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LONDON – Moscow Radio immediately quoted the Soviet army newspaper “Pink Star” as blaming the Labor authorities for top taxes in Britain.
“It’s a recognized indisputable fact that 75 p.c of oblique taxes are paid by Britain's working class,” the newspaper quoted, “and for the reason that Labor Social gathering got here to energy, oblique taxes have elevated by hundreds of thousands.”
“Pink Star” was commenting on British protection estimates. It stated Britain had spent £60,000,000 ($240,000,000) to assist the Greek authorities and was spending £31,500 ($126,000) per day in Malaya.
It declared that British international coverage “results in the growing exploitation of working folks and better prices of dwelling within the service of the egocentric pursuits of home and trans-Atlantic monopolists.”
– The New York Herald, European version, March 22, 1949