TMS RATURWAY EVENING PENT
"There is no door. I tell you!
You'll have to find your way out!”
Why not
one supreme council for
all the Empire?
By SIR EARLE PAGE
A former Prime Minister of Australia
THE time has come when The American loan to Britain of
millon
British people all over to weather her present
is helping Britain
dimculties. blizzards
the world must say, but unforeseen floods and
much of the once and for all, whether have drained away
benefit from that help.
AT THE SAME TIME, WITII- OUT DOMINION INTERVEN- TION AND CO-OPERATION THE AMERICAN LOAN CON- TAINS THE GERM OF EMPIRE DISSOLUTION..
they wish the Empire to continue, or whether they will be content to be a rabble of small nations tag- ging along behind more powerful protectors or do- minators.
The American loan provided that "Britain-must-untreeze-the-sterling holdings of the Dominions in three wayas-em
Final test of Empire unity is whether Empire people are willing to save the Motherland Some balances must be realised by invoking positive assistance into any currency for current trans- Immediately and made convertible rather than dreaming hopeful actions;
dreams.
In the past, Britain herself
Sterling Balances
benefits which the countries
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1947.
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·MEMO FROM THE FOREIGN. NEWS EDITOR
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Evory week nows comes from Germany of Individual racketeering. This report puts the nows into perspective. In Germany are than 100,000. British troops" and civilians-and their families are joining them-in an entirely artificial atmosphere whare black markoting is taken for granted, Thote who are caught are rogarded as being a trifle unlucky. The real and tragic theme is not the disillusion of the German people, but the corruption of the reprosentativos of tho conqueror
ACK in Germany for the first time since the sur- render that is now called liberation, I left on a transit camp window sill my day's rations from the British Army.
Those ten elgarettes, poke of sweets, bar of soap and razor blode 18. d. in the British Army of the Rhine's "Mickey Mouse" paper cur- rency and meant no more to me than they would to you.
To the German waltreas who found them and returned them to me they
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Germany today.
I told this as
cannot buy in
story of simple
Racketeering in not confined to the British Zone. Its gravity for us in not only the effect on the morale of our people, not that the minority of traffickers is large, but that all those millions of cigaroltes, naw cur- rency in our Zone, come from Bri- tain and out of our diminishing dol- lar loan.
The deeper problem in our Zone today in the hate that is rising against Britain and the British.
There is so much to do in Germany and so little in being done except the Army and Navy's essential workc and the continuous blowing up of all that is left of Ger-
power to muny's make
The Germans themselves despite their boasted
SAPPING US
German honesty to a British naval EL SALTERNATIVE HER DARRENDA
officer who has spent the last seven years in Germany, five of them as a
war.
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plans for new and greater Hamburgs,
prisoner in a Marlag, where the By W. A. CRUMLEY Heligolands and the rest, are doing
price of a German guard's integrity was no more than ten cigarettes or a bar of chocolate, and a
German woman's price even less. Under the surface
"IT was not honesty that made that
The band of three musicians in the mess plays a new tune. "So Deep is the Night That is 12 elgarettes
least.
of them men who fought in the war, I met British Army officers-soine one even a new subaltern-throwing up their commissions to return the austerities of living and uncer tainties of employment In Britain, where the duty on every drink and Their adjectives for life in Germany today were sickening, degrading and tainted."
said. "It was fear. Fear of losing desert of desolation beyond the every cigarette has to be paid in full.
extra from four of us. “Lili Mar- leno
which we get everywhere at every meal, Is always worth one cigarette from the English officer.
Deeper into Germany.
along the dustrial Elbe, the value of the Bri- the tish Army rátion increases, and black market Intensifles. Eighty miles Inland one cigarette is worth 39. 6d. In Berlin the price has just gone up to five shillings.
girl give your rations back,” he
her job in
British camp: fear of losing access to British rations."
So a day or two
later, when I found that German fishermen had landed on Heligoland the night after the explosion and looted what was left there, when I saw German news- papermen seize from the island not souvenirs, but tables, and chairs. ITN ruined Hamburg, where some of began to look under the surface of
life in Germany, today.
In Cuxhaven, a German navul and fishing port of 33,000 people before the war, where only three sticks of bombs fell, the population is now 60,000.
Six thousand of them work for the British Army or Navy, in the mine- sweeper service, dockyard, tranalt and troop camps and oflcers' messes, They eat full British rations and pare froin the rich tables of the Eng. landers as much us they can.
Part of the fishing industry sur vives. There is no other production; Rich boot-black
THE richest man in my hotel looks like a lawyer, speaks accentless English, and cleans the boots: about 50 pairs of boots each morning at one elgarette a pair. And cigarettes are worth 2s. 6d, each in Cuxhaven. Or perhaps the barman, a mer- chant marine steward who was re- fused American Immigration, does even better. We draw the day's ra- flons from him, plus one whisky, one gin, one brandy, and unlimited beer. We are not allowed to tip in money: cigarettes only.
Cigarettes buy
Scotland Yard's 40 rocket-busters
have begun their investigations, I led from those sullen, contin- ually complaining Germans this cur rency table:
One cigarette' equals & marks, or three shillings. Two cigarettes buy one egg: five elgarelles one loaf of bread; ten cigarettes lib. of meat or sugar:
cigarettes 1lb. bacon or hom: 40 cigarettes 11b. I butler.
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Senior milltary officers say that the elvillan Control Commission cannot continue to govern the British Zone like a poor colony. That we must keep the promise of liberation, put the Germing back to work, or get out.
Respect has gone
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THE German today is apt to think
that our nation of shopkeepers is now a nation of blackmarketeers, Uke their view of the French," one told me.
"He thinks that the British have of become poor and soft. The Germans have lost fear of our military power and lost respect for us. We must teach them to fear or respect us again or we shall build up a nation of new Nazis."
A bar of chocolate or soap equals five or six cigarettes; 1lb. of coffee beans and it must be beans, for ground coffee can be adulterated- equals 80 cigarettes,
.
"
Back in Cuxhaven I met 'a raw "I only arrived today." Boots and shoes, which the cobbler subaltern, cannot mend for the cash customer, he said. "I've never been out of There is some will be soted and heeled in two days England before.
And the thing strange and dead in the at- for five to ten cigarettes.
I don't understand tailor who cannot promise a suit for mosphere, here. a year will do the job from your own it, do you?" eight days-fur 100 material in cigarettes.
Where the new rich of the octopus block market get their wholesale and coffee supplies of cigarettes from; how former British officers and offcials live in offen luxury, in perfectly appointed flats and houses, or get their womenfolk those 4,500- cigaretie sables and 5G1b-coffee fur conts, is what the Yard men are look- ing into.
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won' cure cancer or again Hongkong is pre- not say. It is, nevertheless, a paring to farewell the old and have nobody to sing her praises. Dr W. H. Manwaring.
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emeritua professor of bacteriology and ex- perimentul pathology at Stanford finiversity, cautiously confrms some of hopes and guesses. Once ALL publicity-call it propa- of the spectacular Soviet claims for "magic" scrum. Writing In speeches are being ganda, if you will-is on a the
California Medicine, the Melal cerned might be expected to gain written as a sincere and homely one-track basis. From London journal of the California Medical are fully and continually Association, Dr Manwaring reports supplied with news concerning that initial experiments on animals the battle which the people in show ACS has a "definite healing the British Isles have to fight-
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has normally accepted leader- Other balenees must be similarly ship in Empire affairs-plan- realised by instalments over a period ning defence and security mea- commencing in 1951; sures on a world-wide basis, Remaining balances must be ad- initiating trade and Empire con- justed as a contribution to the settle- ferences, and maintaining all ment of war and post-war indebted
and I recognition of the again, manner of links between
the ens sections of Empire.
Today she is so preoccupied with her own internal affairs that her leadership in Empire affairs has of necessity declined. If the kingpin is weakened, the parts may spring apart.
If Britain fails
The secret of a strong Empire is for the Dominions to
from such settlement.
welcome to a new administra- These sterling balances are im-tor. Britain's liabilities to Australia, Italia mense and are steadily increasing. and New Zealand have risen by 20 percent in the past year.
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While the tests are Inconclusive
The Australian balance has risen ever before in her hundred to the Lord Mayor's British and in early stages, Dr Manwaring to £223 million (Australian); the New Zealand balance is over £103 years' existence as a British Flood Fund Appeal is sufficient says they should "go far to decrease million; and the Indian balance ex- Colony. Problems have dragged evidence of this. All sections the current scepticism of the Soviet ceeds £1,330 millions,
To pay these huge aums and con-
on, and still remain unsolved of the community have contri- clinical claims."
ACS (antiteticular sytotoxic piret the great buyer of Em- problems which affect not only buted. The contributions from
and American products. Britain
almost every vernacular school serum) was developed in 1844 by assume the leadership, or at must increase her exports by at least the citizens of this small out in the Colony arc, I feel, the the Inte Dr Alexander A. Bogomo- least play their full part in the 75 percent over prewar levels, present crisis, for their
post, but are inter-related with most impressive and the most sts, of the Russian Ukralne.
the serum announced the
"combined significant.
with proper diet and care might en- protection, their own strength, buy raw materials abroad and she those of China herself.
uble man to live to 160 years of age.
More radical claims in the Soviet press led American scientists to dis- count entirely the first medical re- perts. But now Dr. Manwaring says serum similar to ACS has been used with "considerable success" in speeding the rate of healing of broken bones.
and the health of Britain the world.
own
manufacture goods she must
and buildings damaged or destroyed by must replace the equipment end
Immediate establishment of a Family Council of Empire De- velopment and Finance, design ed to pool the resources and the strength of all British countries for these things, would-
Rescue Britain from her cur- Tent peril;
Organise financial and econo- mic resources on an Empire basis;
in-
Assist the redistribution of industries, population and
•vestment, within the Empire;
Enable British countries to face the rest of the world with
raw
There is, unfortunately, little
one.
It must be remembered, however, 1 war. Therefore, her problem
thut Hongkong, too, has its pressing monoy as well as food and made known abroad as to the problems. Reparations is but materiais.
vital importance of this Colony. Have our problems been faithfully In Australia we have ploneered a
represented to the Home Australian Lean Council which national financial body known as the Whether this is the fault of the ment? One cannot but help feeling established as Treasurer in 1923.
I people on the spot or of the that they have not, In view of the silence of official quarters In this respect.
the
This authority co-ordinates loan requirements of the Common- wealth and the six sovereign States. and ensures that there is no com- ordinhted effort: would enhance the
petition between the Australian units In the open market.
United nation
Govern-
In other words, we face the finan-Monetary Fund; and would add to the arikinal' source of the promise.
cial world as a united nation, and not as a zeries of competing units.
Present world situation demanda
world stability and world security,
Regular and
How Scrum. Is Made
Dr Bogomolets predicted mankind ability of individual units as well as reform a year ago, but since from the use of the serum in pre- WE were promised constitutionat would live longer and healthier- the Empire as a whole to stand up
promise Was madc
nothing venting and treating diseases pecu to whatever pressure may be applied the
further has leaked out officially liar to nging and old age. by other countries and other blocs,
ACS is including the International Trade say leaked out, because such made by extracting omtalsified spleen information should flow freely from and bone marrow from fresh human Organisation and the International'
endavers. While the actual product Perhaps the Colonial Office is to a strong poison in large quantities, found to sumulate Lissue blame; and if such is the case, it is it was frequent meetings about time that Hongkong Dressed growth when
in minuto infected the adoption of a somewhat similor would result in intimate personal its own views in the directioni pattern within the Empire. The contacts with all parts of the Em- London. The Bellsh Government This stimulation of the connective Empire, could then face the world
general
sympathetic must be made to know very clearly
tissues of the body was 'believed ing unit, rather than as a series of problems in each part...
the Far East depends, almost entire of the symptoms and allments of old bewildered ond non-co-operating
ly upon the solution of local. Hong-ago, thus prolonging life." If Britain, by herself, is left to nations.
Pesent Imperial Conferences are kong problems, and in the toctful American pathologists have not "grapple with her financial oblige= An Empire Family Council of too formal and too infrequent to and diplomalle treatment meted out yet utilised -human serum in their tons, she and we will find ourselves Finance, Trade and Development do more than agree on the general to the thousands of merchants whose experiments, but Dr Manwaring bound hard and foot by lenders of regularly meeting would enable the highlights of Empire polley and can presence and work mean so much to says injections of a similar serum money, however generous their atti- Dominions to perfect plans for saving not deal satisfactorily with emergent | British trade, in Hongkong and the doubled the rate of healing of bone tude may be.
Britain and themselves by
problems..
Far East,
fractures in rabbits...
a united common policy.
-It Britain falls, Western civilisa
Mion will die and all British coun- Arion will share her fate..........
of
doses.
as an integrated Anancial and trad-Pirc, and a
underertanding of the special that the future of British-trade in likely to hold off or eradicate many
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