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MIRROR OF WORLD

OPINION

THE MAN AND THE JOB

If they were not harmless, why were they allowed into this country at all? Sir John is silent on that point, He promises, however, that the During the war the finances of the cases will come before the tribunals B.B.C, will be virtually controlled by "when the new machinery begins to Sir John Reith. This move, it is be-function."

lieved, foreshadows the appointment We can only; remark that the soon- of the Minister of Information as er the machinery begins to function Commander-in-Chief of British pro- the better.-"Evening News," London.

paganda.

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The British information service home and abroad is a thing of bits and pieces. It needs pulling together by a strong central 'director,

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EXPORTS

Sir John Reith is the man for the

It is high-time the export drive that job. And if he could spare a few

is promised got going. We may ex- crumbs of news for the British people from the richly laden tables of the pect to hear more of its organisation to-day when the Export Council pu- neutrals, so much the better.-"Dal- blishes its plan of campaign and, in ly Mail."

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NEUTRALITY IS NOT ENOUGH

the cotton industry, when Parliament condescends to give the Cotton Board the powers it has asked for. But the need for action is urgent. A letter we have received from Buenos Aires states bluntly what every Manchester house with Argentine connections has been hearing for weeks. We are. missing' opportunities,

Now and for some little time we have been for the first time in my long experience in the market (says our

There is a danger to which the majority are prone that, having de- clared against neutrality, no more is expected of us. The months that are ahead will shake us out of any such delusion or complacency. The news is so slight at present that we must correspondent) in the position of be- guard ourselves against any idea that ing entirely free from competition. For exchange reasons Italy and Japan the dynamic of this war will never have had no quota, and that which reach the proportions of the last. As Brazil had (not a very large one) has a result it is not easy for some to

re-

bring themselves to a realization of been rapidly filled. ... I beg of you to use your powerful influence to see necessity of due preparation. There is a feeling that we shall be

that this unique opportunity of there Fox-Trot.

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Manchester suppliers. Fox-Trot. leave training and preparation and Fox-Trot. organizatoin of the services that are Fox-Trot. required until they really are required Fox-Trot. is to repeat the mistake that was Fox-Trot made in the last war. "Natal Wit- Fox-Trot.ness.'

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Other correspondents have not treat- ed the competition so lightly; the de- velopment of the Brazilian industry is, for instance, noted with forebod- ing. But essentially the complaint is the same. It certainly does not arise from lack of representation; from all accounts Manchester has plenty of salesmen-too many-in the market. The matter as it appears to the people on the spot is mainly one of price and delivery. It has been canvassed at The In the House of Commons last night some length in the local press. Sir John Anderson, the Home Secre- "Buenos Aires Herald" of February tary, was called on to explain the 21; reporting the protest of the British" strange case of Wilhelm Solf, the Chamber of Commerce in Argentina young German who was allowed to to the British Government; indulged live in a house overlooking an R.A.F. in some extravagant and highly co- station and is now in prison for film- loured charges about the "speculators' ing a British plane.

greed." One* dealer interviewed al- leged that textile prices had risen by 80 or 90 per cent since the war. An- other said that---

Sir John's explanation is not reas- suring. That in itself is not a sur- prise to the many people who are un- easy about the aliens in our midst, With the rise in price of English for the record of the Home Office in cotton textiles, they now cost at least. the matter was unsatisfactory long 20 per cent more than the textiles before Sir John took charge of it; but from any other exporting country, last night's defence actually adds be- even in spite of the preferential treat- wilderment to an already puzzling si- ment accorded British goods under tuation.

the terms of the Anglo-Argentine It seems, according to Sir John, trade agreement.

that no way can be found to pre- vent Germans liv- Ing at places of impor- military tance. "Owing to the expansion of the armed forces and the location of industry," he

"there says, few towns in this country which not. in the vicinity

are

are

HARD GOING

Where two ride a horse one must ride behind, and the two may have to change places. We cannot see Stalin riaking... that mount with Hitlerism clutching. behind.-J. L. G.

These are pro- bably overstate- the ments, and

of the secretary British Chamber said next day that im- things were proving, that Manchester prices had dropped a that little, and there was an in- creasing tendency to make special

offers sta- of some important

of goods suitable for this None the less, even when therefore tionor factory"!--and

it market.

full discount has been made for would appear that the aliens must be exaggeration and lack of appreciation allowed to live everywhere.

of producing conditions in Lancashire, The expansion of the armed forces it remains true that many of our ex- may be a comparatively recent thing, porting prices are dangerously high but it is not as recent as all that. They and that deliveries are far toò' uncer-- were growing—and so were our war tain. The Argentine critics complain Industries. In the last months of that Lancashire is asking for seven or peace; and in those months the allens eight months for deliveries, while were streaming in. Some numbers of Argentine import permits are only for them, as cases, in the courts proved four months. This should gradually day after day, were smuggled ashore; be remedied as the system of export but scores of thousands came with the priorities gets work fully, but the Ar permission of the Home Office." gentine case: is a useful illustration of

If those thousands were innocuous, the need for tackling these expor why is it necessary to set up new tri- dificulties promptly and determined- buthals now to review the cases of ly. We cannot afford to waste any many of them, as Sir John proposes? time. -"Manchester Guardian”

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MAIL, MARCH 16, 1940

THE MAN WHO THOUGHT HE HAD LOST EVERYTHING LEAVES £129,000 GERMANY'S

WEALTH CAME TO Oliver Dalton, owner of Brighton's AIM SLAVE

Palace Pier, from pennies that went into slot machines.

He died, leaving a fortune of £129,000-nearly forty million WORLD

pennies.

IF GERMANY WINS THE WAR

HER PEOPLE ARE TO BE A RACE APART ALL OTHERS A RACE

Yet, when he turned on the gas tap and died in the kitchen of his luxurious home last October, he thought he was a ruined man.

OF SLAVES. For a few days previously he had told a friend: "I am broke. I haven't a penny in the world. All they can take is my furniture.

Ollie, as he

was popularly known from Brighton to Atlantic City and back to Dieppe, was one of Brighton's three wealthiest public men. But for a year before his death at 60 his health had been failing and he had two nervous breakdowns.

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