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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER : 4, 1956. -
NOW IKE & CO HAVE TO EXPLAIN AWAY RISING PRICES.
HOUSEWIVES MURMUR
AS
T
DOLLAR SHRINKS
New York, Tuesday. HE Eisenhower dol-
lar is shrinking. At the worst possible time for the Presi
dent the
good, solid U.S.
soft currency is showing
Ness.
DON IDDON'S
in Brilain becauso I cabled a short article on Hock 'n Roll doctors and psychiatrists,
and quoted American DIARY
I am
A typical letter: "I thought
was disappearing it (the article) aro
utterly stupid and such rot that surprised at you for writing il Statistics can be boring, but....Rock 'n Roll has wonderful rhythm and all its artists are not there parieta:
wonderful too.
And now there in this sun- ning urge on almost every through it. price tag.
the dollars
2
my
a housewife, but I am (101 Juve
betu
little (
jolted myself When I w parking this mil-lowi
the
The dollar in buying Kttle less every week and almost every day.
morning the attendust working lot said: " going to I expect to see and hear you $40 (£14 5, Bd.) next To leave your car here Adlai Stevenson hittir Mr moth
by noter" Eisenhower where he
1710 the most vulnerable -- in breadbasket and the pocket, bookt.
(The price of a loaf of bread at a chain store here is Is. 7d. and you can pay as much as 28. for a high grade louf at a delicates- sen.)
2250 J
The housewives giming to murmar in re volt. Despite the fervour of the welcome the Pros. clerat received during his
There was tour of lown little heckling and faint shouts of "What about the cost of living. Mr Prosi dent?"
I was jolted
son
It
IT is hardly Ike's fault. He has had ertraordinary bud hick.
The purchasing power of the dollar has been melting gradually all year, but IL was not until the past few weeks that the nele began to be felt.
nonth 22
working daya anul previously I've been charged CB 186 0.
This week also the custo
having my hair cut has jumped 1. kl. in 148, en I do not gu to the adagy cstablishments in the hotels, but to u mus shop on Lexington Avenue.
A chicken. sandwich from Shraft.staurant Rerss 51ai Suvel near the offer now cosła m5-5d, more than that
week
Crucial moment
DVERYONE hæt been saying for E weeks and meeth this fie only real foue of the
electin
is the health or lack of it of the
Pikkad
Butter Ba. 41⁄2d a lb,, eggs 58, 10d, a dozen, muzzat 3s. Od for "May I suggest that in future S1, coffee 79, and upwards, a yu leave things like Rock 'n
a lb., Roll alone as you roast beef 7s. 70.
are far too lb., chicken 3, od, a 1., ten 56. Bd. old to understand it."
ib.. beef steaks 108. Od. a lb., leg of lamb 5. id. n ib., dam 4. c. alb., bacon 48, 2d, a lb... pork chops Gs. 4d, a lb.
Bad news
theres No Brush housewives
picer may not be "out of the
T way," but to Mrs America they mean that Mr Rising Price has detinitely moved in, and I quote them as a matter of interest.
The mists and financial experts for once are in general ingatement, and what they
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tightening: "Pekes are due to rise as far as yet cun see.” Ex ept the stock markel.
DTC There prices
down
Too okt nt 44.
is a
in this country there dangerous alliance between the Rock 'n Roll axtremists and the teenago terror ging".
Last week-end Daniel Bare't, 10, was shot and killed by an off-duty police lieutenant after a gang light. The policeman red two warning shots in the mir and his third shot hit Baretti in the back of the head and killed the boy.
WETE
Barettl and la mob enthusiastic Rock 'n Rollers,
Juvenile crime
r.
is unfortunate that the pollee should use guns on teen-
fur agers, and it will probably not The get to that in Brilalo,
sensitive
nation's
the th traight werk. of tpetpete
spells my
thic bad
I
11!
sure that ..
1 aug cont of living a hot be Taung a bigger wa
newN.
The President by the amazing
in New York City alone there 65 Juvenile Hangs who are organised for crime. Almost half of those arrested through- country last year for out the
crimes—murder, major
And
Brokers L PASON? hay. The market stimuld be enise Investors are surprised at
that it and it saw ruled
For Eisen- will be no walkover hour. **
mpe, and extortion-
now of gour and energy he the strength of the Democrate, grand mierny.
were under 18 years of age.
as been putting on before inge exowds from trakfast to sup-
bars lately eliminate--1 the 1942 ne.ith question.
TE
Ketaver, me preparing major policy isue and the de,nz
Aper, hes
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Tw Prendent will probably Mr Stevinam and br von- make a television trends chat Itts made. Sen Ar Fates on the cost of lying soon.
hos beer "Give 'em cx- from cost-of-living juaven," as distinct
"Give 'em Le President Truman's
he campus h the set,
Rock 'n Roll
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dollar
And the pleas is net neglect One of the main can- ing the w railing doll, It
planks of Eisen- wont let not
Dad f paign
that en fairly well hower's party, the Repul fine had licans has been: "We have held for two or three years by the Eisenhower Adm.stration kept the rost of living Now, at the crucial moment, on the dike and down."
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By Yorke Henderson
the
members
of the over, feat
For the closer political asso- ciation with counirka presently cutside the Commonwealth the
makes Group
this condition: There could be no question of admitting a develp country To full Imembership unless Ita nature and outlook were harmony with the character and
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Mr SCHWARZ HITS THE MUSICAL
JACKPOT
By Arthur Jacobs
THE British arrived....
T
and found 12,000 lying dead and un- buried, and 40,000 half-dead prisoners.
It was April 1945. Belsen, the Nazi horror-camp, was ut jost liberated. But
prisoner Rudolf Schwarz did not know it, for he was unconscious. When he awoke, in Red Cross care,
he weighed six stone.
Last weeke n grey-haired, handsome 10-stone Rudoli Schwarz faced the applause of hla regular audience after con- ducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Next September he is to succeed Sir Malcolm Sargent as conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra top British musical post, with #1 miary which is un- disclosed but is said to exceed
£6,000 a year.
LEARNING ENGLISH
No backstairs Influence brought Schwarz to Britain. In Sweden, where UNRRA had brought him to recuperate from Belson, he was learning English in the hope of being able to to America. What better way of Icerning English than by read ing English newspapers? In one of them he saw an advertisc- ment. So on application for the post of conductor of the Bourne mouth Municipal Orchestra arrived from Rudolf Schwarz nlong with applications from 72
*** never
belloved I would
others.
even be considered,” he recalls hadn't even got a
now. "I
passport.
at
that
I was Austrian, and time there was no Austrian consulate in London, I was a stateless_person."
SECOND SNAG
That was only the Arst obstacle. After conducting two trial concerts Mr Schwarz got the job. At the news that on Austrian some reports mis- called him a German-was... 30 conduct a British orchestra, trío
ow brake.
The Musicians' Union opposed the granting of a labour permit. An MP protested. In the Commons at the appointment, and the then Director of the Royal
of College noy reinforced him.
Music
Only one argument backed Bournemouth Corporation Lar sticking to its decision: here was the best man for the job. That was 10 years apro.
Within a year musical circles over Schwarz's were buzzing
This Vienn-born achievement. musican had not only thorough- ly reorganised the orchestra and ralsed it to exciting standards con- but was shaming Engilata ductors in his enthusiasm for British music, And his pubila was with him.
group of 15 British Conser- many ways, such as closer trade competing not complementary, vative MPa is launching and payments arrangements bo It argues that, "there is, how
advantage campaign to revitalise the twoen
Sterling arts and of DEEC, and gainedi by Britain and the Commonwealth." Commonwealth and make it through the Colombo Plan. With Commonwealth from
adda, however: "But If a power equal to the USA this in mind, members of our co-operation
with
al- of the countries which one countries, sume and Russia.
Group salute the efforts of Con- European tinental Europeans to achieve which are themselves responsi- ready linked with the Common-
wealth through ble for overseas territories."
International COMPLIMENT Under the banner of the closer woonomic unity.
An expanding Common- And it cites this instance associations "Expanding Commonwealth wealth could generate capital to
"The comprehensive develop economic co-operation were en- Group of Conservative and develop home and OVETS(M) E- ment of Africa will require couraged to draw closer, a first Unionist Members of Par- лures, prometo trade, achieve economic co-operation liament," they have broadly outlined their ideas in a statement just published.
Although the Group is made
for
defence Or V
between step would have been taken do-
the expansk
the of a sound balance of payments the United Kingdom, the Union wards
and furnish the sinews of defen- of South Africa, ile Central Commonwealth circle" sive and diplomatic power."
Linked Economy WHAT
Atrican Federation, France, Belgium, Spain and Portugal as well es the emergent African
Of Commonwealth
migration
THE
Associates
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THE Group onvisages that ot up of back-benchers, it is sign-
some stage the Commonwealth docs the Group the Group holds that "the effect might wish to Instituto a form flcant that the publication of
membership propose? their statement is being handled
of tran-British immigration into of associate
and In Political
ERENCE, A preferential relatively empty countries like
that this might be by the Conservativo
suggests the Canada and Australia is to dilute based en an agreement on the Centre, and
and they are known to trading system linked to
the Council of Europe of the Prime European
increased the national character and even ihres of economy: have the support
establishment Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, and migration to oversen Common- threaten their internal cohesion. Convention
for wealth countries, with the Secretary of State
the The Commonwealth is conceived This convention pledges pre- Commonwealth Relations, Lord recent on the British character as a society of nations and not a ferential treatment over other
and the migrants;
clater Heme.
cosmopolitan melting pot,"
allens for the citizens of sub- At the same time the Group scribing countries. political association between the The
from the Commonwealth Group starts
certain thesis that "either the Common- European countries. wealth will expand and grow or shrink and die No human institution stands still,"
Five Points
TROM this point they preface their statement with a five- point declaration of their philo exphy:
好意
ΟΙ of
ad
faces up to the fact that Britons have constituted only 30 percent of migrants
to the Common- wealth oversens since 1945.
British Stock
Sir Thomas Beecham took ad- vantage of it. An all-British pro gramme, scheduled by Beecham had at London'a Albert Hall, to be cancelled for lack of bookings. Bournemouth invited him to perform the same pro- gramme with Schwarz's orches tru Resulta full house, 6,000 applications for tickets turned away, and a public compliment Me Thomas for from Sir Schwarz.
Schwarz From 'Bournemouth
snapped up, at double the by Birmingham. But salary, before he changed over, the Shostakovich Schwarz, it was reported, horned this Soviet
WDS
storm blow up
hod
No
composer's works becouse Lhey made pro
NO The Group foretecs that "in paganda for Communism. concluding in agreement of wonder that Schwarz, the one-
Intoler such kind the Commonwealth time victim of political
ance, was now denounced for and the foreign country con- cerned would be better able to political, intolerance himself.
The storm passed decide whether to tako the vital
quickly denied the step of concluding a citizenship Schwarz later treaty providing for a full ex-words attributed to him. But change of citizenship rights. the episode was significant in pointing the contrast between "The final stage would be the the BBC's outgoing, diplomatic the sociale si Malcolm Burgent and the recogniilon by
of the Hand of incmber
the incoming Schwarz, Commonwealth and its accep-
Or the first point the Group's statement declares: "It is in the Interests both of Europe and the Commonwealth to reconelle the Continents: need for closer economic unity with the pre- THESE two points are thus re- ferential system, which is and conclled by the Group: "There must be the basis of an expand is room for migration from con- ing Commonwealth economy.
thontal Europe to the Common- It has been suggested that
wealth. Frenchmen and Dutch- there should be an exchange of men were, after all, the plancers Commonwealth secondary preferences between in Canada and at the Cape. partnership of Kingdoms and European and Commonwealth Republics is better suited to our nations. This would enable the general, however, there is much tance by existing members - TENSION dangerous and contracted world preferential systems
the finental Europeans to migrate to pressed
Prime Ministers cod.endorsed them amy supra-national
of Com.conwealth and the French Britain and to encourage these by their Parliament," federal system. It has only to Union to remain Intact while who have been angliciach develop its resources to match discriminating in each other's travel on to the Commonwealthi the power of the United States favour against outsiders.” of America or
The
the Union Soviet Socialist Republics,
of
Advantages
to be said to encourage Con-
overstas. It would, moreover, be possible: to spend more British
members' integrity and assure a balance of power,
question the Most Favoured Nation principle of GATT is
by
to give a lifetime of pride-wearing service.
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Schwarz is roticont, rather shy and awkward with the public when off the rostrum. in Even when he has bators hand, there is sometimes a tensens
that relcases itself only in the muse, MD
stock for Canada, Australasia THE Group's statement ends with the warning: "If the place in the "2. Only a strong Common-
and Africa it their
But the players warm to him, wealth could safeguard Its UE Lost that this would call in hose economy was being filled Commonwealth ceases to expand
will mankind
The man who bogati as an opera- bo In ther Europene.
conductor In Dusseldorf and make such an inflow danger of the ultimate catas
Karlsruite and tan boy in 3. An expanding Common regarded thus by the Group: effective it would be moessary trophe."
Vienna I fod on operandrew principle wealth could not only claim the "This
Most to encourge the movement of willing partnership of He Favourod Nation)
Having made plain their ideas an almost unfound of velvetine pertains, property as well na of persons
when went emergent stats end the loyalty however, less to prosent realities into the United Kingdom. This in this publication, the Expand from the Sadter's Wells orchos of its fortress territories but then to the One World" philo reinforces the enre for releting ing Cemmensvalth Group,
Lophy which took possessictz of the Commonwealth with insing Concealth Group is conduct Mozart the ages to But now 51-yearold Rudolf scald also rally other countrisa rican foreign policy in the European economic area, and for in Parliament, in the country as ef like min
4. An expanding Commoni deys of Roosevelt
the harnessing not merely of a whole, and wherever possible Schwarz cxports to have: Hel
time for opers. For the rumo wealth could, asociato Britain's Although the Group agrees: British but of ether European with fatiuontal visitors from in- Huropean neighbours in the that the economies of Britain and, capital to the development of ferested Commonwealth coun- your at So I don't see how it be poralble to do anything development of Commonwealth, many European countries are overseas territories.”
We but my work no the BB0, ha French Union ? and other," ter-
The Group is beaded by Meats, and fel channetusalally ritories in Africa and Asla; 'and', reconcilia, the races. This owo See This Page Tomorrow For Fuji Details Of The Flan Patrick Mallon, MAP for the maroon Mod even suRLOCKE
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