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Garden City, in which people's homes and work-places will be clore together and there will be no rush for the early morning train. That dream was born more than 40 years ago. fellow- ing on the creation of industrial towns such as Bournville and Port Sunlight, but London has continued to grow and industries, Hong Kong, Wednesday, May 19, 1937. instead of migrating, have set-
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tled there in increasing numbers.
· Everybody agrees in theory with the idea of satellite towns, but in practice congestion in the capital grows, partly because London has shown determination Recent events in London, to spread outward and absorb Johannesburg and New York within itself the new industrial have furnished a warning of the areas which, when built, were unstable basis upon which nar- believed to be remote from the kets rest. A mere rumour hat centre. What was in the past an the United States might caange idealistic vision of self-contained the buying price of gold disorder-communities, dependent on their ed dealings in commodities and own industries, is passing into shares on both sides of the At- one of the main problems of lantic. An assurance from Pre-statesmanship. Much more than sident Roosevelt restored equili-the better health conditions that brium, but not without a further Lord Horder stresses are involv disturbance in business trans-ed; there are big questions of actions in a reverse direction. national safety also. The present What happened gave point to the generation is reaping the conse- questions subsequently addressed quences of past failure in na- to Mr. Neville Chamberlain re- tional planning, and perhaps the garding the tripartite currency enthusiasts for satellite agreement and the possibility of have a better chance of a hear- further economic agreement being now than they had 40 years tween the United States. France ago.
and ourselves. The Chancellor
that he is satisfied with the
towns
of the Exchequer's assurance Soundproof Isolation working of the currency agree Crying has been said by some ment one purpose of which was to be good for tender infants on to avoid any disturbance in the the ground that it strengthens system of international exchange their lungs; perhaps it also “by monetary action on the part strengthens the nervous resist- of any of the Governments con-ance of their elders, who must cerned," should for the future learn to soothe the self-exercis- discount reports of individual ac- ing infant and remove the reason tion by one of the signatories. for the tumult without them- While British Government selves giving way to temper and policy is not "to maintain a fixed exasperation. But a cinema price of gold in relation to ater which is being built at a seaside ling,” Mr. Chamberlain's assur- resort in New South Wales in- ance that the Government is cludes an arrangement for let- fully alive to the undesirability ting the infants take their medi- of interfering with the flow of cine without inflicting any of it business towards recovery on the elders; the establishment should lessen apprehension about is to include "a crying-room for dearer money.
As the Govern- babies" from which “no sound ment has a considerable borrow can escape into the theatre it- ing programme ahead there is self.” There the infants can be every advantage in doing all pos-dumped while the mothers see sible to keep money cheap, both and hear the films without any as regards the national finances interruption.
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and in order to stimulate eco- The brief account received from nomic recovery, upon which an Australia does not mention increased yield from taxation whether any older. custo-. must depend. While declaring dians are intended to be present that he is not at the moment con- in what seems to be something templating an economic agree- like a padded room for petulant- ment between, France, the Unit- babes. That would appear to be ed States, and ourselves, Mr. a rather necessary precaution; if |Chamberlain is careful not to the babes are simply left to boil discourage the forces that are over, with no sound at all emerge pressing towards such an... år- ing from the torture chamber, rangement. Difficulties in the some of them may howl them- way are many, but the marked selves into a fit before the peace- change in opinion in America is ful parents return to collect their extremely welcome. President overexercised offspring. In some Roosevelt and Mr. Cordell Hull ways this addition to the ameni- have shown a disposition to dis- ties of the super-moviedrome” cussion, and Mr. Chamberlain's sounds a little too silent to be I hope that currency stability maysafe.