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“And where the
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THAN TABS FEET SALTS Chemist
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London Express Service
SOMEBODY ELSE TRIES
D'
CRIPPS IN
June 13. ESPITE all the news of slide and recession, I believe you and 'I may yot see the day when the peoples of Western Europe will want to strike a medal in honour of a man who gave them back econo- mic prosperity.
:
Wherever Paul-Henri is All that.
REVERSE
ig now changing
វា
their pald-up share capital, plus two percent. of their net nasels. Fonsign subsidiaries of Dutch Drms-are freed from all dividend restrictions.
be assessed for tax. Only prošta will be taxed. Allowances for depreciation and replacement of
able to assert his influence Holland has turned from Cripps --nu
hla influence and
Is to Spank. spreading rapidly-Govern- On January 1 the Dutch will
are freeing their. ments
Ink up with Belgium and countries from controls and Luxemburg in a full Customs
Tax concessions are being restrictions.
Union. They are using the mate to Holland's industrialists. They are sacking their intervening months to cland Working capital is no longer to food rationers and their bulk over from their former CON- buyers, calling a halt to na- trolled economy to free on tionalisation and monopoly, like Belgjam's. Whoever designs the
Instead, they are restor medal will have some trouble ing free competition, profit, beauty. For the face of the incentives to bigger and in making it a thing of thrift, and good money as hero is round and chubby better production and to under a broad, bald, up bigger and better prosper- turned teacup of a forehead.. ity. And-if the artist is a
realist he will have to put Convert
in a pair of thick horn-
rimmed spectacles, plus a HOLLAND is the Intent whole cataract of double chins.
convert to the Spaak line.
When I used to visit Holland
Already
food rationing and food subsidies. What little re
mains they have promised to do almost all thor have abolished
away with on September 1. Now they announce that income tax on all wages and salaries is to be drastically reduced 'by Chrisimus.
aro
The investor is to be allowed to get a bigger return for his money and to keep more of it
plant are to be vastly increased.
ence he has got it. The wago earner is to have a larger share of his earnings. The State will "toka Jess from both of them.
The Dutch are confident that this will make Investors ready
to put more money into industry
Rents which had been axed which badly needs new funds in 1946 and 1947 I found No, Europe's liberator is it a gloomy contrast to its at their pre-war rates by law and will encourage foreigners
be froad so that they can to invest money in Holland, not Mr Churchill, It is next door neighbour Bel- and their true level. Restric-
Above all, they expect it will Paul Henri Spnak, Socialist gium. The Dutch were suf- tions on dividends also are to be
provide the Dutch worker with Premier of Belgium and foring because their Govern- relaxed,
to be an incentive to work more and leader of the anti-Socialist ment was following much Dutch companies are
in the same kind of policy as allowed
in produce more--because by doing counter reformation
to hand out, Western Europe.
dividends, up to six percent. of so he will earn more, Socialist Britain.
......
+
Test-tube bees will fill
the hives of Britain
Youled, the research chior picks out the queeri.
BRITAIN'S 100,000 bec-
On the success of
keepers are watching the Rothamsted ox- periment depends
with interest efforts now largely whother Bri- being made to produce a tain will be able to new strain of English honey meet the challenge from foreign bee by artificial insemina- becs, tion..
The operation."
Abbey, have greatly improved
their strains.
Apiarists any the Government Beekeepers are tree again to is not helping matters by allow import the Italian bee, which is Ing Into Britain hundreds of Scientista et the State- subs'dised research station at popular because of its high honey colonies of Dutch bees which we have to take under a trade agree- ment. Rothamsted, Herts, are carrying productivity. out the experiment,
Armed with
Others favour the American- Italian strain-but the Govern- magnifying glasses and minute, specially ment refuses to allow dollars for
they have them.
made instruments,
selected the pick of British bees
to parent the new strain.
'Awful Mongrels'.. pince the Old English bee dis-
The Old English honey bee was noted the world over for its appeared, the standard of bees
·Their weakness
France
WONDER whether Soviet spokesman Pavlov's pro paganda trick in running out of the Paris talka every fow minutes to give reporters a new bulletin will at last lead to a little more rentiam in the con- ferenco arrangements.
But I should like to know why we
оге
destroying this Sefton
plant at a time: when
wo na
all doing our best to increase pro-
It makes oll
Delmer
SARTRES STARTED BOOM IN
CELLARS
By SAM WHITE :
PARIS, THEN the French play-,
W
wright Jean-Paul Sartre sat in a little-known Paris cafo during the war sipping ersatz coffeo and pencilling notes on a new philosophy, which he named "Existen tialism," he could scarcely have guessed ho was also pioneering a new club quar ter.
Nor, for that matter, did the residents of the quarter,.. who have discovered that what was once an exclusive and austere residential area is now the centre of the smokiest and noisiest col- lection of the cellar dives to bo-found in Paris.
Clubs known as Existen- tialist night. clubs
am rivalling the Apacho haunts of the twenties ds a 'num- ber one tourist attraction.
Near oldest church
The place which Sartre
and fats from NEWSMAP frequented was the Cafe
coal and pro- duces many valuable
The
chemical by-products. process, I Dm assured, is thoroughly economic and com- mercially sound.
Floro, on the Boulevard of St Germain, which is on the left bank. The cafo lies in the shadow of the city's oldest Church.
Sartre's philosophy, briefly, Is The Inconle answer "Security" En nien for Hying according to ex- is not enough. We should be perience rather than pre... told from exactly what danger concolved rules or moral codes. this dismantling is to give us
curity..
China
ONLY
After the war American tourists and students went there In the hope of catching a glimpse of him. His income, however, had Increased to a scale which could NLY one ambassador out of command plushier surroundings afforded by the the whole diplomatie corps than those
He had sought in Nanking has followed the modest Flore.
anti-Communist refuge in an expensive bar at- Government to its new tem-tached to a fashionablà left-banic porary capital in Canton. The hotel. But the "damage" had. rest, like Britain's Sir Ralph been done. Swiftly multiplying Stevenson, have stayed on in
dives were started near the Nanking to try to make contact with the victorious Chinese famous enfe. Communists.
Chinese
And who do you think is the one exception? Believe it or not it Is General Roschik, the Soviet Ambassador.
The reason for this unexpected correctitude by Russians secra to be that General Roschik still has some business to settle with the anti-Communists.
negotiating a
He is
treaty
- Minor civil war
The first was a dive called the Tabou. 1ts existence produced ja minor civil war between the Inhabitants of the once peaceful Parisian backwater in which it. was situated and the long-haired, sandalted, corduroy-trousered Invaders,
As saxophones wailed late-
At present, newspaper re- porters are not allowed to be with the Chinese Republie con into the night, brawls at the present at the meetings. The cerning the oullying Chinese entrance to the Tabou increased. reason for this is that when province-of-Sinklang, which The hard-working-tradesmen In- they first began these Fomiga borders on Soviet Kazakistan. Minister conferences were sup- posed to be secret.
the street organised a vigliance- committee, who, advised · rest-
The general has adready per-dents to throw buckets of water manded the Nationalists to ap-from their windows on to the In fact, they never have been. point a Soviet-trained Tartar heads of departing or arriving For publicity officers from each Communist named Burkhan as revellers. of the four delegations attend Paverner, and to install as his the conference, and
n deputies two other Communists laborious verbatim note of the who led pro-Soviet rising of proceedings. After each meeting 1945, they drive madly to their hotels and read their full report to the walling reporters.
take
It would not. I submit, delract from the "secrecy" of the dis- cussions It reporters were allowed to be present to mako their own notes of what is said and give their own description... and interpretation of how it is said.
Without wishing in any way to reflect on the ability of the diplomat reporters, this would certainly make it all more intel- ligible to the public.
Germany
Dutch bees have a weakness is high time for the Western
F for swarming.
Powert, and Britain in par- Though, say beekeepers, this ticular, to issue a statement ex- may help pollinate crops, it does plaining exactly why we insist not produce more-honey, as
Aplarists believe the
Answer
A state of ceml-slego ensued, but the Tabou were victorious, and the Invading forces 'swept. through every narrow street in the district
Now he is asking the Chinese Nationalists to grant the Soviel Now the St Germain district: Union a monopoly of all mining is dotted with Existentialist rights in Sinklung as well as a night clubs, all underground. monopoly of all Sinklang's foreign trade and civil aviation.
The `mining rights are *K- memely important to the Soviet Union. for there are heavy deposits of uranium ore in Sinklang.
Why does the Soviet. Govern- ment prefer to make this deal with the Chinese Nationalists rather than with its friends and the Chinese, Com- satellites munista?
Becauad the deal will be un-
swarming bees deplete the hive, on dismantling German factories popular in Chinn, Moscow Jike tho Fischer Tropsch wisely prefers to let this new hardiness, docility, and, most has rapidly declined. As pne to their troubles is for more synthetic petrol plant in the "unequal treaty" be concluded. important of all, for being a West Country beekeeper put it: Italian queen bees to be imported Ruhr.
Khan - by, the Nationaliste so that, Mao good worker.
"The English, bees we now have until British scientists find "a Not that I have any sympathy. Tro-tung and his Communists
with the are got even hybrids, but awful now Old Engilah-strainat
Germans who are can say when they take overi But it has been completely mongrels,"
threatening to prosecute as a wiped out by acurino' disease, which attacks the breathing.
the British tubes.
But some private beekeeperi, notably the monks of Ducktast
F
Bernard Drew Quisling any German carrying is no fault of ours. The
treaty was there before us."
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