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compromiso now
TOUGH
There are other factors, too, which tend to make Rusala ro- gard Britain and America from a different angle.
Having suffered just as sovorely incling me to, put my money on as Britain from the cutting off of the compromisers, but while they Lend-Lease, and feeling that Aro arguing it out wo are subject | Wo
Washington will not give them u to endless delays.
loan except on political terms In open session the Peace Con which they cannot accept the
Since Bovin puts economica be- fora politics, the Russians think Russians never that agreements of this kind might tire of pointing to Czechoslovakin do something to caso political as their exemplar, with Com-strain between Britain and the munist Prime Minister, far more conalries of Eastern Europe.
In the lobbies of this conference, therefore, опе may By
Russians to try ALARIC JACOB
than
and intercoursû with both East
Nino
Once again tho Russiana bave flocked to Paris. Sitting around splashing fountains in the Plaza Athence they tell you that they want this conference, which marks another small stage on the painful zond back to Deace,
to succed. Bound sincere, Some reports from London They
Why then at the preliminary have suggested that Britain's Labour Government is toy-meeting were they little intcreated
In doing the job quickly
ference, will discuss Finland, Bul Russians da Beem Intorosted at ing with the idea of Inter- The answer. I think,
is that garia, Rumania, Hungary, and last in a new trade deal with Bri- fering with the freedom of the there are two schools of thought Italy. But in the smoke-filled tain. Trade agreements between British preass I am convinced among them: Both believe that back room the issue is still Britain and the so-called Ruanian that there is no real foundation the security of the U.S.S.R. do whether the Soviet vlow of life and Butellite States might follow auch for such fears.
pends on the creation of friendly the Western view of democracy
a deal The only concrete fact there Governments around her borders can be reconciled.
which they mean Govern- The offeln Russian line is that is to go on at the moment is
The Lord ments in which Communists can they can. that Herbert Morrison, President of the Council, has participate if not dominate..
But whereas the first school stated that, while no decision has been taken, the Cabinet is believe in considerable compromise with Western, thought so that such in the in favour of an inquiry into the Governments shall be not merely The ordinary
expect the street, uninterested in finance but control and organization of the friendly but also enduring, tha
to reduce what they regard as Britain's dopond - vitally affected by world can- British press. No one in or out
no of Fleet Street could object to second believe that Russia would
A Levlish to
ence on the U.S.. though they ditions of trade. need take particular alarm at the startling an inquiry. All the main facts when in a few years Louin's old
Socialista may attempt this with such clum- about the ownership and opera dream of world revolution might nationalisation fall in American stock exchange tlon of the British press are materialise, and a vast Soviet not plan in Britain, et privato enter.sincas that they may miss the goal. This clumsiness ส more than half to those who work stretch from Vladivostok to prise still in being, and open trade the troublet securities. On the London Stock
known already
In Germany, you see it woll Exchange, insulated by the absence wish to know them, and few Brast.
Stalin, the grandfather of the
the and. West. of arbitrage transactions and of Fleet Street offices. would pro-
cannot this happy meeting illustrated in an intelligent policy by ham-fisted means. large Transatlantic holdings in duce much in the way of skele- revolution holds the balance, be
put tween the two. For the moment. Pratuc be duplicated corried
minths there have convinced Feither direction, the news from tons.
me that they are right in their What, then, is the cause of he gives the green light to neither, elsewhere, they ask?
Indeed, why not? which is why Russian policy seems Wall Street caused only the mild-
Perhaps because the Czechs are premise that only unity of the eft can hold back the real danger est repercussions, which would not the current excitement? It's not entail so many delays
of ravaged exceptionally shrewd and mature have been the case if the break in the possibility of a Government The more one New York was taken as a harbin inquiry, but the abusive terms Paland, chaotic Germany, and har-politically, whereas the Poles, she of a Nazi revival. But Russia's in which the announcement was red France, the more one under. Rumanians, and the Bulgars are methods of procuring this unity ger of world depression compar made, which has aroused appre- stands how great is the temptation not. Or again-perhaps because in have been so crude that not only Russians have not their three Allies but many Ger able with the 1929 Americanhensions that the Government for the Russian mind to assume Frague the
arters they mans, also have been allenated, slump. Sooner or later, obvious-
The most awkward barrier b which can lift Europe out of committed elsewhere.
One of the worst of these tween Bevin and Molotov is still which began in both countries dur- The attacks which have been its present misery.
It is just as natural for the Rua- their slowness in adjusting them to oppose Communists everywhere ing the war and continued from male on certalo sections. of the the end of hostilities must reach press, not only by Herbert Mor-ian to hope that his way of life selves to the coming to power of (even when they are admittedly
spread over
which they probably Molotov's suspicion that will
the world as it British Socialists,
never expected:
British Socialista are determined its peak and tail off, but there is rlson but also by Attorney)
Shaw was for 19th century Britain to en- General Sir Hartley
GYOTRONE the growth of Each big bang at Bikini makes in power by the people's will) bo- ao certainty that this point has yet
seemed courage tonal
monarchies and Russian-American relations worse, cause of ideological rivalry. been reached. The sharpness of crans, have not
to prejudge the
two-party parliaments even if, in but between London and Moscow the decline in New York has pro- have been made in such both cases, add caricatures result we may perhaps hope that the
worst is past. bably been accentuated by mem-violent language--particularly from the attempt to export a
The Russians know that Moscow of Shawcross-whole social system. case 2378, 27811ries of 1929, by the mercurial in
two Soyvt and Leningrad Which of these
(on paper. at American temperament, and by an to give the idea that the the widespread belief which many Government is seriously plan- schools is the stronger?
The years I spent in Russia nothing in a night. in the United States hold in cer- ning to impose some form of tain "systems" of stock exchange Government control over news- prediction. All these factors tend papers which happen to be op- to increase the volume of selling posed to its policy. in Wall Street, once it has begun. without necessarily symptomising any true economic diseases. To analyse the causes of the recent wave of selling on the New York exchange in difficult. International tension, which is only too evident to everybody and sometimes given
by
some an alarmist flavour American commentators, kas cer-
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Democracy In Cricket
On my first visit to a county! cricket ground this season, received a bit of a shock.
feel that Bovin and his Transport House have thrown an ideological challenge to the Krem- lin. This challongs the Russians regard as obscuring the real issue, not merely in Europe but through- out the world.
It is not a question, they main- It is so easy for members ftain, of putting up a little pink
a side to get at cross purposes. Engiand against a vast Red Rus-
I could tell of many instances aia, but of finding an accommoda
of 190,000,000
These fears are groundless. The main explanation of these outbursts is that. when the Government is losing popularity because of the in creased austerity of life which it is imposing on the British people, it is good tactics to give the public another topic of con- versation. Moreover, it's natural that the rising public discontent should find expression in the newspapers. And it's natural jumpiness on Wall Street. A more at the Government should try reason for the declic to discredit such criticism by a may be found in the falling figures amear campaign against those paid, had his initials in front hint of criticism In its original tory will limit this Soviet experl-
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From my score-card I could in which a professional has had tion between the strategic and not, without bringing "locals for words to say when some economic interests of knowledge" to bear, distinguish message about the game has asians and: 800.000.000 citizens between the amateurs and the been conveyed to him, second-of the British Commonwealth.
Washington of professionals who were playing hand, from the captain in the
amateur quarters to the pro-having and London that in the match.
fessional in his particular den. nothing resembling a Soviet aya- Sometimes, 18 know, the tem should be permitted anywhere
had a except in Russia.
They ask: Is it likely that his- message has not even form, but somehow it has got ment to only one nation? not, a bit warped in the carrying how can of the quarterly profits of Ameri- who are voicing it.
If the score-cards at all the
a natural trend bo re- oldest This is one, of, the
I am not even trying to conversed except by violent means? can corporations. Rising Labour
way,
vey the impression that even! So in order to get the Red Army costs have been met in many in- political devices in the world. county grounds are now being
a proportion of the county to merch home from Central stances by rigid price, ceilings; in ancient Greece, Alcibiades printed in the same
Ital and cricket captains in the past Eastern Europe, Britain sholl elsewhere. where price limits have had recourse to similar methods.
have acted ahobbishly.
have to convince the Kremlin that been removed, there are signs of He possessed a most beautiful
There have been odds and British Sociallata (as the chief in the street with its would appear that the knock-ends of old school the amours sia in Europe) do not consider a guarantor's of security with Rus- pulicy of the American
splendid tail missing.
"Why out blow has been officially ad- who have thought it infra dig ment towards price controls redid you cut its tail off?" asked ministered to class distinctions to mix with the professionals statesman a scab just because bo mains unpredictable. Labour disa friend. "To give the Athenians in cricket.
in all matches putes, which have caused 3.800 something to talk about instead
now profes- sionals and amateurs come out strikes in the United States since of criticizing the Government," (shadow of further difficulties to have no doubt that the outburst through the same gate, even at this head in my time could be on the world stage-Mr. Beyin'a
the beginning of the year, cast a replied Alciblades.
Lord's, where customs usually
Joa's Party-liners. It is not surprising that of Herbert Morrison is of no only die of one complaint-old many American economists have more fundamental importance
So we can assume that never The intemperate language of again will a player be asked, as prophesied a check to prosperity than the tail of Alcibiades' dog. carly in the coming year. Clearly Sir Hartley Shawcross is in some 1 often was by visitors from the imtriense expansion
ways more interesting than the America's internal and external more restrained language, of Australia, to explain this "sheep trade cannot continue indefinitely Morrison. Shawcross referred to and goats" business, as they fellow, the "pros." will give him which pingued the world for 20
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ly a Communist. in the same team.
Otherwise Britain may be in for But the number of captains a had period in which the old bit- who could have been put under ter trade union rivalry is repeated numbered on the fingers.
I still think it is good that wherever possible, and provided the necessary qualifications are
an amateur captain.
there, county sides should have If he is the right sort of
all they possess.
called it. But it seems News of the World and to the without a setback,
owned by Lords, single professional player-Pat- somewhat pessimistic at this stage nowapapers of the reconversion of her indus Reaverbrook and Kemsley as sy Hendren-entering the arena CARNIVAL
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has stated that he never reads
The real point about the pass- that popular weekly, which has ing of class distinctions is that is an immense foreign market, one
than of more part of which is focused by the
circulation a
I am quite sure it is good for loan to this country, which 6,000,000. So far, however, he big cricket, in the general sense, stretches ahead of the American has made no withdrawal in the, we have not always realised, producer for years to come. Some cases of Lords Beaverbrook and to the necessary
extent, that American industries and some Kemsley. American markets may run into Language such as Shawcroas difficulties in the quite near fu- used is seldom employed. In iture, but a large-scale depression
elgnificant that he should al- of the seriousness of 1929 seems ready have been forced to a What is world hungry for partial climb-down. unlikely in a goods as well as food. Nor would more interesting is that such
London, Sept. 13. a minor depression be likely to re-violent language should come
The George Crosa has been verberate in the same way from from a Minister who is a lawyer
awarded posthumously to Major country to country, growing in the rather than a politician. process. We, for our part, are This, however, is in keeping Hugh Paul Seagrim, of the In-
"conspicuous' this time largely cushioned by with the traditions of English dinn Army, for monetary and trade arrangements politics. Lawyers who come into gallantry" in Burma in 1943-41, against immediate reactions. A politics late in life are very apt, it was announced in the "Lon- prolonged American depression in spite of the legal training don Gazette" on Thursday.
which should give them some He was executed by. the would, it is true, offer us fewer self-control, to make on public Japanese after having volum customers and more anxious com- platforms wild accusational tarily surrendered on the pro- petitors in the United States. which they would never dream of mise that reprisals, including Moreover, world commodity making. In the dignified atmos the torture and murder of prices would decline and some of phere of a court of law. With numerous Elders and Head-men, our other customers, whose ex- no judge to keep them in order, would cease it he gave himself ¡ports America could no longer they throw all restraint aside up.. Itake, would be weakened, Hut no and often behave like byptericalThore. can hardly, be a ner such prolonged depression is in children Perhaps that is why example of self sacrifice and with the exception of Herbert bravery than that exhibited by fact in sight. Nor are any adverse Henry Atquith, no British bar this officer who, in cold blood, conomic factors observable either fater, in the last hundred years deliberately gave himself up to hert: or across, the Atlantic which has ever beccine Prime Minier save athers, knowing all what word not in view last month beter, despite the very large num- his fate was likely to be at the fore Wall Street, began marking bers who have embarked on hands of the inamy n said the
citation-associated Press. I down its quotations.
political careers.
Social Democrats versus Uncle
From such a feud, say the Rus
would bosses slans, only the benefit.
By the bosses they mean tho samo social, and economic Iritants that produced the cancer of Fasciam
years.
By Dick Turner
What we need is a sort of, UNQ for our black to Tolkie disputes over borrowed lawnmowers, garden tools and