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"Britain Needs The US Experts "ALL THE WOMEN OF
As Well As US Dollars"
BRITAIN SHOULD BE KNIGHTED
American Business today And, he wants the plan to be They say: "It is emenila}, make an offer of all-out-tech-recipiock), with Dritish specialists especially from your workers' Editor-in-Chile?W. J. Keates.nical help to show industry in going to the States to explain to viewpoint, that there should not
Britain and Western Europe how them the things we do better.
Bir, the world does hot know(i have seen Asit Editor:--Ian Mackenzie.
be an idea that this increased pro- you. What is all this they say do not know how they do it on seen even in the US. I U.S. Industry does it.
It is essential that it should be duction menos The offer has been made to the by Invitation. We are not try- larger dividends for shareholders, broken and that there is no heart are both, healthy and happy.
Jarger profis, that Britain is: battered Business Manager: W. H. Nolloth Federation of British Industries ing to force ourselves and
and the rations, but you can tell they by Mr. Roy W. Gifford, one of ideas on you." And more essen-capital reinvestment to make a
our it should mean more money for in the people? Telephones:
24354
The Big Ten of US, Industry, ind still that the American ex-better industry."
Some of your buildings are Mr. Gifford
expleined in Lon-perts should get right inside Bri-
What is this hear that, the shabby, but that in because they tion: "There Are Reporters & General Ofce 32312 tached. Our offer, and it is back U.S. joining steel firms here; top
women of Britain, are shabby need new paint...Yet in London no strings at-ish industry; steel men from the
and do not smite any more! (four lines)
11 do not schse that shabbiness, ed by influential Luainess mon, ties in with Marshall Aid.
10th August, Tuenday
Editor
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First To Britain
Britain has won its pointernment is all for it. In the payments negotiations with the Supreme Coinman- der for the Ailied Powers in Tokyo (General
Douglas MacArthur) regarding stert ing payment for Japanese textiles.
Japanese trade
"I have had talks here with the Federation of British Industries, and they welcome the scheme, can tell you that the U.S. Gov-
"Briefly, we are leady to make available, initially to British in- aftry and later to the other 15 European natiers who are getting Marshall Ald, the services America's top
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AT
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how we du things, and then make trade. Suggestions. "Goods
can he purchased "Britain's major problem is to with sterling up to the limit get increased production with the of SCAP's sterling require
facilities
littes vallablo We bellove ments and any surplus either
we can help you do that. On this way is convertible in dollars. to your business leaders, but 1 visit I have contined my talks The size of Japan's sterling hope to requirements jy not yet known but there should be ample scope for expanding its imports from the Sterling particularly nf
row
aren
By JOHN HALL
Lifetime Study
Machines and 'Men
A Bouquet From Mr Bustamante.
I
They say British industry logs in mechanisation;, British work- men are still sweating at jobs And why do they think which can be done more efficient-you are cold and reserved, and look I see the green grass and
that because almost everywhere ly and quicker by machlics. ("high-hattish" and do not easily the trees, and flowers that you "I don't believe your people open your doors to, the stranger? put in your window boxes, and realise," Mr. Gifford says, "the All this 1s, not true. amazing advances that have been been with you little more than
I have that is batter than all the paint.
It is n brave sight. made in machine tools by U.S. a week, but I know that It is industry in the past ten years. not true, Some of our
over.
were
-And Grumble
But
mass-production precision machinery makes a lot I have had the privilege of an men from the U.S. motor Indus-of Swiss Watch movements look audience with his
I have driven many miles in Majesty at tries helping British motor manu-
like a blacksmith's job.”
Buckingham Palace; I have wined Essex and have marvelled that my car through the county, of facturers, and so on..
and dined with Lord This and Wir. Clifford wants to start in Lady That and I have tiled almost every nere of your, lurid Mr. Gifford says: "There has of been a stream of British business here at the top, among the high with the ordinary people, and the land that is owned by
in under cultivation, Including executives. When he gets back know that this Britain after the Government or the municipality. men to the U.S. since the war.
the to Defroit, this 64-year-old Indus-war is very different, to what i They tour our fuctories and pick trialist will be at his desk & had imagined on the boat coming up tips here and there, but that
a.m. every day, in Hip office and is not enough.
Of course, I have heard grain- around the factory until 4 pm.
bles. There is no doubt in my He will not say so.. out loud,otherwise I would have stayed system in, some respects.
Sir, I came here on business; mind that the people are dis- but you get the Impression that at home, for the stories I heard they are grumbles; that is all.
satisfied with the rationing he thinks there are too
many of conditions in Britain our methods have 9.30 "Many of
a.m. and even 10 to perfeel, taken starters aniong British executives. a Scots, engineer who was coming Cold,, reserved. token years
terrible. On the boat there was men a
And, lien these men hero and we should job at 8 am, and top executives lifetime understand (In many countries on the Con-
your hospitality! them. We are ready to send unent office workers are on the on vacation, and I said to unfreeze-I have, net, found it like some of your men to go to by 8.30 a.m.). the U.S. for perfoxis. to Re!
really noaked in our methods.
What he does may cautiously is: "Britain and Europe con bene-"A frequent criticism I hear is 1 from recepting more generally that there is a wide gap between He just smilled and told concept of seeking to produce the to see that the work is done: that were not so bad as I had been
basic
Americun, economic the top men and those who have that he somehow felt conditions anost goods at the lowest cost for the fellows a little lower down led to belleve. the greatest number of people." the line are kept, as we say,
In the flouse of Commons they These Americans; who want, to the other side of the table,"
He was right. I come from a welcomed me, and wherever I help us believe, too, that more]
land of sunshine, and I thought have gone there has been nothing What is behind all this? Again that in Britain. I would find the but help and, kindness.. money should be iploughed bucic" Into British Industry.
Mr. Gifford is ironk. "Under women with their loads down have noticed in the casual meet-
That. Marshall Aid we are sending and cheeks washed with tears atings that I have had with Britain and Wextem Europe the suffering they have endured. ordinary people:
come back and show
your trade unics leaders and the people of Britain that this ex- hange of teas would be to their advantage."
Two-Way Plan
Mr. Gifford hopes to have U.S. trade union leaders, coming over here too.
the
Czechoslovakia Is Unhappy And Bitter
'at
massive help.. That help la com-
ing out of our pockets and we
are glad to do it
distant, slow to him:
so. Every door has been opened "You must be mad to come, to me and there has been a Do you think you will be able to friendly welcome. stand it?"
I have sensed no discrimination of roce or colour.
fue
-And Are Kindly
Still They Smile-
that all the women I think should be nighted.
And their children; how well They jump
the
I shall never believe that the Britisher is cold and hard to stopped ringing; my desk is piled know. My telephone has never with letters to answer.
Jamalea I all
these
know
When I return to shall tell my people things so, that they may Britain better.
"At the same time, we are a
Ind that with all the queue business nation. The example of ing and the ratloning, and the our loan to Britain is recent, his shortage they dress well,, look tory. That huge loan was used well, and smile often. up and you're little. Better off
of Britain then you were before. It is in Ald really does put you on your our interest to see that Marshali
feet again. Hence this offer. the children look!
"Secondly, there is the threat and leap about, in your.East End come through her troubles much children are os healthy as any imagine. I shall like to see that, and in the country, also. Your quicker than most
materials.
Discussions are also taking place on the possibility of a sterling loan to Jupan for which the United Kingdom would be responsible. This loan would be additional to any credits granted by the. Dominions such as the recent Australian credit for wool. How such a loan wouldTMTM f in with the new bilateral nr. Hauled down when Dr. Benes in present circumplances. It is AIRWAYS rangements has not been dis-tag alles again from the presi- serving in Britain, with the Czech way to the Communists, more ilkely that when you were closed but it would obvious dential palace on a wooded hill air force during the war, ly enable Japan to import overlooking Prague. 11 is, of were unwise enough to marry u more from the Sterling arearse, the presidential flag but it Scottish or English girl. That is of Communism that hangs over than the Sterling area could now the
of Communist the heinous crime, the sin , of power it Czechoslovakia, from the unathema, for it means that you oriens realiss that the best Europe. Most enlightened Import from Japan without President downwards. resorting to dollar expendi-
have a domestic LINK WITH THE WEST, Out you go.
way to combat Communism is to Increase production and raise the general standard of living.
"Quickest way to do that is for There remain, of course, the business men all over the world great unpurged, or shall we say who believe as we do in free unpurified. What of them? Dis-competition, to get together and content stalks abroad, in the land, pool their knowledge." for though the railoning system
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Twin Bogies
You
is equitable and reasonably effl- cleat, continued food shortages boggle its wheels... The
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more
all
A very simple way to save. We estimate that the paper thus more paper-and too, now we come to think about 80,000,000 more..forms. .of
Ink saved it--would be to shorten the tre-kinds,
would be suficient for
mendous postal addresses of his posters, or 50,000 pairs of chil- or 5,000,000 appealing Majesty's Collectors of Taxes. dren's shoes,,pr two extra pages Statistics, ..which Wo have for every newspaper in the land. gathered during a life's study of Glimpses into the ibis hideous
show us that subject no collector (or assessor) has ever
sone about ble ghoulish business from # shorter postal address than the following role sample: The Collector of Taxes,
(Looting, Magna Collection),
Room 9,
Tumut House,
Wellesley Lane,
Caxton. Avenue,
Looting. Magna 1; Middlesex. Ta Why they never add "England,
•
Europe, the World," think, probably it has never oc-
Great Czech middle class at four seara diaz Wasted for nearly ties in their districts, could make]
this
The
Collector or faxes,
Mon Repos
Looting Mignat,
Middleadx.
Negotiations are also pro- ceeding on a general Japan- Sterling area trade plan in which, presumably, both the payments agreement and the loan would be dovetailed. The list of goods which each Kemsley Newspapers side is prepared to buy sug Special Correspondent gests no lack of opportunity
Carners more money there- for expansion in the volume lou
had before the war but he cannot government, Was elected
goods buy
he of trade. Japan wants salt. President, his party was already Moreover, the twin bogies of wants. iron ore, crude rubber, wool. list "referendum" under the name labour mean
in absolute control. The single nationalisation and direction of tin, sago, flour, coconut oil of an election merely vested with black' wages, carned with the full that his Jormer and industrial chemicals. a form of legality the power co-operation of his employer, for on the which the Communists had solzed such things as unworked over-
three months before. Today chase cotton, textiles, raw 214 seats out of 300 in the Na- his bitterness für
The farmer cries to heaven in silk, dried fruits, machinery. tion Asse rest. They have chinery. He cries, more, for the turs of Wing Commander Alan Assembly and are able to labour and of agricultural ma-Proud, witnesses of the investi- paper, pottery, glassware majority on the Board of Com-fact that the new regime has re- Douglas Groom, Royal Air Force, and drugs. Like Germany, missioners for recalcitrant Slava duced the holdings which lie de- with the Distinguished Japan, much to their opposition worked Bucking värn politically but, again like was
recorded.
curred to them. by the sweat of his brow just as Palace on Tuesday July 20, were of taxes (and asesors).. being Germany, It occupies
Our own view is that collectors They are everywhere. Police ruthlessly as though he were on its wife and his 10-year-old well-known to the postal Authori pivotal position in the re- air force, law courts, uni alssenter, landlord.
versities and schools-ali
have covery of world trade.
gone through what is meant these one t
mother, who time were
The war with- do with quite a short address, like ere among the most out news of days by that detestable
little
solid and comfortable folk in
him. word purge. Here it is known
Europe.
Commander Broom, on The revised War Rents Bill ven more grossly offensive, 'He either lose
ns purification' which buron transtered from the
LA.AF. to the RAF was once a good February, 1938. The wah pontert to be presented in Legisla-who is not for me is against me job and may even be so yut, or "missing" after the R. A. tive Council next week re-and no one will get through my you to Communist. You sell tion at Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, presents more than a com-net.
your proud Czech birthright for an where he was serving, Insecure meas of pattage but at l
Into least you preserve for the present Japanese hands on March 8, 1942. a semblance of liberty, des moths later was charged
He was taken prisoner and bix of the Colony's leading land-
you are not behind barbed wires lords, and removes all the Games were given a Course of or seeping, prison walls.
variola "crime" golfist, N features regarded as objec- lectures on what they should tell The mills of Communism, grind and was tentenced to 10 years
grind slowly. In a Colony where land-
They have Laken convict, prison. He served over Recently the 70-year-old Social all in great galimphing steffes and three years of this before he was lords as a body (apart from Democratie party has been disap- yet, they are not content, Not released; but instead, of dying the big companies) are gen-pearing into the Communist maw. that the Government lacks constraight: home, he volunteered crally regarded
This is called a merger or fu- clliatory attitude; no many, ele stay in Squrabale, Juva, in older Jess than human, hint
lota „Hila pérional, that they
had been given erdia to join the new party or most pathetic desire for a big, the Indonesian Leaders, virtually a free hand in de- give their roagons for staying out. noble friendship. Or so it might indsting and flie freedom move
Communist door-to-door ciding the main principles of sera leave membership forms one the fact that internal enemies and moved freely
canvas appear. But them is no doubt of ment, lin getød as lälsón, ölledr à Bill affecting fenants would day and call to collect them the will get short shrift. 'Or no shrift | Which was la the Hóndele. be viewed with alarm. In next. Destined for
a similar at all,
The official citation this instance; quite the refusion' before autumn leaves fall verse situation has develop- National)
Mouths Of Babes are the hesitant Czech (formerly
pletely ignored the ed. They made it clear that they are climbing in droves on to fine the present atmosphere in from arch to area in Which figh- Already It is difullt accurately to deser to his life moving, warmed ns long as the government the
Czechoslovakin. By knowing just was taking place and parley relaxed its efforts to insist noman-Catholic has not, given the tactics a powerful minority the the ushable Jänders,. Wid
Of the Czech churches only the what they wanted and by ekürli ing with the frenzied, mobs and upon its own pound of flesh new regime offelas support. As a made itself, master ofin
promise. It embodies all the
most important suggestions
can
:
Party Fusion
Evin Interprters at the Sokol
And fear. You
Sta
tionable or open to criticism. should not.
de foreigners und what they exceeding small but they do not penal bervitude in a Japaited
as a little un'. It operates by the simple ments in the nation. As possible to help quell the Indoneeds
Socialit Communist wagon.
"of 'b'
4
com
Commander tebook dan
und
for the war period, they were all out to conciliate or neutrallão Opposition, beyond the lukewarm achite for the coltello
of
world, of tomorrow No.
Seo
France
2 How. To Through. A Telephone. We regret to announce that our article under the above heading has been doomed by the Treasury to be subversive
reactionary in
tone, and, by Impiloation.pble to ป
and
courage the Compulsory Na- tional Savings Movement, Ha publication has been forbid dan under Gestion 7, Para, 5 of the Control of the Press Act, 1962.
In its place we hopa le bo allowed to publich tomorrow a flattering Profile of Con- troller Albert Bloggs, the Lord President of the Nation al Biscuit Board.
(Issued by the Lane Norcott Second-Sight Bureau. Small Fore- bodings Always In Stock, Large Calamitics And Catastrophes Gladly Quoted For.)
The first post war shipment of
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treated
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All Commable in the form of Crown Rent result, the Communists are going powerful and inexorable machine ed, abused,
tathate, prepared to waive all claims Gottwald attended a.Te Deum and Bat Kot past the whimering singo. stop attacks.
11. After hi election, President and wisful demonstration, has
hours against tenants.
our troops. WINK To this the Government Archbishop at the Cathedral cajoled to chant
sbook hands with the Catholic Ten-year olds may be ordered ar Commander
Groom has agreed with the result door Grent things were expect Brice of the months
the name orential help in the Brigade Bence at the Sokol gomes, of Commander. By_hile filstained that the final product is in the archiepiscopal cannedicément babes and sucklings... But for many lives and 41 35xample
But shortly afterwards come èólirse.
of gallantry resolution he excellent Bu..
fvand
saved That it should have been Minister of Health alhes the ration of sweels, they might be
that Father JOSEF FLOJHAR, pat on the head and h. extra that was an Jossication to all. the work of vested interestarazuary crisis, was suspended persuaded to chant arthing ddds to its merits, for, so with a decision, of die Collell of biltors But the phrafial- and
kam priesty duties in accordance Czechoslovakiasia Minaggy and Headquarters, Bomber Commard
3.Group seldom do we have an of Bishops barring pilests from poll igal peripation used to indicate
entit kes, with hike and one portunity of viewing them ties, ka t
high favour that if des Way are you purged or purifed ing place to now, chat Japartepian seem to have and-a-hut- Cars In A serves to bo put on record, in this land? Well, you may be bewildered folk may added 256 wh@146 his appetite for Cas together with a word of con- anti-Communist of course, but if tempted to speculaja hatisatier capedom of the skies and he offe gratulat
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