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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 3, 1940

MIRROR OF WORLD

OPINION

THE PATTERN OF

INDUSTRY

it

When war, the "great consumer," takes charge, the civilian consumption trades whose growth set the..chief mark on industrial, change in the de- What happens in wartime to peace-

cades before the war must be more time appointed Royal Commissions of

and more cut down. So, too, in war, inquiry is an interesting anthropologi- the heavy export trades have a dual peacetime cal speculation. For the most part it reason to

replace their is inevitable that Parliament's intelli- languishing with widening activity. gencers, should either close their in- Directly and indirectly, they are muni- tions industries: they make the goods vestigations when war comes or else of war, and they turn out the-where- stay suspended, in wait for calmer: withal to be sent overseas to pay for times. The conditions of war are not essential imports of raw materials and

foodstuffs. apt for the proposal and execution of

Thus the Royal Commission, if social and economic changes. They

keeps alive, will have an invaluable furnish few data for enduring re- laboratory of events to pick out the forms. Even so, it is doubtful wheth- problems it was set to examine: When the issues of peacetime transition re- er the Royal Commission on the Geo- turn with redoubled significance, re-

because

the of graphical Distribution of the Indus- redoubled

directions' taken by industrial location under the pres- sure of war, it will be well equipped to take a leading part in the Her- culean labour: of reconstruction.. More immediately important, while the war is actually in progress, the Commis- an invaluable sion might serve aide in the vast process of redistribu- tion and transfer-a-process for which no clear plan or guidance seems to be discernible yet in Government policy. and the With the Board of Trade

different

as

trial Population, set up in July, 1937, should be permitted to cease work entirely because peace has gone.

This

body held pride of place Commissions of recent among the

Its job was to consider the years. social, economic or strategical disad- vantages arising from the concentra- tion of industries or of the industrial population in large towns or in parti- cular areas. Its aim was to report what remedial measures, it any. should be taken in the national inter- Ministry of Labour, with the Minis- est. Long before peace ended, the try of Supply and the trade unions, it might perform a most valuable advis- Commission found itself bogged in the controversy between those pundits ory war service. Above all, perhaps, in the long view, they may learn who called for State interference

that any appreciable departure from the location of industry to abate the the last two decades' trends of indus serious social disadantages and heavy trial change is synonymous with the costs of overgrown cities and those who claimed that the continued ex- pansion of the nation's wealth de- pended upon the freedom of the in- dividual industrialist to site his works where he expected to operate most profitably.

workers

in

of

cutting down of the standard of liv- ing. "The Economist”

❤

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*

ITALIAN. FOREIGN

POLICY

of

with

Yet, even though the problem policy, still seemed obdurate after two years' investigations, the real character of the situation under re- The journey of the Hungarian For- view had become crystal clear. All the eign Minister, Count Csaky, to Venice evidence put before the Commission is now no longer: said to be made for and all the conclusions come to by in- the purpose of resting or sightseeing. dependent economic inquiries pointed There can be no doubt that the visit to the fact that the problem in hand is in fact significant of the intimate re- was a problem of industries and not lations existing between the Hungar- of places. Briefly the position wasian and Italian Governments, of the that, while. abnormal unemployment; great and growing influence of Italy distress and poverty lingered in areas in central and south-eastern Europe, of Signor like Durham and South Wales, whose and of the present desire working population was slowly and Mussolin! and Count Clano to bring raggedly drifting away to more pros- Hungary and Yugoslavia, and even- perous places, London, the South and tually Hungary and· Rumania, closer the Midlands were gaining, steadily together. No doubt the process in industries and population, not al- unifying the Balkan States is expect- ways by any means to the advantage ed to carry with-it-an-increased sense of comfortable and economical living of the value of Italian support; but there. The outline of the reasons for any diplomacy which strengthens the this shift in the geographical distri- solidarity of those States among them- bution of work and

was selves, and with Turkey and

Italy, is serviceable simple. It was due to a change in the

to European stabil- pattern of British

fty: Italy-is deter- mined to prevent Industry: to the re-

Sovietism from lative decline of heavy productive

"crossing the Car- It is a Industries situated

pathians." Geor.

persistent claim of the Italian Dictator that his - European policy is inspired by "the higher-Europ- 'ean interests"; and it can at least be said for it that, in spite of apparent changes, it has been more consistent. than that of many countries to-day. Bignor Mussolini's own phrases often give the best de- finition of his coun- try'à____ policy, and when he called Bolshevism the "de- clared and' mortal

THE RED TSAR

Hitherto, Stalin has seemed one of the most realistic men alive. The close-lidded

glan, hitherto,

has had

the Ho

ages

near' coalfields, and. ports and working

• very," genius of astuteness. for export; and to

has been much more like a great the parallel: expans Asiátio: tyrant of former sion of light indus- than like a modern European.. trial production: Hechas an urbane, emila on hu» mainly for the

man, occasions which is entirely home market and

Innocent: and pleasing. But like of a host of · ser-

Henry Vill. In the 'fast' terrible.| vice and transport; phase, Stalin' can doom on aus. trades ministerings pleion thosa, upon whom he has to the higher stand--| smifed. He has no, bowels when ard of living of the~he calculates. We shall be sur» swelling urban. 'prised: If thla,man^^of all, men clusters close to should prove to fie, a headlong- which they were emotionallat, throwing, the halve situated,... It was:after then hatchet.--Mr. not, on balance, a Garvins - situation of national Ja

78 cts. Ib.

disadvantages/Tauta

its, chiet symptom:.-

THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD

STORAGE CO., LTD. Pure Food Specialistă.

J. L.

Was the persistence of an unemploy- enemy of European civiliìation” he ment total of between 1 and 2 millions meant what he said; and he has acted chiefly centred in the aream of declin- accord

ingstrades:( But its context after: 1932-

trise, in national has até

income, total employment and...ị tha

standard of living.

Times!

Pa

Pa

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 3, 1940

LIFE IN VIENNA NO BED OF ROSES

MEMBER OF NAZI PARTY DESCRIBES CONDITIONS

IN LETTER

ments within the firm and have be- come rather unbearable through their utter inability to do the work which they have been entrusted with.

Illuminating about conditions pre- vailing in Vienna at the present time is a letter received in Shanghai from an "Aryan," a member of the National Socialist Party and an employee of a "To-morrow is Christmas Eve and a firm which was taken over by the sad one. Blackouts and sand-bags Reich Government when Hitler invad- covering all windows to the cellars ed Austria. The letter is addressed to make life rather depressing while a Shanghai resident who, prior to the

women are forcefully enrolled in air- tragic turn of events in Viennn, was raid precaution courses. The dear old working in the same firm. It was dis-radio has never been raped with lies patched from Vienna on December 23 and had not been opened by censors. The name of the sender and his ad- dress appear on the back of the en- velope and no attempt seems to have been made to conceal incriminating ports of the letter by flowery language.

For obvious reasons, the names of the sender and the addressee must be withheld and only excerpts from the letter are given here.

as much as is the case now. A few days ago 130 persons died in a rail- way accident. Human life was never worth less than it is to-day.

GODIVA'S NEW 'SHOCK'

"

"I sincerely hope that you are well and that you have accustom- ed yourself to your new surroundings.

The citizens of Coventry (Warwick) Believe me that everyone who has not got the doubtful honour of being a are in a dilemma. There's a strong pos- German citizen, is much more envi-sibility that, throughout the years they able than one of those gagged and have proudly depicted Lady Godiva enslaved Teutons. What has been on her famous ride in the nude, they made of, and with, human beings have "done her wrong." since, would represent the life-work of Goethe, were he to have written on the subject.

BUNCH OF BEGGARS

JUGOSLAV

WARNING

Speaking at Zagreb, M. Maty" chek, Deputy Prime Minister of Jugoslavia, said:

"We: are. witnessing the awal. towing-up of the small nations. Union between the Serbe and Groats. is not sufficient, Jugosla- via must also unite with the Hungariana and Rumanians so that they may be in a position to give mutual aid.".

R.N. BOATS

FOR AMERICA

WASHINGTON.

THE UNITED STATES NAVY DEPARTMENT HAS ADOPTED DESIGNS PERFECTED BY MR.