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Franco's Future
tal
govern-
Whatever turm meat, republican or monarchical, eventually succeeds the Franco regime will be confronted with grave econośnie difficulties. The two most serious aspects of Spain's economic plight are inflation and
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1940. .
The Germani Have Forgotten A Lot Of Inconvenient Things Since Sinc Poxca-Time Came
I'm Listening To Lippmann
Says MICHAEL FOOT, M.P.
One of the most important com tributions to the current world. wide discusion of the internn- Lional situation comes- from tlo American cofumalat Walter Lippmann,
Mr. Lippmann is not by any stretch of the imagination Socialist. He is, roughly speak-. inge a Right-Wing Liberal, with the tendency of many American, Liberals to prefer the application of his principles abroad rather than at home.
influence in areas where we had hitherto been dominant for fear that our withdrawal might leave the way open for the entry of their chief rival.
Germany,
THEY
FOR
the
AS
USUAL
BLAME US THEIR TROUBLES
1
PENICILLIN 1 OVERDOSE OF MYSTERY
British people have nolfoed how rem- paratively seldom one stes a man in the streets who lost an arm or leg in tha
There are certainly far fewer auch unfortunate beroes about then after the last war.
Fu
The chief reason for this contrast can
the life British scientists discovered and-limb-saving Bubitange and "handed
An abserver in Germany has just problem child whine of complaint she said, "It are walking up and down the Kur- much better under the fuerstondamm, Berlin's Plechdilly.
(where Berlin Purted that in that grim fand Hiller dumped on our front door was
are about the 1 Furs
thera are only two key Jatt Co step, is now hitting us below the Nazis."
More dangerous than this atti woman's only elegance. There nine women) armless and lexiest mon belt. For six years she was n
arn to be seen everywhere, German maa and are none of those gorgeous mil- our throats, and for nine months tudo of the
startling and However, the prospect which at our feet. Now she l at our woman in the street is that the linery creations, Mr. Lippmann holds out is un- Breakfast table, clamouring for men of the "new" Germany, the dangerous to the eye, you see in be stated in one word-penicillin,
"anti-Fascists," still think and Paris or Brussels. Shawls are in bread. bearably gloomy,
They how fashion Instead, The Germans, with that danger-talk in Naz! terms.
the trial techakians who •"ichlered the pro- wearing drerees, out one-track mentality of theirs that intolerance is not Nazi but More and more wonen, short over their knowledge to American ladus
soo only German.
of their menfolk trousers which enables them to
have not come back. their own troubles and nono ef the harm they have done to
HAUSFRAU: German women Europe, are convinced that it in
tired of being pushed round by our duty to feed them..
their Germanic husbands, forming feminist groups, up and down the country, demanding equal pay for equal work, and
He la not anti-Soviet. Indeed, he has generally been an advocate of the kind of "Big Three" diple-
tries. high cost of livingmacy which the Russians approve. the very Apain's budget expgases rose fium
was
On
the central purpose of the Soviet Union," it is right that we should take notice.
Throughout the war they fed well on the fal of looted coun- Now they think others should go short so that they can have at least enough. And they have a mistaken suspicion they
These Germans, I find, have forgotten a lot of inconvenient
things
since peace came. And they have learned nothing from the war and their defeat-unless it is that a war is a bad thing to lose.
Apart from the few anti-Nazis and genuine prewar pacifists, have
If Russia is to concentrate on building her military, power, if the United States is to compete, if we are to follow suit, the future will be one in which the peoples of the world will be bled white by Arm- amenta exponditure with the cer tainty that at the end, however devoted each Power was to the maintenance of its own "security," He writes for a newspaper, the someone will fire the first shot, or, 4.8 10,000,000 pesetas in fogo 10 "Herald-Tribune," which is one of rather, drop the next atomic bomb. It will be a world in which the less this 12,881,900,000 the best informed in the whole
international polities, perorations at UNO will be pro- will get it. increase is world in
This 1945.
which and which has been one of the gressively mocked by spy scares fantastic fear country
the most steadfast advocates of co-much more serious than the latest throughout neutral was and had every oppurtunity to operation with the Soviet Union. from Canada.
When Mr. Lippmann states that If Mr. Lippmann's analysis is put its financial house in order "there is no mystery now
about correct, then statesmanship can- While Spain's public debt has very
not let this rivalry develop to its nearly doubled the ten years
frightful and inevitable end with out making a stupendous effort since the start of the Civil War,
Moreover, he has the merit of to secure an agreed armaments heighbouring Portugal, under the prudent finanial housekeeping of reviewing world politics from limitation, with its modern con- Since the peril comitant of an inspectorate sys- long-term aspect. Dr. Salazar, has a public debt 10-
tem to guard against the inanu- facture of atomic weapons. day which is less than it was in of another war does not arise now, years hence, this ap
In short, the old moral is still 1928, the year in which the bul
proach is abviously more valuable
truc. stabilisation of Portuguese finance than a concentration solely on the was begun. Sicula expansion in pressing problem of the hour. Military Ends Come First the circulation of Spanish bank
Mr.
claims Lippma notes toutilies to the reckless eve
recent election speech travagance of the Franco regime. "Stalin's There are mure tuin four times as announced the decision to devote many notes in circulation as in the next fifteen to twenty years 1935-
The rifects of this inflate developing the military power tion have been aggravated by of the Soviet Union. While there three years of drought and gen eral famine. The result has been an enormous increase in the cost of living. The price of food and of other consumer goods is four to five times higher than ten years Since wages and salaries, agu.
serne
met no Germans, in ten months' wandering up and down the Reich who are sorry for what they have done to Europe.
The Social Democrats refer to their National Congress at Easter
BY SELKIRK PANTON
сапыра
Fritz and his frau in the street The nations cannot have are not repentant. They have no safety on the basis of each pre-sense of guilt. The war just paring against "any eventuality," came and they lost it and that
with that Two attempts have been made to is that, so let us befriemisis blow the world to pieces on the their attitude. And they are very application of that principle. The sorry for them elves-and for no-
body else. third time would be unlucky,
is to be an expanding....produc- ion of goods for mar consum Lion' he makes it quite clear that this purpose is secondary and sub- ordinate to the development of a military potential against any eventuality'."
The deduction which Mr. Lipp- mann draws is that the United
Break Vicious Cycle flow, then, can we prepare the conditions where a new initiative may be taken to break the vicious cycle?
It is necessary to establish the prestige of UNO, to rally public opinion, to invite the nations to meet together and judge issues on their merits and thereby to en- courage them in the belief that
For Revengo
if you talk about the Nurem- berg trial they shrug their shoulders and say, "Ah, yes, that was the Nazis," just as though the German people as A whole had not stood firmly behind Hiller in his heyday.
They regard the Nuremberg trial as a "lightning conductor which will turn away from them world the wrath of the Allies I have in the vain found, too, that this incalculable people is already mentally pre-
except for the Army, have only states mast also make its calcula- they can place better hopes for tions on the same basis. "Since their own people and all mankind in Rus in the Communist Party is in the decisions of the going to organise a mighty up-organisation than
urge of national economy' for creod of sovereign strength, military ends, there will have to The task is painfully difficult.pared for another war to-morrow One of the major difficulties is be organised under leadership a new mighty upsurge that Soviet publle opinion ta not of national economy to balance open to influence from outside, like the public opinions of Britain and America.
and withstand it."
democratic
Why Choose Britain?
The conclusion he reaches is
and If
a mighty Lippmann's
so long as it is against Russia, and they can have their revenge." Meanwhile, they blame us for their troubles. They moan about the Allied "terror" attacks, the invasion that cut off their up pites from the occupied countries and the present occupation of the Reich, without which they would
of
so on.
Bro
who
Are
dretion on large "scale
ATOMIC ACE COLUMN By
JOHN LANGDON-DAVIES Daily Mail Science Editor
This
was done because, pentelllín. was HAPPIEST GERMANS: Ger- as important that its manufacture had to man policemen, who are the only be kept well away from sil danger from Germany in uniform and allowed enemy bembe
The Germans produced only very small to carry weapons. They strut quantities of very post quality pentelin, round in peaked caps and jack and therefore had to amputate fractured boots, bullying, in the good old limb to save the lives of their wounded' German way, their fellow Ger- mans.
HAPPIEST OF ALL: Tho Berlin traffic cops, who can hold up and order round the care of four nations.
UNHAPTEST
Ministry Ashamed
Now, you would have thought that we. the nation which discovered! the times. medical weapon of sil
greatest would be proud of the fact, ut to
judge from their behaviour, the Ministry are thoroughly ashstood of GERMANS: of Supply
penicillin
It has just leaked out that last month Tiritain produced nas-oighth ma much Denlelilin as the 'U.S.
ke
Inved
as "Reichsparteitag," the mame the Nazis used for their annual party rallies at Nuremberg.
The Communista, led by men who were in Moscow throughout the
лто wor, who
fighting France's claims concerning the Ruhr and Rhineland, have resur- rected the old Nazi 1928 expansion battle cry, "Ein Volk, ein Reich.
"They
"ein leave out Fuehrer," but they are quite pre Elderly people, who have lost hope and are too tired to go on. Forty- pared to provide him at any time.
It all makes no think that if one committed suicide last month in the British sector of Berlin we got out of Germany lo-morrow
This mean that even in these days of there would be concentration alone.
musterity we, as a nation, have found the again
A within weck QUEUES: Berliners are queue-moner, the brains, and the raw material stocked
"Fascists," puting up to see James Mason in "The ta o lato successful maestproduction of
aubstance which has ready there by German "anti-Fascist | Man in Grey" at the Astoria. democrats."
There are fewer queues heremo tres than the atom bomb destroy- With this state of mind the than in London, though less to
Of course you were not told that, and Germans will blame us bitterly queue for.
so far as the Ministry of Bunuly are 400- FOOD: Brigadier Heyman's for the food crisis. But it is not
cerned, you would probably have had to Wel horse Was stolen last week-end wal the fault of the British.
a year before they would havO He said to admitted t have a heavily biltzed area with with five chicken. a large industrial population in me: "It is prime beef on the
A Crying Need black market now, I suppose." Tanielini made with the taxpayer's capable of supporting itself.
It is much more the fault of the Five dogs in one Berlin street, money, and at the moment the taxpayer Four-Power Allied Control Coun- including the pollee vice-presi-is suffering from alarm and despondency
over food, coal, houses, cil, which has reached a dead- dent's, were stolen last week.
The Ministry of Exmply re LATEST BLACK MARKET | lock on yital questions and is
Cigarettes 5s. mined to see that he shall not suffer also holding up progress in turning QUOTATIONS:
from pride and hopefulness over pen the Germans each, £i notes £18 15s, cach.
tin. Germany over to again under looser Allied control. Chief of these is the question of creating a central German ministration, treating Germany as an economic unit and removing zonal barriers.
Marking Time
TO-DAY IN EUROPE
By
RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
If the Government is forecast
be dying like locusts in a drought. They refer to the R.A.F. as the
and Greuel Air Force-greuel is pre- nounced "atrocity."
groyal
MCGRA
Seris
of
to be
ed
deter
tory and distributed tree" to" about" "200
9x months ago, if there had been talk cerned how much the taxpayer is print
The Ministry spent $1,860,000 of them about doubled, distress is acute
FAXDRYCT'.MODay on building pentellin and widespread. Much could be
factory at Speke keer verpool. They announced done to remedy this state of af
that this factory would into production in the spring of 1945. fairs by an efficient government
Nothing at all happened unit Beteme which was prepared to end car
ber 1945, when a quailty less than a ruption, stamp out the black mar-
quarter of what was expected was pro- ket, and slash, the absurdly high
Britain's Labour Government is att ↑duced, expenditure on the armed forces
young, yet already there is talk of a big | Henawhile, houpitals were crying out The Big Three agreed this at shake-up and of an impending cutting for penicillin and the Epek factory war- and the police. Franco cannot
Credit Is Due To Bevin
Potsdam, but the French abolish any of these things, for
were out of a lot of old wood. There is no nine months tale on it schedula,
Minister,
Wat still, no fgures were published But a start was made at UNO,
not there, and now they are say direct criticism of the Primas
as to how much penicillin was costing. he is dependent on them for the prolongation of his rule. Continu that "Stalin offers the people of
the organisation should
bors are anying that he is insuficiently The Government, the acle purchaser. with
changes, bought from the Ministry of Supply fac ance of his regime obstructs the the world no Communist Utopia. develop as we hope and if Mr.
they will have nothing to do Mr. Attlee, but some Lebour Party mem
terrible
With more experience of Ger tough to make the necessary recovery of Spain in another way. It is the prospect of
man aggrosion than the others, and that, There can be no recovery without Soviet State in which the welfare should thus be disproved, a large a large expansion of overseas trade of the people and their liberties part of the credit will go to the
the French say that it was main adequately reshaped, a new Prime Minis hospitals.
subordinated ·
ly the strong German central ad- to military stand made by Ernest Bevin and
ministration created by Bismarck and, since none of the United Na-are
To the other peoples he the purposes of the British Gov.
that allowed Germany to wage tions is prepared to do anything power.
security, power, ernment, reared so emphatic-: does not offer
three wars in three generations. that might bolster up the present
So the Allied Control Council régime, Franco, by persisting in welfare or liberty. We can, if we ally by Philip Noel-Baker in the
Most of them pine for the "good is marking time on this vital It is a pity that the leader of remaining as head of the state, isave the moral energy, offer all House of Commons.
Dish times." by which they question. turther unnecessary There Is imposing
no denying that the American delegation could not
to the stay to hear the argument. Per- mean the Nazi regime, Their Meanwhile, in the shadow of hardships on the Spanish peuple. Stalin's speech is open
attitude was volced to me to-day famine and international rivalries, All this Tyd's tu underline interpretation which Mr. Lpp haps Mr. Lippmann will take up
II Loven words by a woman, the. German people are going futilite the present
of the mann plaves upon it. Moreover, that point with Mr. Byrnes, for
The odd thing about this is the thin attitude of the United Nations this interpretation would help to if the world is plunged into an- wearing an expensive fur coat, I about their affairs and trying to day is subeleling on smaller food rations Ministry of Hupply anys nothing.
of the present other war it will be partly due met on a hill in the "Gruenowold make some kind of life for them-than daring the war, If the American
Here are Rome side-loan fails to go through Congress, Bri amount la almost double the capacity for. toward Franco Spain, "Attitude" explain some
!
tih rations inevitably will be reduced which the factory was buliti
There can be utily one explanation of is the right word, for it would be features in present Sevict policy. to the acceptance by many Ameri-Forest. She was tugging up the solves. J Why, for instruce, have the cans on behalf of their country of hill a log of wood for her stove, lights:
FASHIONS: On this sunny at further. The British public a fully
In Russians selected the British Gov- the doctrine which Mr. Lippmann like an ant with an oversize
dora techniqu
iniave been made whith bare- attributes to Stalin.
grain of sugar. After a long afternoon £235,000 worth of fuzs aware at the acute famine which then this that same wonderful advances
tena large part of the world and dore ernment-and, in particular,
But expect to get more than a fair share been kept aneret. And, that in the ser newly-elected Labour Government the chief butt for their as animosity? Why is Britain assail- ed while the United States is immune from Sitter Soviet hostility?
impossible to dignify with the
name "policy" the present posture,
use
adopted toward Spaic by Russia, France, Britain or the United States.
interests in Russian Spain are almost negligible, but it is convenient for them to Franco 35 a sort of Aunt Sally at whom they can hurl occasional brickhats in the hope that some of these will glance off and rm- barrass those whom they can dress up af France's sympathisers. The French Government is, of course, under serious pressure from the Communists to play the Russian game. And M. Georges Bidault,
of them."
a
BY THE WAY
By Beachcomber
The mystery of the hippopotamus in
Britain has been a great Im- perialist Power in the past, but the Round Fond, which has been pursing to-day ours is an Imperialism ooteplats and scientists, was solved you which any objective observer must recognise
the grass from
A
Seven Words
Or Just For All
For The Lucky
content!
Nobody knows except the officials con. fer is needed,
change, it would have been a very to buy penfalille from a factory built clown thing between Ernest Baris and with the taxpayer's money.
The only timate that hur bead mada Herbert Matrisun, If there should be A change now, it's certain Berin would get is that penicillin may be eating 24 Here the job. Hence. Mr. Atilee's staunchest for an amount which woul't come between supporter "to-day in Me, Morrison..
and be, in the U.8. Dissatisfaction with the Government is Then, suddenly, it lenki
Speke Jumpa to 20,000 mega-units, focused on three main topice-Lood, coal January the production of penicillin at wonderful acidevement about which the
and bowing.
The population of the British Isles to-
of the food available. but there widespread feuling that
much informa tlon has boot withheld by the Covarn- ment and that there has been amount of political bungling
The coal situation is even more deadly,
Minister
..
out that io
ous thing about all this doleful story,
Inbite of secrecy learned during the war are not being thrown off by thowa In contrat of selenting advances; and that ta going to lead to trouble,
One of the oorses of war Le that must be kept secret of Fuel
Emanuel Bhinwell's scientific research drive for lacressed output during the lest I benefit the enemy. but that does winiar failed and he now la warning Bri not axeuse the acini paslon for secrecy turday by a baker who was by the Pond
duction can be raised we must build the tlah industry that many factorias may, now, "Uulky model refrigerator, wasb-
have to close down because of the cont
We cannot win the peace without fren ila halkalan African leading ̈hip. ing machine and modern cooking stove" machinery for the factories,
and open parsult of knowledge and 43 non-aggressive. In-arly yesterday morning,
shortage. for every housewife in Britain-that, la, |
Labout haring of knowledge among all nations An essential feature of the deed, it is evident that Britain popotamus across the
12 men that workers "must the plan auswerted by the Labour Perly's
favour of Huntly.. Leath of research specialists,
trate for has not the strength to engage in direction of Bayswater-road. He batted
a white on producing electric Party's propaganda in
There is another able to this palellin By extending utility production to thewo motors for cotton mille, for instance, In- tionalisation of the coal mines in that, any large-enle Imperialist adven- the man, but found he could speak no
Research in the U,B, showed that if ture. She has no economic motive English, The Alricpn led the best to for aggression; in the measurable the margin, and left it to descend late labour-aving devicos, we can turn them lead of producing so many rule note for once the miners knew they were rotting, story,,
man's luxuries into brale you and me. Only by 'defag, without coal for the benefit of the community
some of the fillle, now shaft, we guin rather than for the capitalists, they would I corn-stop llquer is added to the medium / future she will have no great the water. "Every night," auld park from rich
In which panfal?!in is grown, the rute of keeper, before closing time, this African fitments for every homy,
... redouble their efforts. The coal bill the French Foreign Minister, is surplus of exports for which, con- calle, for the hippopotamus and taken it Utility production has been so use higher standard of Hving.
“Thá harder people work, the more noerly through Parlament and all the production rantly increased, forced by internal pressure in his ecivably, she might have to fight away with blef," "Why did you not tall ful in lowering prices and improvlar the
the miners know that, within a few works; Now, carn-steep liquor is Industrial own Government to adopt a pose to win markets.
the authorities?" asked the baker, "what design of women's clothes and of certain workers beip to Improve methods,
more capital equipment that Le installed the industry will be nationalised, hot, far waste In America, but does The case of the United States is authorities?" said the park-keeper, furniture, and shine, the experts say,
fests cutting more coal, they are sulting it from America and paying's royalty in austing here, le appears that we are importing. which he himself is very far from
Sho hat don't know, Skip #t," said the baker. that it should be retained permanentip the higher la production.. feeling. Meanwhile. Mr. Bevinsomewhat different.
"It the people put their backs into it. less.. even if the nazón “utility" is dropped.
Britain's standard of living will not only The "profie motive," which Bociallats dollars for the privilega
No Magic in It has his hands so full. fighting for enormously extended her world interests at the conclusion of this
be restored soon, but will rise to new have so alten denounced, appears to be as the decencies of international re-
These suggestions are made. În ® Tale 'heights, 5.-
strongly present in the mind of the soul Burely, when. Governmonta rather, than lationships and the success of war. Part of this extension takes journalists call an exclusive news alor
bour Party pamphlet called "Fair haren
"Another battle of Britain has begun," miner as in that of the mostailak, The private Arma manufacture solentina :1104, of Berron Goods,"published today. It ha". UNO, that he can hardly find place in the Far East at the back-, sop
door of the Soviet Union. It is
The pamphlet refutes completely the regulation of this fact, là having a sober- ducts, there should be complete freedom the second of the factual "Diacion clain of Churchill and th
bouring influence on thoes members of the from suck payusente, time to take interest in this mat- easily foreseeable that there may
Moreover, theres noibing goal 'pamphlets: Ingued part of Labour'e Tyme that the "United already Labour Party who have been anxions, to ter. The role of the United be immense financial and indus
education ampelas, The Bon bonati Iganized, lippu balon dinge and press on with nationalisation of other shout sorsteen liquor. It cat don , shemfent useful to pestin bro First-class designers have been hand for Juley star beomusé uncontrerase Industries. They are batulog to shlok tala..
in the nationalisation may not be theduction which exile in other material (for Banansa ngain road Elhaman) Thái⋅ ed_Improvement fa'the' diandard of manor. Amerik NON BANG to the desirability of la, belschen
forward | their || plane Kadri Biale Experiments are known to have been democratic, institutions in Spain | If the Russians Word" eager to foolish salior reporțad frying faktur prodwood goods; If the principle to use," While angie Behind our belo Pannen they styposed and, thaij. if they'|| möre, easily Couod in Britalo, What is the conclusion? It is use UNO for the exposure of im- trying dials, read ring dis) on the star tanded, new node can be brought within during the dr. Lhe United State stan ownership of ether industrips, this may de emnified green peas and poda, Byt
the reach of all of my sk Edard of living, resin, DP: Ill den sent. Now, woon" begin. so 'Sown, out,
[no long“, so this vall of neerges exista, The 'pamphlet given/js
da kolama wiraška watachent nakaras in production, ther
The hotel na questions of bourne le dag technical, ressarch",like this" la stifKE, quite simple. Rumia knows what perialist tendencies there are one boat beam. They were desenlleine er two motes in America's eye
sasizes the dangers of 'Indation, unlean and armed shop windows with lundries, parte, Thers le na hope-rad- any large: "Nobody knows what other resegah work-
Butuphle-quick decontap in the angply of how house for sahtaan" monthe, "we are: dolog,
States would appear to be limited
trial pressure favouring expansion
to expressing pious platitudes as
In the near future.
The wants and is steadily pursuing
her objective, Britain and America
must
up their minds what and pumile their ob
lutely and
to which they might have drawn
Interlude Prodnow I suppose that is what you } ~
Mrealfi Well, have
you see it in any other paper?
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Am Game Medium The-revival- of a fostrovoser" sbway; the attention together with the beam slaughter, ek bly rime: 18. Aflaa which they claimed to have disceritably attract attention, covered in gura.
probable that thi
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