Quotes - 2 (July 1941) (original) (raw)
The New International, July 1941
From New International, Vol. VII No. 6 (Whole No. 55), July 1941, p. 151.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
“No one wants to make profits out of the country’s danger ... After providing for debenture service, provision for depreciation of 800,000andreservingforourtaxationliabilitiesofallkinds,theprofitforthisyearisshownasjustover800,000 and reserving for our taxation liabilities of all kinds, the profit for this year is shown as just over 800,000andreservingforourtaxationliabilitiesofallkinds,theprofitforthisyearisshownasjustover4,000,000, which is $70,000 more than last year.” (S.R. Beale, chairman of Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds, Sunday Times, June 30, 1940)
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“His reply to the bankers who, in the first days of the war, had made $52,000,000 extra profit by increasing the bank rate, which had increased the cost of living by three points, was that they ought to hand back their ill-gotten gains before lecturing the working classes of this country.” (Ernest Bevin, March, 1940)
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“Britain now has 1,024 millionaires. This is an addition of 107 in a year.” (The Bulletin, April 24, 1940)
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“This war is, in one of its minor objectives, a war to make the world safe for the gold standard.” (Oscar Hobson, News Chronicle)
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