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REPORT ON AMERICA

No prizes for spotting your colleagues in

OFFICE ZOO

by Cummings

BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP

They think NEHRU rules Attlee

wherever and whenever munism strikes.

Com-

I do not say that this feeling. is unanimous, but it does repre- sent the majority opinion.

I know that in this first Instalment of my American re- port I have drawn a picture unatttractive, yet I The American sees this point which is

in, America, but, although he doch not like urge you to believe to but I too bluntly, he is won- and to have confidence in her.

The exasperation with her dering what he is going to get

part of the natural poured into allies is for the millions

Impatience

American of the Europe and into Britain.

Im- He never Uses the word character, but that very "mercenary" but it is never patience is a sign of unexpended

vitality. in his thoughts. Above

HAVE just returned then bombed by the American from my third visit to air force. America since the end of the war to find myself, as always, astonished by find- ing Great Britain a country in which it is still possible to live.

That

may seem a strange theless in opening for a report on America, all he hates being a "sucker." With all her faults of inex- is exactly

what hc but it is not as irrelevant as it and that

ce and even unfairness we

thank whatever making him.

gods may seem. The Americans, from thinks Europe their two occan isolation, look Quite frankly the average there be for the unconquerable no clear dis- soul of the United States, She out on the world and ask: "What American draws

our counsel, our cx- kind of people are

they who tinction between Great Britain needs have

taken our money and with and the pations of Western perience, our friendship. I do American in the the not believe We are all whom

have Minked

our Eufonts queue.

We have leadership of the world, but I the profoundly in Impression that Great taken the American dollar, and believe

American thinks English-speaking leadership. Britain gives from a distance is the ordinary deplorable.

that he ought to get something

World Copyright Reserved-- London Express Service) Each day the American Press for his money. carried sober but depressing

TOMORROW: The truth news of the influenza epidemic,

the smallpox

about MacARTHUR of

outbreak in Brighton, of "floods, of coal shortage, of snow and tog and general 'desolation.

we

EX-PRESIDENT HOOVER ... unleashed the hidden thoughts.

"

I

HEARST SAYS

ת!

Do not want to be politically

partisan in this report but; one of the chief reasons for America's lack of warmth to- wards

is His Majesty's Government.

They think Mr Autler is a good tle man but he does not interos! or inspire them.

With some shrewdness they believe that Mr Nehru is the real power in British foreign polley, In fact, Mr Nehru is the most quoted and denounced of all British politiclans-f Mr Nehru will accept that designa- tion.

It is perhaps not without significance that Mr Hearst's New York Journal came out with a special Canada number and declared that the Dominion was the only partner America As for Socialist possessed. Britain under the Asiatic spell of Mr Nehru, there was not a word.

IMPATIENCE

CANADA 65,000 a year

THE SMOOTH. TONGUED WILY-BIRD

'Oh yes,certainly! Ring me at six' (He goes at five)

THE STAR-EYED STENOG ....I like stamp collecting, too."

THE GREATER TYCOON "No!'

THE PRIM-BILLED INDENT

THE PROWLING CASANOVA

"That's a nice-looking tittle casserole /

'But you had a couple of paper clips only two months ago."

needs a touch here

THE LONG. FANGED OGLE ... Mr. Chip chase, bellees

and

a fraction there.

ட்

AUSTRALIA 200,000 a year

THE EVED. CARPING NUMBER TWO ... - 133773,

It just

you've got my. A to K..

London Express Bervice

NEW ZEALAND 25,000 a year

Empire calls for

more Britons

THE greatest period of Empire emigration is

at hand. The 1951 drive is on, and the target is the British citizen.

:

I do not blame any of the correspondents who sent these news items to their newspapers for undoubtedly Job's Island has suffered many afictions this winter,

PUT now comes the paradox.

For every Briton going Despite the wave of isola- -Bul'a nuraber“ of American tionism which

Hoover's speech out now, Empire countries newspapers take their news of set in motion, despite the bellef aim at taking two in the Britain from the BBC broad-

that the French will not fight casts, and wo might well con-

(FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)

as possible, so that she can press for Dominion status. Cash deposits to cover cost but of possible repatriation to on- man- have been lowered

courage more Britons. But -much criticism has now arisen that post-war migra- tion ia out-running re-

State, Commonwealth Employment United Migration Board when they also their present are renewed, with Britain power plans for national and the Dominions sharing defence. costs.

But the threat of war

if

Yet

sider a more balanced picture and that Britain will only try future around 2,000,000 has complicated everything.

re to defend her Island and her in the next ten years of British life than travels across Empire, despite

the conviction they can get them. It is sumcient to say

that

America can never be

American opinion slowly shook

the air.

:

that I acquired almost an aura invaded and conquered

of heroism at the mere spectacle of returning to this country.

Yel the sun is shining and London is majestle in its beauty I wish that television could Atlantic so stretch across the

that my American friends could see that this is still the best of all countries, for all its affilctions and Inflictions,

BLOW TO PRIDE

POLITICALLY the Americans

are in a state of suspended disillusionment and puzzled re- sentment.

As a people they are not as politically developed as British,

and are given to over- simplification.

Empty lands

What has brought about

some such scheme must come about-for un- controlled migration on the this new situation?

now being built up It had been forecast that scale

The International situa- the only wreck

1 Empire off the Hoover-Kennedy in the

Settlement will not

tion particularly the fluence and hardened once more

re- Socialist Government's con- embrace a ception of a Welfare, Full- Korean, war has under- lined the urgency of peopling the empty lands,

to the belief that the U.S.. must Acts which are boing be in the vanguard of the battle viewed would

COMMONWEALTH

sources.

NORTHERN RHODESIA “~

leaders are Her Bettler pressing for 50,000 migrants inside the next five years. A State-aided migration scheme is under consideration.

SOUTH

AFRICA:

A few days ago Prime Labour everywhere is

Minister Menzies of Aus- tralia re-emphasised the urgency of this.

MADE

2

The realisation

Australia,

EVEN MORE REAL

the

OU begin to realise just what the British

They are generous and open- Commonwealth really hearted in personal matters, but means out here, when you deeply

sumpicious on the level see British Tommies snap of international affairs.

Koren has been a terrible blow to attention before a beard- the wearing to their pride, for this is the ed Indian

of a para first taste of real defeat which maroon beret America has over Being human, they try

Dantly

do

experienced. trooper.

try to blame it, at least United Nations to the failure of the other

ir support them the fight

men of im

*

By J. L. HAYS

scarce, Great expansion of secondary industries, plus the huge Orange Free State goldfields scheme-18 new that mines will be operating in only the next few years will Dominion with a "full-out" bring about a labour crisis ing experiences I have had in migration policy so far, has unless migration is greatly Korca. It is always the same been "skimming the cream" intensified.

the

the and has built up

an or

Middlesex: "How is this posh gunisation that will enable

on, her to go on doing so,

-from the Cockneys of

movement would only be ripple."

in

a Rolls-Royce 20th

from the mate?" and

of tho "Geordies" Technical problems are, in

important Heard anything of the Argylls fact, eased by two factors which were

common lately?" knowledge long before military censorship Was imposed Korea:-

getting

29th's R.NF.:

Here is the position

individual countries:-

ties have Commonwealth

made tightened here, and are

of the

Competing

in ADDING all the demands together and making allowances for migrants from other countries the CANADA: Mr C. E. S. Empire lands will still be among them. For the troops, whether

all the brighter by the sombre Smith, Director of Immi- competing.

to Britain selves to get around 200,000 defeat, gration, came they come from Bermond-

The staff of the 29th background

and, la a way, recently to launch a new Britons a year-mostly the I talked with

drive. Dollar problems young, fit, and trained. portance and unimportance but sey or Brisbane, from Old- Brigade, which is such a large frustration,

that the ttle humiliation.

eml- have brought British be formation never heard one suggestion that

"Brigade" is really

-For essentially the Common- British troops were in Korea or ham or Orissa, have

And to this must be add- conveniently British ships

In come Commonwealth-mind- misnomer, could were that

wealth is a people of the comgration to Canada to a than a divisional Korean waters.

Common post-war low of less mon weal, and the ed. They believe there is be expanded into

ed the increasing demands seven wealth conception As for the Turks who sent a

that 8,000 in the first have people

common months of 5,000 gallant soldiers, sufficient wealth in the brigade

of last year. Mr of Colonial development- Common- heard nothing and readCommonwealth

plus the new fighting

Smith's aim:- nothing.

wealth technical-aid-for-3.E. Asia scheme.

If one points out that Korea power already in Korea to

division.

is simply a more violent phase form a first-class infantry of the Astatle Communist war being waged in Malaya and Indo-China they have no cars to hear. A bargain's a bargain and the United Nations did not keep it.

In such an atmosphere you There's Ani A domestic can imagine the explosive effect

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LIES DEEP

TSOLATIONISM lles, deep in ISOL

the American heart, for it These opinions, I know, all was the mother of her greatness shared by oil-from our

as a nation. No doubt sincerely. Brigadiere,

Basil Coad but certainly with perfect poll-

leal timing, ex-President Hoo-Tom Brodio, down to thoughts of

stal.

2:

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Infantry these The Canadian Battalion and the New Zealand reactions to danger and disas are ter. Field Regiment gunners available for frontline service, ruising the totals of our bat- talions to seven, and the field regiments to two.

THE TIES

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Up to 65,000 immigrants annually. ("Jobs for every-

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his

Far behind

AUSTRALIA wants 200,-

Since the end of the war British migrants. to Commonwealth

the hava

A

averaged, about 100,000 year.

You know what -A now, divisional commander

bellove incans, would this be able to fight a wealth division of two, fin infantry when a poker-faced Australian

from majestically brigades each with a full field rises regiment of guns and a "sup Bren gun-pit and sympathises:

ton's blob, cobber;

The new situation which port group of tanks and in- Tough cheese about Comp-

Cockney shouts excitedly: 000 a year-for her £1,000-

or-. "Blimey, did you see that Kiwi, million development plan is now arising, if an

Britons as pos- ganised scheme is not sot Wurf theirns many In the old sible. Announces that her up, can wreck the British "migrants fleet" can bring economy as at present sus in 11,000 Britons on each tained.

tantry.

BENEFITS OBVIOUS

male? They are the blokes wo want

up'ere. weight in gold The advantager of a Com- desert, they were." monwealth Division are obvious

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Training possibilities for of commanders, by an Invulnemble would prefer to remain u Navy and Air Force and lend-named, put it this way: "Buch CT and men alike would be United Nations peroonnel.

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