American Mistrust- It's Three Parts Worry, One Part Fad
by R. M. MacCOLL
FRIEND of mine who works in a French mission in Washington returned the other day after three weeks' leave in Paris. That evening as we dined together, he said: "What on earth is happening here about Russia? My taxi-driver dè- clared war on the Soviets three times on the way up from the station."
War talk-which means war with Russia-—is to be heard on all hands these days. Normally one's taxi-driver would at this time of the year be flipping comments over his shoul- der about the World Series (baseball), or perhaps describing with gloomy satisfaction how his wife managed to get á stenk at Inst.
The feast politically minded seem to have caught the infection. Russian intentions, Russian aggressions." pre- sent and potential, haunt the dinner table, the bar and even
the buses and trams. ·
America is a country of fade, | and to some extent the present wave of war talk is a fad-but only to some extent.
The preoccupation with Rus- sin by the man in the bowling alley is perhaps one part fad and three parts genuine worry. For, with one or two.exceptions, the lone is worry.
It is noticeable that there to for more war talk than there was even in the last few months before Park- Harbour, back in 1941.
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In England still com- people fortably assume that "comman
traditions, language common law," make Britain auto-
matically loved and respected by all Americans. They don't
1 befiere more is necessariip
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1946.
BBC
Perry Albertyn, from Rondebosch, Cape Town, a regular brondcaster in the Britt
Broadcasting Afrikaans Service,
Corporation's
Mien Albertyn was the originator of the frogthinni "De
Moderne Vrou" The Modern Woman), a talks pro- Gromune introducing personalities who are in London from South Africa, Nhe
HOW RIving up flat programme and tallast over the production of "Radio Uitspan." A weekly chlidren's pre- Krainme of features and short stories in Afrikaans.
Born at Wellington, Abort
forty-five miles from Cape Town, Mas Albertyn was educated at Wellington, ond at Cape Town University, where she studied fine art. After leaving the University The worked for a while at the Pretoria Art Centre. When the caine to England in November 1945, it was to get married, and the bad to experience of broadcast- B Before her fianco Arrived from South Africa, however she took a Job with the BBC and one day she was ask- ed: Wouldn' you like to tackle programme?" She tried it, and How kes the work very much Indreil. At
fest she was terrified of the microphone, we had to introduce were nervis af felt a nervous wreck. One of the 10 teresting bodista about her job in meeting o many different types of people, whi time to take part in her Afrikoung pin gramines young win, jud out of the men trim the Services, medical students. Army and taking up their stullen an wives of ametals, siness
and she says that when the #peakers
Junt
now Miss Alberiya h very busy calicet Du material for her children's pin- re- ja gramime, dramatising fairly tabs, terun-
lating short stories and she does not and life in England dull, but she and her Misland are looking forward to return-
to he gabwed by konestly enguising our differences, then by storing them up.
Freever use a South Africa after a few years.
squarely over into the Russian cump.,
That, like wor, is deemed 01-
but the thinkable,"
possibility rat Britain being legs in the Amertran,
Terent thing is camp. a rather faken into consideration.
That too, is a worrying thought, fecen although most Amergrans regard the town-stricken, newspaper world to-day,
constantly
Press and radio, columnists confront the suburbanite poverty-ridden bottleground for the with
Britain being
parsed-mouth musings on two colossus mperans, When Russia will march, along with, away behind the colossus class,
the orange hier In the mornings.
The Irritant
Wool Producing
Nations Confer
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Some Mistaken Ideas About Wages, Prices And Profits.
by Bernard Harris
THEY are saying in Yorkshire that the next thing to go up in price will be woollen cloth. The reason is that workers in the industry have just been granted an increase in wages of 4s. to 6s. a week.
No one will begrudge the workers this extra money. Jobs in the Yorkshire woollen' mills have never been highly paid, and it is time that the standards of other industries were approached.
But these pay increases have a habit of spreading. They set up demands in other capital receives a larger share of industries. mands are conceded there is all for raw materials and meeting taxes, And when the de' the products of Industry than labour. In other words, that, after paying too often no compensating in the boss takes inore than half what erense in output. So up gos left and the workers less thon prices.
Among the next to
take home larger pay packets are likely to be the cotton workers and the textile Anishers.
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Comments the bank: "Unless such beliefs are dispelled the affairs of a democrney can hardly be expected to proceed on a reasonably intelligent basia"
Before long the building workers
The Factsa will be asking for inore. At their re- cent conference they decided that. THAT are the facts? reasonable minimum rate was 3. an To find them one has to go to hour, instead of the present 25, Cd.
In the first half of this year alone about 5,500,000 of Britain's workers roughly one in three of the tolai employed in Industry-obtained pay increase.
Compared with September 1938 the average increase in wage rates, as own by Mr Morrison's Digest of Statistics, is 4 per cent. (each £1 at which a job was rated seven years ago the comparable rate now is 32. Od.
For
Owing to overtime and other fne- lors, actual earnings have increased
mather me than this,
Girls Do Best
States Department of the United Commerce, which has carried out detailed research into this problem. According to its calculations each dollar of Industrial production, after excluding raw material costs, A divided thus:--
Workers. 61 per cent.; over- hrad costs; 114 per cent.; Ex- cise and sales taxes, 5 per cent.; income taxes. 13 per cent.; net profits, 9 per cent.
Thus, so far from capital taking! more than labour, the share going to the workers was nearly seven times as large as that received by the boss (or the shareholders) after taxes had been deducted.
the
current
clivide up the earnings IF YOU
The bank rightly emphasises that between the different groups of workers you find that the girls have this analysis has little meaning us a London. Nov. } 1 (UP) done the best, followed by the women, gauge of the fairness or
or unfairness then the boys, and finally the men, or the Thirteen wool producing
distribution of intern It is primarily of interest as an Consuming nations met to-day The increase in pay-pockets over
substantial cross-section in Indus-indication of
of the misunderstandings In the evening, as he tries to relax ·
in the first post-war Internation-try is girls 91 per cent., women 89 which underile much of by his radio to the little mise
DALESTINE, with all the painful. Wool Conference to hear Mriper cent, bays 74 per cent, men 66 economiction," it says, "is to re-i
and political unrest. Winchester Heights, he has to take PA
f the more sinister predictions along with echoes it must stir in a country John W. Belcher, Parliamentary per cent
cover from the effects of war with a the singing commercials,
with a big Jewish population, is the Secretary to the Board of Trada, Now, if Mr Dalton is to be relied minimum of further industrial pros Jews recently heal invitant
urge them to find an orderly on, the cost of living over the same stration, there is an urgent need for bludgeoned millions into considering !
effective means It produces picketing of British solution to world trade problems, period has risen by only 32 per cent. more
of bringing the one thing they passionately do consulates, broken windows at a fri- it is our earnest hope that with St, theoretically, those workers who such facts to the attention of those
do not pay tax are a great deal better, who work and those who vote." not want, and do not want to think tish Government office in New York, 'The growth of International Co- about--War.
off than they were before the war,! British operation it will prove possible to while these in the lower tax brackets boos at newsreels showing The Wallace
No Comparable Figures Fow Wat * 13!
in Jerusalem, and **v1 12༠
play- Come solutions of esinmodity proli- example. Wallace or. Byrnes? Whose wright Ben ("The Front Page) lem which are in the best long-re a little better off.
INFORTUNATELY, in exoggeratedly
UNE 1 say "theoretically," fur in actual malicious term interests of the produce and The man in the bowling alley is anti-British propoganda vehicle. "Asumer alike and to avoid mila- fect very few people drawing a
there are no figures comparable Bupelessly confused about the aton, Flag is Born." now running on teral netion which has to often in-weekly wage are really better alt. with those prepared by the US. benb.
Broadway,
the past amounted to the export Pay packets may be heavier, bit Department of Caninerce. of employment," he said.
their contents go much less far than But if they were available there is tries will have the atom bomb in five : But remeber. The Briton Time- Mr H. J. Hutchin on tender of the they conform to Mr Dalton's claim be widely different, except, perhaps,
did in 1939.
no reason to belleve that they would that the proportion going in taxation would be substantially higher than in the United States.
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To their credit the chairmen of some of our big industrial companies have appreciated the unportance of this sort of information and have made their own special contribution to our knowledge.
„Lord Maßey m_ruteals that last. year Imperial Chemical Industries paid £31,800,000 in wages, salaries and pensions,
When he reads that "other comme
or ten years" there is only one ly encounters anything but courtesy British delegation. www elected "other country" in his mind-Resin, and friendliness in America, whe-chairmon
that the cost of living is up by barely Wisere dines Britnin sland inther in "Chicagoland," New England, Argentina and M. Rolaglia of une-third you would be reduced nl American estimation? Well. pour the South or For West.
Franco were chosen as joint chair-most to bread-and-margarine exis- old Britain res mal is apt to Bet
In the thousands of miles I have worst of both worlds.
Argentina, Australia. Belgium, Most people would agree, I think, Americans see nothing inconsistent covered in the United States I have Crnails, China, France, India, Italy, that the real cost of living, in which in bronding Britain at one and the been the recipient of many acts of New Zealand, South Afrien, the include the semi-luxuries now re- same time as a hopelessly weakened generosity and kindness, heard many aled Stateugung and Britain garded as necessities, has doabled second-class Power "all washed up," pleasant things said of Britain.
attended.
tre Usalt roused since 1939. and as n lough, ruthless "imperialist"ff-one-Anterican-con-still-call-an-
So wage rates have barely kept in natlori dragging
The gates. the Cuslaved
sther a "am Yankee and mean it,
sel coulinite Brough step with the true cost of living and Dominions along in ghains,
it's not surprising that he mutters for welt a widely Linded it.
November "This is the best may even have tended to lag beltind A writer in the well-informed about a "dam Limey" now and then, Washington Post described Mr Lord Lothian, ene of the best em-
tai supfen nga sad die Poumain
Dawning on Them
The sum distributed in net divi- Ernest Bevin the other day 2 bassadors Britain
Next said that "there is great grati-
dend on the company's capital was "Ponam Secretary of the British and
ever sent here, deation that fresh am mean wo HERE is evidence throughout In- £3,200,000. "Anglo-American rela once said:
Here we have a ratio Empire").
ANUNDES *** juurteng tions
always dificult to arc
talk
invited.
dustry that workers are begin. In favour of labour of almost 10 to prehly About."
easton on which the v principal are of title value if they are auto-
ning to realise that wage increases, 2.
In the four years to March 1944 Difficult or not, a great deal of exporting contre--Argentina, mathcally followed by a rise in the the Yorkshire wagon-building dem
Australia,
Arw Zealand.
South
price of the Sirica and tray have aut maiteas is about to happen with aid £1,588,805 in wages and £225,- products they help to of Charles Roberts and Company
209 in interest on capital. This gives wool.
a ratlo ef 7 to 1 in favour of labour. A Trifling Part
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of the
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well.
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think it is time for a little action as straight Anglophobe and of the Left- the earping and a little more states- meat states" and sattel tần may
A moratorium on Transatlan- 1 dicum.
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They blondly Ignore what is happen fine.
ing in India, Egypt, and elsewhere.. Another paradox, Amerien style,
in the pleture of a Britain which is simultaneously a reactionary, mob-
Country
of
Paoting. Nov. The Central
there contrat 16, akik ma
Warsaw, Nov.
They are coming to recognise that
this is the first stage of what the
cail eronemists
the Inflationary "spiral"a process in which wages,
chasing prices und are constantly which in
the end leaves every
(UP)-The leath Heth Administration has set aside occurred here to-day of ex-Premier 3. CN$1,200,000,000 for the rehabilita- Julian Nowak, EI, who led the Polish worker worse cft than he Wild ut
then of Puoting's sanitary and health Government in 1022-25 and later was establishments-Central News.
Rector The University of Krakow.
absurd feudal Lusions, and Socialist-Communist hace which is already in limbo politically.
The negative result of the recent preoccupation with Russin hus been that Britain has come in for rather
fewer kicks than are usually her SIDE GLANCES
shere (Palestine excepted).
But the Chicago Tribune (circula- tion 1,000,000 daily in the Middle West) had this by way of gracefuli tribute when Field-Marshal Montgo- mery arrived in the United States: His reputation was founded on
ied on a local success at Alamein mnde 905- sible by
build-up o! enormous U.S. Lense-Lend tanks planes, lorries and supplies,. Is tactics were derived from the last war.
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"The Amerless tandings in North Afrien turned his local' success into a rout. Britain hos no contribution to make to the partnership with America either in military might ar in military brains."
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The Splutters
HE Isolationism of the Tribune la
not isolated. Newspapers Indiana, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona. and elsewhere would make English readers blink. New York and
Arc
Washington
do all right, Etc. Some radio commentators, men with multi-million audiences, fast swinging away from friendliness. Recently a man who used to be n warm adistese duplar Pis Paith ni Britain, spluttered angrily over what he called "British Insolence" in Mr
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over Palestine.
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.The Russian concentration on America in the past few weeks has led to some discussion on Britain's' future course of action.
Writers have seen or thought they . saw, subtle signs that Britain was "sitting this onc out," and letting America and Russia setile the pole. mics on their own.
Few people take seriously the pro- position that Britain will ever move
COPA. 1994 BY MEA SERVICE, ING, T. M. REG. V. B. PAT, OFF.
UT the the experience of indivi- dual companies tells only a tri- ing part of the story. We want the facts for industry as a whole, .
Since he introduced his Monthly is not surprising that some Digest of Statletes last January Mr of them are seeking a remedy.
Morrison has been busy adding to I rend one the other day.. The the information It contains. writer said that when wages are You can now learn at a glance
first.
So It
By Galbraith raised selling priers of goods should how many pairs of slippers we are
"That antique bed you gave me must have been here since the inn was built-George Washington may have slept here, but I «lldn't!”.
remain unchanged. The increased producing, how many tons of spent wages should be found from prehis. oxide Britain consumes, how many
11 was just as simple as that. I goatskins she has in stock.
But could the bass stand it for long? am afraid no.
get
can be called the policy of "soaking But you can't learn how much the the boss.'
Kels and
and how mu
much the workers I think it is time Mr Morrison asked the experts In the Govern ment's Central Statistical Office get busy and find out. For the in
vital.
The fact that it has been serious. ly suggested is an example of the widespread delusions in this country formation about how much of the product of
to
It would reinforce Sir Stafford
Industry goes In wages and how Cripps's plea in Edinburgh recently
much goes in profits,
that the only way to Improve living
It is important that these wrong standards is by larger production, Idens should be removed, for they
The
workers cannot increase their
are undoubtedly a potent cause of share of Inbour troubles.
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One of the
big American banks which has been investigating this
wave of labour unrest belleves that
good deal of it springs from cur-
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
In a sealed cover endorsed of account for the periods 1st: "Tonder for Purchase of, No. 10 March, 1941, to 31st December, Ice House Street" and should be 1941, 1st January, 1942, to 31st delivered not later than twelve August, 1945, and from 1st noon on the 23rd November next. September, 1945, to 30th April, 1946, and to re-elect a Director The highest.or any Tender will and the Auditors. Advertisers requiring space in not necessarily be accepted. "Radically mistaken notions con- the Saturday editions are request-
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