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Even Their Yashmaks
66
Are In Black Nylon
TANGIER"
NYTHING GOES"
was the title of a musical some time
back. It could also be the
theme song This is the
for Tangler. international
city of no restrictions, no
taxes, and nearly no rules. The main rule is that nobody,
Bays No.
Twice in my first 12 hours here I was asked to be the London agent of one of the Tangier "banks." I could be so useful, I was assured, in move their helping people
SPAIN
APANK
R. M. MacCOLL
tells the world's craziest
story of MONEY.
"Yes, and then?"
Moors in
Inbourers and petisans who help
sir," "What now--some dubious postcards?" Not so.
He whips
open the "radio set" to disclose a great mass of pound and dollar bilis.
WILLIAM
BARKLEY'S
Notebook
a
DOES this dollar convulsion mean General Election. this year? Everywhere I go and every letter ! open I am asked. Let us meditate together.
That General Election foxes both sides...
M
כזם
TY feeling is that Mr mandate for that period and we
Churchill wants a now come before you with General Election as recount of our stewardship, and quickly as possible, and that a demand for a renewal of the his supporters don't. He mandate." wants to win n General Election. They don't.
That may not sound exciting
as a programme, but to anyone attended Da many
He feels that the state of who has
Europe is such that none election meetings as myself it but his hand, which guided offers the only basis on which
us with such Incomparable the
skill in the war, can save us appeal. now from European col- lapse, from German re- vivalism, and from Russian aggression.
Socialista can confidently
Revivalist
N election meeting addressed
AN
pulpit
But man Torics feel by the top Socialiste-the that it woulbo bad in the high priesto-must have a re- face of hory for the vivollst atmosphere. Its plat- Socialist Grnment to ac- form must almost be a quire the putation that for high moral guidance what- ever the language used by the Britain enfor full employ-
canvassers on the doorstep. ment when Boĝialists are in power, and aüffers mass un- employment under Tories.
Jockeying
Donktys bray to heaven So Parliament may well to
Arab Cadillacs.
port mon
aro
Now if the Socialista force An, election in the next fow
a weeks they will be open to devastating attack if the Tories: enre to make it. The attack will be on two flanks.
Suppose the Socialists jump into an election
the before
has led to dear bread and to
DS. in.
by
beside huge
the discerning eye pre- women sit cross-legged in the market-place selling their sent the spectacle of a more anfron, chopped nuts,
and subtle jockeying for posi- people grasp that their policy "Oh, There are 130,000
sweetmeats as they did, no doubt, tion, than we have ever
a shaking of confidence in the please, monsieur. You must Tangier. Most of them are in the days of Suleiman the seen.
Magnificent. But in
Empire, and sterling power Sulel's leave us bankers a few of in the feverish building boom hous-zd dollar television set of their heads, where the the world. Suppose it looks liku
day there would not have been a The Tories, in the backs the greatest trading group our professional secrets." Some are not poor. Take, for
A British official said instance, that
that stately figure who
who alongside them.
bump of benevolence re- cowardice in face of the dollar. Inter: "Yes, there
Down at the are was wearing a burnous made of
Suppose it looks as if the constant rumours of large the best Harrin tweed, and the busy loading things into yachts. sides, will not be averse to
startling
No of the Arab one stopped us walking in. seeing the Socialists facing Socialist leaders have chosen a aspect sterling sums finding their
indy whose dark sunglasses No harbour police showed any real problems after their disguised way of reducing sign- way in. But one pretty
brat. The petred forth over the top of her inquisitive
meneasy ride of five years of dards of living in Britain and talked
devaluation without racket we know about and mouth vell; and that other lady laughed
as they
frankly boom. cannot stop.
saying so, whose y climak
made of worked under the gleaming sun. was
And from these sentiments, Transparen! black nylon.
how do you fix the date? ed 40,000 somnolent souls, Tangler goes to an Indian
the cinema-goer's dream of there wero ten. Now, merchant and gives him u Moroccan mystery (yes, there is with the population & cheque on the Briton's a Kasbah, too), now looks like feverish 150,000 (and London bank for, say, £100. a cross between Miami, Florida; and Brighton, still going up) there were The Indian gives him £90 Houston, Texas;
England. ut the last count 81.
the tenner is his commis-
Where are all the spies who sion.
infested Tangier during the war? Oh, spying is very out of date, my dear. They are all in
money.
Those banks! Before the war, when Tangier number-
The banks
STARTING
bank in
Tangier is rather less difficult than buying a car somewhere clac. You put up £100 and call yourself some thing impressive, and there All strictly legal. You then pay about £7_n__ year as a "patent." The
you are.
rest is up to you.
"A British visitor to
goes
"Then the Indian across to Gib. where he has another branch of his business, and cashes the
So for as tho
the
cheque. Treasury in London is con- cerned cheque was legitimately cashed in the Sterling Area."
No questions
This town, which until 1930, Paying game
was
business now,
་
·
or
How could any Socialist.
Well, the Socialist Party, I preach on that pulp!! without am told by some, will preelpl- the Tory chargo which crushed THEY were professional smug- tate an election this November, the Socialists to powder in 1931:
glers loading up streptomycin because their policies are find "You ran away! and rountain pens for Spain anding them out. But that would tobacco for France (300 percent. mean that the Socialista aro
their Biggest card profit at least on U.S. cigarettes ready to run away from
muggled in from Tangier): responsibilities.
Rifts in paradise? Yes. The Now this is exactly what they WHERE, then is their moral place grows
fast 50
and so did when they were last faced platform? many of the new flats have so with a crisis in the year, 1931.
The biggest cord
the m ny refrigerators, lifts, and so But I don't believe that is how Socialists have to play is full forth, that the electricity works they think now.
employment. Today everybody Radio set-bills only on alternate nights. ("After
has a job, whether he wants ill all, it's alternating current," ex-
not. As
the by inagic, quis is the most
plain the Spaniards with a
scourge of pre-war unemploy- ment has vanished. minded town I have ever shrug.)
Did I do any trafficking? Oh, THEY are not of a character struck.
yes. (Attention, Treasury!) to rush an election just bo is a great decision of Socialist The working man thinks this Everyone is swopping money bought a golden sovereign at 10 cause they think they will do policy. But Sir Stafford Cripps: all duy long Everyone keeps o'clock one morning for £5.38. betier-now-than later. It is not has shown that it is a pure au- his bank account intiva
At six o'clock that evening their frame of mind. It is not cident. He said in his broad- different currencies.
Od. Which la
fiendish
y loss of is. 9d. But to have a piece rison's. tricks with
will threaten us again unless. of gold glinting against the
The attitude of the Socialist we do the seemingly impossible. cheque-book calculations,
An Arab boy cases up. a len, dross in my trouser pocket for Party to a General Election is: or the damn silly. on his face. He carries a hand- even
You returned us to power fot the first under his arm. "Excuse me,
money.
That 'mandate"
I met u Belgian. Only a NCE the troney is here apt to be confusing and plays I sold it back for £5 19. 9d.-a Mr Attlee's or Mr Herbert Mor- cast speech that unemployment
Ronald Colman in Charles Dickens'. Tangier. He brought along golden sovereigns and melt come radio set in grein morocco pleasant.
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A THOUSAND AND
year ago he was a Brussels you can do precisely businessman. He decided to what you like with it, and pull up stakes and come to when you like. Buy 50,000 his wife and sister-in-law. them down? By all means. Now they are fellow-direc- A Spaniard rather impishly tors of his flourishing bank did just that the other day. Buy gold ingots in a cinenia £20,000 in the first year).. queue? But yes.
So many people want to bring their money here from all over the world. And the banks want much to help them do it.
"I suppose the British are the great exception?" asked. "Ho!" laughed my friend.
They are discreet. If Mr Van the Dutch businessman, Z. wishes to open his account in Another name, or own a deposit izas under just a number, he tin do so. No questions asked.
No figures are ever published by anyone. The banks' are little, watertight affairs of their
own.
eight hours was
very
-London Exorcis Service)
ume in history, Tor
These are not his words. They are mine. What he said five years. We have used your that full employment depends
-on selling.motor-care In
home, the United States of
was.
their
America, and cating dear dollar brearl.
C.V.R. Thompson Reports The American Scene
NEW YORK fornia and New England. IT is all but official that the US business 13 improving even
slump is over,
there..
But ns Cup tes to Britain. If it works, next year's games will be televised to cinemas all över the country.
Dr Edwin Nourse, Pre-E TWO QUEENS and the sident Truman's top econo- Mauretanin should be put
ONDON WILL no longer be mic adviser, who is usually "The exchange laws?" He
Sink, or swim
up as security for a new dollar the world's most-populated gestured to
as gluomy as he looks is work loan to Britain, suggests Editor city when next year's Americao the open
ing on a report which will say John Griffin, of the New York census harsh
results came
out. window where the Rock THE only touch
"recession"-polite
word Enquirer.
His plan is for US Estimates, published recently, roso from the
renilly about the place is that! mist
Live that 8,145,000 now companies to operate the liners aro merchandise coming into for bnd business is ended.
And I will forecast even across the Straits 20, miles an
Tangier pays a flat 1214
within New York City, and
of
the
ap.
Gold brighter prospects for 1050 than until such a loan is repaid."
Std Griffin: "It is about proximately 13,800,000 in Greater
percent. Customs dues ONE NIGHTS
with Cornel WILDE
Evelyn KEYES
IN GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR
TO-MORROW
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NUMPHREY
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Cathay
部署
away. "Gib. is in the Ster-
ling Area. A Briton trans fers his money to Gib, from London."
and jewels pay 7% percent. And for the last quarter of this year. time we asked Britain for some New York. Say the estimates:
Uhat
wili ba No Import The shoe industry that
example licences, No quotas. Bring in cited as an
of the comeback. all you want.
Three months ago But that modest taxation is was hardly possible to sell 'n *Who runa Tangier? Seven
though to put pair of shoes, nations-Britain, the US. more
Tangier's finnces handsomely In Today, one company alone France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Italy, France the black, with large surpluses. relting orders
than
substantial collateral"
One of every ten in the US. lives within 50 miles of Times- SHORTAGES are square. TOUSING
blamed by insurance com- pany experts for the Increase [Latest Agure for Greater in infantile paralysis since the London: 8,350,000,] at the rate of war. Most cases, they say, are in
is the main Power. She runs That and the monopolies such £6,000,000 worth month. That areas where two or more families BOX-OFFICE
is. 11 percent, higher than the are crowded into one house.
the Customs, and since as tobacco. Franco's wartime parade
And there is no direct taxa-company's record in January of force when he thought the tion and no death duties. No 1947, Alles were beaten France has military expenditure either. And
Asembly.
8
receipta from
US. cinemas have not yet suffered from TV, saya Mr Ted
AN EXPERIMENT $x Gamble, chairman of the Theatre
Dr Nourse will admit there A elnemas ar to screen by Owners' Association. In fact, he had the ruling power in the no unemployment insurance. are still one or two soft spots in TV next month's baseball world adda, fakings are up 10 percent
are Call series-as Important to the US on last year.
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