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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1949.
OF Good Morning!
FACTS BEHIND FACADE OF W. GERMANY'S RECOVERY
Spanish Pride Is Franco's Ally
(By A Special Correspondent.) Complete economic collapse in Spain alone is likely to impel General Franco to yield his dictator ship. |Disintegration is not imminent, but is not very ra- mote. Spain cannot nourish herself. External aid is vital to her. Deprived of that aid, she is suffering perceptibly, the attrition of the semi- starved,
The effect on
the
to
By A.L. HUTCHINSON
The most remarkable industrial recovery in post-war Europe is markedly slowing down and, if recont- ly taken correctivo measures, fail, may swing back into a major economic slump.
In June 1948 the people of Western Germany were cowed, dispirited and seriously underfed; trade was mostly on a borter basis; there was nothing to be seen in the shops.
the
of
to keep them-
ngo,
corns
Chennault and Canule had a Ict in common.
Looks like if the Reform Club gets its way we will have to re- fer to them soon as the Divested Interests,
On April 14 we said "ten will get you one that the great lender 10 Tolwon shortly."
до
The American commander-in- chief in Berlin has been released Just common from that duty,
clay now like the rest of us.
Few German workers dit a full or 60 Marks;
the ready-made will day's work: they had to take time suit is tagged all to 200 Murks; Thanking those friends who have remittances, we Just sent in their off to go into the countryside to B modest radio set, 300 marks. borter their
for Above the now possessions
pinte
look once more into our crystal gloss,
ball ពន under: chromium fittings bhil
Nationalist, scraps of food from farmers, cement and whe refused to send their proof the shups and restaurants general with a name generally duce to the official markets. there still gapes collapsed brick-associated with slapstick will be work and churred timber.
Kwellin before the Red advance Highly
of respectable Germans Nebody can afford to pay for the instead
Hengyang. before majority average, desiro for a change, but not a joined
the reconstruction of the living ne- about six weeks are over. Spanlard's attitude is interesting, change at any price. Many of population is patronising binck
commoxiation above the shop.
familles cannot Many Gernumm RUSSIANS CLIMB He is essentially a democrat, with them fought for France because market rackets
afford to buy their full rations, little mind for unnatural discip- they felt he was subduing a Red selves and their families alive. DOWN
line of any variety. Yet he is first terror, not because they them-
although, in official phraseology, Then, almost iterally over the scale of nutrition has risen evolve a night, or all a Spaniard and a nation-selves were seeking
on June 20, 1948, the to a level which seemed out of According 10 despatches ullst.
dictatorship.
picture was altered completely reach a year
and is stil} reaching
from here
New Francois in something to be There is a feeling that, with
Currency rising. by the West German York yesterday, the Russians resented, but being Spanish. It is some encouragement, Franco him reform. The scraps of paper More than half of the working As nominated member for Esi- In have definitely agreed to end less to be resented than British self would be prepared to make caited Relehamarks, which since population
less than 220, 2-Clene toothbrush Interests intolerance, being allen,
genture
to democratic opinion: the end of the war had been Marks a mouth-about the equl- the remodelled council, Myrtle's the 10-month-old blockade of
The villain of
country's but he would need to have a pro- virtually superseded as currency
valent of earning £2.10 a week grandfather promises to do his In Britain. Berlin, and probably from economic piece he now sees more text, because he himself will be by cigarettes and coffee.
best for democracy by making it Britain and less as Franco, in bondage to the bureaucratic replaced by Deutsche Marks.
houses AFC next week normal road and an
Very few
being a crime to use the same brush 5,000,000 of for more than a week. rail traffic from the Western and his anti-Franco sentiment is Frankenstein of his own making.
Western Germany's 43 milHons lowing its edge in an upsurge of
The real astounded even the bulit, yet nearly Too many people in high places Zone will begin again.
The German house- still have no proper beds to sleep are too deeply involved
in the economists, The world-famous airlift anti-British
wife was as angry as she was in, and teas of
thousands still Ho
for the abhor
Franco wickedness of dictatorship
amazed when shops in a matter live in cellars, attics and air-raid will presumably
the Caudillo to
davs Milled ol
with goods
shelters. soon as land freight is fully regime just as much as do Britons them to permit
and
Americans, but a sense of relent casily.
which the shopkeeper had pre- there viously into its stride, and thus will untional loyalty disposes him As in all dictatorships,
to
assured her were quite end one of the most remark-get Henrer to the Caudile in face cannot be other than a vast con-unobtainable.
spiracy of self-protection.. of foreign hostility. able examples of man's in-
But even these people must nee So anxious were manufacturers genuity, and one of the most
to get hold of the striking instances of moderu
the writing on the economic wall, and farmers
that they Disintegration
accelerating, new Deutsche Marks
themselves to avoidance of open conflict by
Electrical power in drying up with almost fell over ingenious sidestepping of the
the hydro-electrice dams run almost sell food and goods which since main issue.
dry by an unprecedented drought. 1945 had beg to far Current is available for factories counter that they had been seen and homes for only a few hours only by those deep in the black
market.
as cease
It
In
feeling.
may
An invigorated Spain would-not tolerate political enslavement, but IN only through renewed renomle strength that political vigoar is likely to come to a Spain enervated by civil war and ten years of dictatorship.
Franco, even now not quite the
that other
dictators area weak. and have been, probably knows quite well that he would have to barter substantial conccasions
an
to
14
Fantastic
the
were
under tha
Production Up
Pink toothbrush, remember,
can soon become red toothbrush. and after that the tumbrils can be expected to start rolling at
But it is not statistics suchny moment. as these that have been causing real and incrensing worry during
weeks past few
allke to the
men and convinists, business the man-in-the-German street,
cess
Jobless Increasing
The Under Secretary for the Colonies says that entry of allens Into Hong Kong is now governed by the 1949 control ordinance.
Had we only had one such in December 1941 everything would have been very different.
"Show hand"
•
In ships at Shanghai
It seems they play poker With someone behind them Holding the Joker.
·
For one reputedly happy flim marriage the bells of St. Mary's are now tolling, instead of ring- ing out.
•
*
•
The economist is worried be The physical Impeding of
cause the number of unemployed traffic into Berlin was an a despot
has been climbing steadily since before Christmas and is now dacious flaunting of their
more than 1,110,000. The or local authority by the Rus-
dinary German s worried be- The internal transport system
that sians. It was typical of their
figure representa In woakening. Locomotives and Between June and last January cause
10 of the primitive methods of making democratic practice for continued rolling stock are in urgent need, German production revived nearly one person in
leadership (even
when sound Spain.
economically- an opponent
There was a return to working population in the Anglo- if not of replacement, of major rapidly.
hard work, sklu the traditional
American zones. The indus- overtly an ally) lose face. He has no great anxiety while overhaul. Alternative road trans- honesty of the Germanstrialist is worried because he is They thought further that Spaniards
purt is not available. four that, were he
the most serviceable race in having to put his factory workers Dollars and sterling are short, Europa he Mr. Churchili hason this would drive the Western suddenly overthrown-either by
short-time. The trader is but fantastically,
sweeping called them. German exports worried because goods are not the German violence or economica-there would avenues of Madrid carry scoren of spurted, coal and steel production selling. from powers
harsher dictatorship of capital, and probably even aring a
superlative American cars which, set new post-war
We still hear about the orders records cach Yet all this is at a time when
the the coal and steel output is still of
Nanking-Hangchow- tually from the very soll of another colour.
presumably, only dollars can buy, month. Events,
running at a high level,
In Euclid's the former Reich.
when Shanghai garrison, Illegal ingenuity can get over Communism Fear
n dollar shortags, In seven months the average | German factorles need large day it took three sides to make however, proved
uch trifles as too much
Enlightened Spanish democrats and
when a triangle. corrupted bureaucracy production of all types of goods scale re-equipment, and for them, and they have been ask if Britain and America ap-nurtures such Ingenuity.
increased by 60 per cent sud nenrly every family needs clothes forced to climb down. Now,preciate that. Thoy themselves It. in depressing to xDC this by the end of January Western and household goods after losing
bombed homes or bartering their The proposer nominated mem- for the benefit of their own prefer the devil they know,
travail, physical and mental, of a Germany's industrial output was wonder
bers of the Legislative Council if the
80 per cent of that in 1938-the possessions for food. Western proud and brave nation. strait-jacketed masses, they They
Just year before her economy
Cerman omelala believe, pre- [will be denominated. When Spaniards are claiming praise for their Powers know that, in abetting a
think of the was distorted by Gooring's "guns sont conditions indicate the suc Franco collapse, they may ba aid that Britain and America
of their before butler" policy.
anti-infiation willingness to compromise
the could give ground for Preparing the
thom they feel hope-
measures, and that the present The word for "halt" in Polish and smooth the path to very menace which they are renistfully that they have trump card| Theso figures could be check- check on Industrial expansion is Is "ztrzymac,” peace. This is on the lines ing elsewhere. Conimunism could no long as Russia is truculent. ed by walking down the streets due merely 10 their measures There is no truth, however, in
In just around the corner of the mass-murderer who be
German They cannot see Western Union of a
elty. The shop against too easy financial credits. the report that Polish mentries being complete or effective with. windows were full, the counters
"Consequently they believe that have to be relleved every 15 min- takes credit for saying he has Spain.
Peace
reigns just now, and, out Spain, and they are confident were beginning to 11. Each by easing (as they have jusules, suffering from nervous ex- finished his killings in such because he is the only figure likely that, Franco or no, the democracies day one could cce new shop done) the restrictions on short-haustion. and-such a town.
to be able to preserve it, France will be constrained for their own fronts being fitted, with plate term financial credits factories There is little danger that could conceivably rule indefinitely convenience to extend aid to them glass replacing the cardboard and which for nearly four our statesmen will accept-in present conditions.
"Game and fish are a vast and He draws great moral strength. They feel that this as a sign that the USSR
America could years had hidrien empty shelves.
If these experts are right the important resource to Colorado," German economic pendulum has ceased
its belligerent Obedience to it la there ingrained. fluence of a Scelaliat Government
from the Roman Catholic Church, ald Spain were it not for the in, or bombed buildings.
should agath swing upwards, but Mr. Fenst sald. "That it is good is shown by the fact that of The neon signs came on; cafes to stop and reverse a pendulum's polley of world domination,
Even the bull-fighter prays in in Britain who have not yet the and or that it is altering its aim his private chapel before he goes courage to acknowledge that their serving meals that could not be if these experts are wrong then
restaurants opened, often swing is a delicate operation, and 100,000 hunters out during the re-
rent
season, there of fomenting strife and dis-fout to fight.
disregard of Spain may in law equalled today in luxury London Germany's spectacular Industrial 8.06 Liled, The order in countries outside its
are not so people
much hurt Britain just a much as it hotels; night cubs blossomed. recovery, the full shops, the that cannot be equalled in Am- as they will injure Spain.
beginning of 1940 bright lights events resentful of the regime borders. Post-war
and the revived erien." In thinking of
of their own political the wealthy German could ive spirits may all swing rapidly Mr. Feast is too modest. It is have been so shatteringly are bored by it. They are weary
of its inhibitions and Its corrup position
cannot com- far better than the best-paid over to a state Spaniards
of clump and undoubtedly a world record. disillusioning that not even tion: but the anguish of the civil prehend why democratle peoples British Control Commissioni ni- even more serious unemploy- the most pin-headed poli-war is stili so vivid that
"that
and do not see
Army they
the most effective flelals, limited
ment. NAAFI supplies. ticlan can be left with many dread passing under the alterna- way of infuencing Spain towards
past economic The big game hunter was tell- doniocracy is
The seven-month recovery of facts have taken control of the Ing his wife about his encounter to help her false ideas. It is recognised live Red domination.
Even Falange Party men have economic rehabilitation, and, in- Germany became known to Ber- theorists
the "Golden West"-ns Western
theorists. If in this case the with a tiger. "Yes," he wound that this is only a change of
have miscalculated. up. "it was a case of the tiger or Soviet tactics, but as such it been known covertly to express acidentally, to political confidence.
litters and Eastern Germans Western Germany's imposing but me." seemed to vindicate amply the patchy economic revival may "I'm so glad it was, the tiger, may just conceivably-say
policy of the German author swing back to depression even dear," she said, "otherwise We optimists-provide
back ties, who on being given
more rapidly than it swung up wouldn't have this lovely rug." eround for co-operation in
responsibility for running most to its high level of February. of their Traffic.
affairs at last.
own Germany
(except And that would delay indefinite- foreign policy and foreign trade)
13 Germany's contribution to having a and presumably. the badly.
lifted almost all controls.
European recovery, her own re- needed processed goods, will
building, her re-emergence as an now pass from the Western Zone to the East, and it is to be supposed that foodstuffs and other ΓΑΝ
the
sooner or inter
How Smug They Are
By WILLIAM POWER
to
In a recent number of "Sovieť) be suppressed even by Ideologic- Literature." a Russian critical intent.
materials repels the charge lot smugnes "Sovlet Literature" have com- from the Russian areas will that has been brought against mandingly big touches
be available for the popula- tions under British. Ameri- can and French rule.
bricks
By the the
to
and businesses will be enabled to increase their output.
Often in the
Fame
were
This is
a record
*
•
"Mrs. F. Anderson, who
luncheon today, will devole the day to prayer.
Hostesses certainly take It hard.
then jump in front of a lady driver.
Harsh Facts Hidden important factor in world trade. and the day when the American
Stories ilke those ineluded in
But well-filed shops and lux- and British taxpayers can ceasC A tree is an object that will
Rearly ury for the wealthy, and stable pumping
£250,000,000 a
dolng
this stand in one place for years, are and revived morale year (ns they of im- currency aginative description and charac- for the rest of the population, hid year)) Into Western Germany to
keep the country on its feet. seme harsh facts. terisation.
Intrigued gazing of goods un- timely reminder of what the Rus-often 10, years may have become The war stories are a not_ún- obtainable for the past four, or sian people endured at the hands the favourite German pastime- of the Nazi invaders, and of the even on a Sunday morning one Soviet interpretation of Marxism stories Illustrating the part the attractive
Nevertheless, substituting the great resistance they put up. The has to elbow a way to the mone shop-windows-but it
Russian literature of today.
Smugness, he says, is not a fair or accurate description of the Soviet writer's faith in the Soviet way of life, in mankind. and in the future.
There is the same self-righte-
Too Apparent
There can, however, be no hope for long-term agree- ment with Moscow, no mat- ter what high hopes may be
for the chauvinistle pielism pre- country played in the work of only disguises the fact the after entertained by well-meaning valent in Britain and America reconstruction are more than in-paying for food and accomoda- but woolly-headed Western during last century, the generat formative, and the love interest is on the averago German work- ing family hos more than diplomats. The lessening of attitude of Soviet writers does of the heroic order.
"Eng-
about Ave or six Marks to spend pressure in Germany is all recall that of the average
at the end of the week. too probably a feint to lullish writer in the Podsnap cra.
In the shop window the label opponents while the hammer ousness, the same intolerance of But in a lengthy series of such jos a good pair of shoes reads 50 and sickle rattle more vehe those beyond the pale, the same stories, the propagandist element mently than ever in the Far denunciation of free-thinking in- would become too apparent. One East, from the Bay of Bengal dividualists in thought or art as would be repelled by the mono- to remind us of these facts, and
"decadent,"
tony of the implication that hu- to correct mass tendencies and to the Yellow Sea. A grasp-
Some of the pages of "Soviet man nature was somehow trans-delusions. That justifies some of ing landlord has not basical Literature" read like an up-to-formed, purified, and strengthened the things in Western writers that ly changed if he refrains date edition of
Nordau's by the 'nspiration of Sovietiam. Soviet critics describe as deen-
There from increasing your rent. "Degeneration."
something in, the So. dent. Politically and socially, Soviet vlot contention that, in the past, Since these things largely con- while evicting the rest of literature, especially fiction, is history and the historical novel cern the better-off classes, they your family in the next town. following an old trail. In France, have been largely vitiated by can hardly be construed ́ ́ng a The world will watch during the revolution Directoire, disregard for the long struggle boosting of capitalist Imperialism. future developments in Ber- it was officially laid down that upward of the "people." But the Russia, meanwhile, has taken Iin with interest, but with every story or play must have struggle
with
which creative care that her own "good custom" out undue expectation,
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environment, or thoir own her best to make Communism re- Plays and novels produced ac- selves.
pugnant Turin, May 4, cording to this formula are still Movements come and go. Hu- Her gifted writers and artists The River Po burst its banks extant, in the collars of the man nature goes on. Passions spin are playing a providential part. near here today, after a week Bibliotheque Nationale. But no the plot, ideas also; but effective Both in their creative and their BUTTERFIELD of almost ceaseless rain in Nor- human being would ever dream; ideas are a complex of passions, critical works, they are diaplay- thern Italy, fooding large areas of disturbing the dust that has noble and less noble.
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We are men and women con="freedom' and the wide human Water reached the first floor Richer material is afforded by
homo sapiens only by tolerance for lack of which many of the houses in some parts of the three decades of Russian-So-inferenca.. Bourgeois and pro-realms and cullures have decayed. the Turin region, The situation vietiam, with its culminating epic letariai aro arbitrary distinctions. Dó Russia's rulers know (or in Piedmont, where it is stilij of the titanic duel with Nazi || Individuation is essential, to illo care) how her world influence has raining, is described as grave--| Germany. Also, the powerfully and freedom.
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