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Bowen Hoy by Richard Brooks and John Huston • Based on the Play by MAXWELL ANDERSON de Produced on the Tecken Sogs, by the Playwright Corpory " Male by Man Stiner
The Socialist Plan, The Tory Plan, And Now:
Brown's Road For Britain
HAVE reason to thank Providence for many mercios. Not least among them is that, being an Independent, I do not have to draft Election Programmes.
I tell my constituents that, if elected, I shall do as.
I think right, and afterwards tell them what I have done. Since that is what each of them would secretly Hko to do himself, my seat is practically impregnable. But, since I have to fight both the Conser-
vatives and the Socialia to hold
it, 1 ke my eye
021 their pro-
grammes,
In
POLITICAL NEWSFRONT"
by W. J. Brown, MP
civilian standards." And they
I dealt with "Labour Belleves would give equal pay for equal
Britain" come timo ngo.
work as between men and
Now it is the furn of the Tory women In protamine-The Right Road what?
for Britain."
the civil service.
Bulk buying is a great evil, So
It is much harder for the the Government. We recognlae,
Torles to draft
"We intend to honour contracts already made by the programme too, that the political views of
than for the Socialists.
GULEE
The back soat boys
Landah Express Sarvice
int
The millionaire chasers
HAMILTON (Bermuda).
N the sun-scorched Bermuda Islands the locals are watching the latest hand being played in the hunt-the-dollar game that has been going on here over the years.
In the past two years every major hotel
in Bermuda has been transferred to British hands.
The latest player is Billy Butlin, the holiday camp millionaire, who, with some friends, has spent £1,250,000 on two luxury hotels-the Princess Hotel here and the Fort Montagu Beach Hotel in Nassau, Bahamas.
by
pep up
the bait
JAMES COOPER
Brown has to pay unskilled When first opened it did good coloured workmen £10 werkly, business with the middle-aged But it is and finds R better to pay fores set at 70s. daily up. and board and £12 10s, a month quiet now. 10 waltresses brought from Canada rather than £20 to local coloured girls who live at home, and do only half the work.
the
Rival No. 2
She also bought Inverurie, a smaller hotel for 90 people, which has closed for the sum- mer, because of shortage of labour,
Rival No. 4
the
What
the Left does is to promise to trading a necessity. Long term. some Governments make State improve the position of its sup contracts may
be a valuable Tax- means of offering the producer
porters by raiding the re- Sources of its opponents.
expropriating or
the
in Empire and Commonwealtir
minority for the benefit of the countries a guaranteed market."
majority is enormously popu- Inr-with the majority.
"Nine-
tenen for fourpener" is a very
attractive cry, until it is dis-
that for some
covered
countable
No Right
The Socialists promise "Full Employment,"
Bo the Tories repudiato any sug-
that
the deliberate
anc gay-"We unde- renson, the nine- Restlon pence is worth no more than creation of unemployment la the old fourpence. Meanwhile, necessary to maintain high pro- How are the Right to overcome duction and industrial discip- the natural advaninge of the
So it goes on and on.
leads with Left?
The Programme the left. but nover uses the right. No one can win a box- ing match that
•way.
Sombre Terms
Not by pretending that all is well. For it manifestly is not. Moreover, to pretend that it is,
line,"
at the Socialists should talk The Programme is indignant
would be to pay tribute to the as if social services began with a long list Left which for four years, hes them. It produces
measures had charge of our affairs.
social security So of
the Socialists what The
Right Rond for produced before
But it starts Britain" does is to set forth in came to power. sombre terms our sad plight as this list at 1018. The effect is exactly a nation. and to blame
to do to the Liberals the what Socialists for as much of it as possible,
That part is easy, But the
mere
more
the Tories complela of the Socialists doing to them. Lloyd George might never
sombre our plight, the have existed at alll heroic must ba the Blunt Truth
remedies.
And herole remedies
lose rather than gain .votes.
Great Evil
The blunt truth is that when
Or
A great increase in produc-
tion means either that we work Thus, the Programme holds longer hours, or that we work
These two hotels, now rented by Mr Butlin to his
Thanks mainly to bar profits
Forty workmen have So, after pointing out that we foreign ald ends, and perhaps camp company, Butlin's, on whisky at 4s., beer at 3.
flown in from Warrington, Lan-ure a nation which is failing, to even before, nothing can pre Ltd., for £22,500 each, Brown says the hotel has laken
cashire, to work, stripped cam Its own living, n nation vent widespread unemployment caused a 90-minute heated one million dollars since open-
army shorts, 66 hours a week nintaining its standards only and drastic cuts, In food sub- sidios and social services alike. for £15 a week and board. An- by charity from abroad, a nation pow-wow among Butlining, and is now making a pro- shareholders in the City of a week. Only
hundred pounds ft of several
other 10 will be flown out soon. more highly laxed, because of except a great increase in our time can tell THE STEPHENSON STORY.
la spendthrift Government, than levels of production. From the London recently.
Sir William
Henderson is converting whether it justides a'rental of
Stephenson is
any nation on earth the Pro- point of view of this truth, It hools township, gramme
two not matter into a small Indus hotel
makes it clear £22,500 a year, and is enough a 53-year-old Canadian
What does with its own shops, docks, and Here is an ABC to what to carry over the quiet speli trialist.
la to be whether the Government then nothing very much to the Mid-Ocean done about it.
is Conservative bus service
in power is happening among the after
summer holiday-
Socialist, its own Jaunches His £1 million British syndl- Golf Club, four hotel rivals
before the in Bri-makers depart and
direct to the Queen of Bermuda. cate now controls the ultra-rich arrive in spring.
Bermu tain's oldest self-governing
dian, accommodation 450, the Bui he's not aiming for the trade just in the colony-617 miles from New*
St. George 200, the Mid-Ocean millionaires' York:
says he wants to that nationalisation is a great more intensively, or that we Golf Club-sald to be the third spelng. He
the practices on both best golf course in the world, attract the American Junior exs evil. So what? Will the Tories drop
the nationalised r
sea sides
limit of industry which with Archle Compston as pro- cutive, the £2,000 to £3,000-a-de-nationalise
Road transport production, or that we improve Rival No. 1
THE MOORES STORY: John and Castle Harbour Hotel
year man, on his summer hell-industries?
yes. But generally-no. "We our industrial equipment and Moorts, the pools king
days.
have no other course than to techniques, or that we de all And The came here to convalesce,
Bermudian has been
leave some industries nation of these things together. 50 the island that in turned into a bed-and-breakfast
used," Again, punitive taxa- long as we refuse to work FIRST THE BUTLIN so ed
And finally August 1947 he bought Elbow hotel at 35s, daily. STORY. He bought the Beach Surf Club, the only ble
tien is a great evil, and "a re longer, or more intensively, so duction in direct taxation must long as we maintain restrictive Princess in August 1948 hotel right on the ocean.
The St. George is closed
So from a local company back-
the summer, and the golf club AN all these hotels pay? Mr be a first object of relief."
trial machine far below ed by Sir Howard-Trott,best bay of all the Britons
Bermudians say his was the has never made money.
reduce expenditure either. on American machine in efficiency. -chairman-of-tho-Bermuda Curre On private estates here
Control Bourd knows food subsidies, social services we ahan continue to live on an
Not at He laid an open-air_patio
aver-increasing over draft, and He is sald
acre 10 have pal rich. pay £3,000
As regards food subsidies when further credit is refused on the edge of the Sound, £350,000 to the local owner,
build and get both privacy and how much hotels take in dollars or the Armed Forces?
and how much they spend In all
"A large immediate reduction face A smash-up. It would supplies from America. built a huge gold-and-pink Harold (Pop) Frith, on terms exemption from death duty.
would have a serious effect on have come long since but for AIR-CUNETTILINEET oyster-shell dance rostrum that Frith kept a small interest Old Etonian Colonel Michael He says: "Bermuda may be the cost of living." As regards American aid, which alone, as
and paid for most of the post- trade mark of all Butlin's war renovations,
Henderson,
found the of manager the a small colony but syndicates: Bermude Deve- people smart business men. If social services, the Tories "re- Mr Bevan has pointed out, has camps brought a band
by injuring our and a half unemployed. Balding Bob Scott, 37-year- lopment Company is con- the Bermudians could not make use to combat our immediate saved us from having a million from London to play for
how difficultles on Castle Harbour hotels pay I do not see
social services." old assistant general ·manager ·centrating
We Have Brains to. I guests in white dinner suits of Littlewoods Pools, forswors the £1 million showplace for the British can expect
As regards the armed forces, 300 guests.
think the Bermudians got out at the Tories would improve "the and off-the-shoulder gowns. the idea that Bermuda 19 a
pay and conditions of service, spring-time-only resort for £400,000 is being spent to re- the right time."
which arc
far behind The lounge was trans milionaires, and concentrated open it next February.
(London Express Service} formed into an Adams on the younger set in summer, brothers salon,
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FRANK KATHRYN SINATRA GRAYSON The KISSING BANDIT
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By forming his own local The way to the terraced din overheads to a
band and keeping managerial minimum he became ing room
a "Quality offers accommodation to 400 at Street" where, under electric £3 inclusive daily up, and most stars twinkling in the ceiling, weeks, when the Queen of bull's-eye-window shops sell Bermuda arrives, ho English china and Bond-street type of goods to the Americans, who can take £100 gifts home duty fres
overflow,
has an
lle estimates that ho will take 1,500,000 United States dollars
Concrete was sunk 20 feet on and 800,000 Canadian this year, the coral to make a dock, so that and says, "We are doing very nicely. Mr Moores ba very pleased."
an
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the
to
rency
C.V.R. Thompson Reports
The American Scene
are 100 dear
of
the
Now we have, in the brains: and hands of our own people, and in that large area of the planet which is either con- trolled or influenced by us,' all' and the human
natural re- 9ources we need to lift our standards 03 high BLA tho What is American standards. needed is the will to use them. That will will not exert itself while the illusion remains that, without any special effort, on our part, the Socialists will, do us a bit of good, and the Tories won't do as much harm. If Roy Mimeton, we are to condust the produc- for the wants? They
battle of the. future we of the pollBeal American purse. That is because Galesville, is to appear before tion they are being produced by old the judge on a charge of dis- must get rid machinery. The unions have orderly conduct. He kissed his blur of the present.
Mr Beran red a" slogan" to held out against machines which wife at a bathing beach where the miners the other day. It klasing is banned. Midleton's
was, "Work, Independence, defence: "It's my right to kiss
I would Socialism."
put it my wife whenever I feel like "Work first. Then Indepen- dence. And then you can choose how to use your Inde- Britain-baiter, Colonel pendence."
We have
to learn that the of rich Americans escaping the was the first Briton to reopen England States of Mas are plans for factories in the TOP
leave his beloved world does not owe us a living, Continental cold. Today it is on hotel, on May 1, 1047, when sachusetts, Maine, Vermont, seemingly sleepy New England Robert McCormick, said he
countryside which will produce would not full only when the liner Queen
een she took over Belmont Manor. Rhode Island, New Hamp- sicel, plastics, isotopes (artificial Chicago for the Washington he that we have to lift ourselves of Bermuda brings trippers each
no forms of radium generated by despises to run the newspaper by our own bootlaces, and that week to stay one or two nights.. its own golf course perched on
It has accommodation for 200, shire, and Connecticut.
splitting atoms), ond jet he hol Just bought there. Forty-six-year-old monocled
And the goods New England engines. 200 acres and some of the best cannot acil enough of are similar
Instead, he put the Times-Herald Political slogans whatever, will Colortel Basil Brownis in postcard views of Bermuda.
in the charge of his niece, Mes relleve us of this stark necessity. Nor-need the Parties « four" to those which are giving Old charge." He is finding costs here
Maxwell Miller. The paper's UESTION to be decided by polley will undoubtedly be that people of Britain know it to to say this. In their hearts the are New York plus, and the So the £300,000 she is said to England export 'trouble-lenther,
chronic labour. have paid is as much an invest- goods, woollen and
a. Maryland Judge: Can a of tho colonel's
Chicago be true. shortage.
ment in land as it is in an hotel. textiles.
man kiss his wife whenever he Tribune-anti-everything.
private yachts and
the hotel's speedbost could 50x.-an-hour drop guests right on the terrace.
NEW YORK. ENGLAND is having NEW
nearly as much trouble as Old England in selling
would produce more. for dollars,
So New England is looking Figures show dole pay round for newer and more daily, including food, to £10
THE YULE STORY. Wealthyments up 130 percent on exciting ways of moking a dially, with dinner marked at Lady, Yule often came to inst year in the six New living. On the drawing-boards 255., 158. extra for steak,
At Easter the hotel was full Bermuda in her own yacht, and
The hotel opened in February
at terms ranging from £1 105.
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