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CAN WE MEET THIS CHALLENGE?
160
180
£
120
120
PRICES
TAKES PRICES OUTPUT
80
80
02.02.
1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
BRITAIN
40
40
1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
GERMANY
160
120
80
1:40
Muine 1951 1952 1953 1954, 1955
JAPAN
Or is there trouble ahead?
HIS, is a year of chal
FL
Krea! we
lenge In experiment.
Ca have the luxury of full em-
without prymeal continuadly rising?
Here is the big test facing Me Macmillan,
rising prices in the past year in that wages and salaries bave Hisen iwice 24 fost да production,
Higher wages are an excel. If living They prices ent thing
standards, and inean good thines for all.
But there is golden rule. Output of goods must increase by at least as much y pay päckets
Bankers. stockrofters and Commerdows of the Exchequer
iten deserabe billation As too Ollerwian reonomie Troubles much money elving too few blow up sooner or later. Roods
definition A better
1/2
Take a look at the charts on
The charts above show the outpul story of Britain,
Germany and Japan in the last five years. They
show. too, how Britain lags behind
by ALEXANDER THOMSON
Morr
ff is ships, cars or handbags There will be beneill, for all the result must be the tanre It We can manage it They become more dificult to exports, safer Jules and a stup Thele in the never-ending che to e sel in export markets. prices become too high.
cost of itving Take the housewife with her Is It Impossible to lift output shopping ba,ket, The foreigner with existing plant? Not at all,
Pinewher ku Li
In Coventry the other week one managing afreelor told me that on als Factory individual But when mitpert keeps ahead output enald be raises! al sist of pay sales søte ere on a sure 25 pererat“ vylihut any exten whner in overseas selleg pre-man-power Add your goods are right
"HLOVA buying.
13
Other facity bestes agreed. Many people may
that it |
use of full employment an
with us this page. They tell the out- The difference between the blocks on the chart show the
Items mista the way the Gor- First E
two wand pur story of Britain, Germany two is almost startling 1ise in production. The highest mans have been racing ahead have 10
100 12
jobs and Japan in the last five years. IN JAPAN there is the same represent wages anul salaries with their Volk wogen cars and the Wetture State that our out-
The toerense in them puts the other goods
put lugs ht hind that of the Ger- Chang few workers.
AL #lance you enti see ont showing. Certainly wages bave
mites and the Jap: For
Bul look at exputusion in sulput right in the gone up sharply wages have been golug vini diTerence,
stunde
the Japanese with
We have got to show that it up much up, and there has not IN GERMANY the rise in the end put "incks."
is possible to have full employ- been matching expansion in production
1950 (shown It is keeping way alcad of When wages to up more than textiles and shipbuilding
Stags What we have to do now is to ment withoun any output.
Idack)
far greater pay all the time.
production only one thing can
Otherwise we may stot have Labour costs for enet, new that our production catches Wakes ÎN BRITAIN the story is the happen:
other way round. The smallest unit of aufput must rise too. up with wages in the factories. it for keeps.
The recent Economie Survey than the has tok us that the main entise twhites
The
Alive
been has
131 increase
Iceberg On
The Mantelpiece
by Thomas Wiseman
occasion in previous
NTHONY STEEL, minute bitch like
back from safari The Hollywood
the
I'm no uf
10 Apart from her
flut she i
I'm
can
cun
Eo out to work you were really hot in Hollywood now and
she wants to prove herself. STEEL. I was never engaged perfectly happy for her to do bodanical garden, said: " to that . I went Lo the that, too. I feel can also de haven't
I've slept for
Three register offler to Brad out what
well in Hollywood pretty time it days." The reason for Mr
opened
and everyone had some very interesting offers sold 1 was engaged
co-starring roles, Steel's insomnia?
the sort of man who walks out more casily work in Hollywood on an engagement This is the than she could
In England. They wouldn't know what new Steel
WISEMAN
du with ப girl like her ubylons qualities what is it that here. I couldn't ask her to Mig
Ekberg has Kak that
live here and do nothing but changed you from a determined play Ealing barmaids. bachelor to a devoted fiance?
STEEL. She's so very honest, completely frank. She isn't sort of girl who wants to be WISEMAN: What did your seen all the time. She doesn't other girl friends think about FOT about going ut Q
the news of your engagemeni? She's perfectly happy to relax STEEL: I couldn't care less. at home in slacks and shirt,
WISEMAN: What do you have
WISEMAN: Do you still hove in common?
all those paintings of nudes in your bedroom?
He spent two nights in an airplane flying back. And on home he his first night had loo much to think about to get any sleep,"
report that Mr Steet's think-sessions have nocturnal cover a wide variety of sub- Jee15 BRINK from Aplia Ekberg, his new fiancee, to the prutlemen ΟΙ Her Majesty's Castorns and Exelse Department with whom he has a dale of a (10 strictly unromaatte nature
Slain about those presents from Ara which adorned his Angers and wrists cuffs und when he returned).
Urgent command
11
My arrival at his Krusington week and fat-12 guineas now up for sale-produced an urgent command from Steel to his zeerciary: "Bring out the cyanide, vintage year."
He was wearing an Engilsh blazer and flannels, American loafer shoes and at of Anita's presents.
ས1
haven't even had time to
change my shirt since I got back," he said.
On his mantelpiece: a selec- tion of revealing photographs of his lancee with Inscript.cns in her handwriting. "You can read them," said Steel, "but please don't quote what she says," Without quoting them I can tell you the Swedish Ice- berg's messages were far from ley.
I accepted agin and tonic (unlaced with cyanide) and sat on a crimson selice,
S
STEEL 1 am glad to say that she is interested in the same things I un.
WISEMAN; STEEL: Yes
That helps
STEEL:
No nudes
1 don't know what Nudes? you are talking about,
There have never been any nudes in this flat. I don't even WISEMAN: Is it true that undress to go la bed. Sleep In she earns a good deal more my camel-hair overcoat, you money than you do? matter?
STEEL: Yes, it's
Does this
true. But
And
ANITA EKBERG-The pictura Steel took,
Now it stands above the fire.
I anticipate that Mr Steel is going to be no more than an occasional visilor to England in
know. Unlike Marilyn Monroe.
Anthony Steel leavea Buon will for Florence, where he I don't think it matters a bit. make a film called "Checkpoint the future.
and probably marry Miss I'm perfectly happy to be the breadwinner and for her not to Ekberg.
There will be a lot to keep
Don't miss the tombstones.
WHEN IN GAY PAREE
SAT sipping I
"You know," ald Steel, "1 am delighted to read you when the alr you are writing about anybody fragrant. except me. Couldn't you make
piece about
this
Harvey?"
Sportingly
Laurenco
WDS
By JOHN TANTAN
dry in Paris. There are so infinitely instead of taking the lift you'll find it tiring-but worth while. martini outside the Cafe many,
YOU CAN see the world from You can loze in the sunshine de la Paix, in Paris, and 985 feet
chh up: you
hear or you can admire the view— watched the world go by. In ballads sweetly sung in swanky probably the Angst, and certain-
famous, the warm
in the ly the most spring sunshine night clubs,
fresh ant YOU CAN have your pocket world.
is Underground the Metro plcked:
will take you almost YOU CAN pa a fancy price which
and pretty and anywhere quickly for a fancy-sounding dish Around me there was little of got egg and chips.
cheaply. So there's no excuse the big-city bustle-but if one
for missing the suburban Cime- listened hard enough there were The first thing that must diere de Pere Lachaise (Ceme- at least a dozen languages being strike you about Paris is the tery of Father Lachaise.) spoken within earshot.
traffic. Not only that there is no Sounds a bit depressing os a 1 explained that even Above them all echoed the, speed Umil. that traffe lights tourist attraction but believe me Laurence Harvey was entitled (exhortation-familiar to every are kept to a minimum-but it's worth while, to the pleasure of reading visitor to Parls-from
that The also the sensational fact about someone other than him waitresses to sample their de- the system works. self (if he ever indulged in such licious pastries and sandwiches. And, of course, there's the thousands most unknown, but a practice), So Mr Steel "Pa-toes-rec, sonn-vcej," was Janguage.
The woman next to many famous, and not'a few in- resigned himself, sportingly, to their shrill,
repeated cry-and me in the bus from the airport famous, Moliere, Chopin, Mar- his fate.
what awoet music it was,
-obviously
drst-timer al Ney, Sorah Bernhardt, RELUCTANT TO LEAVE turned to har friend and said: Rossini, La Fontaine, Oscar
"Why, even the children speak Wilde...
Q
FAMOUS NAMES Here are the tombstones
of
One of the discoveries you can make in Paris is that the sauciness of the Folies Bergeros is largely legend.
We studied a head of Mr Steel on his sliting-room wall which had been sculpted by his
I was at the end of my first French." former mother-in-law.
slay in the city. After 10 days I had sympathy, too, with the "It hasn't got any bigger," he I was just getting on terms with woman who looked over the top zaid, "I use it to hang my hats the place and having savoured of the Eiffel Tower and multer on, My first wife threw it at a few of its delights, grown ed: "There ought to be a safety Forget that it really plays a me once, and I cald don't kick used to it Idiosyncrasies and not."
minor part-and you're left with my head around I may need to recovered from the minor mis- It's here, by the way. that a family show. A rather special use it one day." Mr Sieet I dia. fortunes that bofall any inno- the innocent sourist taken one, though, as it happens to be covered in our subsequent cent abroad. I was reluctant to for his first ride in Paris. Ho the most colourful and specta- exchanges was using his head. leave.
pays 200 francs for a souvenir cular music-häll in the world. As I sut' where the Avenue that costs 120 at Km bottom. Not merely to put his hats on.
Some of the night clube The conversation went ilke de JOpera meets the lovely On a sunny day there are few quite respectable, too, even by UhJ8:
Boulevard des Capucines-it has finer spots in Paris than the top prim standerda. In at least WISEMAN: Will your marri
boen called the fifth coITET of of the ore de Triotope it your pour ander men of je d age to Anita Ekberg go through the world ruminated on the moner's rumming short, and you "Lady of Spain," and "O, Mein Or is there liable to be a last- things that can happen to you choose to walk up the 215 steps. Papa, mung really well.
If this happens, Mr Rank will im In Hollywood, Miss Ekberg
and the kind of success that have only himself to blame. Mr never very ecstatic Stewart Granger for which Steel is equally well about co-starring with all thoso
equipped.
giruffes.
found there Steel was
No darling
it's the same coffee, but it's
the Taikoo
Demerara sugar that makes it taste so
good!"
Got a handy 2lb, carton of Talkoo Demerara Sugar to-day and try it la coffee or on cereals
TAIKOO
are
SIGAR
TAIKOO
DEMERARA
SUGAR
Makes all the difference IN ALL SHOPS L. STORES.
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