Peace, It's Wonderful

After three months of work, the House Ways & Means Committee had still not figured out any ways & means to get the last $1.8 billions of the $8.7 billions the Treasury needs this year.

Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. went to tell the people about it, on the radio. He praised them for previous sacrifices, said they must make more. Said he: "The people . . . have shown in a thousand ways that they are not in a mood for half measures, either financial or military. They will be critical only if the burdens are unfairly distributed. They will...

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