LEVY ON WEALTH
FRANCE’S NECESSITY. PARIS, June 15. M. Caillaux, at a banquet at Beauvais, referring to France’s financial difficulties, said he was assured that it was still possible but only just possible to right the ship of state. Never was there so much need for the twin spirits, of sacrifice and discipline. Tt was a thankless task to tell the truth had been withheld for ten years, in order not to offend its susceptibilities. •'Wo must,” he said, “have courage to insist on the State reducing expenditure. The hmir has come when Mie nation must reduce its standard of living in order to keep within its resources. Tam sorry that 1 am obliged to ask for such efforts, not only from the very rich, but from all taxpayers, according to their means.
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Grey River Argus, 17 June 1925, Page 5
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