His articles serve the good purpose of making people think.) By WESTBROOK PEGLER (Copyright, 1945, By King Features Syndicate). NEW YORK, a matter that I intend to take up with myself one day soon is this little busi ness of my attitude. Several acquaintances have said to me lately that, although to know me is to love me and I have a heart of gold, I do myself a great injustice and deny the world a measure of sweetness and laughter which it easily could absorb. In consultation with my conscience, I have decided that there is some ground for this criticism but with several extenuating condi tions, among them the undeniable fact that quiie a number of communist and other left wing publications and some of their orators have been downright mean to me. Moreover, in the last few years, I have heartily ignored as completely unimportant frequent intima tions that I am anti-labor because I have run a temper over corruption and other excessive behavior and that I hate foreigners because I think we should bar the doors until we, our selves, have jobs, opportunities and homes to live in. It has seemed to me that the questions whether I am anti-labor and whether I think all immigrants are devils are beside the point and tended to substitute a personality for issues as the subject of discussion. I think, however, that my little embarrass ment has been the result of conditions that have had a similar effect on all of us, such as the long depression, which was a nice, up holstered euphemism for panic, our politics, the Roosevelt experiments in gentle revolution and, finally, the war, and the concurrent de cline in sports and other grim frivolities on which we used to expend our passion. In other words, aren’t we all and, so, why pick on me? It has not been altogether good for us that we discovered the United States Constitution ir, these years since the passing of the era of wonderful nonsense and the Monroe Doctrine and took to reading the opinions of the United State Supreme Court, some of which have been no less acrimonious than my own or those of Harold L. Ickes. As I look back now, I recall that my late colleague, Heywood Broun, who really was a friend in the old days, foreswore his sense of humor and, I thought, his sense of fairness when he became a man with a message or crusader and that a couple of professional humorists of my old acquaintance who used to produce joviality on schedule have gone in to profound sulks, emerging only on rare oc casions when they are feeling uncontrollably nasty over some momentary issue at which times they prostitute their gift of gentle mirth to excite hatred. It may help my explanation to point out that even actors, God help us, not content with the undeserved privilege of the vote for which they, like sculptors and Cartoonists, are obviously unqualified, have become statesmen with solemn missions and social consciousness and that Joe Louis, a great prizefighter and exemplary character, has been exploited to make us aware that Negroes and white people suffer mutually from lack of acquaintance and mutual aloofness. I dare say that if we could track them down we would find that the grotesque herd of professional wrestlers whose hilarities in a thousand rings around the coun try used to rouse our citizens to harmless and fleeting hatred as they threshed and whinnied in the sly mockery of their trade are now political, ideological and economic partisans of genuine ferocity and given to debates on the poll tax. Our professional baseball is ersatz where it is not defunct and comedians in the shows step out of character to give little can ned recitations, done by a press-agent in the United States Treasury, reiterating familiar _ _ ___l____.Li i. 1_ i i »»^ wugin i-v wai uviiua miner than luxuries, with the notable exception of theatre tickets which, of course, are prescr p tions for our morale. And, as a measure of the distance we have wandered off the beam un consciously, a proportion of our people, and I do hope I exaggerate their number, have taken to formulating their individual political pre judices and foreign policies from material which they discover in that once harmless, if sometimes irritating, institution, the published gossip of the gaudier saloons Accuse me, if you will, of endorsing back wardness, indifference and ignorance but let me ask, in return, whether we were not much happier when our rages involved questions whether the referee gave Tunney a long count in Chicago or Dempsey hit Jack Sharkey low or Babe Ruth would have hit sixty home runs in the days before they quit stuffing the of ficial ball with possum fuzz and substituted tha„ of the kangaroo. Are we happier for know ing the history and all the interpretations oi the Fourteenth Amendment or for having heard angry men and women of both sides call one another liars, communists and Nazis in the last presidential campaign? In this connection, let me say that, in poring over some of the back numbers for September and October recently, 1 concluded that the vote was dictated not by intelligent decision on political and moral issues but by a pr c, vindictive hope that one or the other would be crushed, discredited for all time as a historic mountebank and driven to obcurity in desperate humiliation. As I say, I have taken inventory and found quite low my stock of merry jape and ready wit and am considering steps to correct this but, for the defense, if it be any defense to say that one has practically the entire human race as partners in crime, let me ask again, aren’t we all? -V Editorial Comment The Voice at the Vatican Frank Sinatra, The Voice that has caused millions to squeal or swoon, depending on whether its not so dulcet and slightly off-key notes happened to be heard by squealers or swooners, was received in audience by the Pope Friday. By his own admission. The voice was “speechless,” which probably wasn’t al together a bad thing, at that. Afterwards Sinatra described himself as “amazed,’’ “en thralled” and “thrilled.” The reaction of the Pope hasn’t been learned but we daresay His Holiness neither squealed nor swooned and that he is getting along as well as could be expected.—Roanoke ,Va.) Times. -y Though governments may change and par of foreign affairs we stand together, that is, doing no disadvantage to the political party op posite.—Prime Minister Winston Churchill. “Trans-Continental Limited” 'QUICK VICTOR* "saSsyi CIANO’S DIARY Hitler Talks, II Duce Listens; Second Fiddle Role Depressing MARCH 18 — MAY 9, 1940.— Hitler summoned Mussolini to the Brenner Pass in March, 1940, after which, while the Italians were ex pecting some new German move in the Balkans, the Fuehrer launched his armies against Den mark and Norway, Count Ciano, Mussolini’s son-in-law, records in his intimate diary. Ciano’s account is the first avail able eyewitness story of one of these famous dictators’ sessions which always left Mussolini de pressed because Hitler did all the talking. The end of the Norwegian campaign found Hitler complaining that victory had been so speedy it had been impossible to engage the major British forces and de stroy them. Ciano wrote: MARCH 18—"It is snowing at Brenner Pass. Mussolini is waiting for the guest with a sense of anx ious pleasure. More and more re cently he has felt a fascination for the Fuehrer. . . He tells me that he had a dream during the night that tore the veil from the future,’ but he does not say what it was. This has happened on other oc casions. he says. Once he dreamed of fording a stream, and woke to learn the Fiume question was about to be solved. Tnllrc And Duce Listens “The Hitler meeting is cordial on both sides. The conference is more a monologue than anything else. Hitler speaks all the time, with more calm than usual. He gestures rarely, and speaks in a quiet voice. He is well physically. Mussolini listens with interest and deference. He speaks little and confirms his decision to move with Germany. . . He did not find in Hitler the intransigence Von Rib bentrop had indicated. . . The, meeting has not changed our posi tions substantially.” MARCH 19—"At heart Mussolini resented the fact that H'tler did all the talking. He wanted to tell him many things but had to re main quiet mcst of the time. As a dictator, or rather the dean of dictators, he’s not in the habit of this.” MARCH 20 — “Before leaving Sumner Welles (representing Pres dent Roosevelt on a survey of peace possibilities) spoke clearly to Blasco d’Ajeta, who is a rela tive of his. Even without an offen sive, Germany will be exhausted within a year. He considers the war already won by the French and Brit'sh, with the United States prepared to guarantee this victory with all the weight of her power.” * * * MARCH 25—"Teleki (Hungarian prime minister) has avoided an ppen position one way or the other, but has not concealed his sym- 1 pathy for the Western Powers and fears German victory like the ■ plague. I ‘The Germans offer us some anti - aircraft batteries immediate ly. Mussolini plans to send for them.” i MARCH 27 — “Teleki at dinner < asks me abruptly, ‘Do you know 1 aow to play bridge?” “ ‘Why?’ “ ‘For the day we shall be to- i aether in Dachau concentration 1 lamp.' ” 1 MARCH 29 — ‘This report (on r iving conditions by an Italian who spent a month in Germany) has f not modified II Duce’s out'cok sub stantially, but he has admitted Germany is enjoying no bed of roses, and that failure of an offen sive or a prolonged war would mean defeat and collapse for the German regime. “ ‘I don’t understand why Hitler doesn’t realize this.’ he said. ‘I feel that Fascism is wearing down, wear and tear that is not serious but noticeable, yet he does not feel it in Germany, where the crisis is assuming rather alarming propor tions.’ ” Duce Vents Wrath On Church Again MARCH 30—"Mussolini for the nth time is irritated with Catholi cism. which he blames for 'having made Italy universal and prevent ing it from becoming natonal. When a country is universal it be longs to everyone but itself.’ ” MARCH 31—"Word reached me that II Duce has in mind to dis miss me from the Ministry of For eign Affairs. I do not believe it . Mussolini is indignant with Sumner Welles because he told Chamber lain that II Duce. . . appeared tired and perturbed. We learned this from one of the usual tele grams shown us by the British em bassy.” APRIL 2 — "Violent change in favor of war.” APRIL 5—“Last night I saw the German film of the attack on Po land. . .It's a good film if the Germans wish merely to portray brute force, but it is bestial for purposes of propaganda. "Dingle (identified only as ‘legal adviser of the embassy In London) brought a useless and general mes sage from the Prime Minister (Chamberlain), one of those mes sages of good will destined to re main unanswered. But more im portant is his depressed tone, his nervous search for a compromise, his lack of faith in victory.” ueamiUK, Norway APRIL 8— "There is alarm in Budapest. . . On the excuse that Russia will move soon in Bessara bia, Germany intends to occupy the Romanian oilfields and asks ( free passage through Hungary. The price lor this permission would be Transylvania. . . Hungarian liberty would come to an end.” APRIL 9—"They did not march ■ on Romania. "At 2 o’clock this morning, a secretary of the German embassy arrived with a letter from Mack- . ensen, asking to be received at 7 < Nothing else. He arrived at 6:30, { pale and tired, and communicated t Hitler's decision to occupy Den- j nark and Norway, adding that the v iecision was already being exe- { luted. t •‘Mussolini said: T approve H:t- j. er’s action wholeheartedly. . . . v Ohis is the way to win wars. . i shall give orders to the press c ind to the Italian people to ap- i >laud the German action without i •eservation.’ ” u * * * APRIL 10— ‘‘News of the German t iction in the north has had a fav- r Table echo among the Ital.an peo- c ile, whom Mussolini describes as 1 a prostitute that prefers a winner.’ t . . Mackensen came to see me a nith a little baby. His wife had a iad a son. . . I covered him with n elicitations, since there is now o othing else to do.” 0 APRIL 11—“An urgent message si rom Hitler to II Duce (last night) A & . . . Today he has prepared a warm answer: ‘beginning tomor row, the Italian fleet will be ready, our preparation on land and in the air is gaining pace.’. . . I remain skeptical. . . He returned from a conference with the King (Victor), which did not satisfy him. “He said: 'The King would like us to intervene only to win the broken pieces. I hope they won’t break them over our heads first ... To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle, even with a kick in the seat.” Ciano was ill until April 20, when he reports a conversation with Prince Phillip of Hesse, the King’s son-in-law. APRIL 20—“He talked about the imminent offensive, and said Hit ler blames only the bad weather for his inability to celebrate his birthday (April 20) in Paris.” Date For Entering APRIL 22 — “This morning the date for Italy’s entry into the war was changed to the spring of 1941 because Norway had postponed a solution and moved farther away the center of European opera tions. ’ Reichsmarshal Goering still was sulking because Ribbentrop had re ceived the ornate Collar of Annun ziata, Italy’s highest decoration. APRIL 23—'I speak of it to II Duce. We mustn’t make the volum inous half-dictator of the Reich suf fer longer. Mussolini authorizes me to write a letter to the King, relat ing the pitiful situation of the ten der Hermann. ’ APRIL 25 -- ‘Mussolini accepts the nomination of Alfieri (as am bassador to Berlir. succeeding At tolico, who was recalled at Ger man request). . .11 Duce gives him instructions. He repeats his faithfulness to Ihe pacts, but says he will enter war only when he has a ‘quasi-mathematical certain I ty of winning it.’ ” APRIL 26—“The answer to Rey naud (French premier who nad suggested a meeting with Musso lini) is ready, a cold, cutting and contemptuous letter. . . II Duce (Continued on Page Eight) -V Daily Prayer FOR A QUIET WALK In a troubled time we dare to pray for a quiet walk of life O God, our Father. Without panic, fret or fear we would go through the days as those who trust in the Lord. So sure of Thy goodness and wisdom and care would we be that our hearts may at all times remain serene and steadfast. We know Whom we have believed, and we would rest in Him. Thus would we become, by Thy grace, O God, centers of strength for our fami lies and friends and neighbors. By our peaceful hearts we would bear witness to Thy power. Deliv er us, we beseech Thee, from the tyranny of daily news, that we may not be either unduly exalted or cast down; since we are sure that Thou wilt give us the ultimate vic tory. Seal our lips against idle and disturbing talk about the war; and help us to carry on. in quiet ness and confidence, to the glori ous end. This we ask in the name i of the unaffrighted Christ, who - shared His peace with His friends. , Amen.—W. T. E. \ > BntishJlectionT By LOUIS F. KEFMRir Jin,t*d Press War An! v st The chief interest a '51 in Great Britain’s generatS"' one week from now, can h»' rather simply, it is whether h” new government will tend tm ' what is loosely called t* ard politics the left or right WOrlj . Neither of the two prineinal „ ties has claimed convincingly ^ there will be any great diffe^n!* in_ Britain's conduct of foveigr fairs or attitude toward the J’ war peace organization Both for unqualified friendship with ar* United States and Russi! Ndth" promises to be any less \wW in restoring Britain’s posi f<° °-1 work! tr.de, shipping *“»» mercial aviation. On domestic issue, the enn* vative party headed bv Prime wer‘ ister Winston Churcmll a„d th! labor party, led by Clement R lit lee, promise the same dimes' by different methods. They are J‘y such fundamental measure as a ' quate housing, food, employme^ and health and social insur!,!*’ What American observers e watching with the liveliest interest is whether Churchill, whose po,f cies they know, will be returned , power. Otherwise it will be the , bor party, with a broad social program and definite ideas 0 state control. The issue has been put, broadly, as the difference he tween private enterprise and state management. The lack of clear distinction be tween the two party programs n j foreign affairs makes the election lesemble, in a way, the Roosevel' Dewey campaign in the United States last year. Churchill, like President Ro0se. velt, has the advantage of a wide, ly - respected personality and o! war achievement. Having’led Bn. ain through the defeat of Germain he wants to continue until Japan ;s beaten and post-war problems are on the way to solution. Despite Churchill’s prestige, dis patches from Britain agree ’that it is likely to be a close race, it must be remembered that it is the first election in 10 years, and that hundreds of thousands of your." men and women will be voting for the first time. Their reaction cannot be gauged accurately. Churchill recently appeaied’to the electorate for a substantial work ing majority in the House of Com mons, hinting that he would be un able to function in the best inter ests of the country if independent or unaffiliated members hold a bal ance of power betw-een the two big parties. He also mentioned his dis I ke of going to the Big Three meeting without knowing his strength at home. (Although the election will be held on July 5, re. suits will not be announced until July 26, when overseas returns have been counted.) It has been rather a hectic cam paign, for Britain. In the absence of any juicy issues, some phoney ones have been raised. The conser vatives have tried to scare the country by picturing a labor victo ry as meaning a socialistic triumph which would amount to revolution and establishment of a gestapo in the tight little isle. Most Britons were amused. Churchill himself denounced Prof. Harold Laski. the labor par ty’s famous left wing political scientist, as a sinister “backroom'1 power who would guide foreign pol icy by dictatorial methods. Labor retorted by picturing Lord Beaver brook, the vociferous newspaper publisher, as Laski’s counterpart behind Churchill and the Tories. All in all, in campaign methods and results after the votes have been counted, the British general election is much like one of ours. Some comparisons and differences are: me new nouse ui iauuiuuu* have 640 seats, as against 435 in the U. S. House of .Representatives The House of Lords, unlike the Senate, is not elective and has little real power, bring mainly consul tative or advisory. The leader ot the elected party becomes Prime Minister, an office which corresponds in actual prac tice to the presidency. The Prime Minister’s salary is about $30.™ a year; that of the President $'•>■• 000. Members ot the British cabi net get about $20,000 a year, ana of the American. $15,000. An American representative se'’ $10,000 a year but a British M. • only $2,400. A striking difference is that the leader of the oppon ‘°^ ; party in commons gets ar salary of $8,000 a year--a recog nition of the important pari P,a ed by the opposition. f In campaign expenditure*, candidate for Commons may SP ' sixpence (ten cents) for eacn istered voter m a counlij tuency or live pence (eigMJ in a town constituency. Tpr a erage constituency, thru ‘A0U a maximum of $7,000. The fcdaj Corrupt Practices Act in ■ on ed States puts a limit o. S candidates for the House an 000 for the Senate. is The biggest diflerence of ^ that the British gcverjmfflt cd put into office lor ace. he like the inflexible four years °:' American system A ernment can be tosse- " fiance time by a vote of no coniic^ in Commons on a mdj - ob. For that reason, one b‘ ^ server has likened the co ish general elections t aa can primary. It is no rf. dea is that the electoral ^ turn Churchill to pov.e 1 r3ed ;hat its decision can be ' . vithin a mon.h^ necessary. The counterfeit squad :®fon“rf Criminal Investigation V - coV. he Mediterranean The®fery', 00» !red $500,000 worth of phon. ire notes.
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