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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1947.
Britain's New Chief In Economic Field
By A Political Correspondent
Sir
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The promotion of Stafford President of the Council, in addition M. Herbert Morrison, Cripps the Eronomie Minister, with to his duties as Deputy Prime Minis malas Deputy Prime Minister supervision over the Minirlen after and Lender of the House of Leader of the House of Common", Labour, Transport, Supply, Fuel all Commons, has been responsible for will continue 40 exercise co-ording
domestic Power, and the Board of Trade, is coordinating
economie ting functions in ather than econo a noble step forward for him in policy through g Committee ofile matters. He will take over Mr. the Cabinet hierarchy, le also marks Ministers,
Overacas policy Was Arther Greenwood's fatetlins which a Ministerial re-organisation the need handled through another Committee, covered the social services and pre- for which had been foreseen by re- 'The present situation calls for paration of legislation.
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Secretariat.
ued from No. 10 Downing Strert Commitee up Economic Planning
Co-ordinating Policies
The position of the new Minister of Economic Affairs is not quite like that of the Minister of Defence or the wartime Minister of Production because his field is already divided among several Ministers of Cabinet rank through whom he will operate. Probably Sir Stafford Cripps harder will be to co-ordinate the
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CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
FIGHTS!!!! OUTDOORS: EVERY TUES, THURS. SAT.
DOPA, 1047 BY KIS, *creme, M. tau.ft.co
"Th' kid doesn't know the meaning of the word 'dofoat'-- or any other sidebar word either!"
formers even before the war. This clarer integration of eronomie potles change and the retirement of Mr. Ens a whole and Mr. Clement Attlee, Araftur Greenwood from the offer of the Prime Minister, ureds the as- Minister without Portfele together Existance of a senior colleague able singalise
e an important shift both in to give undivided attention to econo-
and In the matters, THOSE "ELECTIONS"tish economic polity
fabour Party leadership
The new Minister for Fennomic Mr. Harold Wilson, Sir Stafford Affairs (Sir Stafford Cripps) will The remarkable asserting that Crippe vieresso the Board of hea Minister without Portfolio plans have already been made to Trade, who is a young Yorkshire- that is, he will my have a new des
man with a brillian; wartime pron partment but will have a personal task fivide up Hong Kong into rightmir record, has beets visely associat. faraff and the assistance of the newly policies of these Mlainters. The
retotal districts for the purpose fed with him in planning the expurt
created Central Feonie Plapaing members of his new
Policy of electing representatives to the drive.
Staff (under Sir Edwin Plowdeni. Committee, besides ite temporary National Assembly in Nanking Mare extensive Ministerial changes the concaule Information Duit and Chairman, the Prime Minister, are and to the Legislative Yuan of will be made in a few days. the eranomic section of the Cabinet likely to include
Buch dominant | China deserves, surely,
Closer Integration br
characters a Mr. Autre will, for the time he Ernest Bevin and-in
Mr. Morrison, Mir
particular treated as
As is explained in the statementing, preside over a new Ministerial Mr. a juke rather than as
Hugh Dalton who la serious proposition. Even the
the key position at the responsibility Aug Coordinating whose scope will cover major issued
Treasury. suggestion that discussions are ecununie policy hither'n bos
As the 'Timer' bee of both internal and external econo- correspondent puts it, "It seems parliamentary preceding between Nanking and divided. Mr. Herbert Morrison, Lanthie policy.
clear that the Minister for Econo London to settle the details-im-
mic Affairs wil пос exercise plying that the British Govrin-
supervision over Treasury polley. ment is prepared in countenance
It will be necessary for the new with an airy wave of the band so
Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton) to latan and flagrant an 'infringe.
work in close association so that ment apon British sovereignty--
economic and frangiai policy tails to rise above the level of
may march in step." the hadicrons. There is but one thing tier- the hint that il the programine Funs nicely to schedule, the elections wil Ju conducted before the end of the
WHERE IT HURTS Where lies the present
In an ega which uns producet Incat senges bebind the inspirations
MOST orient industrial com- of more than two thousand ear-whole but in the first place his nctivity, which is admittedly go: plixes IG Forben
was possibly.tels, it invested largely in foreign health was recently impaired and pective No Trump declarer ne pattract, though probably landing in the
Among average players 1 ing on, it is tot easy to define the biggest of them all
chemical companies, and it enter-secondly, he cannot be with precision, though it may not It was certainly the largest in-ed into alliances with almost all from the delicate taste of leading opponents' suit more that one aus
spared her of one fears a singleton in the the quite difficult to hazard adstrial corporation in Europe, the great chemical combines of the House of Commons at which where else in the hand. Actually and South decided to take it at once
and it was assuredly the biggest the world. Rees Neveaheless, too
The Is adept. chemical combite in the world. plete the farce requires, only one
It was also the clef industrial additional factor, that there
support of the Nazi war system. should be an element of truth in and the prime instrument in the the reports that have been put totalitarian regimentation of an una. Assuming for the moment į important stetion of German in That this curious business were | fustry, proceeded with, what sort of an
ever
Farben Officials Face Reckoning
By James McDowall
With this important qualifica. tion Sir Stafford Cripps hus to co. ordinate the whole production programme Including coal, ngel. culture, raw materials allocation and building and the import pro. gramme an well, Mr. Morrison has been doing part of this and the
It had a hand in the operation might perhaps have done
Forbenindustrie modity in Germany. AC" which may be translated
it
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authoritics"
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thearn, but did nof realize how im
portant another little card might be in the suit. The second sequence is want raight have been lone by Players training to find a better cas
same spot anyway,
was sure of two hearts, a diamond and two claba.
Wes led the club 3 to East's 2,
is usually a much more important with the K, though some declarers Internationally IC Farben was Fitness For Job Proved
lisbility ff it
it in your pacther's suit.night have preferred to
hold up. The reason is that the declaree must This particular play,,however, coulit a colossus. Inside Gennany dominated the entire economy of ble help of Mr. Greenwood, hins suit, and possession of more than the country. By the date of the horne the heavy burden of put. card opposite it is valuable in two second trick, the spade & used an a
Mr. Morrison, with the invalu. capect to work on his own side's not have brought the contract home. The heart K was laid down to the outbreak of the Second World ting the Labour Government's ways. Fiest, it makes possible leading entry, the heart A seared and the 3
''મ... Wer in September 1937 (after programme of political, economic for finesses or entries to the opposite ted in the hope that the holder of same fifteen years working> IG Farben, for mur informa made, or controlled the making ment. This your the limelight has number of cards held by the defen- the and setting up two more heart it and social reform through Parla heiding. Second, it cuts down the the 20 had exactly three, thus furcing election could it be? A .com. tion, shorthand for "Interes.of, practically every key com- shifted to production and trade ders and thus increases the chance of tricks, When that failed, the defence plete absence of any properly desengemeinschaft
Fund Sir Stafford Cripps establishing the small cards, fined electotal districts, no re
It started as a dyestuffs and now takes up a task which places
SK Q gisters of voters, nothing what the German into the folow-echnicals corporation, but it pro him in effect second in influence
Ing: "Dyestuffs Industry to provide any check upon munity Of Interests; Ltd."
Com ferate and ramified throughout unly to the Prime Minister,
the nitrogen, pharmaceuticals, oil. plurality of voting, no open ju As a title what could he mor petrol. Iron, steel, conl, vitations to nominate puspec❘ disarning?
light metals, rubber, explosives, ma. Yet, under that innocent-ound chinery, aunaments and Concede a tive representatives,
mun adicum of legality for moceeding title, there grew up a
tions industries. which was ing with such an election at all, world wide system and i would still be a meaning Nazi plan for worit power.
a formidable instrument in the less extravagance. Democratic principles would be better met were the dozen or so individuals most keenly interested in carry ing the thing through to get to gether at a Chinese dinner and chonse the "representatives" from among themselves.
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AL the height of its worl power IG Farben had slock in fereste in als hundred and thir teen corporations, including one hundred and seventy thres foreign countries. It built assels of six thousand There marks, which at prewar
nf £500.000,000.
million CX.
is, of course, no legal basis what change rates was in the region ever permitting extraterritori:i elections of this kind and it is that simple inct which creates all the difficulties in offering even the semblance of intelligent procedure. Apart from that, it was reported nearly a month ago that the Chinese Government Janet, im representations, aban-) doned their original prepara- tims for overseas elections, -1t is time enthusiasts in Hung Kang also forgot the idea.
PROTECTION OF WORKERS
persona
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for better or for worse-ef Brl- The change marks the end- tain's dependence for her ricon- $1074 struction en American
financial Q108 52 help. Henceforth she looks pri. D marily to herself, ber Coninian- CAJI wea wealth partners and
her Euro.
At the peak of its wartime ac vite it controlled alte hundred pean associates for her salvation. factories in Germany and the oe.
Sir Stafford Cripps, who will he rupled countries of Europe, and in charge of this great undertak. his fineex for it employed over two hundred has proved and fitty thousand people. It pre-parts, the rightness
it by his energy, in promo'ing ex- sented to Adolf Hitler's Reich au mic forecasts, his disregard
of his econ.nerable), annual bill of about 250,000,000. cheap papularity and-not least
In 1943 i produced all the
moral Integrity mid faith. synthetic rubber, methanol, scra
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General Lucius D. Clay said tually done on this rubber today that the projected now re- with a South who knew the vals conract of 3 No Trumps here after perparations diamantlings in the of his singleton K after North bid! West leads the diamond 4 to the 3?
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vun war and industrial machines, and lubricating oil for the Ger It produced ninety-five per cent of all the poison gases and nick :): ninely.two per cent of the ulasticisers; ninety per cent of the plustics; eighty-eight cent of the magnesium; eighty- feur per cent of the explosives: seventy-five
the nitrogen; seventy per cent of the "unpowder; and so on down
sventy-four per cent of artificial silk.
IG Farben was one of the tarvest coal producers in Ger. From the filca of the "China many, one of the leaders of the Mai")
Hong Kong has not much personai German coal syndicate, and pro.. benity, but it does the state gondminent in the light mitais service; morrver it-can pay its industry. expenses were it noi urdened with The political and diplomatic
activities of official civilian superfluities,
this complex or ganisation were complementary The opium question is not very to its industrial efforts, 1G
moralist-men who earn
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Ger.
Anglo-American zones of many would involve manufactur- US$ plants worth about 1.000.000.000.
a11.
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thorities were determined to go ahead despite German objee- tions,Associated Press.
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DEADLIEST GASES
Nuernberg, Oct. Z. Nathaniel Las, New York chemist, testified today that I.G. Farben Industries produced two gasen ao deadly that American
Duke Of Windsor Visits England
On Board S.S. Ivicta between Calais
and Dover, Oct. 2. The Duke of Windsor told the Associated Press to- day that he was visiting England for 10 days on private business but declined to disclose whether his visit had any connection with the forthcoming wedding of Princess Elizabeth.
The Duke, travelling alone, and then replied, "I think that is sate he would stay for a few days really a private family matter."
He declined to caminit himself before going to London.
Asked outright__whother hena to when he intended discussing would attend the Royal wedding, the
the question of his and the Duke hesitated a full minuto Duchess altendance at the wed.
ding.
Shipping Hold-Up
In Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, Oct. 1.
When asked whether he would meet members of the Royal fami. ly he replied, "Why, of course."
The Duko seemed tired but in good spirits and conversed. lengthily with a former servant óf the Royal Family, whom he met by chance on the ship.
Passengers quickly recognised the famillar gure in a light grey sports suit as he leaned casually on the door of his cabin and
former servant-Associated Press.
The widening of the defini-well understand in England, and ineinls supported the Nazi revolu. masks carried in the last war 250,- tion of "workshop" in the pro-were desirable that its merits and tion, and, when Hitler came to would have been useless. 400.-posed amendments to the Fac-emerits were thoroughly scrutinized
He told a United States War tories and Workshops Ordinance with the subject and competent chemical
Dower, ware the organisers and Hiy an impartial writer acquainted administrators of the
German
Crimes Tribunal trying 29 diree- 200,-
is a desirable change, long over-
industries for the lore of the trust that both Far- the task of investigation. An a ques duc. Under the new, definition tion of suurals, of finance
totalitarian purposes of the Ger- ben "tabun" and "asrin" would any premises used for manufac-commerce, it is our of Jeep, interests. man National Socialists. IG Far- have penetrated the usual type дав mask-Associated turing, repairing or finishing any is the regrelled that heretofor ben officials co-operated with life of
the Press. the trade has been enveloped, as it Naris in preparation for article for sale, where twenty were, in ystery.
war, in the conduct of economic persons are employed, come Those engaged in it are satisfied f-war, and in the administration of within the terms of the Ordin-that it is as honourable as any other Industry in the occupled anice. If the process or occupa-branel of commerce, but they avoid ritaries. tion involves the use of petrol discussion. On the other hand, tickly Some of their pre-war cartel
a bit of agreements or other inflammable liquids, or bread by cant and hypocrisy, de
were designed to the use of coal gas, the premises nounce the traffic, áo, infunian-they tlal wor materials
słow.down production of essen
In countries are subject to the control of the compare it to the slave trade, which were considered, to Commissioner of Labour with their exaggerated statements, garnish.. out reference to the number ofed with lies, are taken as gospel potential enemies.
Now twenty-four of the lords truth by many a good in,.. engaged. Hithert
of industry who were executives cures of small manufacturing For sale by Private Contract, that of the combine are facing concerns have enjoyed immunity, faunched and now riding at anchor of a twenty thousand word in. substantially built Vespel recently ultimate reckoning-in the form despite the fact that their prooff the rope walk West Point, Shelement which is the : outcome cessing methods are highly dans constructed of well seasoned pitch of two years' work, the searching gerous, not only to their empine and camphor wood, with roof scores of thousands of docu. ployees, but to their neighbours. Fastenings and partly coppered. The ments and files, the interrogation
GUN-BATTLE Only oil tankers, commercial players to call off the tie-up, I vesad measures as follows:-Length hundreds of people, inasmuch as they have established from stem to stern: 96 ft.; depth of
Shanghal, Oct. 2. fishermen and excursion craft said "the sult. would charge ren-
Police shot an armed robber themselves in congested renement hold, 10 ft.; beam amidships, 24 feet. There are thrce inafor counts: were operating in the harbour traint of traile in the labour dis.
tle-tip ordered by the Waterfront pute under a provision of the dead in a running gun-battle in It is the fire hazard Any person dexiraus of purchasing Preparation for aggresive
the crowded downtown district that is the chief concern of the can purchase now, of when complet through the development as early Employers Association in a dis Taft-fartley law.
pute with the International Long- An investigator of the Federal | and two pedestrians were also authorities, but apart from that, for particulare Apply on Board as 1832 of erschild but unecono-shoremen's and Warehousemen's Mediation Concillation Service hit by stray bullets.
to T. Roberts. it is an well that the · Commis- | “———–
mic war materials and the use Union over representation of the had been appointed to meet with i Tho robber and its accom. of foreign branches for espionage walking bosses.
the purting to the dispute. sinner of Labour, should have 23 health of workers where poten- and Nazi propaganda: The
Fifteen freighters were caught At San Francisco, the Long-plice, who escaped through the wide a control as it is possible to ftially toxic materials are employ-plündering of the chemical in.in port when the tie-up went into shoremen's Union proposed that dimao throngs, hold-up a Chinese give him over the smaller cone in industrial, processes. Adustrica in Austrin,
effect at midnight. Included were work continue in the local har Bank in broad daylight and cerns, for it almost inevitably incompletely satisfactory answer to choslovaklo, Norway, France and three strike-bound vessels of the bour with the dispute referred to escaped with $10,000,000 CNC (about $700 US). The police. such establishments that the all the problems that exit will Russla: and slavery and maseckenbach Steamship Company the Grievance Committee.
whipsa dispute will the Union Normal y 60 ships weekly pass man at the street intersection worst abuses
through Los Angeles Long Beach opened fire hit, the bank guard in conditions of not be found at once, but that murdur, including. the use of one labour are to be found. Appro- does not diminish the necessity prisoners of various classes for representing the harbour district of work some 3,000. Iongshoremen lodged five bullets in the body.
hundred and twenty-five thousand prompted the shutdown,
The Marine Trade Association, harbour. The shutdown throw out joined him. Together they val will be given also to further of setting our standards high forced labour,
businessmen, was sold to be All- and other dock worktera with on powers taken to make special re- and making a bid to achieve The Indictment is as formid.1 ing an injunction action today in estimated weekly income. of Que pedestrian was seriously in guiations for the safety and them.
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