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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1947.
The
CRISIS IN BRITAIN
OME
of Britain's friends in the United
States, peering anxious- ly through our ice-bound windows, link. the economic plight of the country with a wider issue.
They ask whether Britain, wrestling with a production crisis of unexampled severity, is capable of maintaining her status and discharging her tasks
as a great Power and leader of the Commonwealth.
And, should this prove be. yond her resources, will not new strategic and political burdens fall upon the United States as residuary legatee of the British Imperial heritage?
Those Americans might also put to themselves a further question: If Britain were un- able to restore her overseas buying power to the prewar level, what would be the effect economy? upon the American For we have been America's first customer,
Beyond our income
AND, to go a step still further, what would be the effect
country).
and the mistakes our
friends make about it
We are not producing ' There are, however, 'aigns of They speak of the Colonial (1) enough goods for sale muddled thinking in the United Empire as a "liability which abroad so as to pay States on this issue. And there an impoverished Britain can no for the goods we wish must be no muddled thinking longer afford to keep on her that we are not buying enough
books. But that Empire is not, to buy abroad. (It is also true here.
if we look on it from the right For example, it would be angle, a rich man's luxury, an goods abroad to restore the 1938 standard of living in this wrong to suppose that every estate pleasing to our vanity "strategic withdrawal" is neces- and expensive to our purse, like sarily a form of economy. IL
a millionaire's, grouse moor. We are, in addition to would be a mistake, also, to
that this commercial defi- assume
of the process cit, spending money liquidation." which we witness and maintaining men in India and Burma is a reflec, scale ton of Britain's embarrassed nutside this island on a which we cannot finance froni position of the British Crisis.
In fact, the Indian policy has our own resources, and which
gently needed manpower.
Intest development is-what-
(2)
deprives British industry of ur- its roois deep in history, is
By GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
It is this second aspect which ever else may be said about it Americans have most in mind the culmination of a long pro- when they anticipate, with
so cess.
much dismay, "a forced and dis- orderly liquidation" of many of our
"external commitments." We have neither the money nor ness of Empire.
Were we looking on it simply as a measure of economy in resources ยา manpower, as a
On the contrary, it is an un- realised or undevelopped asset. A wise man, in times of finan- cial stress, does many things that are harsh and disagreeable, But he does not discard his
assets, particularly those that he
not turned to use.
If, as may well be, we cannot
in days to come buy raw cotton
POCKET CARTOON
Gois
"Ifcre's the file you
asked for."
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
No
TOT a word from the rocket Utopin, but more strange and tobacco and other tropical and sub-tropical products from flashes in the sky....At this the "hard currency" areas, then moment I have nows from in our long-neglected Colonies, Waggling Parva. A radio above all in Africa, we may message received at 11:20 a.m. create new sources of supply, employing.
modern methods of production.
on a vast scale. saya;—
on world trade generally? For the men to carry on the busi "shortening of the line," it is as the Colonies would be an actments out of order. Darkness all.
Britain formerly bought one. sixth of all the goods entering international commerce.
doubtful if the policy could be justified.
ready for
All well. Pressure terrific. Speed To abandon, now of all times. Increasing. We think we must be such "external commitments" approaching the moon. All instruż of gratuitous folly of which no of light
round us, but ahead a faint haze British Government would be water-doss savs he can detect 11 jupar canal. That being so, it "Power
Hydraulic (unreadable) And
This is no liability guilty. To prepare a new era of vacuum" will be created.
economic development in the landing. Everybody standing by. We slowing down somewhat... The truth is, of course, that either anarchy will follow or the
we are bound to discharge, owed to ourselves and our fellow Wild excitement in the rocket. outside this country are vitally the men and the money, will step rich or poor. One of them, per- cítizens. It is now an tens of millions of people living United States, which has both OR there are still tasks which Colonies has always been a duty The haze of ligt on somewh
Are we to be the first people to visit the moon? A new era in human ní- laps the second in importance, necessity.
fairs, fraught with (the rest of the interested in the British Crisis in
The other day the Government message was Indecipherable), and concerned that it should be
is to cover the sea-routes to the South Pacific Dominions, and produced an ambitious project O. K. for sound solved.
The full import of the Crisis, the range of its possible reper- cussions, have not yet been realised. In the meantime, let us deal with the apprehensions which have already been arous ed in the United States.
Britain is, at present, living beyond her income in two sup-
plementary senses:-
Wrong thinking. THAT, briefly, is the American
argument.
And there is this to be said about it: There must be a prompt and calculated scaling down in our obligations overseas, For reasons both of men and money, we are bound to take a more modest view of the burdens
we should seek to carry.
were
When, because of the fuel shortage in Britain, 500 weekly and monthly periodicals suspended for two weeks, daily and Sunday
came to their rescue. This
newspapers
was
kept open.
urgent
He said that the shouted at him
nuts in East Africa. It carries to guarantee that they shall be for the cultivation of ground-
Let the strategists say with it the reasonable. prospect all day, and banged doors and threw whether this can be done more of a saving of ten millions of furniture about, and stamped on the
floor, to annoy him.. (News item.) "cheaply" in the Indian Ocean' foreign exchange. than on the Himalayas, without Truc, the scheme will not A stately pleasuredrome the help of Indian regiments show results until 1948. But it than with that assistance!
would be wrong to imagine, ou THE kind of beauty that drives men mad Euston Station, Pearl of That is a matter of calcula that account, that it has no bear the Occident! The Egyptian Mall We reports that the Manager of the L. tion. But the American writers ing on the British Crisis.
N. E. R. said, "Euston is to be made shall still have the Crisis with us
so beautiful that the passenger he in 1948, although its outward will forget to catch his time will form may be different.
wander around, so entranced that there
is danger who sees it for the first train." Instead of cultured Above all, boldness! voice chanting the hours of the trains
fall into a deeper error.
AUSTERITY'S BEAU GESTE
Alx-
Art of Self- two weeks; meanwhile daily, evening THE "Noble
tu save THE
Defence," boxing, ordains and Sunday newspapers.
electricity in their printing works, that a fighter must never hit his reverted to their wartime size from opponent when he is down. In which they had only just emerged; fact, it is ring etiquette in Eng- Instead of eight-pages-they-went land for a boxer to pick up the back to alternative four and
page publications. other fellow and help carry him back into his corner once he has As often as knocked him out. not, the winner will put his arm
of
By TOM BLAU Hungarian journalist and author, now living in England
whole
one
will more and throwing
throwing
corps de ballet AND this ground-nuts project about the station, miming the depar-
tures and arrivals, is only one of many construc- roses at the passengers. Fountains, tive programmes which iminut gushing lamp-ull and axle-grease, tion, energy and boldness can will play at each ticket barrier, and discern within the bounds of an artificial moon will shine from. those overseas lands which are "Get crackin', sweetie-ple" printed the thatched roof. Sailor hats, with British by loyalty and guardian- on the ribbon, will be given away ship.
by the management.
The Americans are right. Britain's position has been Hogwarch transformed-We-were-rich: T-LEARN that Soflfagwasch's mam- moth musical based on "Barch-
feature We
the
excrest political opponents of the struggling debtor.
are
2
are poor. We The most extraordinary of the situation was the fact that in creditor. We are a debtor, a ester Towers" makes one very daring some cases the "guests" were
The "hosts" Yet,
handed
Views which were anathema
space WAS
around the loser when the fight. country would now be deprived of even long-established policy towards a parallel revolution in playing one enormous round piano
of the ogr strikes
again!
is over to console him and wish him better luck next time.
PETER COL KAY HARDING MARTIN KOSLECK VIRGINIA CHRISTINE KURT KATCH
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Don. AMECHE
of
4
burdensome
departure from the conventions of A letter, signed by live M.P.s (of Parties), appeared in the august
columns
But it is precisely this revo-such aims. Instead of having a dozen correspondence
people playing a dozen white marble the over without any restrictions what-lution in our life that impels us planos almultaneously, or
hundred Times deploring the fact that the valuable advice and guidance to the
our thinking. And that revolu- Hogwasch has had a gigantic rose- coloured violoncello built. This is which some, at least, of those 500 paper with a distribution of over a weckiies
used
played by relays of nautical girls, British million were forcefully stated in its tion does not lead us away from to offer the
ten al a time, and when the instru- It is something of an irrepres- publie. Such wisdom, whatever its calumna by the editor of a weekly the Empire as a
Party
rty complexion,
could 11 be review with a circulation of, per-commitment.
ment is opened, out comes a Roman by 10 milk-white Bible passion with the English spared at a time of crisis: could not haps, 30,000. The helping hand was
It thrusts us towards the Em- chariot drawn release tendered to the stricken foe with no not just to bury the hatchet but the Government relent and
pire as a region of new cultiva- ponies. at least the Ave conditions attached. fram suspension altogether to forget that there most influential of the 5007
tion, new supply sources, and a ever has been any animosity
new wealth based upon an in- vestment Here was a problem of some com-
British brains, of once an opponent is unable to
plexity. If an exception were made
British character and the equip- carry on the fight.
be was the line to nt all, where
Twaln was a re- An all-embracing, all-over drawn? In the House of Commons,
porter on some of the less restrainment which British industry can powering
Government spokesman express- of common
American provide. newspapers of the
among humanity determines the inner sympathy but refused to budge. ed
Then,
the
totally West in the 1870's, rivalry unexpected, the
such that no man The journalists was happened. most workings of the English unforeseeable,
for Improvisation, thought of writing in who was not a man's heart. He is not at all British genius afraid of
In English fight; but he is always stirred to action when faced sound shot and provided with
bullet-proof waistcoat. with a dilemma, produced a delight journalism, revolvers have gone out constitutionally incapable of fully unconventional, thoroughly
of fashion,
hlon, but a very healthy and fighting an opponent who is English solution.
rivalry continues. down.
#
Bense
A unique helping hand was offered. and accepted throughout Britain during the fuel crisis.
HELP FOR OPPONENTS
The sudden and dramatic deve- opinent of the crisis, which led to the most incisive cuts in the supply of power both in industry and the home, severely affected Britain's
the
ed
COMPETITION & COMRADESHIP
When Mark
Information still is the alm of
ation autocmains; to "scoop" the The daily. evening and Sunday Competition newspapers reduced though
they won with an item of news or were to skeleton size decided to
the every newspaperman. Yet, there throw open their columns to
The Evening Standard exists in Fleet Street, and in pro- periodicals. gave the best part of a page cach to bably no other newspaper centre in over-riding The New
Nation, the world, a sense of Statesman and
decency Time and Tide, The Spectator and comradeship which puts
no Daily The Leader. The
Graphle and chivalry first, austerity or offered hospitality to Picture Post austerity. and. Illustrated; The Times gave its To the hard-working, long-suffer- entrenched picture page to Punch. The Daily ing people of Britain, Mall, the News Chronicle, the Daily once again in a fight against grave Press. To meet the altuation and Herald, the Sunday Pictorial-in emergency, this "bean geste" In the a brave. save fuel, the publication of all fact, almost, everyone tightened its midst of austerity came as
hardships weekly and monthly purlodicals belt by another notch to accommo- reminder that material
innocently will never subdue a nation with some 500 throughout the country was suspended for a minimum
stout hearts and a sense of fair play.
NANCY
of
date the editors of the silenced periodicals.
Vitamin Efficiency
WHAT A HEADACHE ---
I'M GOING
RIGHT TO
BED
[OH,MR.SPUTTER-
I HOPE YOUR
HEADACHE IS BETTER--
DUMB-BELLS
REGISTERED USING PATENT OFFICE
HE OWES MARRY THAT | ME ENOUGH|
IF YOU
PENNILESS
LODGER
WHAT ARE
YOU GOING
TO LIVE ON?
By Ernle Bushmiller
***BECAUSE MRS. SPUTTER. WANTS TO START THE
DINNER
TO KEEP ME IN COMFORT FOR YEARS
Rupert & the New Pal~35
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