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By SIR ALAN ANDERSON, K.B.E. *
LONDON, Aug. 3. The health of millions of people who live in the tropics is likely to I benefi directly, or indirectly, LONDON, Aug. 1. through the amalgamation of!
and Hos- Lord Ashfield, London's traffic the Ross, Institute
Sir Alan Anderson, President of the Association
of British chief, is to receive £47,883 under pital for Tropical Disease with
Chamber of Commerce, contributed the following article to the the winding-up of the Underground the London School of Hygiene Company and its subsidiary com and Tropical Medicine, a draft
August issue of "British Industrica," the Journal of the Fadera. panies, which have been absorbed scheme for which has
tion of British Industriei. It is on a matter that closely concerns by the new London Passenger agreed upon by the governing
" in Hong Kong. Transport Board.
bodies of the two establishments.
Details of the scheme are con-1. In these difficult days of crisis tained in a memorandum issued and of change we are beginning all yesterday by Sir Charles Campbeli over the world to believe once more chairman of the Ross certain old ideas-so old that they McLeod, Institute, in which he emphasises seem new-and we shall begin soon the advantages to both bodies and, to the future of tropical hygiene of the proposed merger, and de- clares that "the work of both bodies will be promoted by this move for, the good of the Empire, and for the whole of humanity, That work is the best and truest memorial we could raise to Ronald
This was revealed at an extraor dinary general meeting of the Underground Electric Railways Company, Limited, in London to day. It was called to approve the scheme for the voluntary winding up of the company before its ab
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How, for instance, can à rich na tion be paid if it refuses the good and services in which alone it can take payment How can we hope to be rich and prosperous if we de vote ourselves, not to trade, but to restricting trade? We differ, and In broad outline, the scheme is shall always differ, about the precise as follows. The Ross Instituta Hospital will be closed down alto-degree of freedom we can conveni
Ross."
Surplus of Shipping
The resolution asked for ap proval to retain or pay as com- pensation for loss of office or em. ployment to those persons who were on June 30, 1933, directors of the company, sums not exceeding in the aggregate £44,050, of which £93,000 was to be allocated to
Here again responsibility must Lord Ashfield, the chairman.
rest with a great creditor country. Even had trade developed at the This was in addition to
transferred to the Seamen's Hos-wishes to sell in our market, but as there would be surplus of 12 mil. other directors received under
pital Society's special tropical we know now how poor we can make lion tons of world shipping ever agreements with subsidiary com
ourselves by making each other. Endsleigh Gardens,
present demand. If we wish to panies the London General Omni. hospital in bus Company and the Associated where a ward is to be called "The poor, let us hope that the nations know how that surplus is made up. The remainder of will at last mean what they say it is only necessary to look at the Equipment Company, The com- Ross Ward." pensation, including capital sums the property at Putney will even when they condemn spiteful and figures of tocnage increase in the countries. Since the end of the paid as the agreed commuted value tially be sold, and the pathological unnecessary restraints on trade.
The world has reached an econo Wary. the U.S.A have increased of pensions rights payable by the work now carried on in the In- subsidiaries (additional to the stitute will be carried on in the mic deadlock. In the words of the their tonnage by 8 millions; Japan above £93,000), which Lord Ashfield pathological department at the leader of the American delegation has increased hers by 4 millions: receives, came to £22,893, making Hospital for Tropical Diseases in at the Economic Conference, Mr. Thus, while other nations have also
Gordon Street. The a total of £47,803.
London Cordell Hull, "economie "national increased their tonnage out of pr Lord Ashfield" said that no ques- School will provide laboratory acism as practised since the war has portion to the available trade these tions of the compensation for pen commodation for the work of Sir expressed itself by every known two increases alone account for the sion strictly arose.
But for the Aldo Castellani, present Director method of obstructing international surplus. In fact, however, trade act it would in any event have of Tropical Medicine and Derma capital and trade The reaction has declined, while carrying capa tology at the Institute, and Sir upon production, prices, employ city of ships has increased, so that matured next year.
Aldo will be appointed to the staff ment and distribution within every at the moment there are, 52 million "The termination of my agree of the School with the title of nation has been disastrous. Raw tons of shipping available and em ment, therefore, has not createdDirector," while for his bospital; materials are fenced off from faeployment for only about one-third any new liability, but as a mat- work the managers of the Sea tories, factories from consumers, of that tornage. ter of convenience it was proposed men's Hospital Society will sp. and consumers from foodstuffs. The
pensation which Lord Ashfield and get her, and its patients will be ently give to a neighbour who normal, pre-war rate of expansion,
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Mr. Kenneth Brown said that he regarded the compensation as ex tremely reasonable.
The resolutions were without any opposition,
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that these pensions should be com- point him to the associated staff inability of the different countries muted. My service of 20 years is of their hospital for tropical disto transfer goods in payment of not inconsiderable, and I will not cases.
balances has etrained all domestic "American representatives at the disguise from you that the sever- ance now taking place is a great
The appointment of Director of financial structures and currencies, Vienna Congress of the Interna
un-tional Chamber of Commerce claim- wrench to me."'
Tropical Hygiene at the School, and exchanges have become which has been vacant
the stable. The time has come for, gov- that U.S.A today are building death of Sir Andrew Balfour, will ernents to cease erecting trade less and have since 1929 scrapped ten years ago.. Le filled by Sir Malcolm Watson, barriers with their excessive dis more tonnage than any other coun
Since then one nation after an and the new department will be criminations, reprisals and retalia try. While this is true, the claim ther has tried by uneconomic sub- named "The Ross Institute of tions. The Conference must pro-is misleading unless it be also statsidies to snatch the transport trade Tropical Hygiene." "Had Ross claim that economic nationalism is ed that between the Armistice and for iself, and has proved that the June, 1922, America built 7,833,000 harmless necessary "subsidy" can, been alive," the memorandum statesa discredited policy." "nothing could have given him One primary and inevitable scuss
gross tons or 30 per cent more if carried to extremes as the "un nure pleasure than that the teach of the stoppage in world trade than the U.K., which had lost mil.donanie subsidy," become a crime ing of malaria should be in the which has produced instability of lions of tons by submarine attacks, against the Convention of Maritime hands of his friend and disciple, exchanges and currencies, driven after giving full credit to U.S.A. Porta and against the world's Sir Malcolm Watson."
twenty countries, including the two for her courage in scrapping ships trade The India branch of the Ross greatest creditor countries, off the ber sea-going tonnage still remains 240 per cent. above its pre-war vo- Institute will be taken over by the gold standard, and produced an
It is essential that international BERLIN, Aug 19.
amalgamated body, and Dr. G. Couterp of emergency restrictions lume, as compared with a decrease The Jewish community of Berlin Damsay will continue as its prin-uf the past three years, is the re- of 3 per cent. in U.K. tonnage. trade should have at its command will be allowed to lease theatre cipal, while the Industrial Advi.fuan] of creditor countries to take It is obvious that the first step to ships built and run on an economic wards restoring equilibrium bebasis, but a continuance of exces and to devote it to the staging of sory Committee will also be con-payment in goods and services.
tween supply and demand must be sive subsidies must provoke retalia- Jewish plays, according to a deci- tinued under the chairmanship ot aion reached to-day by the com- Mr. G. H. Masefield; and Major
taken by those who have disturbed tion, either in the form of counter that equilibrium.
aubsidies or in the form of anti- mittee of Prussian theatre owners Rockwood Stevens, organising se-
dumping laws against foreign sub- at a meeting held under the chair-cretary of the Institute, will join
The Preparatory Committee point sidised ships. If every nation sub manship of State Commissioner the School in a similar capacity.
rd out that as a result of "directidines services and freights will Hinkel,
or indirect subsidies in many cease to be economic or to meet the countries shipping has become.
constantly varying requirements of burden on the national councy trade, and sea transport will be- stead of a contribution to its pros come an increasing burden on t perity," and they warned the world
that it is impossible to return to payers. In the second case it is hardly conceivable that interna- sound conditions in the shippingnal trade would not suffer by an industry, so long as the uneconomic outbreak of an international ship- policy of Government subsidies con- tinues." But whose interest is it ng war. In either, case, a new and formidable barrier to interna- that we should return to sound tional trade would be created. conditions in the shipping indus. It is therefors for the manufac try?' 'Not that of the shipowner turers and traders of the world to To-day there are only two ways who is receiving State assistance, say whether they can afford to al in which creditor nations can take nor of him who, hopes to receive low themselves to be excluded from payment goods and services To State assistance, nor even of him the choice of transport in ships take payment in goods the creditors who fears he may be driven to ask operating on economic lines at the must lower tariffs; this was recom- for State assistance. The problem risk of the shipowner and to rely mended by the World Economic is not a shipping problem at all, instead for their access to foreign Conference in 1927 as necessary, and but an essential part of the main markets upon the uncertain con today has become imperativet. He problem of world trade which tinuance by taxpayers of all na take payment in services the nations ultimately the traders and the tax-tions of heavy subsidies with which must refrain from the practices
to maintain uneconomic ships.
This permission has been grant- ed under the express condition that tickets shall not be offered for sale publicly but may only be disposed of to members of the Cultural Union of German: Jews. Another condition is that both the technical and artistic staff; must be Jewish. The Jewish Union thereupon an- nouneed that it would make use of this privilege.
No decision has yet been reached as to which theatre is to be leased but in any case the first drams to be staged will be Nathan the Wise," the famous work of the great German dramatist, Lessing who was not a Jew.-Trans-Ocean Kuo Mi
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Last January the number was 171,994.
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It is therefore the task of the proat, creditor countries to take the first step to unwind the coil which is strangling the world by reversing the policy of trying to sell without buying, and of insisting on pay ment while refusing to be paid. That the onus of the first move is on the creditor countries has been recognised by no less than twelve nations at the Confererice. The only alternative is that they wipe oat the debts and cease to sell in the world market.
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which prevent, for example, the Payers of the world must decide conomic continuance of shipping Flag Discrimination and Subsidies. and shipbuilding industries, and imperil the future of international sea transport. These practices 'may
Shipping is the servant of com
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World trade in the future as in
the past, must insist on having and using the best ocean carrying power that is available International competition in trade makes it im
be summed up in the two words merce whose goods it carries. It is uneconomic subsidies. If there are for commerce to say whether it can possible for traders of one nation to 15 million tons of shipping lying afford to see destroyed the condi- employ any but the most efficient idle, if one-third of the world's scations of ocean-transport which have carrying power, and so Govern men are unemployed, if shipbuild-given it good service in the pastment has ever been able to devise ing has been brought to a stand-Those conditions have been secured any form of coercion in favour of still, and private enterprise in ship by the Open Freight Market, and ships under its own fag without at ping is threatened with extinction, the Open Freight Market is being the same time placing its own tradi we must blame, first the reduction destroyed by national interference.ers at a serious disadvantage. What in the world's trade, and secondly Ten years ago all the great tracking world, trade needs is a freight maz- nations of the world signed the ket open to ships under all flags Convention of Maritime Ports and free from the disturbing influences abjured Flag discrimination. Most inherent to limitations and reserva- of these nations firmly believed that tions imposed to promote the in they could help their nationals by terests if shipping under particular maintaining tariff against foreign flags and from State-sided compe- goods, but they all forswore the attition of ships under such flags. tempt to help their own shipowners The policy of building and running by Flag discrimination. They were ships under a particular fing to wise. Again and again through compete with and displace ships un history nations have tried to extend der her flags in international their frontier overseas and ematch trade has paralysed shipbuilding the ocean transport for their own and shipowning. It is the business ships again and again the attempt and the duty of the trading inter has led to had trade, bickering and ests of the world to demand the ware Freedom of the sens is the freedom, of the seas for peacef
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