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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1950.
ABOUT NATIONALISATION Good Morning
Y.
Sir Arthur, Salter, the dis-
tinguished economist,
has
By "Windrush"
prises. They have been unwield ing, rigid and impersonal. At the top, have been governing boards whose members have enjoyed ex- to them have been used as politi- cal patronage.
written a striking letter to the "Times" about nationalisa-, would have been very extraor- pay more; and our export truda{travagent salaries. Appointments tion. Few men of this genera-dinary if electricity had not made is gravely damaged. tion can speak with so much a profit). authority on the relations be- tween government and the aconomic system.
cause
3
Defects realised
are not as
I really admire our publie This is only one of the open
spirited Unofficials for thair if private enterprise makes a problema in nationalisation. An-1.
bravo stand for the underdog on loss, it goes bankrupt. It is at an other is labour relations. The men
the Thatter of Macan loans. end. Or it is reconstructed under and women engaged in the nation-
Unfortunately, however, they had new management so that it makes allaed industries seem no happier
no knowledge of the powerful After a great carrer as a civit a profit. But
The more reflective nationalised than under the old system. The the
jetrcles in
Omciais arguments the Labour Party realise these muster, and were so completely servant he was for 10 years head undertaking cannot be liquidated question has also to be faced HK$18.00 HK$30.00 of the Economie and Financial So if it is not paying its way, whether trade unions in nation-defects very well. The research surprised by these revelations HK$72.00
Section of the old League of Na- one of two things has to be done.alised Industries should have the shore of the Party, is making a that they immediately withdrew tions. In the two world wars he Either its loases have to be paid same right to strike as those in thorough study of the problems. their motion. The specches looked was the effective controller of Bri-
for out of taxation from the private enterprise.
But the study is not yet com: awfully well in the papers. tish merchant shipping, and in community. This means,
pleted. There is still no reasoned in the
though. both played a vital part in saving last analysis, that all the person-
policy. And, as Salter enys, it is A third problem is how public foolish In these circumstances to England from the submarine
nt engaged in the nationalised control is to be exercised over
Incidentally those of us who, blockade.
undertaking are receiving u dale state enterprise, The usual way carry nationalisation yet, further, were better brought up" can be from the rest of the community of justifying nationalisation 15 Words even stronger than Sal- duly thankful wo Sulter is one of the Members of If the losses in their undertaking that it is a democratle measure. ter's Parliament who are retiring be- are due to inefficiency, this in- It is argued that large enter-
have been used by the other people, of the abolition of the efficiency is being, not penalised, prises, affecting the life of the "Economist."
is advertising a car University Seats. (He was mem- but actually rewarded.
Someme community, should not be left in The Government nationalised with "esoler, defroster and ber for Oxford University). The
public hands. But if this argu- as if sleep walking. Since Minis- automatic top, glass seats." loan, to Parliament of such men
ment is accepted, the aim is pre-ters have never na Salter and of Sir John Ander-
cleared their
Sounds like window dressing. sumably then to ensure that the minds about the job that they But it won't give me, a pane. son who for vertities.
the Scotch Uni shows
public as a whole has an effective wanted the various nationalisa The second possibility is tho control over the enterprizes. the folly of abolishing theso
tion schemes to do, the schemes the cost of the products constituengles,
"Jack Dempsey strikes oll." which hrought into Parliament undertaking may be raised. KL
have not been designed to do any This hog not been brought job. The appointments made to
always was a striking type. men of different background from may be dearer coal, or dearer about in the coal mines, the rail-the Boards-with one or two ex- Good clean_fun.
railway fares, or dearer freight ways, or the the party politicians.
other nationalised charges. The nationalised under-concerns. It is very difficult for critics. Broadly speaking the same, reports a contemporary.
ceptions have been safe medio- "Subtle Pross gag by Poron,” Salter is an Independent, but taking may then pay its way-Farliament to investigate or as people, or the same sort of people, he has criticised several aspects but at a heavy cost to
Very subtle. "All society sert its authority over these en- run the industries in the same dictator did was to cut off a tho meat of Labour's nationalisation pro- For the inefficiency of the stalo terprises. That has been one of way as before. Yet if no change journal's supply of newsprint.
with it. If the price of of Commons which has just been fuss about." coul or the price of transport is dissolved.
Myrtle really is lazy. When raised, thin imposes un extra-così.
she wants exercise she goes to People who vote Labour are perhaps a crippling extra cost, The Labour Government has not going to do so because they feah creep.
Aim and lets her Bee a horror on private enterprise over a large been unimaginative in the admin- want range of industries. At home thief istrative structures which it has doing so because they believe that nationalisation. They are consumer in the long run must created to control these enter- Labour means full employment.
GELDART-To Helena, wife of F.-S. Geldart, at Tientsin, on February 22nd, a daughter, Kate..
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Second possibility
of the
Mr. Lam Chi Ming and Mr. Lamgramme. In his present letter henterprises drags down private the main discoveries of the House was required, what was all the
Chi Leung wish to express their grateful thanks to the Secretariat of Chinese Affairs and all others for their kind messages of condolence, at tendance at the funeral and floral tributes on the death of their late Father, Mr. Lam Pul-gang.
LOANS TO REFUGEES
Boys!
"The Labour Party, it is well to emphasise, are now alone in the free world in proposing these policies (of nationalisation). After recent experience and in the faca of present difficulties, the free world has been turning away from Socialism-from the Anti- podes to the Atlantic, in Aus- tralia as in New Zealand, in Ger- many as in Belgium.
BRITISH GEOGRAPHY
Much
of
can
Ho
"American
..
·
..
allowed free passos in and out agents had been
of camp and had done good work, supplementing provisions, school medical and equipment and nursing needs, A record number of tablos per head was bom in the camp during the last three months."
Interesting.
..
*
One account of the VIP'S to "the BOAC
"Scandinavia alone is an ex- on the issue, of
the domestic/ The way to think of England in ception. But
Not until the beginning of the Great Britain the 19th century is of an island 20th century was Great Britain nationalisation even Scandinavia politics of
off the North West corner of seriously confronted by military the no exception. In Norway today
be understood Europe, which by invisible strings land powers which tried to ex- arrival_referred Socialist Prime Minister only in the light of the was London. The English coun- pand by fortu, trampling on driver."
Immediately no stated
election that there would be no very great changes which controlled the economic life of local national entities. When that Parliament, that nationalisation in the present have come over the position all five continents. Its vital point threat came Great Britain was
for the next and role of Great Britain inj
four years.
after the
Same position
insurance.
alone
+
the economic life of the world.] —————— In the same way, Britain's foreign policy has to be under-
By "WINDRUSH” ́
forced out of Its traditional polley. Twice since then it has had to raise
enormous land armies and engage in total war- Lore.
most war
Man on a serpent throne
Radical change
waa
Today, If you would ́ under- stand the essence of England, do not walk through the city of London. Walk through an indus- trial town, see the factories, the canteens, the labour exchanges, That is the centre now.
Chauffeur but no fuhrer.
•
Chap I know thinks the correct Anish a letter, when way to writing to a parɛon, is: "Always at your service."
a
Said yesterday's critic: "As play it la by no means waterlight." These comparisons flow right over my head.
So the beloved Lion Ho' has died in the London Zoo, and it isn't expected that the Chinese Communists will agree to replace her.
No, Paking hasn't' shown, any
of
thing.
There was once a sailor who was shipwrecked on a South Sea Island. Every morning he was wakened by eight belles..
The solution of the question of repayment of loans ad- vanced in Macao to refugees from Hong Kong ranks higher than the unfortunate manner in which, after a lapse of over four years, the re- cipients were reminded of these debts. The imposition of a means test here and now
"In Sweden the position is stood in the light of its is repugnant to all right-mind-
substantially the same.
cir- Nation- changed geographical ed persons. Nothing was allsation is there kept within more galling, during the great modest limits and has remained changes in methods of war- cumstances as the result of
But at the same time as Great unemployment distress in since the war, and remains,
Britain has been forced into a Britain between the wars, has become Socialist policy in
practically without jextension. It fare.
tryside had become a ******
kind of new foreign policy, its economic than this kind of inquisition, Sweden, while creating a welfare the
Great Britain was the pioneer in market garden of London. position vis-a-vis the world' has Industrial revolution. But, The industrial North was im- changed radically. The centre of In every society there is a state, to leave private enterprise though it became for a time the portant and spectacular, but it gravity in England has moved small-a very small-per- to cart and provide the resources industrial power par excellence, was not the essence of England. away from the bankers and centage of people who have Labour Government,
required to support it. The what
For decades it Bave it its
prepondering To perceive the essence you had financiers. therefore, economic position in the 19th cen- to stroll through the olty of slowly losing. Its power to ac-f lost their self-respect. Some in now further extending nation- tury was its role as banker London, near the Thames, and cumulate capital. From 1014 on- inclination to pands to this sort are just plain bums, the others! alisation is
even among financier, and conimercini centre, look at the name plates of the wards the pound sterling was no are mean and miserly. The Socialist Governments."
London was the world capital banking houses. These were the longer dependably: stable. : Salter's comments may well-known human race has a even more weight when it is re-economic advance of so
of the 18th century) carry of capitalism. The secret of the sovereigns
many world,
In the second world war Great Britain lot to answer for, as the im-membered how many vital pro-countries in the 19th century was Out of the great wealth which
Ilquidated most of her merise afflictions we bring bleia connected with nation- that capital was being invested had accumulated, Great Britain assets abroad and spent them on purposes. Simultaneously upon ourselves bear witness. alisation have still to be clearest in unprecedented amounts, and was able to maintain the
British Industry was expanded. But at least it must be said "p. While they are still unsolved, with more or less prudent pure formidable navy in the world.
it in astonishing that Labour pose. It was the banking houses But its army appeared, by con- Political power passed largely that the overwhelming ma- should go cheerfully forward with and financial houses of London tinental ideas, very inadequate into the hands of Trade Unionists. jority of mankind works for its plans for nationalising from which organised this great under-The purpose of its foreign policy The aim of polley is no longer Its living and is miserable and steel, sugar, cement and taking.
was non-aggressive. It was to to establish the most favourable maintain without work. Few, if any,
One foundation for, this effort The first of these of the Hong Kong refugees blems is: Who pays for the losses gold pound so that thisrencs, of national governments throughout dustry and a high standard of
open pro- was the absolute stability of the let live conditions of live and conditions in the world for Br-t
under which commercetish commercial banking. It is best
Dourished. It was to back
to maintain a stable level of in- who received the mere pitt-in nationalised enterprise? Un- the real international currency of
the world. Another foundation the world because these seemed living for ance doled out in somewhat happily, almost all experience up
the industrial prg- to the present is that nationalisa was the confidence Inspired by the to represent the spirit of the letariat -haphazard-fashion-at-Macao lon involves loss. (Electricity is Bank of England, and later, as the time, and thus to hold out the were undeserving cases, the striking exception, but It unsound members were weeded best hope of the stable interna- Practically all of them were
out, by the banks and finance tional system which British com houses generally.
¡mercial" interests required. reduced to living on the dole in this way out of direst nearthly power doth then
14 an attribute to God himself: And show Ikust cessity,
God's When mercy seasons Justice." Their lives lacked, it is true, Business is business--this the terrors and rigours of the dole was not business. The
It is this which has tilted Eng- internment camps under the social conscience of our trou-
land. still not fully conscious of Japanese. The loans they bled time would put it higher
where she is going, towards Socialism. received were in most cases even than benevolence as
The great depressiani Strangest of all sects is the the "Pope" is entirely barbaric made it aware of how pathetically very small indeed, but they high as simple duty. The new Indo-Chinese religion of desig
insecure its industrial life can be, were doubtless able to get means test imposes an ordeal Caodaism,
Wherever one looks there are The which,
recent Labour Manifesto though surprises. On the wall above the described the "Arst aim of the more to eat than the skelet- upon the self-respecting ma- founded less than 25 years ago, high altar appear the figures of Labour Party as being to main ons who came out of the jority as a safeguard against a has enrolled 2,000,000 of the Buddha, Confucius, Lao-Le, and tain full employment. To do this camps when the war was tiny shameless minority, and 6,000,000 inhabitants of Co-Christ, for Caodaism claims to be it is trying to impose a rigidity over. But these at least were it is estimated that only 10 per chin-China, now known as synthesis of all existing reil- du the economic system. By able to do much for them-cent of the amount involved South Vietnam.
glons, revering their leaders as planning, the system is to be selves and for their
of envoys com- can ever be recovered. In the
kept intact. was given prophets Supreme
This economie background · is panions in durance vile. Not scale of material values it is to this cult in the first State visit is symbolised on the walls all the work was pleasant-far, as petty as it is in the scale of to the cathedral" and "Holy buildings and the from It. But in a sense they spiritual values. British sub-See' of the Chodalsts at Taynish, the priests by an open human eye returned full service for their jects cannot relish the contrast about 60 miles from Saigon, of within a triangle.
the French
High miserable keep. Never was it affords with the action of
Vieto spirits honoured ́ ́ by' Vietnam,
departed there any question of loss of the Macao Government, which It was a reconciliation as well the self-respect except in rare wiped the slate clean. If pre- as a recognition, for, till about walls of the temple in the full instances
French dress and cocked hat of social mis- cedents to the contrary were two years ago, the
thorities in demeanour.
Indo-China consider- The lot of any real obstacle, they too
the French, Academy. ed Coodalam as a potentially The organisation of this church the refugee was physically should have come under that dangerous element in the political is like that of the Roman Catho- much better, and he was at principle.
life of the country, and exiled lie hierarchy, with a "Pope, five least at liberty, but to all with
to Madagascar frem "cardinals," But since they do exist and its "Pope to any degree of sensitiveness it were regarded as an impelling for Caodaism is a gort of theo-Women are admitted
1942 to 1948 se
and deaconshops, was spiritually more painful, motive to compromise, that cratic State within the State. In priesthood on the
There has been enough,recompromise, should surely addition to its relatous side 1 men. All are Valdmastity, andj crimination and to spare, and have taken a different form. has its own army and its own
its own wou
(vows 'OLM
of poverty, chaty, more than enough bitterness After all these years the re- civic administration ofsitiement delity members of this new cult
the terms for us to wish to add to it. cipients should have been in-
new Perhaps we have erred in formed that the issue was one milliant is allowed to retain those
the French this church ba
that they are inspired by spirits, with whom they com even these comparisons in de solely of conscience. If they functions on condition: It gives municate
te through trained grees of misfortune. The un- felt they could, and should, support to the new Vietnam Ad- mediums. They have dealghed an official members saltd all there pay any contributions they ministration in its struggle with instrument for automalle writing,
[(the) Communist revolutionaries called "the basket, with a was to say for the doing of the cared to make would be grate-led by Ho Chi-minh. Her to facilitate communications with brak," right thing-the noble thing, fully received... If for any HERREN
[the but they capitulated on a com reason, whether service in the Hollywood style promise which adds a quality public cause or their own past
turning
by of of painful humiliation to the or picoont palvation, they did. If Hollywood had been set the young Indo-Chinese business, men issue of repayment An'a re- not feel able to do anything it would probably have produced church came to be founded, at tusk" of "doxigning's new religion in Saigon that the · Caodalst medy for the bitterness which about it then it would be something very like the cathedral the behest they
of the a lot persons feel wiped out. But surely to
a fow have directly expressed, we confess we can think
nothing less likely to be ef-
fective.
No"The “quallis» of "userer
Is druppeth: As Shad
By G. Ward Price
Official recognition
With der
oner
Of
and
believe that
the
of the
who is one of the
of a mem
bishops,
to the
the same terms as and take
table.
ing which J, what
be doubted whether those who have bullf at Tayninh; with their Cao-Del" mounɛ. Auffered deductions from their own hands and without» we
pay in discharge of these debts calty decorated bulld would feel any the better if arse
thli became the major pretext
denial of that
which wou
clean withot
(the Sspirit) communications
3your-church'i
worth bearing in mind in all re- doction on the results of the to- day's elections.
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