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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1947.
COMING DOWN TO
TIN TACKS
M
"The fight is going to be hard and long" M. S. NUTT breaks off from the marathon International Trade Conference to tell readers what it is that is taking so long.
R JOHN SMITH, of Sydney, New South Wales, exports tin tacks to Britain and pays Gd. n lb. duty on them. Mr John Doe, of Pittsburg, U.S.A., also sends us tin tacks, but ho is charged 18.. lb. duty.
And Mr John Doe does not understand why Mr Smith should have that sixpence margin in his favour simply because he happens to be part of the British Empire.
Which, when you come down to tin tacks, is one of the two main reasons why 17 nations are starting some weeks of keen bargaining at Geneva.
Stretching it
THE other reason is that every country wants to increase its share of the world's trade. And, since it cannot get a quart out of a pint tankard, the Preparatory Committee of the In- ternational Conference on Trade is going to try to stretch the tankard.
For once America, economic boss of the worki today, has been out-smarted in the pre- liminary round of the tariff and preference battle. One of her own laws has compelled her to` divulge to the world the full list of goods on which she is prepared to make concessions. But Britain and the Empire have kept their lists secret, merely announcing the things on which they want tariffs cut,
What will happen
AND since tin tacks are probably on nobody's dist, they will probably prick no one's fingers
if we take them as an example of what is going to happen in the sprawling Palais des Nations at Geneva.
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BY THE WAY by Beaonoomber
Ihres Boner or later he will
anywhere.
be found out, and the Intelligent
as well havo written a column of
reader will nay angelly: He might
ONCE upon a time there was goblin-journalists to stent the indie
little fournalist In a tem pointed green hat and a russet T tins always seemed to me, I jerkin. And he said to him- confess, a very shabby trick to self: "What can I write about? Anyhow, everybody is, too` in terested in his own affairs to pay any attention to me. Yet, a column must be filled."
as he soliloquised thus, And smoking an acorn filled with beech mast, a wise old goblin alighted on a mushroom on his deskt. And the old goblin said: "String it out, cully, Talk about not having anything to write, and you will soon find you have filled a column," Whereupon the tiny journalist drew himself up to his full height and said: "That would be dishonest and unfair to the public," And the noble little man sat down and did his, work, Instead of going off with his fellow
anything at all. And have known EV
¿VERY code of decency is out-;
raged by the ingenious tie-
cover up with verbiage one's lack meaningless figures.” of inqterial. 'It is cary Lo meander along, streming to say this and that, without really
paying writers of the buser sort who con- trive to give the impression that vices of the wretch who, having they are writing an urbane little nothing to say, la too cowardly to essay, while really they are spin- admit it, but prefers to drawi along ning out their words to fill the stubbornly, braving the impatience allotted space. Such
of his friends and trifling is o
and the disgust of unworthy of the trade they follow. his enemies. How can he fail to bo haunted in after years by those simple readers who, not yel battered by the world and retaining words is for 'viler thun thefr illusions, con mistake padding. The man who indulges in purposeless Jabbering for sterling it does not restrict himself to un- prose? And what a debasement of: necessary adjectives, or redundan- the intelleet! To pretend to be clcs, or laborious. repetition. No. anying something, and to be merely His entire production is pudding, scratching the paper!.
Tunis
HIS habit of merely spinning
"The device of reciprocal Trade agreements in one form
or another would be confirmed, but whether on its present multilateral basis would depend somewhat....etc. etc.
America will make it known exporter and her offer would not sell
U.S. SENATOR VANDENBERDA
DEBT
TARIFF WALL OF
BIGGEST CREDITOR IN THE WORLD
World Trade Revival
"WELCOME....IN A SORT OF A KIND OF WAY
imprint on
all Countri04)
she wants a cut in the Imperial another tin of Dominion pears in Los The English have been copied by
Preference on in tacks. The Angeles.
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Board of Trade tack expert, if "The light is going to be hard and many who have hoped to discover the not already in Geneva, will fly long. America is leaving, nothing to formula of English success by imita- in haste from London and the chance any more than Joe Louis struggle will begin.
when he meets Baksi, Her delega-
He will already have discuss. tion includes negulating looms of men and women who have for years ed the position with home tack specialised in the trades of each of makers and may be in a position the other 10 nations at Geneva, and to accept a cut, provided these are backed up by seven com- America in return will agree to modity advisers from the US. Tariff
·make n-reduction in the duty on Commission. her imports of, say, British ready-made clothes.
Britain's present Government Is committed to the elimination of Im- poriad Preferences, Sir Stafford Cripps seems to have different ideas
from his colleagues. Let him take
Dominion voice BUT Australia has also to be
consulted. Her expert can courage and note that the Dominions, take two lines-that the Domin- all of them, breed tough men. ion's infant tack trade must con- And there are some proferences, tinue to have a preference, or that it can stand the loss of it. marked in red on their secret lists, Ile, too, will want a quid pro quo on which they have not the least in- from America, say a five percent tention of giving way. If these are
ting English manners
MONG the phenomena that
A never fail to baffle foreigners in England is that which is usually described as "class dis- tinction."
They see sturdy, jolly workmen_in_cloth caps probably in company with King George VI, cheering the players at a football match; they see His Majesty, the same workmen, and tall, slim aristocrats in grey top hats applauding the winning horse and jockey at a race, and they ask themselves how can such contrasts be tolerated in a democratic society.
TRAPPINGS
is that appearances are
all
mero
DEFINITION OF A GENTLEMAN
amount
arc
By TOM BLAU
young Hungarian journalist now work.
ing in England
.
TO-MORROW ALHAMBRA THEATRE 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. tnt in the duty on the apples threatened they will be ready to deceptive. Top hals no longer sym- medmrpion that every man is a gentle, nor yet on force of numbers, size of
JAP MINUS ZERO EQUALS DEATHT
¡A ZERO IN THE SIGHTS-
A PRESSURE OF THE THUMB
|--AND ANOTHER JAP HAS
KEEN SIGNED ON THEI “DOTTED LINE" OF LEADE
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dustrial Revolution In Britain rapidly established a new class of persons of InBuence who were neither noblemen · by birth nor distinguished sailors or soldiers. "By courtesy, the title of entleman is generally accorded to above the rank of common persons abo tradesmen when their manners
of The character-building methods of indicative of a certain
and intelligence," refinement and
work stales such schools and universities on encyclopaedin in the middle of the with youngsters of any nationality, 19th century. To-day, a man can go and these efforts do not go unreward-
But to emulate to law and take action for slander if ed
the peculiar he is described as "not a gentleman". power of England, that leadership For in England, the -structure of the based not merely on enliitary might,
Stale rests on the unwritten not merely boilse power; and cloth caps certainly man. The one great aim of education territories, or diplomatie finesse, twe do not mean
As a nation, the The manifold meanings and inter- gentleness and manliness, and they English are sentimentally attached traditional trappings; but while the pretations of the word "gentleman" are needed not in a few individuals If the talks end In agreement, the necessary adjustments will be made.
continuous and gradual changes funguage hus managed to render
clastic. 'reasonably CX-
NONCHALANCE America will sell more tacks in Bri- I will be mid-May' before these form is preserved, its mearing under- have so confounded the world that no but on the whole nation
detailed bargainings are ended. By Lords and barorts continue, but the suniciently tain; the wholesale clothiers of Leeds will have more work; and the Aus- then the 15 typists, the seven cypher-rule of the peers was broken long haustive translation.
Even the "old school tie English institutions which have been
ee juxtaposition of two qualities one of tralion
apple growers will ship more ers, the eight messengers and the 40 whil
while still a power in England-has misinterpreted, imbued with all man which seemingly excludes the other, to San Francisco. The conference will have stretched the bankard a little girl drivers who are included in the lost a great deal of its influence; con- rer of subtle and mysterious Inten- runs through English life. Take sport,
British delegation will be sick of scription in war and postwar, and That, at
at any rate, is the ideu. But there are snags, America puts staring into the Geneva shop win the new Education Bill perhaps within provides the only tenable approach for example. The whole world has a decade will have burled the last Hon. A gentleman is just what use copled and thoroughly studied the
"class
label denotes: he is gentle, and he is many forms of athletic exercise evolv distinction". vestige of real
ed by the English: tennis, football, hockey,
systematic, boxing-and The only remaining criterion (taking manly. for granted ability and competence)
rigorous, uncompromising study of is: "Are a gentleman?"
you a
which Australia sends to the drown Sir Stafford's "perhaps" with Pacific coast when American ap- a resounding "No." ples are out of season.
No. 13
tariff dows, crammed with goods too dear an escape clause in all her agreements, If, as a result of Empire to buy. tactles on tin tacks, the American clothiers and British competition too hot, the escape clause will be operated and everyone will be back where he started.
But they will have to stay at east until the end of August, while the conference turns to getting rid of other trado restrictions.
to an Englishmay and submission in Britain is to-turn out "gentlemen", things are needed in equal measure
to
Like many
the simple and direct
CHARACTER
Isı numberless variations,
this
-techniques has resulted In most cilesis
athletics rarely
A gentleman, according to the Envied and admired by a world plonships being won for other Concise Oxford Dictionary, is a man that has so often miscalculated and in international competitions, in the entitled to bear arms but not included misread the reactions of England and Olympic Games, the English, plancers in the nobility. This, the historical the British Commonwealth of Nations, of modern
provide modicum of winners. But Sir Stafford, Walter Clayton
definition of the term, has long ago the English have been copled strenu more than a lost currency-while the term aureusly by many who hoped in discover. The world has successfully learnt how to the formula of English success by to succeed in sports; it has mastered chairman of Max Sutters, Belgien vived from medieval feudalism
the you noticed that on your agenda the of time its application widened and monarchs send their sons to Elon it ever studied the "geatio" alde. conference have modern democracy, With the passage. Imitating English mannera. Foreign the "manly" part of the job but hor Item "Signature of the general agree broadened.
Harrow, Winchester-men of wealth of it? To the English, sports are a ment on tariffs and trade" is No, The profound political and social and influence have their children, gentle-manly pastime. They like the
(Continued on Page 3). changes brought about by the In- educated at Oxford and Cambridge:
Real markets AUSTRALIA, too, will want to be sure that the apple market is a roal one. It will be no use America offering, instead, a concession on tinned fruits, for she herself is an 137-
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