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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1947.
SOCIALIST
BRITAIN
LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE
Copyright to All Countrier
ALARIC JACOB gets home in time for the
crisis-and looks back again at Moscow
jokes
Cut the -and do a
RITAIN'S. crisis is a Russian propagandist's paradise. It enables them to say, with truth: "Wė told you so."
37
Moscow's radio quoted Kp. ling, and cooed;--
"Oh, where are you going to, all
you Big Steamers, With England's own coat up and
down the salt seas?" "We are going to fetch you your
bread and your butter.
deal
"Your armed forces take 25 percent of your whole in
comments my friend come," Nikolai Petrov, Moscow. en- gineer. "Can't you cut them?"
But aside from that, I ask him to imagine what Lenin would do wero Your beef, pork and mutton, eggs, he alive today and an Englishman."
apples, and cheese."
2004
JUST A FLUTTER
IN AMERICA
-By Gerald Johnson-
NEW YORK.......... REAT BRITAIN'S decision to halt the convertibility of sterlingling agitated bankers and economists but. has loft the ordinary American unmoved,
He is aware that the clause in the original agreement was inserted to protect American export trade, but has had no practical result excont to expose the British.
Thus he is pleased, and perhaps, a little astonished, that the American Treasury, had the good sense to give its assent to dropping the arrangement.
The incident-marks the failure of the policy Tepresented by the British Loan, but everyone expected that policy to ha superseded anyhow as soon as the Marshall Plan can be worked out.
The action of the British, boing easy to understand, created a flutter, but not a real sen- “sation in the United States.
The American taxpayer is learning by de- grees something of the expense of Empire and he is not happy over it.
Since the shooting stopped the United States hab laid out nearly 18,000,000,000 dollars. (A,- 000,000,000) to support the peace; about half of it in outright grants, the rest in so-called, loans that no one expects to be repaid for a long time
if ever..
12
Expensive peace
During the five years of Lease-Lend this country spent 61,000,000,000 dollars, of which 11,000,000,000 wore returned in the form of goods and services to its troops abroad,
That made the net cost about' And, while the Soviet Press. in 8,000,000,000 dollars (£2,000,000 turn burbles on about the repressive 000) a year,
power of British imperialism; it becomes ever clearer that Russla,
Peace it seeman is rather more ex-
which is not desperate for dollars, Pensive, running to nearly 0,000,- year, with the which is building half Europe. Into 000,000 dollars
a Soviet trading bloc, and which has Marshall Plan expenditures still to splendid crops, is in a position right come. now to shape our future for decisively than we can shape hers.
more
Disregarding Aho British ahd French loans, this country has spent well over 8,000,000,000 dollars on' UNRRA, the occupled areas, the Philippines, Latin America tho several Greek-Turkish adventure, and various relief organisations.
in
She is able, for instance, to abollshi bread and cercal rationing
have October, and st million tons to export this year.
It has put up nearly 3,000,000,000 In essence, her problems are far dollars for the Monetary Fund and simpler than ours, She is sitting on nearly as much more for the Export-
vast, unexploited wealth. You feel Import Bank. that only on awful lot of, stupidity It has pledged conditionally But in the old Comintern days could bring economie run to Russia 2,500,000,000 dollars to back the In the enfeeblement of Britain was the way she is set now. Whereas ternational Bank in case it runs in-
good in self, and, only 1 regarded as
great pulting-forth of bo trouble, and various odds and Russians and it hard to throw off intelligence can save Britain.
ends account for another 3,000,000,- old lines of thought.
000.
The time has now come for the Kremlin to make the effort.
Chance Missed:
"Was missed.
Bovin a straw
What We Need
Sound: are.. the reasons; for all these expenditures, but the job of
RUSSIAN thinking seems to suffer explaining them to voters is not simple because the plain fact is that. from a time lag. They may be the American, is paying for an Em- right to call the Marshall Plan an pire without possessing it,
link over-industrialised Western
Wool velo
The old battalions of greed, and crooked dealing have never been demobilized..
They came very near 15, imposing
only by the Presidential veto... a prohibitive tariff on Australian wool in the last Congress, being defeated,
How would he equate the output of Then the tart voice added: these small islands with the needs of THEY call "We don't' envy little Jackie's 48 million Britons! All Nikolaj can Palmerston thumping a despatch-conomic ogre. Why, they argue, father, who tries to explain suggest in the sound advice: "Full box which has nothing to the Europe with industralised America
call him Marshall's stooge, Yet, why the big steamers aren't back on your Empire.”.....
when the recent trade talks gave when in two or three years Easter running any more: why Bri
Pravda's Idea them a chance to improve Britain's Europe will be bulging with food to manufactured tain can't buy mutton in Mel THAT is an idea Nikotal got from bargaining position with Washington exchange for our bourne without being forced to Pravda, which in turn ofte dent source of food, the opportunity But speech-making and name
by opening up for her an indepen Foods?, buy the game in Chicago at quotes from the Daily Express these.
calling solve, nothing. A, business prices inflated by 40 percent days to demonstrate the folly of the
They did manage in the list hours American1nan, and iнilename of No une supposes that Overseas deal is what is needed. ***
before the adjournment to insert Litto All right, you feel, let them Britain begging her daily bread from Trade chief Harold Wilson, after. If there is any just impediment a law; regulating the importation of rub it in if they like: but the, other nations.
weeks of negotiation will Mikoyan, to the reopening of Anglo-Russian sugar a provision that the Cubon joke can be carried too far. This But the joke, for the Russians, deliberately threw away the chance, trade, let us Hehr it now. Otherwise Government finds insulting.
'If... tho: of getting grain to build up our let us break, the deadlock by ordinary Russian, seeing all the would definitely go too far
It would cause the Cuban, sugar space still marked yellow for independence of Britain were over chicken and pig population again, declaring that the British Govern- quota to be reduced it certain private the British Empire on his map, weakness.
actually"!", menaced... · by economic and to safeguard our bread ration. ment will guarantee delivery by a claims against: Cuba, some of them
There has been flabby thinking defalte date of the machinery dusala ghly dubious, are not paidanud finds it hard to believe. 'that' A Britain obliged to become the on both sides. Just before our crisis wants. And let Britain ask Russia in the West Indies. The real sig-
The result is a strained situation? Britain's need for food and raw 50th American State (after you, broke. I heard a British official in in exchange not to squeeze us. Bonifcance, of the Cuban, alfate is its materials may actually be Hawally would present the Kremlin Russia woling: "We'must do all we hard over the repayment of their revelation of the alertness of tho greater than Poland's,
with an insupportable problem. can to help the Russians."
existing debt.
:
BY THE WAY by Beachcomber
THE harp," wrote a crític. Footnote
T
ever the
He will check up on the figures. (Morning paper.)
tion of 7.481,919,814 nct flories. This the other day, "needs ELL me, cretins, was
shows that the cost of living index has dropped by 2.74 since 1933. more than musical skill. it harp employed more skilfully by Taking the basic calorie intake of the
à composer than in that heartrending a should be played with
establishmant-using- grace moment of the "Ulysse," when the non-atching and charm."
old dog Argos recognises his master. population as roughly stable at the and Eumæus, the swincherd, says be clearly seen that the
úgure 4 per unli of le comperative Hear, hear! The great hefty girl "It is the dog of one who died in a
rise in prifes has had no appreciable. who plumps herself down as though far away land," and Odysseus turns effect whatever on the budgeted out- she were going to roll up her sleeves aside to hide his tears?
goings of the domestic units, and spit on her hands is making a Hustle
Apples at Carnoustie of stret- mistake. There is a way
THE distribution of 3,000 opples ching out the hands to the wires os, though you were about to smash
Carnoustie to the spectators, them with a hammer. That is no WHY can't he simply check the during the championship matches, good.
figures? Because officials always ought to do something to popularise "check up on" just as they ring golf, and to bring the whole atmos It is not generally known that the through," "face up to try out,
phere
up to the Stamford Bridge harp was invented at Harpenden by "get it over with," and so on. It is standard.. But if the s
spectatora bite Sir Arnold Harpie, a descendant of called getting a move. on.
into their apples candlessly, surely the family which carried off the Convincing figures.
the noise will, interfere with the daughters of Pandarèus. for the
seems to me menys, The Greek word harpulal T. last, the facts! 175,619 catering. Anyhow, watching gol their nerves. anatchers, and describes the establishments servé 234,130,001 to be about the lowest and most plucking gestures of early tarplats, meals per week. This means ridiculous form of human activity. ör harpies, as they were originally weekly overall Intake by the entire Playing it is silly enough, but at called.
entering-establishment-using-popula- any rate, It is a healthy excrelse,
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