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ONE WAY TO SOLVE THE BRITISH DOLLAR
Ready To Fight A Rubber War
By GRAHAM STANFORD
It's costing £55,000 a day to kiil fewer than two bandits every 24 hours in Malays's back-stabb- ing jungle war.
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By WALTER LIPPMANN
CRISIS
the Empire war debts we come upon the really dißcult lesues of this crisis
There were two main reasons:
Good Morning
It looks as if Caminos all over
In the maze of tangled pro- could not recover, even with Am-/ The one was that if Britain had this part of the world are mak- blems which we are calling erican aid, if she had to repay not financed the needs of India ing the Maot of this new govern-
Peiping Pakistan and Egypt they would ment in the British crisis there is a all these war debte main thread-which we can pick In the 1945: loan agreement it have been in great trouble. They up and follow.
was understood that a large part had to be helped somehow.
But there was another reason. debts ( sterling It is the story of the British of the war
When the British Government debts-known when they balances) were to be cancelled,
and helped these countries by letting that another part was to be fund- were incurred in the US A
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A film company is making a movie to show the world what Hong Kong really looks like.
This is Rank honesty.
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**The government's ← refusal. Lend-Lease and when incurred ed over a long term, and that them spend from their steeling in the Commonwealth and Em- only a small part at the rate balances it created a protected arises from the opposition of cer
market which was very profitable tain members to Mr. Hariano's pire as the Sterling Balances. of about $170,000,000 a year for British industry and main stand on certain matters, inform--
We do not, I think, oversim-was to be paid back immediately tained full employment for Bried sources said? plify the problem, in the sense of British Burden tish labour.
the
was
Three Views
Informed but rather close. mouthed sources.
"Glamour for General Election growing in Britain,
Lucky man, even if it seems be will have to wait a few years
And I missed It
"Beauty" ́unvelis bust-at cere- many."
According to one thinker, tact is the ability to describe otisers as they see themselves.
Often the questions the little ones ask are more intriguing than their answers. For example: "Why does Mummy make me go to bed every night when I'm wide awake. and wake me up in the morning when I'm sleepy"
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misleading ourselves, if we take
Thus the cnlight ned political This understanding has not happened what
to these War been carried out Before we look interest in supporting the coun- debts as a main clue to the crisis at the reasons why the British tries of Southern Asia has been and to what may be expected in Government did not carry out fused with British private vested More than 100,000 troops, po the near future.
the understanding about the Em- interests, which in regard to Bri- We lice, sed volunteers are hunting.
may begin by fixing it in pize war dehis it will be useful tich international solvency are about 3,000 bandits--but the thugs our minds that to her enormous
to take a
a measure of the burdennot: enlightened."" are still on the right side of the and heroic performance in
they have been and still are. year's bloody” balance-sheet. war Britain not only sacrificed a
In the 12 months which ended Though the behälts are retreat very large part of all her accu- last June the British Government ing deeper and deeper into the mulated foreign assets but also "released" from the "blocked As one Englishman put it to jungle, groups are being left be went deeply into foreign debt
sterling, balances"--that is to say, me recently: When the question American Lend-Lease bind to strike where they can
repaid war debt to India, Paki-has arisen of releasing sterling Captured documents say that about $33,000,000,000; the war the executives of the Malayan debts to the Empire and Corn Egypt Iraq, and Ceylon, balances, the Treasury, thinking
to the time of about £210,000,000 of the solvency of Britain, said; Communist Party are "dishear-monwealth and some other In other words, the British No, the Board of Trade, thinking tened" at
at the way the revolution related countries were over £3,- have been paying out of their of trade and employment said is going. But there's no wishful 500,000,000 more.
and dwindling Yes reluctantly, and the Foreign thinking here on STRUGGLE FOR
on that account, i We had realised
in America, current earnings
reserves this The planters face up to the fast even before the war was
large sure to the Oke, thinking of the British countries of the Middle East and and world political CZECHOSLOVAKIA that this is still going to be
interests, war that with her losses and hes of Southern Asia. They have, said Yes emphatically. without surrender: that the con- debts Britain alone and unaided
also, it should be added bene This diagnosis indicates what The arrests of still more trol of the whole of South-East could not achieve a tolerable supplying
to Europe another will be, in fact, however pre-
disguised and uitimate Commumist stake.
withheld, position as a Great Power in the which they do not receive goods the main lines along which the
in reture.
British crisis will be liquidated. Loan Began It
The present crisis. which The British Government will brought Sir Stafford Cripps and be compelled to reduce to the American aid began with the r. Bevin to Washington: turns vanishing point its contributions British loan which was negotiat- on the fact that the British in the
former Asiatic Empire ed in Washington in 1845. In people cannot, even with Mar- The United States, by one means that loan agreement there were
will have to take They cannot understand why three main points. We cancelled shall Aid, earn their own living, or another,
for their into the jungle wearing white debt We loaned Britain nearly tablishment, and aven today police should be sent ( $30,000,000,000 of Lead-Lease war vices, keep up a big anlitary es- financial needs-particularly those me if you give me a three-foot
give away to of India, which is the largest of uniforms, which make perfect $4,000,000,000 of new money. And Asia and to Europe what they are the British creditors. targets for lurking bandits
obtained an understanding now giving away. that Britain would also negotiate
When and as this happens the British protected market in that Difficult. Issues a war debt settlement with her creditors in the Commonwealth When we ask why the British part of the world will be opened to American and world competi- outson, and this will compel a deep about readjustment, probably accom- panied for a time by some un- employment, in the British Isles
But Britain will be relieved of
Czech priests by the Com-Asia, nothing more or less, is the standard of life and maintain her £75,000,000 worth of goods for semily
munist Government is evidence that the struggle between Church and State is
climax and' approaching a that the Government is thus far losing the battle.
White Uniforms
I found amazement here at the most elementary mistakes still being made in the conduct of the
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world
The uniforms were originally khaki and green, but of such an inferior quality that after being washed twice they turned pure and Empire.
white.
The immediate goal sought by the Communists was 20 ceptance of their proposed church law raising salaries of the clergy but at the same time subjecting church ap- pointments to political ap proval. Behind this law is
Says Harold Mackenzie, Johore the vital struggle of the planter with whom I am staying "I took the Government a year Prague Government to get
to realise this control of the Catholic
But you'd still think it was a Church in Czechoslovakia, tennis match, judging by these which is to say to make it a white uniforms. sort of national church whose hierarchy would take poli- tical orders from the Com- munist Government.
really was war.
"We believe we've got the bandits on the run, but we can't afford to let up yet."
Output Rises
To outsiders the very idea Meanwhile, Malaya's rubber
of a "National Roman Catho-production Sgures
Atlantic
prove that
than
maintain their own social ser- over the
Government did not carry
1943 understanding
We took the view that Britain the
Starry-Eyed Optimism In Tokyo
consulted
By RICHARD HUGHES
a burden she cannot carry, and she will be deprived of a protes- tion which renders her industry mcompetitive. Then, with A- ald continued for some years beyond 1952, she may be in a position where her GNTERES at a new rate of exchange van be supported by the United States and made convertible for current trade.
Many Measures
Here, it seems to me, in the
Empire,
Triumphantly arriving injownership, improved methods in lic Church" is a contradiction despite all their efforts the ban-] Japan four years ago General hygiene and agriculture, traffic in terms. That it is such to dits have not broken the plan- Douglas MacArthur declared control, the official dissolution of
ters morale.
that the objectives of the Allied the Zaibatsu cartel, the develop was proved by the Vatican
unionism-in all ment of trade actually Production last year the order excommunicating increased six per cent. to 548,328 Occupation were to destroy, a these directions Japan has theore active Communists. That de toes; tin exports last year also system, to exact a toll for mis-tically achieved seven-league pro- barest and crudest form are the
deeds. to Create a nation of gress. rose from 13,453 to 18,944 tons.
bones of the problem. They will cree had Czechoslovakia
demand many complicated mea- But it is strange trony that in people who will forever lead a more in mind than any other its hour of triumph the rubber democratic way of life.
But in practice the corrupt and sures over long periods of time. be facing the Now, four years after the sign-friotous Diet does not know-or But the great essentials might as country, simply because the industry should
greatest crisis in its history, with ing of surrender, in an "opera- even wish to know-how to use well be put in focus. Communist Government was
falling so
that some tional prices
directive" to his local its strange new powers, Japanese That the United States will financial re- commanders and to Lieutenant-leaders resent foreign interfer- have to assume a being subtly persuasive and estates face bankruptcy.
Rubber is the only product General H. C. H. Robertson, the case as a matter of course, there spossibility in Southen Asia, was confusing sincere Catho selling today at less than its pre- Australian Commander-in-Chief has been not the slightest
particularly in India, which un- lies and some priests. The war price. Before the war the of the British Occupation Force, couragement of Japanese initia- avoidably has immense political issues were made clear by London price was about 15. 1d. General MacArthur has asserted tive, the immature trade unions consequences,
have in fact have fallen into the hands
That Britain will be liquidat- the decree of excommunica- per ib.-today it is 10d., and yet that those objectives blave in a Communists, and the Emperoring many of the remaining ties
wages and supply bills Lave been achieved. In future, he has
2 costs tion and by the ban on the more than trebled.
directed, the objectives of the for whose retention at al
which have survived the polit Czech version of Catholic America's synthetic rubber in-armed occupation forces will be the militarists fought desperately eal disestablishment of the Asiatic
dustry is the challenger, and restricted to the friendly guid- and Action, which cleverly as Malayan rubber producers have ance and protection of the Jap- render is now closer to his peo
and successfully before the s
And that in Britain this his- sumed an honourable and or-just decided to wage a propa- anese people.
ple than ever before, potentially the laboratory- thodox name for commu-ganda war on
This remarkable news indeed as dangerous in the dark-cloud-trical change will compel a mo- the profoundly stirring but perplex-
ed future of
of Japanese nationalist mentous readjustment of the Eri- nism's peculiar purpose, just made product from across
ing to British and Allied diplo resurgence as he was in the fiery fish industrial economy.
This is indeed a very big crisis. as "democracy" and similar
According to Mr, E. Jago, o matic observers and to General past of wilitarist 266 Britain has! We must not fumagine that it is!
whom was Australia to whom Western terms have been the British Bubber Development Robertson, none of
Board, the United States
or asked for an opinion apparently yielded diplomatic not a very big crisis just because used for political confusion.
thetic rubber industry is deter by General MacArthur before he leadership in Pacific affairs-may for the time being the talks in The Czech Government has mined to "x" natural rubber, proclaimed his personal
revela
well refuse to maintain even its Washington, have been so tenta- already suppressed the Catho and producers here are pooling tion of the gratifying contrition present token occupation force of tive and so quiet,
of the 2,000 men and one fighter squa- lic press and virtually taken funds to fight a new battle-not and abiding reformation of
on the front-line plantations but Japanese people. But though the dron in Japan under the proposed over the educational system. on the progaganda front.
voice may have been the voice of new "Big Brother partnership. With Communism not only MacArthur, the hand has Now it intends to put its
been The British Commonwealth has church law into effect. Hav-knocking at the door but hat the band of Washington-where been fortunate in its Australian
way inside, it see
seems an unhappy General MacArthur notoriously military representation and its More ing failed to gain its way situation.
Australian leader, General Ro 500,000 has few friends.
these are the people employed on through enticements,
It is hard to believe that Wash-bertson, in Japan But as an in Tokyo diplomat earn which plentations,
recordington really shares General Mac- American Goverment is putting itsollars for Britain. If American Arthur's starry-eyed confidence dryly observed, "Australian for- threats of arrest into effect. synthetic rubber wins the battle that he has already created a na eign policy towards Japan is de- One must not underests and there's a slump these men tion of people who will forever dicated doggedly to the somewhat that you democratic way of life adolescent proposition mate the terrible power of and women Malays, Indians, lead
dese
will be thrown out of But today, in the opinion of the must keep on "hating, your ene That would undoubtedly State Department, Japan is a totalitarian system when it
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"If, because of unrealistic pre- is ruthlessly applied. The mean more internal disturbances longer an enemy but a potential
ally, useful, desirable, indeed es- judices, the Vatican has shown that it and a lift for Communism.
Millions of pounds of damage sential for the containment of unhappily withdrawn from Japan underestimate the was done to the rubber planta- the Communist flood across Asia. while the American garrison re- does not
There is no doubt that Japan mains, British prestige will suffer danger. The developments to tions during the war. Yet pro-
ducers have not received a penny has been effectively demilitarised. a sericus setback. Such a with- date give heartening proof compensation.
General Robert Eichelberger.
ver drawal will not affect in the that the Czech and Slovak When the planters take time General MacArthur's former de slightest the inexorable facts of clergy is brave and loyal off from fighting bandits they puty, has bluntly said that he Japanese industrial recovery un-
make these points
fears the Allies have done too der America's "riendly guidance They are supported by a
settlement 1-That
war good a job in disarming
Japan
and protectionsible population. flock (about threequarters damage claims would tide them
Nor is there any
Japan's of the population is Roman over prescat troubles and make General MacArthur has supplied will be 90 or 100
produce Japan with an admirable blue- eight years' time. It was 72 mi- It Catholic) which has been if possible for them to
priat for democratic reform War lions at the end of the war. at competitive prices.
2-That they must have this criminals have been hanged was 80 millions at the end of last staunch without being fanati-
compensation if they are to re-largely to their immense satisfac year. The approved basis of cal •
The moral and religious plant and hold their own in the tion, because they have thereby Japanese recovery is the average rubber battle on a long-term protected their Emperor. The living standard of the years be-: issues involved are obvious, basis.
new Constitution reads beauti- tween 1830-34, when the popula-
Redistribution 3.That more money must be fully.
OF landtion was only 66
millions but there is also what might
To feed and maintain its pre- be termed a constitutional spent on research to improve the
standard of production.
sent population and import ̈es- issue of immense importance
all branches of the industry. At sential raw materials, Japan's for the Catholic Church, and Advisers' Corps four days netice Britain sent one trade would already need to be Government official and a hand- twice the volume of trade, in it may be that the decisive
ful of rubber men.
1930-34. Where is that tradu in the name of struggle is going to be fought They contend that
completely "out-gummed" Britain Says Planter Mackenzie, who is the United out in Czechoslovakia. It can at the recent Rubber, Study Con- also a member of the Johore Exe- to come from and go to? Not all be expressed in relatively ference in London. The United cutive and State Council: We Australia's lingering bitterness nearly lost this shooting war be- nor all Lancashire's textile fears simple terms only by keeping States sent a corps of more than cause the Government wouldn't can prevent Japan's comeback to the two main factors in mini 20 top-rank advisers, drawn from heed on-the-spot warnings. Now its pre-war position as
the rubber industry is fighting for shop of the Far Eastries and expressing them in (Continued At Foot Of Next CoL)
Its very life on the international General MacArthur. bel crudely practical terms.
trustingly that Japan. Is "We can win, but we must be sincerely penitent and truly de
We
does not care if it is impenitent
On the one hand a total-
ot
America
trade front.
tarian regime, by definition, Church cannot permit what given help.
doubt that
Australian Kórce is
millions in
the work-
now
want funds and mocratie. The State Department
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"How Irm a foundation" should be the favourite female hymn.
According to me agencyY TE port, conditions in the Middle East are becoming rather Syrias.
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