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Truman is saving his sword
for a
slump
New York! throwing out-public housing
Billa,
F President Truman is the good Socialist they are, saying he is, then he has got to do better than this.
I
Here it is aix months since he got a mandate for his famous Fair Deal, and what progress
has he made to wards the Welfare State?.
Well, the only law that has got into the law books ls one giving him-and the Congress who voted it rise in salary.
All of which does not. amount. to a very impres sive record for Д good Socialist.
Yet the way some Ameri- cans talk you would think that Cripps's furniture, had just been seen arriving-
in anything but a
van-at plain
the white House back door.
What it all means
by C. V. R. THOMPSON
...
Why did India want
to stay in?
By GWILYM WILLIAMS
Win the Empire?
HY was 'India so anxious to remain Why did Mr Nehru strain overy nerve in London to persuade the Empire Premiera to work out a form of words that would save his faco in India?
No need to look for some miraculous.. change in the sentiments of Indian. leaders to Great Britain.
It is unnecessary even to ascribe magic power to the personal-influence of Earl Mountbatten.
The truth is that sheer self-interest made India anxious to stay in.
In the last year Mr Nohru, and his colleagues have seen a great light. They have learned much since Mr Attlee, thrust che reins of power into their hands.
salesman who found he could no longer sell.
To the casunt observer there are certainly few signs of this great change in America. When there аге nearly 60 million people working notice the three
For the Empire connection. sulls-the-Indians. Analyse' what. It means to them.
Take Arst the Sterling Briances-about £700 million which Great Britain is sald to ove for defending India against the Japs.
The debt, of course, is grossly In Gated. ns. vost. Jums were made by Indian war-profiteers. which will burden the British. taxpayer for years and years.. Mr Dalton ance promised, to down these debts. But
you do not calo million who nothing was done. And Sir Cripps, who loves
Stafford
are not. carpenter gets £251adia, has accepted the ierling
When а
a week it ia
hard to realize debts, at their inflated face
that a mon just out of the value."
university finds it dimcult to
So now valuable exports
find anyone to pay him 26 that could be carning dollars In Canada go to India-in repay- ment of sterling debts.
week.
It sounds
good that? food prices are down eight-percent from last August unül you hear a New York housewife say: "What's 4d out of 6s?".
Γ
Buyer's power
Perils Without
UT suppose India had left D the Empire.. Then there would have been a still stronger case than now exists for re- debts. Or they
,would seem that the vising theso
average American is en-
purchasing
until the dollar. problem. is.
Joying not buying. It le giving might even have beenj frozen him a sense of power to force solved. is that Socialism is the one
the shop around the corner and, People were so preoccupied years' salary as President to the great corporation
away fu British export of which with the high cost of
Mi Nehru could not aftoril living pay off the final-debts.'
Detroit to cut prices.
that. The whole Indian econom Of course, he did go Americans are scared to that they did not notice that That experience is in his
What is causing the depres- my right collapse. If the sug through the motions of death...
their St. George-with-a-Mis- mind in all his planning of sion jitters is that he is waiting port of the Sterling Debts souri-accent- held a bottle of domestic economy. It must too long for too many price were withdrawn. putting up income taxes. But Congress would not
That, I think, is one of the vitamin pills for the dragon in never happen to an American
that one hand while brandishing a again, he says.
cut if he does not come back So Sterling Debis count with: most important changes have that, for, a reason have come over this country sword with the other.
That brings, US to the big in the market soon it may India enormously more than. which may, sound strange in in these past six months.
Inflationary social welfare gest change of all in the cause cutbacks. in production sentiment in the Empire talks. a Welfare State-it might It is not just in Wall Street, measures at home and rearms- American scene since Truman for the future. And that would. After.. sterling debis, what.
were Truman's came back-depression Jitters. mean lower. payrolls, and that next? have been bad for business. that I have heard it. It is ment abroad
(15 You can always tell when would mean even among problems. Not quite sure common talk,
They keep on saying No matter how well Washing- pen, he wanted to be ready for thing. ton has acted this has already deflation as well as inflation. there is nothing they fear less With him. Dragon Bust is a Today every American is fall affected to some extent Ameri-
than ing over his neighbour to say ca's relations with Britain far more attractive foc
that this is just a healthy re- There are plenty of people Dragon Boom, 'n politics and in the Press
His heart would be in that cession and that years of the
American and even among radio come fight. And that is because he great
boum dians who expound the view himself, was a victim of
ahead. that American dollars
are last Dragon Bust back Kan-Possibly-It-la-symbolic of the. That was four months, financing British Socialism just It put him and his little moment that Broadway's bl look like timid small-timers.
203 City in the twenties.
American state of mind at the ago. And we have not much as British recovery
haber-dather's shop out of gest hit is the dreary life and business, and it took him two death story of travelling
Jess
Why, Imperial Prefer- ences. Valuable as these are
1. And then he did take those who voted for Truman. usual) what was going, to-hap- Americans are afraid of somo- power. And that would mean for India today they will be
about a little nationalisa- tfon. He threatened to put the Government Into the steel business if free enter- prise did not produce all the steel America, needed.·
heard any more of it since Britain began cutting into America's steel markets. abroad and supply. began to catch up with demand at LAST home.
Health cost?
Still popular
year the American
people ignored that kind.. of talk. Now I find the catch- phrases of these propagandists cropping up ini ensual соп versations.
the
lie
In
programme
for
more recession,
If that should happen Pre-
much more precious in a year or two when world primary ident Truman would stage his
producers *pro competing biggest dragon hunt yet a gigantic
vigorously British market. spending
the profitablo that would make F. D. R.'s New Deal lock like second prize Mr Nehru and his wealthy
a football pool.
and landowner" manufacturer off another It might stave American depression. It would supporters-look ahead to the
also make Britain's
time when the Imperial Pro- Socialists ferences
alono will make it worth while for Inta to slay
ཝོ ཙརཱུ! ri; Therefore, add Imperical Pre- ferences to Sterling Debts..
-(London Express Service)] in, the Empire.
He Will Make Music History
(BY OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT)
I understand that seats for the series of seven concerts which
Safety Within WHAT also would Indin have lost outside the Empire? Think, of her reliance on the Royal Navy and the RAF. for the protection of her vilner- able shores...
"
it will cost £1,500 million a politician can be sincere ha has famotis artists. to Britain but the "Philly" is giving at Har- at Harringay Arena, have been to share in Britain's for 'Bang- year or £4,000 million. But Congress and everyone else heart.
William Hartnell
have not begun to argue about that yet..
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It is not unlike the "We
FURST nows of the biggest is subsidising the tour to the the war. Nobody has quite
sensation; ui: the history of tune TRUE, President Truman won't pull Britain's chestnuts
of rome £15,000-Mr succeeded in explaining why this cut of the Aro" talk back in British musle was given to me Fielding is hiring the largest fs, but no doubt it is partly due has just produced a na- the bad days of 1940. by Mr Harold Fielding, the indoor arena in London, and to the influence of films which training, and advice her senlor Think, too, of the valuable tional health programme
famous impresario.
prices of admission will be tower have recently popularised many officers of the Services, get which is in the best Socialist Americans think he is sincere "I'm getting fed up with my since the end of the wai.
Yet Truman is still popular.
than at any other major concert of the lighter classies.
from Empire sources tradition. So much so that in his desire to go down in his-critics," he complained bitterly. no one is sure yet whether tory as the great peacemaker. "For months now, they have
Whatever the reason, the twoi Plenty more privileges. I far They think that as
abeen saying that I bring world
previous London Mule Festivals ahe wishes, India will continte
|hear theni. Well, they can pre- shilling and sixpence, With would appear on the surface. vices, while But the majority, who must pare themselves for the biggest soloists of international renown But though there were very few payer foots the bill
shock of their lives."
thrown in for good measure, Vacant seats in the Arena on any
And what of the privileged these concerts are certain to be night during either of the six- The only success that the him, have this big criticism
To use his own phrase "pecple sold out soon after the box office weeks seasons, the sponsors position of the rich,Indian: "H policies are too Socialis-will all back and gasp" when do- Fair Denl-which is what tic."
opens, even though the Arena were none too happy about it. community in South Africa? tails of the London Musical seats 10,000 people!!
The fact was, the Festivals were Would that be secure if India they would have us bellovo
Festival, which is being held at
losing money.
had cut adrift? porodilinan is American-style -Socialiam
Harringay Arena in June, are.
Is it wrong to The dragon
released.
This is my answer to the This year's Festival will last thinga?
siress, thesp --has chalked up in its first
Critics why have been complain. only a week. And Mr Fielding Mr. Fielding pulled off the Ing that seats at my concerts are is
Not at all. six months is in public
·Clever the-sole sponsor. Other
propaganda has made it appear housing.
WHY, then, did they plect greatest "scoop" of his career in too expensive for the ordinary names that were associated went that the Indians are conferlis WH
him? For he is certainly Orchestra to Britain-the Best me. It's costing me the early this year.
bringing the famous Philadelphia music lover," Mr Fleiding told the previous Festivals are absent an inestimable privilege on the Grudgingly, the Senate no more of a Socialist, today American orchestra to visit to put these concerts on and I'm
Empire hygraciously courent- has passed a Bill to finance than he was in his catch-all, England for 20 years. This is a bound to lose money, but I'm. If there is a ble deficit at the ing to remain a member. the building of 810,000 campaign tour
most courageous move on his determined to let the people hebat end of the Philadelphia. OT- In fact, the Empire (confere homes. But even that Bill The answer is that at cam-
part, because the tour is almost the best music that money can chestra's tour, the public will a tremendous favour by allow»: buy at a cost they can afford." probably know nothing about it:ing an Indian Republic to re- still has to pass the House paign time he was promising certain to lose money.
But Mr Fielding is certain to to. Blay the of Representatives, which dragon on the American scene the services of the most, expen- rise in the popularity of classical gain with the tens of thousands
most unpopular But not content with securing There has been a phenomenal profit by the popularity he will a member on the con-
ditions announced. vei, mum' has an unbroken record for INFLATION.
sive orchestra' in- the world--he music in Briisin since the end of of music-lovera In London.
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