CAPITAL LEVY.
REJECTED IN SWITZERLAND. f
(.By C»bl«—Ptws Association—Copyright.) '(Biuter'a Tehgitma.) (Received December 4th, 5.5 p.m.) y BEENB, December 3. A referendum, by an overwhelming majority, rejected the Socialist proposal to introduce a Bill in Parliament providing for a capital levy. No single canton voted in its favour.
Speaking at Windsor, the Dean of Windsor, who has made an extended tour in Germany, said the Germans were infinitely happier than before the war, in spite of their condition. They were happier because they had been released from the tremendous mental tyranny which had bound them for forty years, and from an unnatural education which had converted thom into the kind of German who made war. They had gone back to the cheerful friendly disposition one remembered forty years ago. They had gono mad on football —not watching it, but play---g it- ■ / ;
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17629, 5 December 1922, Page 11
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141CAPITAL LEVY. Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17629, 5 December 1922, Page 11
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