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MY MISSIONIT ONTO THE
WESTERN WORLD'S ECONOMY CONFUSED
C. T. HALLINAN
London, Dec. 26. This section of the Western world has been a con- fusing spectacle in 1956. Notice this:
Back in 1050 the exports of slowly into a recession. It might Continental Western Europe be a modest, meet le ro were 23 per cent of world ex- cession like the one experienced ports-13 bilion dollars out of in 1932 when exporta súa res
2.8 billion 56 blilion dollars. This past year exports fell from Wertem Europe's sharo of sterling to 26 billion sterling
before recovering world exports has rise to 28 per cent. 27 blbn dollars out of 97 billion.
REALLY DIFFICULT
food and devaluation would mean that these imports would cost more
than mondy
the economy can afford.
At a pinch Britain can bor+ row quite heavily from she International Monetary Fuod, She COD mw
$050 up to million
Or without difficulty. But when we look at the Or it might be a really diff-she can sell for doliars certain
cult United Kingdom, a skilled e
one causing trouble carning assets, like the Trinidad Petroleum Company which porter for a century and a halt, throughout 1857.
furnished her 177 mullion we find that In 1950 Britain's
This feeling was deflected on | 110
stock market throughout US Federal Reserve Board re-
dollars exports were 11 per cent of the the
few months ago. The world total whorèas this year the year with
prices going cently estimated that her dollte they have been running at 9.8 steadily down.
The Financial ass when increased by
GEST.R per cent five year of virtual Times Index of British Govern-
other standing still in the world-ment stocks stood at a peak of dollar resources wide competition.
00.10 on January 4, fell to its members of the Commonwealth, "lowest ever" of 84.49 on June reached in Jnuo $4,230 mullion
A which seems 101 compared 4, and continued to reach
with the publlated total for that lows each month thereafter. Warmuth
which Was $2,383 million. Loan ached all-time low £08% in June and hit 200 late In November. Industrials all showed heavy falls on the year, ranging on a percentage bonis, from 5 per cent to 25 per
SEEMS AGREED
In absolute terima Britain's total exports have Hath from & billion dollars to 9 billion which seems rather handsome-up 50 per cent until we notice that world trade exports have risen 73 per cent. Britain has been out of step.
that her
ር•xt 1,
KLOW
of
mert
of the
the
Nevertheless: it is advertise- ent for the year 1957 that such a question is widely discussed. Our Bonn burcau reports West
Germany unmoved by the International difficulties. Nasser's speech on July 20, which ure harrowing other For one thing it some agreed coupled with the Anglo-French West European countries but
defence expenditures decision to seize control of the
trouble next spring is visible: have been, from the standpoint Suez Canal from him, shook the
"The of her economy, extravagant, City of London.
Government is plannkry There were
for next spring a
n sweeping re- rising from
800 million potr
patriotic cheers for Anglo-
form of the pension system as sterling to 1,800 million sterling French move but very little
to the present a pre-election This TVB3
spent confidence that Britain could money
voters and will at the same neither on capital goods nor afford a "little war" and selling
time resort to deficit-spending on consumer goods, hence It was widespread thereafter.
World for the first time sinc: force.
War II.
WOS
a
BOTTO
constant factor
Ind
To take only one money in circulation we that the amount has risen some 60 per cent while it is any body's guess what the increase In velocity has been.
The government has announ- red firmly several times that It is determined
head off this inftation. In February, the bank rate having already been raised in 1955-was step- pod up one per cent to 3% per cent and measures were taken to reduce the public's capacity to buy on hire-purchase. These ares, as well as the target, measures, as were applauded but the year was without really impressive indications of success
Actually, The feeling in December was
one of alarm; the prevailing rensallon that the country was slipping
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
-PLAN B THAT IS
ALL
RIGHTË WE STOP
THE TRAIN!
TOMORROW: THE TRAIN!
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
OF COURSE, THIS
STRING OF 'WEENIES
HELPED A
BIT
COUGH AN":
was
Sterling was a headache all the year, In January the average daily rate for sterling - vis-a-vis the dollar → $2.81 plus a fraction of a red cent. This lasted until June when i fell to $2.80-plus and the year with a daily average of $2,70-plus.
"For the Government is pre-
a "balanced
budget" wassenting
but to do it is digging heavily Into its defence cash reserves (some 2.2 billion Deutsch- marks). With full employment in the country this is subsion- tally the same do getting the bank note presses into action,
Background to this is that the Bank of England has under- taken to keep the rate between $2.76 and $2.82. Not since June, 1954, has the rate touch- cd the upper limit of $2,82 while for the last five months of this year it has been sup- ported at $2.78-plus.
Will
Bank the
run out dollars? That would mean de- and the valuation of sterling City of London is nereely deter mined that it shall not again be devalued. Britain is a heavy and importer of raw materials
There's More than Magic
about
A 2
They're
TRY
CADBURY'S
Melle Fron
on finds Germany with very "But the present world situa- good stocks on hand-copper for rubber consumption,
for
of
of
weeks'
6 to 8 weeks, crude oil for 5 weeks, diesel oll for 45 days and nortnet consumption, enough gasoline for 75 days. There are ample food stocks auch 03 meat, butter and sigar and grain margarine, stealera.
NONCHALANT
"However, although West Germany appears nonchalant about the trouble of Britain, France, Israel, ență Egypt, sonde observers think the international situation has inspired caution and kept the country from 'over heating' ita present boom."
Paris describes the conflet between the sharp warning given France by the experts of the Organisation for Faropean Economie Co-operation France is in a itical inflationary situation" and the evidence of booming, production in abnost every direction
Says the Bureau: "Increased factory output and rising pro- ductivity have booaled France to Number One in European indus-
Wonderfulrial progress this year.
If we were
any fresher we'd still be on the ving!
Libby's
FROZEN STRAWBERRIES
TODAY
ROWNTREES
ITH THE FULL
MILK THRY
CHOCKATE SP
MILK
this situation
calls for a
San Miguel
"There have been, some slight ings in the output of consumers goods and in the production of power but the country entered the last quarter of 1956 with industrial production up 11. per cent compared with the same period a year ago. The building and construction industry was the only one showing a dip- down a mere 3 per cent.com- pared with 1955.
Farmers whose incomes this year have been bolstered by a goverment subsidy equal to 171,500,000 dollars -- are har vesting bumper crops of barley,
maize and potatoes. Wheat nione is down about half the horinal crop-owing to the dam- age Inflicted by the cold spell.
"But the OEC points out the spiralling prices, and the insati- able demand for consumers' goods, the Government's huge North expenditures African operations –– trouble is coming.
tho
"Against this is the fast- growing aircraft industry furn- ing out this year nearly double French the output of last year", technicians have evolved some of the finest for jet planes,
MUCH THE SAME
the
"The year closes with aeroplane industry being ~ to cope with foreign ordera some 80 million dollars,
"Much the skate Wifi ? the s motor Industry, output in the fret a months or 602,617 passi) - gers carp and motor vehicles is en all-time retörü for that period.
But Franco insists on porting too.
uch
and her balance of trade has worsened. stendly. Her trading dollcit was 150 million in the first, quarter, 302 million In the second,, 200 million. In the third, and stil running at a heavy dlefelt th final
Amsterdami reporta ·Fall employment-temployment at the end of September: reached an all-time low of 18,202-but the coutumer goods to still fails to produce bigh check lite slow but persistent
Romo
bountry as "Intensely Box con-