[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

The belief that private investment must be displaced by Government investment must in the end lead to State capitalism and to an increasingly State-dominated economy, the ultimate results of which are sufficiently clear abroad.

Today’s post includes the entire editorial page and the following letters page from Sunday, June 25, 1939. I omit only one political cartoon for a reason which now escapes me. Anyway, the idea is to give a sort of snapshot of how we were thinking as the summer of 1939 got underway. Lots of topics are covered: economics, race, Catholic marriage, the European situation. The big question I come away with, however, involves a different subject – culinary affairs. Did Charles II really knight a piece of beef as “Sir Loin”?

[Islander7]

1930s are repeating themselves.

[lowbridge]

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