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could be built, and (2) the power to set up and finance trading or~~ ganisations on its own account in distressed areas.
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Its proposals for the "disper- sion, diversification, and devolu- tion" of industry in the interests of peacetime social reform closely similar to plans the Gov- ernment must now consider in the interests of safety in war. The same measures which would make the country safer against a foreign enemy would make it. safer against muddle, ugliness,. and unemployment.
Gulp!
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America is confronted with a new conservation problem. This time it is to preserve the goldfish from extinction. And irony of ironies, the threat arises from the colleges.
a frying pan.
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Starting from just one mild but injudicious gulp by a student at Harvard, a practice has spread to other institutions of higher learning whereby certain young men take pride if that wasn't the first thing swallowed-in see- ing how many harmless, unoffend- A pamphlet has been issued by ing goldfish they can consume on the hoof, on the wing, on the fin the British Government entitled "Transfer of Population in Time or however it is one ingulfs a of War." This suggests a quite goldfish without introducing it to recent problem so far as the Needless to say, this fad could Government is concerned - a wartime problem that of get-never have got started among a ting people away from crowded generation danger zones where the calls of industry and commerce have con- centrated them, especially as in London. But the question is a new one only in so far as war is concerned. It has long been con- sidered by economists and re- formers as a grave social problem demanding considered measures, like that.
that had its fill of
goldfish" from tin cans during the world war. Probably it is just as well it did not get under way a couple of years ago wher it might have included gulping guppies. Of course, there are sober-minded people who think it
might better not have got start- ed at all. Deans are apt to be:
But having seen America sur-
and from this point of view a re- port has been issued by a com- mittee of highly skilled investiga-vive flagpole sitting and mara- tors appointed by P. E. P. (Poli-thon dances, we are inclined to be optimistic. The goldfish tribe tical and Economic Planning).
may be able to stand it longer
The question may arise in any than the boys. There are fea- modern industrial country, but
tures about it that make us doubt is of exceptional importance in whether men are, as, some have Britain. The change-over from
the use of coal to the use of elec- suspected, rational beings. We tricity and petrol has released have not heard of any flagpole industrialists from the necessity having been worn out by a flag- of building their factories in the pole sitter.
neighbourhood of 'coal mines.
Hence at a time when many new
industries have been growing up, Strategic Turkey industrialists have been tempted
A glance at the map instantly
to forsake the old industrial areas and put up their factories in reveals why Turkey is a vital. other regions which for a variety link in the diplomatic chain which British policy seeks to of reasons attract them.
These reasons may be sound weld as a barrier to Germany's enough for each individual busi- eastward expansion. Turkey con- the Dardanelles the ness, considered by itself, but not trols sound in relation to the wider in waterway between the Mediter
and Black Seas. That.. terests of the whole country, ranean
waterway, recently re- Thus it has happened in Britain, narrow that industry has been rapidly fortified. can be either a migrating towards the midlands thoroughfare or a barrier to Bri- and the south-east and forsaking tish fleets, troopships, and sup- the old industrial regions of the plies, according, as the Turkish north and west. Hence the Government may decide... notorious derelict areas of the In the last war Turkey threw latter, with their decaying indus in her lot with Germany, and tries and hordes of unemployed; Britain's mighty attack on the and the alarmingly swift concen- impregnable Dardanelles, ended in. tration of businesses; population, failure."
and new houses in and near the There seems scant likelihood. London area precisely that that Turkey will again take Ger- area, in fact, which is now seen many's side. The Turkey of to- to be the most exposed to air at day is utterly, different from the ack in time of warra
decrepit Ottoman Empire of 1914. P. E. P.'s investigations have Transformed by the genius of the not been governed by considera-late Kemal Ataturk, it is now a tions, of war, but by the social compact nation-state devoted necessity of correcting the drift primarily to internal develop. of industry and readjusting it in ment. Ismet Inonu, Kemal's suc- the national interest. The com-cessor, to the presidency, follows. mittee urges the establishment of the same line of balanced under- a permanent industrial commis- standing with all his neighbours. sion with executive powers to This modernised Turkey wants guide the location of industry, peace and stability
will having (1) the duty of issuing doubtless seek to keep a free: licenses without which no factory hand as long as possible.
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