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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 11, ` 1952.”
WHISKY-A BIG MONEY-MAKER
By Raymond Thomasson
THE
into
proat
80,000,000, gallons * of ported
whisky.
+
Its
**-
com-
.Glasgow, worth about £1,200 apites on THE last of Scotland's the home market,
Only a small proportion most profitable cash
the current
supply finds crop for the 1901-02 season way there these days, of course, has just been put by whisky being one of the main about 300,000 tons of barley props, of Britain's export trade, Out of a total of 14.2 million -malted, mashed, ferment-
gallons released from od *and distilled
box last year Beltain
10.6 million gallons- Drth £20,504,474. And of this amount the United States dranit When It is about seven of 8218,708 proat gallons-paying cigit years old and mature, £18,209,973 in good dollars,
ill be carnlog fabulous sums
And consider
these for Britain as a lop money-
parativo vajucs: One acre (or spinner in the export trade.
of berley, plus 2 At Glenkinchie stillery, in hund
hundredweights of coke, plus Enat
Lothian 1 was just in time 1hu
hundredweights of to see "Willle"
brew the last pics to liens of whisky. peck of malt of the season---
At about £3 a gallon, this "Willle" being Mr William
fetches roughly £450 on,the MacPherson, 01-year-old man- American market, so that for
of the D.C.L. property.
an outlay of 230 on
baricy has been making whisky his £10 net cost to the (armor) business for over 30 years. you get a conversion value of
In a period of 39 weeks since 15 times as much. last September this stalwart Scot and his staff of 23 have been distilling malt whisky at the rate of 5,200 gallons, enough der over 33,000 bottles a week. son,
Oak Casks
ger
IN.
He
the by-going, they obtained some 30,000 gallons of spent | wash for fertiliser each week and about 2,000 bushels of draft for callic-fect, which fattens Q prize-winning herd of cattle on The 90-sere home farm
and
leaves a
ustful surplus for sale.
M: MacPherson has a show- care full of trophics mon by his sect satile.
The whisky is
put in 110-
gallon oak caaks to mature in
the
cool bonded worchpuse at
Glenkinchie, and there are now
Over 9,000 casks in bond.
would ask,
ome, of course. with Omar: "What can we buy one half so precious as the stuff we se31?" But not Mr MacPher-
"I never touch it," he says..
ROAD SAFETY PUBLIC SHOULD CO-OPERATE
WITH POLICE
"Would it help if I was to report that I have never given a proper signal, in my life?"
London Express Service
ISRAEL IN TURMOIL
Jerusalem.
'Israel's Flying
Fortresses ond
OOK what is going on
around Natanya, prosperous little squadrons
w
The Riddle
town. Or rather you fighters, while quite
Being even more precious to cannot look.
For a few
to adequate
take care of any alr threat from its Arab neighbours, hardly require miles of con-
the Exchequer than they are to miles from Natanya Bes the distillers. with duty on what is Israel's most care home sales now standing £10, 10. 10. gallon, the fully guarded secret and treasure caves
double Israel's greatest mystery. are lacked, the resident Exciseman keeping one key and the pro- Here in, the expanse of former ducers
scrub-fields, where years ago other. the Scotland has 97
to distilleries used watch Bedouins pitch black
fonts, goatskin producing 97 different whiskies, their
01 of them being mult whiskies, bankrupt Israel is spending vast ilke Glenkinchie from old-sums to build the largest air bare fashioned pot siliis, and the in the Middle East.
other six being grain whiskies Why? I believe that if you from patent stills which, having could discover the true motives the advantage of a continuous behind the construction of this process, produce rather more base you would have the key to than half the total supply.
the whole fantastic policy of all Character
aut immigration, all-out indus- trinl expansion, and all-out of these 97
varieties. Erom which
armament which has brought the blenders four-year-old Israel to its present _make_their selection, has its own plight.
distinctive character, and I am taid there are experts who can identify every one of them by
THẠCH
taste.
The most popular theory is that the secret lies in the water.
I say no
UARDS bar all approaches to
Others think it is in the malt Gr the airfield. The strictest ing and others argue learnedly abcut the shape of the copper stulls and the angle of the head and neck of these vessels.
But by whatever alchemy the clixir achieves its unique quality, there can be no doubt the finance of whisky is enough to make the head reel,
taboo stops Israeli officials from discussing it:
They would as readily answer questions about the Nalanya ale base as they would talk about Israel's enormous top-secret and top-heavy military budget.
crete runways and complicated signals installations suitable for a fleet of long- atom-
I
range
bombers.
is it just a piece of prestige-monger-
Ing
by a young
State anxious to have all the trap- pings? It could be. But I don't believe
it.
at
of the
Secret
Airfield
up
Ben-Gurion's plan is to bulld Can Ben- Gurion be right? military mani-power and Will the Americans help Industrial and strategic potential. Israel out of its present plight? to such a point that United States WII they continue to pay the military planners will look on bills this prodigal runs.up? Israel much es they regard Western Germany today.
Certainly the State Department and Treasury, are questioning the That means that they will see vast amounts of money pumped in Jørnel (1) a possessor of the into Israel since its establishment. strongest, most capable, and most They are well aware that per valorous fighting force in the head of population Israel has Middle East; (2) a most useful received a larger share of dollar potential repair base and behind- aid than any other country in the
world.
the front arsenal; and (3) a bastion which not only Indis- pensable to the West but must on all counts be denied to the
by SEFTON DELMER Soviet..
Spoilt
Independence, bonds have fallen a
Once arrived at this point fubscriptions by American Jewe My theory is that the air base will so the argument goes-be‣ to Zionist funds and Israel For, in addition to this air base is being prepared as a potential
Natanya, the Israelis are addition to the long chain of simple for Israel to obtain all the installing an American bases stretching along "strategie" dollar aid she needs NATANYA' outside aircraft the Mediterranean from Morocco from the U.S.A.
servicing and to Turkey; repair plant at
I believe that in the Natanya
Lydda
American nir buse project and the Lydán” money and plant which works in with it we' American have an essential clue to the
Advice
the
heavy price, and the Israelis
long way below the figure, hoped for by the sponsors. But the Americans, will go'on paying all the same.
Not even the fact that Israel, for fear of offending' the. Soviet overload of 3,000,000 potential
remains Immigrants,
officially neutral in the cold war, will
cause America to end support,
The Israelis in their attitudo
machinery are thinking behind Socialist Premier THAT prospect is worth building the Ben-Gurion's gamble of all-out plant The immigration, all-out armament have paid it up recklessly. ostensible pur and all-out industrial expansion, the recent hundred million dollars (£35,714,000) Export-Import pose is to save no matter what the cost.
Bank loan, for instance, more dollars παι spent on
The policy has reduced Israel than 90,000,000 dollars (£232,142,- to the West have become rather like spoiled children. They feel military Israeli to its present state where its 000) was spent vicing
that America in particular has airliners abroad. Treasury officials have to fly to
Invested so heavily in establish-
on
transport.
on
The real object London and New York desper- A similar uneconomile percent ing Israel that no matter what
s 10 train a ately seeking loans and grants
the young State large staff of and where Tel-Aviv wits have $80 of other loans and grants aughtin
the Western world Israeli engineers conferred
their Finance has been spent on unproductive cannot withdraw its benevolent The 9,000 costs laid down ni Is the air base wanted for and mechanies bapable of Minister the title of "Duke of military equipment or on indus- Indulgence now for fear of creat- Glenkinchie, each holding enough Israel's own immediate defence handling the largest, most Schnorr-Folk. (Schnorter is trial plant which will not earning chaos in a strategically vital
Yiddish for beggar.) 700 bottles, are purposes? Surely not,"
its living for a long time yet, but corner of the world. adds dramatically to the country's And make no mistake. As military potential.
All over
•
modern aircraft.
Difference Of Opinion Expressed On Monarch's Role In The Modern State
London.
NE of the formalities
(FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
The paper agrees with Select Committco that
-Egypt puta. more and mort
conditions impossible Of this year's Budget, £79,000,-
on her 000 out of £100 milion has been participation in a Middle Eastern allocated to military
defence pact and the Arab world "special" purposes.
backs her up by holding aloof, Israel is cleverly seizing the herself
and
the opportunity to make. of
seemingly indispensable to the United States strategists and our own planners.
Security screening Israeli Army to prevent Com munists instrating is being the carried out with American help "the and advice. State
associated with the be- only 25,000 less, but in those Commonwealth as a whole," it colour and pageantry of ori
ginning of a new reign is days, It should be remembered, says,
the
of settlement
the the E was worth monarch's Income-or, to give it its official name, the- Civil List..
what it is today.
cuonomics.
"must
three times historic
the
on
the
the
up keep
which It associations, are a most precious dignities of is heh, and no amount of cut- heritage," but there are other it mays, ling down would allow that to aspects of Court life, iittio be done cheaply." There has been very
"which merely continue trudi- criticism, therefore, of
the
tions of social differentiation actual amount of the Civil List. Both The Times and the
and caste exclusiveness. lcss ceremonial Conservative Daily Mail point The Commons
has just been Arguments for
and formality in the publie out that the monarch's dutica
*These We can dispense called upon to approve the re- duties of the Royal Family have have increased as the calls of commendation, of its Select Com- been put forward—but out of the Commonwealth
with," it declares, "unless, my, mittee on the Civil List that the consideration for the Queen's Sovereign have grown, 7
we choose to continue presenta- health rather than from
tions at Court for the sake of Queen should receive £475,000
point of view of offeeling There are now many overseas enger' debutantes from the a year.
statesmen and official visitors great. American democracy," to whom audiences must be This sum, of course, by no
granted, state papers must be Apart from supreme occasions, means represents the Queen's
read, direct relations have to
like the Coronation, the stole personal income, to spend as
be kept up with several British
of Parliament, the Governments and, she pleases.
as the Mall opening In has been pointed out that
points out, the Scleet Com- Trooping of the Colour, the £185,000 the total,
bestdea 13
being called
upon to mittee's report hints at more visits to the City, and so on, the perform
many carmarked for salaries of the duties of state, the Queen has,
arduous royal tours. royal household. A further in addition, the duties of a wito £121,800 will go to meet the and mother of young children. various expenses of the House-
More time, some feel, should hold.
be devoted to the latter at the. expense of the former.
With the
when these
*
The
Jess formally sind stiffness would be an advantage, the paper continues,
اله
"The money
aspect of Manchester this," It adds, "is not the de- Liberal There are, too, provisions for
Guardian, however, belleves the claive one, although it is worth royal bounties, alms, and other
beginning of a new reign should considering. The main thing is unanimous concem to an occasiori on the Crown, that is felt among all her sub-thinking on the subject of the lying on affection rather than special claims
for some new to make the monarchy a more and
truly popular Institution by and other jecla for the Queen's well- allowances have been made the being, opinions do differ, how the Civil List, it asks: "Is Queen
a "privy ever, on the question of the not un opportunity to simplify is boft with purs" of £60,000.
monarch's role in the modeans some of the ceremonial' and to get rid of some of the snobbery The Socialist Dally Herald, that still clings about the in support of its argument for Court?”; les ceremonial and formality:
for
state,
monarch's duties. Discussing on formality and
this
display"
But though there
may be room for more than one opinion in this restrained Cord overar none, will
disagree with comment of the middle-of-this road Nowa Chronicle...
the
Even this greatly reduced in the Queen's duties, says that: This, it adds, is to reflect in is of, go way on the Sovereign and amount is not wholly available "The Brilisti monarchy
tremendous
value MA the her Connort, 2 Queen's the
personal sperxding. Part of it is subice unifying symbol in a Commons
"They did not wealth of free nations. The
make the to income taxi
more it becomes adjusted to customs and the conventions Large though the Civil Llet - modern “democratle
khea
£20 under which they perform thele "The public," it says, "which may seem, it does, in dack, more valuable it will be.". duties, the Guardianpoints is concerned at the strains to zepresent -a mærked reduction ****
out, and many; must be as which the Queen Is exportti,
on the rate of royal spending of The Times takes a different: irksome to them as they are would welcome any further only a few decades ago, iding standpoint. “A monarchy worthy distasteful to the growing, num relief from excessive burdens Edward VII's · Clyll List - wwws of this country, and of the ber of their subjects”
of state ceremonial."
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