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AMERICAN ECONOMIST'S
IMPRESSIONS OF UK
A paper entitled "The impressions of a very well-known Amarican econom- ist on Britain," in which the writor describes Britain's economic posi- tion today and its possibilities in the future, was road of the Rotary Club luncheon at the Roof Garden yesterday by Rotarian P. S. HIL. The author of the papel, whose name was not rd-'I
vealed, said that Britain and the United States were an unbeatable combination 'ond between them had the answer to Commun- ísm.
He said: "Our goal must be frear trade; our moans, the increase of imports and invost- ment. Our hope: that the expansion of world trade will provide security and renow ed strength to our essential ally." The paper is as follows:
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us
the name
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1950.
Reminders
Today
By pushing and prodding her which is clearly enough to be in- own people, by.. pleading with ferred from the day-to-day da and Beraunding her dominions, velopments of Brital foreign Wertly negotiation with other policy 4 tuntit várbus piecas trela, by penalties and taxes, by equal
py exhortallon and con- of thila
edit and 'thportance. -
design are not of
Bilocation, nild restriction by
ver, be austerity rarely
nid un-permitted to break, the pieces are fortunately, by the use of alven forties, it s traditional incentives-England brought her- Bellish polley to take.
Toe meeting, 5b, Macdonnell I self to ho point wherɑ, now the canong its allies but ↑
Road, 8.30 p.m. Women's Section,
10 am.
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is well on the way to internal European and external solvency. YMCA, bridge-najong drive, | **
Even with the expensive over- Nine Dragous Services Club, ride of Socialism and, elaberate included within the Brkish Emdruncing class, p.ro.: boxing, welfare steina, her domesti et 7 pm, boxing champion-budget is balanced. Thus far sho pire. What Austraila, New Zen-
ships,
nas lived through devaluation Bp.m. land, South Africa. Candida. India and all the rest night have been
.7.45 pin. by now is a challenging thought. What they still may he is equally Excling.
te that as it may, within the hourt of the Empire, England. where the decisions were made, the defensive choice was taken In severat Important respects.
"The management jor industry, "Another, seving
as 1 faced growing competitior "I just returned from England country and the same people might have ret that competitor. and my Impressions are not a Bais England anation with Bpressively. Instead, all too fre little confused. It is difficult to balanced budget internally, fast auently, it rought the way out rounded view of another attaining viability in its interna was often afled and abetted by through protective cartels. In this get u
The sil country.
tional accounts, the home of t from their experience with our quality products, brilliant techno-government. The cartel roluilon
-I's that
were stationed and logs, full employment, with a pro- of dividing an existing market toyed there during the war, from nising lavestment programme, instead of compellig for it and Hollywood's Interpretations of our nation with a standard of livinge drive to Improve technology. expanding it took away much of culture, from tourists gawking at serand only to our OWN. and
and lower la Ben and complaining abou possessing incredible skilt inseck ent savings. the plumbing, and from the oe-government with Which it has prices. Anet though for several epsioni visits of American public beca successfully working its way decades British companies profil They learn about us put of a situation that would have raten have beer: high, even by figures.
U.S. standards, cartels and re- from their prew, which doesn't cored any other nation. hesitate to emphasise
strictive trade associnilon activity- The irrespon "What one thluks of England. ponsibllity of a
llity of a Congress that ties therefore, depends on which it has left a herliage of obsolescens ECA appropriations to the parti- of facts one chooses to emphasise machinery and light easily tlun of Ireland, and they neces-Let ine run through some of the tion which makes it increasingly sarily have a biased, na incom- main points, which from our paint dimeuil for English is to cum- TE On pleie, and somewhat envious view of view of estimating the strength pete in world markets. of America and Anuricans.
nt au ally, seen the nost m-fact worth mentioning that Eng
land's share i world manufacture portant. To begin with:
hos declined steadily ever aines the 1870's. That is not dynamle
"By the same token, our view of Britain, however objective we try to be is Imited by our pre- judices, qua: by the scattered 'and perhaps
facto unrepresentative that came to our attention.
"One man can go to England and come back with
a dismat
Great power "Britain is a great power witn long experience in acting like one. Its supremacy as a maris time and trading power dater from Queen Elizabeth,
captur in In turn, has also taken a a defensive view. The grim experience of depression and doic in the 1920's left a deep mark on the British working man. And
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Paing having to inko siny, final Whenever,, on mor matters, ed Isinavitable, the priort- In English
es, are clear
Firal Engian Next→→→Thp Empire. Then Western Europe. And only then The United
Union Jack Club, whisk drive. Without laternal infation, site, bal States.
and
6:15 p.m.
grophic exhibition,
maintained "full: sripleynient ----
We take this last place, not because we are Important but because we are less poke Teliable and less predictable. England, at present.
NAAFT Club, Kowloon, darts samo say hyper-full employment. tournament, 8 p., Servicee the line rebuilt her industrial
machine back to where it want Spotlight, D...
Externally she HK Art Club, monthly exhibition before the war.
dare tie to clorly with us hp: Christmas Cards, St.ns nhsorbed the drain of un- John's Cathedral hall, 10 n.m.requited exports to areas holding.
war-created sterling balahides and
caure, aké lo nevar sure what to 8 p.m. (admission free).
what we are being to do next.. she has reached the point where Sine-British Orchestra rehearsal, viability is in sight by the end
"If we keep the ting system.
in of St. John's Cathedral hall, suraball, all in 1902 Shnky mind, and The prioritica al- viability, to be sure dollars wil tach to lt, many of the confusing, Peter Teang's one-man photo-still be sculely short, but it will and to us, upsetting and anta- Plotehon solution she en live with.gonising polloles, that England bos graphie Society of Hong Kong,
adopted in recent years, are gasier 217A, Prince's Bldg, 10 nm.
· “Frankly, most Americans tako to understand. But our
problemi exception to some of the methodn is that the
form those policies Coming events
by which England, has accom- take doesn't always work to the plished Its crida. Few of us would interest of the United States. **TOMORROW`
like to live in England today. And we have to decide w sue that the latest election has hov Aud most of us were relieved to
{"port the ring,
cand try to arrested the drift to Socialism.muscle in on it, and dominate it.
Whether stom We hope that the present stalemate or whether to break it up and wil be resolved the older way establish our own system. Theat and that the next governmen? will offer inore of the carrot and are the basic alternatives of our
foreign
polley. me be more specific: less of the suck. Even the pr aunt Government is leeing come of its fall in planning and con- trols and is relying thereazingly |
:
Kowloon Rotary Club, luncheon,
Fausula Hotel, 12.30 p.m. HK Art Clib, monthly exhibition arid 'Christina. Cards, St. John's Cathedral hall, 10 p.m. to 6 p.m. (admission free), NAAFI Club, anooker tournament, 7 p.m.; dancing class, 7:30 pan. Union Jack Club, tombola, 7.30
p.ni
Nine Drogons Services Club, games competition 7. p.m. HC Women's International Club, bathing plenie for. Forces. buses leave at 0.30 p.m., and 7 p.m.
Grainophone recital, Diocesan
order
Boy's School, 8.15 pm.
hold their
on business initiative to solve.
ising a peculiarly position in the non- world and is well
there
critical problems of increasing aware of it. She is no longer the productive capacity, and Increas-dominant great power. She lacks the strength abe had and is
once dollar exports.
grimly
delénsive actions Oghting But like her methods or not, to protect her position rather approve of her pelilles or not. than 10 we cannot fall to respect her ac- try to expand 11.
"During.
recont complishment and to resignis0|1ins
been # considerable amount that with all of her troubles in of economic friction between the past, all of her dificuliles of Britain and the United States. In The Present and all of her prob- the months
It is FREY to come, it come, England, and her can, point to her post-war preses a, good dont more
Our conception of the.
In Own
Jez
story of austerity and Socialismctures begen when it got thebeatis, of business, government the rest of the world it started →of oppressive fixation, antiquai-
www jump on the rest of the world in officio's. economists and journalists;
all duplong about further growth an avalanche of bilateral trade
ed nachinery, low productivity, the dustrial revolution.
Our
lupe in Industry or manu- when he saw others around him world markets. And through people, and bol up her head eurtels, lollar gaps, and decline, Colonial strength and its Empire for England. He took their alguns, retaliatory, and de. I proudly as one of the still great War world-and. Paul,.
He sees a nation whose resources
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Always consist of little incre that cond started with the great explorers and put in his bird for security. In The sort of arrangements which have maintained coller a worthy
ys uneconomic powers of the world and as
isrand desirable ally. gende cont deposits, some pottery and continued expanding through the factory this took the form of
Hjalmar Schacht his re- elay, and the great dead hand of the reign of Queen Victoria. Al resistling the introduction of new bavo
ila peak before his first world
Britain's place processes putation, and which finds us tradition.
new machinery and war, England was the banker and whenever it mitit cost seincons today with a world where
BUZI London was the financial centre his particular to. There are those cach nallon tends to be on uu- for most of the world. And the who also say it took the for not surrounded by trade barriers, of torchle little economic island, pound was the principal inter- festherbedding, ca'canny, national currency, For several
quantitative restrictions veral working too hard on the job, tariffs, qua centuries British
fingers have oaking a given task last for fear and currency controls. been in every political and econo-there night not be another-all of
a little have spent a
extra nic ple of conséquence in China, which are defensive tactics igult- time talking about these defeu- the Moslem work, the Hindu ble for at hidividuat without sive, decisions in England: Indus expressot (in a speech I heard world. Africa, most of Europe, hope for the future, but in the try turning, to carteis instead of
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free economy with a minimum of point is of an expanding a been an eloquent spokesman
trade barriers and a maximum mutually soltanations
the Individualé.
this goat. but shows ni Intention friendly nations of all "For purposes of négollation Britain is willing to subscribe to of uccomplishing it on our terms.
Dollar gap
of course, is yes, ut not an un- "But does England, for her part, wish to be our ally? The answer. qualified yes. She has no inlet Lon of being a tall, fo', our kite. Brilath's notion of her place in the world was very colourfully Winston Churchill make during "Where we cry for free multi- ana, except for the United States. aggregate, when adopted by all competition, labour seeking the last election campaign. Speak lateral trade. Britain, to protect the Ewish-speaking world. It's workers, serlaus
ans impediments to security
rity instead of productivity, Ange only about 300 people in a the remaining place she has in akugcessful mission to beca, mobility and to the Increase of government choosing protection schoathouse auditorium in hul world markets and to safeguardi
safe to say that if there
moon
ntury
because
lonies.
productivity without which instead of free trade,
own constituency, he developed her internal economy against dis at the turn of the 20th'
locations, keeps. her controls, her vennoine system cannot grow they not only help describe cen- his anology of the three rings. that one of the first to land would This attitude on the part of labour tral trends affecting the British Without mentioning Bollanting traile barriers and Scotister have been a British Consul,
has had its political munifesta
they also point to dan-Ale by name, he sketched their bilaterally with other countries, This didn't happen by accident, ilon, too, will the emergence of gets within the United States, symbol of three Interlinked rings. We haven't yet got over our dis- And Eritain didn't maintain its British Socialism under a Labouri preeminent place in the world for Government-with its fellan of Now that we are a leading world but instead of what is it, Purlly taste for the Anglo-Argchiinlan
Over and,- i in part
must take Body and Flavour? Re Identifed deals.
"Where we pters for the econo- ve centuries by sheer luck or full employment and its extensive
place,
It is important ip each ring in a different fashion, Juri by
Jntegration of Western "miduling through." and expensive welfare pro- ronise that, wo bavo. much Coinmonwealth. the United King-| Europe, for a European Payments}
"One ring, he said, is the British mic. To Military and naval power, an in-grammes, dustrial end-start, un economic
her example. We enn hun what to do, and what not gum,its Dominions and is Co-Union--and eventually for con In a trap
Jeurn system grounded, on individual
"Desirable as full employment to do. If we are vise, we needn't Incentives, the expanding force of free trade, and great political may be un humanitarian as the copy her mistakes. If we are alert skill all played their part. In ex-programmes of social welfare, the to the problem, we'll continue to panding and sustaining British In-point is that of the two ways of place our bets on. competition, in sistence. There is much. We can attaining them, the expansive way creasing productivity, and freeing
and the defensive way, Britain, world irade... feurn from thelf example-and
"But back to England: verture, to say that it would be d'under the Labour-Government good bargain for the United States chase the defensive way of divid- If we could swap some of ouring the existing ple more evenly resources for some of that British rather than bending all its ener- ski in governing-aud expericles toward the baking of a large: ence negotiating with other ple.
Revertheless, we must realise that some of that British pre- enilence has begun to fray at the edges From its peak in the early part of this century, British power has begun to decline.
The long-ranke hielbrian moy project this fact into a prediction
"But long before a Labour Government came to power with; Its programme of austerity and controle, other administrations fall into the defensive trap in avory important respect. And we in the United States helped push them into that trap.
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ahall Plan aid the European and Harriman on our elda and Sir theirs hao members of the Alontie Detence Stafford Cripps on reach some time Packing he identified as than
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"England is not a self-sumclent plant into replacement, is a member of all three. If you
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