GREAT BRITAIN
There was a time when the French regarded themselves as Citizens, the British as Subjects, and the Americans as Taxpayers. The lines are no longer clear. Americans this year got a small reduction, De Gaulle long ago made subjects of the French, and those noises in London last week were unmistakably the shrill, surly shrieks of the wounded taxpayer at bay. CASH "FRITTERED AWAY" ABROAD, reported the Daily Telegraph. Sputtered the Daily Mirror: "What the taxpayers of this country want to know is: Who is going to be fired as a result of this?"
To Americans, the source of pain was...
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