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·THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1950.
PRAVDA
Collective Firm.
THE FASCIST HYENA, TRUMAN,
SUPPORTED HORDES OF YANKEE CANNIBALS POUNCES ON THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC
"Now, Sergei Ivanovich, if you don't behave, Truman will get you
London Express Bervice
I ACCUSE
W
BECAUSE union leaders play at nolitics, the British worker loses in his pay packet, says TED LEATHER
Conservative MP for North Somerset,
•Ex-Paratrooper Leather was born in Hamilton, Ontario; was al Canadian Military College before the war: came to England ælte: Dunkirkt used bis gratuity to became an Insurance broker in the City.
America's Bustin'
Out All
LONDON. Grosvenor Square, W.1.
URELY this must be Washington. No. The
By JACK
Over
Washington-In-miniature spils round the corner Into Davies- street. There are canteens and cafeterias where real American coffee to zoothe homesick hearts may be drunk by the quart.
The official American colony and false Corinthian colon-
in Britain, centred on Grosvenor nades of the now office
ful of barbed and burnished Square, now numbers, with its buildings overawe
dependanto, proud
10,000
at latest arrows. Grosvenor Square, with its
reckoning. And more are com- He glances down with ing to intensify The
Great ghosts of grooms and lan-
ambiguous - eye at the American Impact already hitting daulettes, and porticoes plump, sedentary officers in us through every instrument of crumbling into shabby gen- summer drill perambulating popular culture.
freshly painted brick WINÓCOUR
tility.
And it Americans in Britain on the pavements, and the these days have inward self- Grosvenor Square became whirl of sleek cara, with at- gnawing doubts about the value America in 1942, when the tributes of ease and power bagmen' ure selling abroad in of the ideas and things... their Yanica set up their Weat that nowadays seem ex ever-increasing quantities, the End beachhead. The eagle clusively American.
customer here shows no sign of is now
domesticated in A matron from Illinois loss of appetite.
He keeps these parts.
directs the amateur
coming back for more. G.I. elvlisation brought Above the doorways he cameraman as she poses in to our doorsteps something that offers with altèrnative claw front of the statue: "Got Hollywood and Damon Runyon an olive branch or a quiver- Roosevelt in the back. had caricatured for us for ycare. H.E. ground. That's what I hit us with the impact of. want."
THE UNIONS
Come and go
THE tourists come and go, and"
THE
London's West End has been
made over in their koness; Southern fried chicken res-
taurants; : selt sarvieo cafe- terins, and the stainless-steel-
Korea is awfully far away. and-chromium antisepsis of new
But neross the way at No. 1,
snack bars,
Grosvenor Square, the solar The
B.B.C.
in splic of the
plexus of America in London, culture-conscience that inspired
Asia la very near,
the Third Programme and
So, too, are Berlin and the Oder line. Typewriters clack, pervades other departments of men speak into electronic without
Broadcasting House,, has yieldert of "O" to corders, and stenographers bustle American-style light entertain- and rustle at theft desks.
The embassy is nerve-centre; inent. a rangila of annexes round the 'square.
sprawi
a
cry
The spun-cut anccdates minted by Jack Benny, Bob Hope and their folls and.zlouges have been Embassy and consulate-
anglicised a thousand times. general. The names have an Tho technique remains Ameri- old-fashioned ring In days of can. Because American trade union tuke-warm wor: Ambassador
Would anyone suggest that standard 46 percent, and every- Walter Reuther Is merely a one else has gone up, too. Why? stooge of the capitalists? Has
he sold out to Wall Street?
On the contrary, Mr Reuther leaders knew that productivity | Lewis W. Douglas heads a re- Two appetites. . . merely knows the simple truth, and efficiency are in the work-gular department store of mia-
sions, which eat up all the let- Bcanised too soon? that if the employers don't ers' Interest. make big profits, he can't gel money out of them for bi wases,
BETTER LIVES
He also knows, what every PECAUSE man knows, that high B
business
is
ters of the alphabet.
we being Ameri-
Superficially,
peritaps.
It's
to withstand
the
of
the
pressure
Yes, America bursts out all over: North Atlantic military difficult production and supply board; enormous U.S. High
High Commissioner for mass-culture generated by 160 whom we U.S. Public Health million people with Germany;
share a
a common language. Service,
If we appear to be over- enterprise interested eye at the progress of
passive now it may be because own National Health Ser
America has long since absorbed ity own substantial quota of and free-
our
which
throws
an
ni an English docker? Why the object of the trade one man's profit is another offlelency and hence to better by the U.S. Information Cur ideas about law
the
wapes.
is no room
over them.
RO
dom.
American that it is saddled
trade ITY-is-it-that-on-Now
union leaders knew that Cana- with the responsibility of profis and high American or
wages have
free dian docker
together. Kone
You competitive carns government, a totally dif- always
10 is the only way have one without is cannot
the System twice as much real money férent situation arises.
productivity and other. He knows, too, that what stimulate
.. The list goes on inter- er, workers' conditions. is it that a miner of a rail- unions still to be agitation man's pay-packet. When
There other for any
Service with a library of 15,000 the industry makes a heavy loss, way worker or any
cause which
Because American trade union books and n suite
The American appelite is for of pleasant to increase worker in North America workers
or.there think right,
know, what we are rooms where you can
browse action; ours is for order. Yet Need anyone tell that ieders
out from
bitter earns twice as much as his popular: or is it merely to the National Union of Rali- finding
there is a British counter.action, experience,
15 Socialist waymen today?
that there
which cannot fail to make its counterpart over here?
place for a trade union in
Weather, too
impression on the Americans. Look at these Agures. Since nationalised, economy.
THE Foreign Broadcast In Our influence, maybe, la on a THE 1936 the wages earners of Bri-
telligence Service monitors higher level. to be asked by British trade Can anybody imagine that tain have improved their real That is why American and those things Iron Curtain radio It's quite impressive
TUC in the last two years wage standard
union lenders stations say about Americo, and Resident Americans in this coun- by 27 percent, have advocated a wage entirely at the expense of other are not Socialists; and that the Voice of America throws try sooner or later fall beneath
had
American and Canadian back the American rebuttal via the spell of sections of the community, who why
the quiet, self- been in power?
are getting heartily sick of the workers, cat better than British B.B.C. aerials.
contained pattern of private life There's an American weather- which is the hall-mark of this' In free
enterprise America, (World Copyright Reserved--London man and civil air attache, too, civilisation.
in Grosvenor Square. is the workers have improved their Express Service),
--London Express Service)
maintain
These questions deserve Party in office?
unionists. For the answer the
is perfectly simple. It is would
Irecze it the Tory Party
just this:
process.
1Wo
For 50 years American To explain now, after
that the wage-freeze and Canadian trade unions years,
not a wage-freeze. is have been fighting the boys really
simply to burke the issue, The on behalf of their workers.
Inci is That for two years the trade unfohlenders have been advocating A stand-still waxes.
SILLY GAME
BUT during
WHY JOIN?.
011
the
the same period British trade unions have been playing politica - and pretty silly Is there any trade unionist In Britain who Joined his politics at that. Keir Hardie union in order to be told not to was a great man; but when ask for an increase in pay? 1 he united the trade union can get my employer to tell me that any day--and he doesn't movement with a political charge me 21, a week for
the British privilege, alther. party, he did worker an ill-service.
Of course, the wage freeze, or What is a trade union whatever you choose to call it,
has been extremely helpful for? Does it exist to get the Socialist Government over two difficult Anuncial would have been equally helpful to any exist to get nationalisation overnment and "a planned economy?"
better pay and conditions the last It
for the workers; or does it years.
it.
necessary.
other
wake.
Canadian -truda
workers do."
now,
Fine Examples Of Islamic Art
A
LONDON. Islamic traditions of fine tection of such lamps in Cairo, 1 one of the largest and most NEW section was glazed wires which form that in the Victoria and Albert famous in the world. An in- be the world's seription on this carpet which opened recently in the one of the principal sections it claimed to
hongs in the Muscum In Victoria and Albert of this permanent collection nest
A large marble husin from monster frame reads: Museum. It consists of ex- at the Victoria and Albert Hama in Syrin is, perhaps, the
most notable plece of Islamic I have no refuge in the hibits representing various Museum.
world other than the thresholf, sculpture in the exhibition, periods of the art of Islam
my head has no protection other from Asia, North Africa Broadly speaking, the charac
The third phase, which covers than this porchway. The work teristic of this first phase, Is the and Spain -and includes
14th and use of heavy styllred ornament, the
15th centuries, of the slave of this Holy place, some of the finest examples heraldically posed human and shows how contacts between the Maksud of Sashan, in the year
tur-
new
Abbasid
The second phase of Isto and the
Enst had been of 046.'
ever seen in a Western col- animal figures which, however, Near and For
lack any sense of movement. facilitated by the Mongals, who lection.
There are, too, the very hand- In the 13th century conquered some inscriptions in the angular both Chip and Persia. Chinese dull Painted in a
such
the lotus, writing known as Cufic.
dragon, ap- quoise grey and with light mosaic
this floor,
glass and The 18th and peared on pottery,
19th centuries. art covers the 12th and 13th metalwork, even in The important point is, how- colonnaded section makes a centuries.
Egsot, saw everywhere a general de New vitality had whose rulers bad withstood the cline from earlier, artistic stan- .The workers in ever, that had it not been for formal and quiet setting been brought into the Islamic Mongol advance,
dards. European Influence is nationalised industries have the nancial irresponsibility of for the carpets and other world by the Invading Turks,
the conspicuous in
enamelled Government, the this
The fourth phase of the art decoration of the dagger and now discovered that a plan- freeze would never have been exhibits in rich and colour- people from the Khirgiz steppes
the 10th and heavy, solid gold dish presented in Central Asia who established of Islam covers ned
economy is planned ne
It has come about ful variety.
centuries, The-thier to the British Ambassador and a series of principalities all over 17th the that the fact fonsense. Only the most through
Dowers reigning in the Islam the East India Company by ardent Fabians still defend economic theories of the Intel-
In 760 A.D., when the the Near East.
world wers the Ottoman Tur- Fath All Shah of Persia in 1819. lectunt Socialists have proved
Ommayadline of Caliphs
kish sultans In Asla Minor,
These are two of the valuable. unworkable,
Erypt, Syria and gave way to the
and the bug less lovely objects on show. and the capital moved East
Safavid kings in. Persia. Ta
the- this comparatively late period
Hod Calligraphy is one of from Damascus to Bagh- Decoration of this period is belong the earliest Islamic fox her and most characteristic dad, a distinct form of
that have survived in good forms of Islamic art. This ex- elegant and subtle, filled with a YEAR or so ago Mr Walter Islamic art begun to kren sense of movement and a
the Museum hibition is disappointing in the or rather lack of primary objective is to en- A Reuther, the head of the emerge. This developed in wealth of sensitive detail. From collection of them is extremely specimens,
Automoblie Workers af
specimens of Islamic lettering courage private enterprise! United
and book illustrations on view. characteristic The Scottish air must have Americs, stated that he thought four distinct stages. The the 12h century onwards, there rich.
9th developed of General Motors first lasted from the
The Safavid velveta, silks and profila
lambscened metalwork. ก done something to Herbert's Corporation
Architecture is another of the were not bis till about the end of the 11th which designs engraved in carpets-which, for many people
fomillar and Islamic claims to aristic fame. enough! The Daily Worker had
no exhibition apoplexy. The Dally fleraid century. It was, perhaps, brass base are enriched with an are the most
the magnificent with the could show the curiosity aroused by dm Inlay of gold, silver and copper, appealing of all the forms of It in sad that
Inlamic art-together So long na the Socialist discreetly did not comment. Party was a minority party, Now Mr Reuther's unlon has ported. Chinese porcelan Another individual art, which painted tile pants and wooden domes and the formal, cinsale minding us of one of the great it was free to agitate for any produced a pamphlet on which that encouraged the native flourished chiefly in Syrin, was doors from Isfahan, show work gardens which still stand, re- .
there is printed the slogan, potters from Baghdad and rainting in gold and enamel on of great luxuriance.
periods in world art, cause which happened to be "No profits, no, wages, no jobs.
Hanging Iamps from going, the sole criterion Sound
The carpet from the tomb of and simple
Samarra during this period lu trull, bui
very rare today. mntiques are begin the fruitful with the exception of the col- the Safavid family at Ardabil being "Is it popular?" bitter to a Socialist.
Why, Mr Herbert Mar- rison has gone so far as to tell a
Highland audience!
Socialism's that the new
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