1941-05-26 — Page 39

THE CHINA 'MAIL, MAY 26, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

-WINDSOR HOUSE

PLAN FOR SLAVERY

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The German design for u economie order in Europe is be- coming clearer. Its principal ob- jeet is to ensure that the bulk of the European industries shall be in German hands, giving the Reich a virtual monopoly in the produc- tion of armaments, Where this can be obtained by incorporating i existing industries in Germany's fringes the Reich will be expand- ed to include them. Further afield, all important industries, with the necessary deposits of Jaw materia's, communications, and purts, are to be brought under Gierman fiatal control. Whnt

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industrial equipment that might conceivably be con verted inte mihtary strength must be adapted to German need. abolisherf Secondly, a parvileged,

andard of lying is to be en.. sured for the Gertisan population. In the conditions, fresorn by the Naze in the event of the vietony a great proportion of the tierma11 ou put must be per ntabent

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to be anate up to the GerroUS through favourable terms of fot

trudn Food and I;;A' muterunts from other entries in kuope, relegates to ng cultural Statur. would be ansported at prices dictated by Germany With full control of the Continent's Trade with the outside world Germany would be able to Im- prese is own terms almost equally well on the producers of prunarv commodities overseas These are the elements of a grand scheme of exploitation.

Action already taken in the conquered territories, apparently piecemeal aul opportunist, close - ly follows the master plant The

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Reith must fight the Landlords

meaning of these operations Is PARLIAMENT recently devoted

well analysed in a recent Chatham |

good deal of time to the

House "Bulletin" It is pointed out question of post-war planning and

pure.

reconstruction. The debate was that the politiead treatment meted;

based on a speech by Mr. George oul to the various countries over- ticks, M P. Parliamentary 1 by the German armies differs | Secretary

the Ministry according to their economic struc- | Works and Buukings.

The more highly

Mr. Hicks's speech did not differ inclus-

report ། ༔་ - trialed a region is the closer essentially from the is being tied to the Reich Ausuna gently made by his chiet, Lord

Reith, on reconstruction and Sudetenland. with their in- If one might summarise, Lord put lant metustries, have been 1 | Redh recommends the extension eoporated outright. Those parts for the Town Planning Acts, which 2m bor los akan which contain umber the Statute Books from heavy, engineering, and chemical! 1909 onwards, in the whole conati- itahustians were admitted into the try and he puts all under Gov-

ernment supervision. Customs frontiers of the Reich.

One thing, however, he cannot while ascultinal Slovakia has re- do, and it Is essential; though, as miched outside. In Poland almost if deal with finance, it is not hus

By-

Colonel Josiah Wedgwood, M.P.

jor land rent which brought Wren's we plan to naught; and unless Jattack land monopoly radically. we shall never be able to rebuild a replanned City,

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To show what it costs when it comes to paying compensation for land values, the case of Charing

Cross Bridge may be recalled.

The scheme for the building of the much-needed bridge was abandoned in 1930 on account u

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£11,122,000 was to go on land purchase and com- bensation for easement and per- anationt rights all representing

and values.

tion for these people who owned the expense, which was estimated these rimed sites. Alderman at £16,885,000. Hodgkinson, the Labour chairman ol Coventry's Redevelopment Committee, has shown the way to solve that problem.. "Socialise the Land," he declares. Chee tha' has been done, the town-plantu scheme can go ahead.

This is the crux of the problem "Socialisation if We sterilisation if we can't."

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The cost of the bridge itself, meluding the pulling down of the buildings, the construction of ap-

alteration of the Em- proaches, bankment and other improve- nients. was estimated al only

£5,743,000.

the whole of the industrial region! mumediate Job. has been annexed, including even The Town Planning Arts have the textile city of Lodz. In the not been a success, Not a single west the annexation of Alsace-town in all the thirty years they

The destruction Lora ne

wrought and Luxemburg, with have been my force has had an

Had the bridge been built, the their arm and coal mines, their approved compulsory town-plan: Hitler's bombers in London will

improvements would have en- they have all been held up by the not be all evil if we grasp the haced the value of all the land steel and textile industries, IN

question of compensation wher-

opportunity to build ፡፡ better. obviously intended. Beyond these ever buildings have to be

In the vicinity, so that all the built more noble, and spacious city to adjoining landowners would have regions agents of German indus- | according to plan and whenever replace the one so horribly scar-benefitted still more. And land *F S and banks are at work land value is thereby reduced. red.

values are much lower at Charing acquiring Auanelul control of im-

The Harrow and congested Cross than in the City. Compensation is always un- undertakings, Counting; portant

lanes, avoldable where there are demo- streets, the dark sunless only those parts which are now

alleys, must give way to wide The only remedy is to tax land litions. Therefore. if planned clearly marked out for annexa-reconstruction is to be made possi-and unimpeded thoroughfares to on its value, and use the money relieve traffic congestion. and so raised to remove the rates from tion and leaving uside altogether bic, the first essential step is that the fate intended for Britain, the there should be a universal valua-enable us to do the new buildings buildings, and reduce the general land such monumental works as taxation for the benefit of all. Greater German Reich would tion of lands and buildings separ St. Paul's in proper perspective. The people make the land value;

duction would be

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ately. Otherwise the cost will exceed all possibility of payment And the valuation should be com- menced now, so as to be ready for reconstruction.

The

Lord

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Wren, after the Great Pire, put they should recover the benefit forward a plan with two streets, of it.

But how would this affect the 90 foot wide, one with two plazzas on the way, to converge on the question of compensation? In Cathedral, but the plan was never this way. carried out.

The cost demanded as compen sation killed it. Land monopoly

as ever stood in the way, and not want of vision on the part of the Corporation.

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First: the effect of a tax on land values is to reduce the capital value of land in proportion to the rate in the £ of the tax.

emerge from a victorious war as a highly industrialised State where some 40 per cent of the working population would be engaged in mining and industry and less than

committee which 30 per cert in agriculture. It would Reith has set up to examine the

question be surrounded by

for vassal States,

of compensation bombed sites, with a view to stop- mainly agricultural, whose proping land speculations, will, it is

Second: it would automatically controlled by hoped, point out the necessity for

make it unprofitable to hold land German orders. No doubt long-such separate valuation.

for a rise, and therefore stop spe- term contracts at stable prices! This committee has already

What are these "vested inter-culation in it, for the tax would would bring some advantages to chosen three towns as test cases, ests" and "rights" which bar pro-have to be paid whether the land

une of which is Coventry. Here, offset the certainty of extreme

as in every bombed area.

gress? They are the right to levy were used or not. vast

Third: this would cause 'more poverty, But the Nazis, as they open spaces have been created: toll on the community; they re-

land to be put on the market, and have already shown in their Lord Reith must see to it in his present nothing given to it.

There is property in buildings, |would bring down the price, apart trading with South eastern rebuilding scheme these spaces

property in land. They fall into from the initial effect of the tax Europe, intend not only to buy are left open.

two entirely different categories; itself. The value of land would cheap but to sell dear, and This raises, of "course,

once buildings are put up by man, but fall, but not its usefulness, and again the problem of compensa-land is provided by Nature, especially to sell only what

the mere fact that the rates on they can easily spare. This cun-

The value of a building cannot improvements were reduced (to ning practice ensures permanent security and to the German people ment; it is usually less, due to would give a tremendous fillip to |be more than its cost of replace- | be ultimately, extinguished), conflict between producers of ex- a maximum of consumption, aims depreciation.

rebuilding and trade generally, -portable produce and, consumers at a condition as near to slavery “But with sites' it is. far differ- . But before we can tax land of imported goods' in each' country as anything "Europe has ever ex-¦ent. Here we are dealing with a values, we need a separate valua➡ trading with the Reich. The whole perienced. A part of the popular value created solely by the pre-tion of land and buildings; before scheme, which Dr. Funk has tion of the Continent, which is sence 'and Industry of the whole we can reconstruct we need the described as being designed to less than one-third, plans to thrive surrounding community, and not same valuation; Lord Reith ray guarantee to the Greater German on the permanent exploitation of due to anything those who hold lend his great authority to this

the 'land have' done.

demand for a valuation so essen-. Reich a maximum of economic the remaining two-thirds. 1.

It was the private appropriation "tial,

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