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"UNWARRANTED DISCRIMINATION" American Reaction To Dalton Duty On Films
Britain Takes A
Gloomy
View
London, Aug. 9.
The 75 per cent tax imposed on foreign films was described tonight as "unrealistic and manifest- ly unjust" by Mr. F. W. Allport, European Manager of the Motion Picture Association of America.
In a statement, Mr. Allport said: "The Dalton film remittance tax, camouflaged as an import duty, aims to reduce dollar remittances for American films from £17,000,000 to £4,000,000 annually by the simple expedient of confiscat- ing the intervening £13,000,000.
"British cineman have, in re- nccept it, and, in the end, to en .cent years, taken in more than joy it.
$100,000,000
pnnually from
Gloomy View
the showing of American ms. Mr. E. W. Wingrove, Gen- The Dalton remittance means eral Secretary of the British:
Association, that, henceforth, the Amerleno Film Producers
that efforts to film industry would receive, Inointed out fund payment for the films that secure increased abowings in Keep British cineman open to the United States for British the British public. less than films would suffer setincks if four per
the amount the American film industry de- cent of that the public pays to see these cided to retaliate. Alms.
"This is not only unrealistic, it is manifestly unjust."
Mr. Alport's statement said that Britain has always retain. ed at least 83 per cent, or about £83,000,000, of the box office receipts from American films,
This increased the 436,000.- 000 and more that the Treasury derived annually from Ameri- can films in entertainment tax. Hollywood Proposal
"At beat, the American f'm received industry has more than 17 per e-nt, or less than one-fifth of the total earn- Inge of its films in Great Bri- tuin.
"Under the Dalton tnx. it would receive less than 1/25th," Mr. Alport continued, adding: "Does the Chancellor of the Exchequer or the President of the Board of Trade seriously expect the American film indus- try to continue deliveries on Huch terms?**
British studios would have to speed up production to make up for the shortages if American refused to supply any more. The lack of studio space was the biggest difficulty, he said.
OFFICIAL U.S.
PROTEST?
Washington, And. 9.
A Motion Picture Assocía- tion spokesman today anked the State and Treasury De- partments whether the British "arbitrary" action against United Statca filme won in *contravention of the Anglo- American double taxation agreement and, if so, he said it planned to seek an official proteat to Britain
At St. Louis, the Mution Pleture Theatre Ownere of America and their organien. tion had no plans to hoyro!! British film production.- United PreRK.
France Joining In
Atom Race
Paris, Aug. 10.
M. Frederick J. Curie, French High Commissioner of Atomte Energy, has announced that be. fore the end of 1948 France would be in possession of on Atomic
GOODS FOR REDS MAY
LAND UP IN GREECE
Washington, Aug. 10. Part of a US$25,000,000 consignment of lend-lease goods originally destined for Russia may wind up in Greece and Turkey under the Truman Doctrine programme to halt the expansion of Soviet Influence in the Mediterranean.
The rest is likely to be dumped on the surplus pro- perty market. There Russia could buy it again at cut rate prices.
\U.S. To Join
Rocket Experiments
Sydney, Aug. 10." The U.S. may be allowed to share in British super-secret roo- ket bomb experiments in Central Abstralia. This would be a most important step in Anglo-American cooperation, it is staled in. Com. monwealth circles in Melbourne.
Australian defence experts point out that British and Ameri. .con defence organizations nre closely following each other's de- velopments in the interest of stan dardising weapons.
The Sydney Sun aaye no de. finite Anglo-American agreement | has yet been reached
on the Australian experiments. "The participation by America would come later when atomic warheads are fitted to the rockets" the Sun
This alluation came to light used to pay the operating ex-adds. Our Own Correspondent,
as officials disclosed that, con- penses of the programme, gressional action in blocking the shipments is causing an epide mie of headaches in both the State and Treasury Departments, The State Department pleaded with the law makers to get the
through deal
lest the American Government lay itself open to charges of "flagrant and failing to discrimination" keep its contract with the Sovieth. But Congress look the position that the Soviet actions in Eastern Europe needed some algn of offieint American disapproval.
Hence the goods began plling погодя the up in warehouses nation.
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Pointed Omission The moribund lend-leased administration asked the 11 involved to put up nations
A taxicab trip so long that US$873,211 in operating funds the driver became homesick James Russia contributed US$725,000 was related today by
Smith of Washington, the cab- of this amount.
Simultaneously, tho agency bie. The fares, Smith said, the were N. R. Ramchandani and appealed to Congress for specific approval the Comptroller E. L. Varma, highway en- General demanded.
gineers for the Government of End of War
Congress appropriated US$500,- | India, who were commissioned
for lend-icane Iquidation to study American roads. The tention dates from the 000
They chartered 4 end of the war when the United expenses for the other nations.
a halt to the But Russie was pointedly omit orange and yellow taxi from Staten ordered Leading figures of the Bri- cyclotron. tish motion picture renting and It would be in small one," said wartime mutual aid programme ted. The Soviet Union has been Smilli's employers in Washing to keep her skirts ton, he said, and started out on under which the Americana careful Curle, "werking on tho exhibiting world took a gloomy | M.
centa a mile, view, however. They were in uranium plus heavy water prin. supplied the Allies with more scrupulously clean concerning a 10,000-mle itinerary at 15
conference
"I'm a married man and have Meanwhile, American officials they ciple, but it would be the first than US$50,000,000,000 worth the agreement. constan
over-step towards the construction of i fighting and canvassed prospects of
In equipment. But while the lend-noted that some of the equipment been homesick ever since I left coming the American ban.
sucht involved chiefly the refinery home six weeks ago," Smith Icane arrangementa 20 Mr. J. Arthur Rank, Bri- France." tain's biggest cinema "magnate, The cyclotron is bring built in came to an abrupt halt, various materials, electric motors, coal said upon arrival in Sacramento nationa contracted on a time. mine equipment-may be found late last night, "but I'm not due was the sole exception to the the Fort of Chatillon, close to
basis for materials useful in the Greek-Turkish nid back in Washington until Aug.
24."-Associated Press. and will be exclusively payment chorus of didapproval of the Paris,
The rest, they said, appeara British Government's action in used for peaceful purposes, he costing over US$1,000,000,000. Under this den! Russia was to
destined for sale imposing a 75 per cent tax on added.
received US$250,000,000 Stressing the fact that France have
with the prospect of a sizeable worth of goods. American films and of the Ame rican ban on exports of us had been able, slucting
All were to be delivered by made to Soviet specifications -
loss because the equipment to Britain.
scratch two years ago, to arrive at such a result without any help last Dec. 31.
would be of little use to other purchasers. Associated Press, from the outside world, including Amerien, M. Curle disclosed that France had hidden throughout the war one ton of uranium and 36 gallons of heavy water.
A Shudder
NA
"I am continuing my plans for British filma, ant my ac- tions are not influenced one way or the other by the States bun," he said.
United
Representatives of exhibitors
atomic a full-scale
plant
from
"I am against secrecy in atomic
of
home-front
Because of strikes and other delaying factors some US$34,.. 1.000.000 worth of goods remain- ed in the United Staten when the deadline fell.
Comptroller
Thereupon the
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ARUBA FED UP
CLASH
IN PUNJAB
on
New Delhi; Aug. 9. The Punjab authorities today. clamped a rigid censorship outgoing news accounts of. Fri. day's riota but reports reaching New Delhi by unofficial channels Willemstad, Curacao. Aug. #.
sald there were heavy casualties and distributors expressed the research," he ended. "It can only General ruled that unless Con-
Aruba, the smallest of the three when troops, under Maj. Gen. T. feny that the American han breed fear."-Our Own Cortes.gress decreed otherwise no more
appropriated moneya could be Dutch West Indian Islands off the W. Reen, clashed with rioters im wholesale Pondent. would lead
coast of Venezuela and the site of the Amritsar district. processing a large refinery for
Paradoxically a special Venezuelan crude
ude petroleum, demand was set up to prevent riot manded administrative Indepen-
ening and to maintain law and or dence from Willemstad, claiming der In the Punjab areas where
The atatement said the Ame-
to the rican film industry was fully aware of Britain's need to save closing down of British movie dollars and had proposed the theatres.
Mr. C. Cowlin, Chairman of immediate freezing of a Bub stantial portion of current rethe Board of Directors of the venues. This proposal was. American
Universni Pictures
the British Government's action imperilled the whole structure of international trade.
"This unwarranted diserimi- nation," he said, "will send a
Hughes Display Of Dramatics
Washington, Aug. 9.
in effect, summarily rejected in Corporation, declared here that favour of a hasty and iron- sidered measure that serves no useful purpose at home and cannot fall to injure British prestige abroad," Mr. Allport
shudder through every man and Howard Hughes today staked his professional re- added.
"The proposal that the Ame-woman engaged in the making American rican flm industry put forward and distribution of woud have resulted in an im- films, which will turn to bitter mediate and continued saving risentment and may have seri- on Anglo- the ous repercussiona of millions of dollars to British Treasury," he continu. American friendship."-Reuter,
ed,
U.S. Criticised
Houses
Sid Fields, leading British Behind The
comedian, who
co-star
is to with Bing Crosby in a British fm, said that British Alms had a great opportunity presented to them, but pointed out that
Birth Rate
J
New York, Aug. 10. A survey of 20 key American revealed a worsening housing situation in the face of a
a policy of "making second rate cities has pictures merely to fill the gap
putation as a plane maker on his still-to-be- flown 200-ton flying boat, stating: "If it is a failure, I probably will leave this country and never come back."
Air Forces "I have put the sweat of my mout that Army fe into this thing," Hughes, procurement officers displayed Basil. "I have my reputation "hatred towards him because rolled up in it and I have several he did not entertain then as such timen stated that if it failed as other aviation companies did. would leave the country. This caused a minor sensation in the Committee room-United mean that."
would do more harm than soaring birth rate. In 14 out of lanky millionaire industrialist good."
on
Killing
com.
thal revenues from Aruba wer spent mostly for the benefit at Sikhs and Moslems are disputing Curacao, the largest island, where its post-partition relation to their the capital is located.
new dominions. The Sikhs want An Arubian delegation appear- Punjab to be included in the In- ed before the colonial legislature dlan dominion and the Moslems with a petition and a similar re- claim it for Pakistan.-United quest was cabled to Queen Wil- Press. helmina.United Press.
GERMANS LIVING
:
NIGEL BRUCE'S LATEST
IN LUXURY
Hollywood, Aug. 10, Hamburg. Aug. 10.
character Nigel Bruce, noted German authorities disclosed actor, is the newest addition to today that widescale police the cast of "Mortal Coils," cinemo ralds on the "German Riviera" adaptation of Aldous Huxley's had trapped scores of Germans story, "The Giaconda Smile," He living in black market luxury in will portray Colonel Boswell, sharp contrast to their hungry Bruce, of British parentage, was countrymen.Associated Press, born in Ensenada, Mexico. He has just finished a part in "The Exilo, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr. Production at Universal-Inter- national. Studios. Arioclated Press,
Reaches New Efficiency
Again facing the questions of Press. the Senate War Investigating Sub-Committee inquiring into la US$40,000,000 in plane con- tracta - one of which was for a gigantle cargo plane the the 20, there is an average short- said he would pin his future He thought that varlety age of 500,000 units.
career on his plane. This figure does not include the artists would benefit most,
At the same Ume, he said the Another comedian of stage many thousands of Americans flying boat Hercules
Trinder, living in hostels, makeshift homes which the Tommy and screen, said: "British films have an and old army barracks.
US$18,000,000, might never be While the birth rate has 131- opportunity that may never
flown because it was too large
to operate criticizer creased from 17.3 per 1,000 in come again." He American reception of British 1930 to 20.3 per thousand this for one man Alms, saying that they would year, construction of housing is controls manually.
Apparently, however, Hughes Dr. Chisholm, who was speale. "New and deadly techniques to students at the suminer give the Eniest country the same accept a picture, ahow it at the far less than in 1939.
Only 15 per cent of the cur. did not feel that the flying boating Carnegie Theatre in New York shortage is being satisfied would have to fly to be a suc school of the World Federation of war potential as the largest,”
Dr. Chisholm. warned, however, -the equivalent of one of the this year as Americans refuse to cess. He said researell on it the United Nations Association,
the excessive cost of new would be of great value in said: "Bacteriologient warfare has that the use of bacteria was like. smallest of London's movie pay houses-and if every sent was hames-Our Own Correspondent. aeronautics.
been developed into a much more (1y.to be a double-edged weapon./ taken would report that it was
powerful weapon than the atom Those employing bacteria as a bomb. Armies aad navies are re-means of destruction would pro. [legated to unimportance."*
bably become their victims, hy
a tremendous success.
The American argument that
rent
Athens, Aug. D.
The Greek Government today
Geneva, Aug. 9. Government spent Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, a Canadian psychiatrist, and Executive Secretary of the World Health Organisation, said today that the next war will be "a bacteriological war.”
A Sensation
the
the Middle Weat did not under-returned to Athens 763 persons He said the plane already. He added: "Methods of survival | concluded--Reuter,
years ago are out of date: stand the Cockney accent should deported from Greece during the had appeared to show that the of
recent mass arrests in connection efficiency of planes decreased the efficiency of killing har nut-
be cast aside, he anld. stand the accents of Jamesto overthrow the Government. Lain size. Cagney and other American They were returned from the Other highlights of today's coping with bacteriological war stars, but they were forced to Acgd n Island of Iaris, Router, acasion included Hughes' state=|fore,||||
English people did not under-with an alleged Communist plot when they went beyond a cer- reached all types of defence. Franco--Spanish
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