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TODAY IN EUROPE
By RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
THE RUSSIAN VIEWPOINT
Why
Democracies Are Hard To Work With
If the Russians are regarded
As Europe's naughty boys,
The British former- has probably never been .30 prosperous
he is today. B
From
troublemakers and obstructionuts, WILFRED BURCHETT it is their own fault.
Here in Berlin Marshal Soko-
will send you food, but we, want, to know what's going on with. or coal. You dispose of that without any reference to the Con- trol Council. Why shouldn't we
Nearly six years of war, dur-lowaky nevar sees the foreign cent of your food, you'll sit back Reporters & General Office 32312 ing which it was a national Press. The Russian administra- and let the Russians provide the dispose of our surpluses without
necessity to increase domestic tive offices are almost inaccessible.st food production, brought far- They have nerer stooped down Potsdam Agreement bá carried out plecemeal with 'you
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mer subsidies and bonuses on a scale which made all except an inefficient minority extreme ly well off. And many big for
on scientific mers, who farm lines, made considerable for- tunes.
reference to the Control Council?
Our view is that Postdum
from the Potsdam pedestal to tell
His view was that any discus-people choosing to make only those us their views on the McNarney slon of import and export or clauses work which best suit you. proposals for the fusion of two or fusion of two or three zones was It's either all or nothing, and three zones in Germany. Nor anbotage of the Potsdam Agroo unless you are prepared to put have they clearly stated their ment. Potsdam provided for the pressure on the French to ageco own ideas on how to make Ger- setting up of five central Minis- to the central ministries and to many work as an economic whole. tries to handle Industry, foreign plan for the whole of German in- But here is an analysis of the trade, transport, finance, and com-dustry and agriculture, we may go situation as a high Russian off- munications, and the Bussians ahead and organise our zone as cial, who should not have talked so want those Ministries not up imone unit--and we're in the best openly, gave it to me.
mediately."
position to do it."
Despite this fact, it would be misleading to pretend that British agriculture is in a
The basic problem for the west- The French have so far blocked truly healthy condition or that ita long-term prospects enn be era zones is that they have to this, and the Russians have taken viewed with undiluted op-import food which at present, Bris | advantage of the lack of econ. American timism. Historically, it long tish and
taxpayers omic unity by organising their has been true that British far- must pay for. These zones want own zone and milking it for all mers thrive in war and are to take surplus food and consumer it was worth in the last 19 months ruined in peace. British Gov- Buds from the Russian zone to Rut they claim they are willing ahead with ernment policy since early in pay for the grain and fats they at any moment to o bringing in.
the original Potsdam decisions, the 19th century has been sim-
“We are not against this." eald-"pooling their resources with the ed at importing the cheapest my Russian, "but if you are going rest, as soon as the French agree. foreign food so that the large to have things for nothing from "We have a bumper harvest this industrial population would be as we want to know what you are year. In many area's more than able to eat at a minimum cost doing in your zones. Maybe next twice as much as last year con- and thus permit British indus year, instead of growing 70 per tinued my friend. “We can and try to compote successfully in world markets.
As a result,
in the intervals between wars, agriculture is neglected by the Government and slides rapidly into a fatal decline;
No Plan Yet During World War II, poli- ticians
of all parties, swore that never again would they allow British agriculture to be that a prosperous neglected, farming community was essen-
aro
BY THE
WAY
What one could, I suppose, cali era is, due to a shortage of holes. rather odd incident occurred in They say what, is the use of a Whitehall recently when a man steamer without bolest Se în re- nisced a giraffe on the pavement tallation I always ask them what and, climbing up its neck, pro- use are holes without a steamer? ceeded to pick all the petals off Dear, air, can you advise?" the geraniums in the Admiralty's window boxes.
Bloodstock NotesTM about the present lack of non- -Perturbed, like the rest of us, stayers in Britain, Miss Annie Seed, a Newmarket boatbuilder. has succeeded in fitting an our
All Very Well"
His view on reparations was that it was all very well for. America to be generous and walye claims to reparations with her industries and cities untouched by
"In ons area of the Ukraine where there waed to be 17,000-
yilingus are now 17,000 white. stones with the inscription, 'Here was the village of re
"Neither you nor the Americans know what German occupation means. Germany can never res pay it, but she can help. The first item on reparations in' the Poth- dam Agreement says:
"The re- paration claims of the U.S.S.R. shall be mat by removals-from the zone of Germany occupied by the 0.3.S.R
"That gives us the right to take
factories, or goods or livestock, or anything else we need."
He listed the following grounds for suspicion which the Russians had to take into account when Byrnes, the American Secretary considering McNarney's proposals. of State held up talks on Germany in Paris until secret Three-Power talks without Russia were held, situation. The Russians "called. ostensibly to discuss the con these talks, an "economie Manich." McNarney's statement, on the eve
China celebrates today the
Observing this, one admiral call thirty-fifth anniversary of the tial to the well-being of the ed out: "Come down that giraffe founding of the Republic with nation in peace no less than in at once!" To which the man re- out any of the reasons for en war. But so far, Britain's plled irritably: "You come up thusiasm and exuberance that fabour Government, despite its here, my good man, if you have board motor to a racehorac. were so justified last year. The affection for state planning, has anything to report."
For purely deceptive purposes, end of the strain of eight-long and prodiced no comprehensive
A Serious Dispute," the mater, a twin-stroke affair, is A dispute which threatens to got up to look like a nosebag and bitter years of war imparted a long-term,plan for the future. special flavour to China's Na-No targets have been set, no split the National Labelegista can be attached to any horse's of the Paris talks, that Four tional Day a year ago, because it farmer can tell whether, ten Society from stem to stern, on the tail in the twinkling of an eye. Power unity, was impossible, and was believed, among other things years from now, it will be the very eve-of their 62nd annual ex- {"All the jockey has to do is to pull that America was prepared to fuse that she would grasp the tremen-/Government's policy to encour, hibition, shows, no eigna of settle- ja string and keep his carburetter one or two other zonça.
flooded. For travelling to and As everyone knows, the society from meetings, the entire contrap-
age cereal and livestock produe- dous opportunities that lay open tion, dairy farming and mar- as the result of the defeat of ket gardening. Japan. The interval has not Before the war, Britain used produced many signs of the per- to grow 30 per cent of her formance of that high promise. Political developments have been grimly discouraging to China's well-wishers, while economically her plight must have been serious but for the contributions of
ment.
By BEACHCOMBER
food requirements calculated on was formed to unite under one tion can be packed fiat in a small a calorie basis. During the banner all those whose main pas- suitcase-horse and all. war, by immense exertions off- sion in life is to collect the labels At a trial attended by four set to some extent by mau-off jampats. power shortages, production
Rumours The British did not respond to
Soviet offers for interzonal trade talks, have kept postponing tho talks, and have now given priority to much later invitations from "French"and" AmericanzonÉKS
Rumors say trusts are being re-
UNRRA to the national well, of cur requirements. This relicmoncurd labels should be gligible/disappeared in an easterly disso". unity in Germany, whereas they
a
being. It is right and proper, therefore, while today's celebra- tions are-in-progress, that some thought be given to the morrow. Before China lies the task of ending the feud which has ap. parently culminated in a rapidly
Watch The Birdie Subsidy extending civil war, and initiat
History was made in the Open ing an era of peace and prosperity The main weapon used in championship at St. Andrews which can only be founded on achieving this impressive when, playing with nothing more justice, goodwill and tolerance, sult was the Government sub-than his rolled umbrella, Bendigo by the local council, who intandIf not and he left the man- heavy exertions, courage and in-sidy. Sometimes this was given Lightly did the 1st and 2nd holes to store surplus
THEDAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD. good to recall on this day the man dealer which kept the retail
COVEL
THE
PURE FOOD SPECIALISTS.
SHERWIN-WILLIAMS
who founded the Republic. Dr. Sun Yat-sen was a great national leader in the sense that all great philosophical figures have been
leaders. Like all such, he blended
asrance.
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
helicopter, Miss Seed's demonstra-vived again in the western zones.
* Statements abroad and Press The present bone of contention tion animal covered two and a half was raised to cover 40 per cent (as they call it) is whether or not miles at racing speed, and then reports have always blamed the Russians for blocking economic presented an increase of 33 1/3 for exhibition. Of the Hanging Hon per cent in productive capacity. 23 per cent. declare "No," whils
Committee,
20 per cent, say "Yes," Business As Usual
have taken the initiative not only but the island is still a long the rest remain belligerently neu- peculiar case of Redcurrant Cot- administration
to promote interzonal trade, but Consider, if you care to, the also to push for central economic way from-becoming anythingtral, and fast alt sulking with age, on the main road from "We have to consider whether like self-supporting. Today their thumbs in their months. Mr. Hither to Thither. Britain probably is growing Kammergain, the president, thren-requisitioned jointly by the Minis, Germany, or whether you are Alliagh you really want Four-Power unity about 30 per cent of her total tens to resign.
try of Health, Admiralty, and ust playing with words and try requirements.
Board of Trade, It is, nevertha-ing to build up a western econ- Jess, scheduled for demolition next omic bloc abattress against us. week to facilitate construction of an airfeld runway.
"If you seriously want unity, you can hayo it tomorrow If you This is being opposed, however, three Western Powers can agree. ARP. helmets bence unfinished, in direct form to the farmer, as in 1 Driven high into the air, upstairs and use the lower portion dustry. It is not likely to be an in the case of the two-pound his ball thudded down with such as
"It was the moment to put the easy task. But unless China is per acre subsidy for ploughing sickening impact into the 1st that Station, but can do neither patil was any nossibility of war be Malnutrition Rocaption question whether he thought thera to slip into a position which will grassland. Sometimes it took it bounced out again, and after a 2000fb, bomb under the kitchen tween the East and the West. mean abdication of her rightful the form of a guaranteed price making two full circuits of the is safely removed. Ignoring all place in the comity of nations, the to the farmer for some crop, course, travelled unerringly to its this, the landlord is prepared to never start one. Bevin seems He laughed, and said: “We will effort will need to be made. It is coupled with a. subsidy to the scoond objective.
take 46500 for it, with vacant very frightened about Com Ten minutes later a
history repossession,
sweeping westward over price down, thus preventing a peated itself, Lightly doing the
Meanwhile, poor Mrs. Loxberry, Europe. We have no similar rise in the cost of living. In seltsame thing at the 3rd and 4th who have lived there for 27 years fea that Capitalism will aprend this current year, Britain still Asked why he used an umbrella, is at ber-wits end trying to get eastwards into our country, so
he replied, laughingly: "Well, one somebody to sweep her chimneys, why should we want to start in food subsidies. is spending 318,000,000 pounds
never quite knows when it is going before Christmas. to rain does o09? Is this process profound humility and complete tinued? Or will subaidies be "Every time I try to boy a
to be con- All Steamed Up: Dead, he is to the awept away? If so, will they Chinese what Washington is to be replaced by some form of have a pan but not steamer, 1 steamer they always way I can the American, or Lenin total to protect the farmer therefore keep inquiring why no Soviet Russia. His most famous from foreign competition? No steamer? Whereupon they always doctrine, the "San Min Chu I," answers to these fundamental inform me there is a large bottle-
so far been neck in steamers, denta or the Three Principles of the questions have People, remains the basis of Chin-1 given with any authority. Until "Dear sir, do you know what they are given, no farmer can they keep having the cheek to tell ese political thought and aspira- face the long-term future with me! They keep having the check tion. The Three Principles will
anything but anxiety.
to tell me this bottleneck in steam- yet become the basis of Chinese The British Treasury, which political practice. They are the traditionally is wedded to a Principle of Nationalism, which policy of free trade, which has turs are today seeking to asserts the independence of China; always favoured a policy of traverse the Treasury's tradi the Principle of Democracy, which cheap food, which instinctively tional free-trade
hypothesis.. asserts a Government of the peo abhore all forms of Government This argument is fortified by ple, by die people, and for the subaldy, can be relied upon to the fact that so many food- people and the Principle of the work for a return to the producing countries, like Aus- "Laizeez faire" system of pre tralla, Canada and Argentina, People's Livelihood, which, as- serts prosperity for all, When he War days. But today many ac from which Britain has in the died, Dr. Sun left an unfinished being boldly challenged by men food, are today becoming in- cepted economic dogmas are past drawn so much of her task. It fell to the lot of of all political parties. "Foreign creasingly industrialised. If the Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek to food" so runs their argument economic policy of these coun- lead the victorious Revolutionary was certainly cheaper before tries is to become independent Army across: China from Canton the war than British food Butt British manufactured goods, in 1925, and to establish a Na- how was the costing done? Did how will Britain pay for her tional Government in Nanking in commaista include in their food, however cheap y 1928. He was leading China to guaren any charge for the Bat And people are increasingly SUT SANG LOONG, 153 Johnston Rd., Wanchal -- Tel. 25590, peace, atder, and strength when the main was fought to secure prosperous country the te of the Atlantic, which in noticing that the world's most WAN KAU HARDWARE, 582 Shanghal St, Kloon-Tel. 67574) Japan struck in 1937. From that Britain's food suppiles And United States, which maintains time on, he was the leader and in what proportion of the capital not only the world's largest in- spiration of China's resistance. am invented in the Royal Navydustry, but also the world's most His task now u to lead the na-has been charged off against flourishing Agriculture. What tion to an early victory in the the price of so-called cheap over Britain's Government may peace, which will involve steering food 7REE dealde, no one can doubt that the nation into a true and great. New Polley democracy.
China
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