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the Editor, and be accompanied by described as playful malice should the Writer's Name and Address, certainly include in their antho- not necessarily for insertion but logies of that art Mr. H. G. as a guarantee of good faith.

Wells's latest reflections on fairly well-recognised constituent in the United States scheme of things. Mr. Wells has been visit- ing America again and has con- tributed some of his impressions of that visit to the "Daily Tele

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Hong Kong, Friday, March 11, 1958. graph." Thus he refers to the

UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES

fact that in every considerable American city large gatherings of mature prosperous, well- dressed women are în permanent session. He then continues: Bank managers and Govern- This year they are all wearing ment leaders in England still de-black hats. These hats stick in clare heroically that there is no my mind. Ultimately of the "slump" nor even a recession" most varied shapes, the original setting in, but the February fig-theme seems to have been cylin ures, which were expected to re-drical, so that the general effect

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IN THE

cause for embarrassment. It is can woman-kind in 1937 is that true that employment figures of a dump of roughly treated on February 14 were 17,000 less black tin cans. than in the previous month, but That is not so bad for a be- it is equally true that they repre- ginning, but Mr. Wells proceeds sented an increase of 150,000 as to conclude his reflections on this compared with December and of subject with the assurance that $10,000 as compared with Nov-the crazy irrelevance of this ember of last year. There are headgear on embattled middle- now 1,810,421 registered unem-aged womanhood" remains with ployed, of which no fewer than him as one of the essential mem- 1,404,000 are rated as wholly un-lories of the United States of employed.

11937 And most students of the

Other official figures disclose art already mentioned will that with the one exception of readily agree that he has done coalmining, all Britain's princi-this distinguished best to put pal industries have more unem-that memory into swift and tell ployment than they had at the ing form. beginning of 1937. The setback

has been felt particularly in the Forerunners of distributing trades and the tex-

tile, engineering, iron and steel, the Type? tinplate, motor vehicles and metal

goods industries. Mr. Chamber-In his introduction to the pas- lain's indication that the re-ar-sage on those hats and their mament programme is to be ac-wearers Mr. Wells observes that celerated this year is very clearly the existence in the United

a response to the disquieting sit-States of the permanent ses uation. The rise in February is sions" of "mature, prosperous, discouraging rather than other-well-dressed women" is "not wise. A spring revival was an- generally known in Europe." But ticipated on all hands. In March, that, of course, must be just an-

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is to be expected. But there fulness; Europe is perfectly well will have to be tremendously acquainted (at least by reputa- greater activity than February tion) with those ladies and their has revealed if the steep rise in earnest and determined gather- unemployment in December andings. We constantly see Jesting Jammary is to be counter-balane-references to them in American ed.

journals and magazines, it might- be impolitie to quote Mr. Wells's latest remarks about them if they were not a recognised target among United States satirists: themselves." And have been for long enough, for their distant The latest issue of "The Rock" ancestor must have been the ermits itself an expression of mother of the modern Gracchí” opinion, in the form of polite cy-n chapters xxii and xxxiv of nicism, concerning the Parlia Martin Chuzzlewit," or the mentary plea for the greater dis literary lady in the brown wig semination overseas of British who thus addressed the Honour- news and views.

able Elijah Fogram:

British News

And Views

There is, undoubtedly, a good "Mind and matter glide swift ideal of warrant for the jibe of into the vortex of immensity. The Rock" At the same time, Howls the sublime, a and softly we prefer a typical British, com-sleeps the calm deals, in the ment, such as the following whispering chambers of Imagina”

chester tion. To hear it,

tracted from the Guardian.”

it is. But then, outlaughs the stern philo "The Prime Minister's an-isopher, and saith to the Grotes uncement in the House of What ho arrest for me. Commons about the need for that

Go, bring it here! British publicity abroad-suggests And so the

fadeth that people of these islands have But Mr. Wells been suffering from an "inferitin-can hats of 19 ority complex which must at deal more all costs be overcome. One won And Mr. W ders whether it has ever occu fairer and more effective than ed to the foreign reader to pic the crude, sle ture us as an abnormally modest of Dicken

ensibly

the talk a good than

strokes