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THE COST OF .GOVERNMENT

DON IDDON'S DIARY

Truman's Coat Coming

Apart At The Seams

Suddenly President Truman's | Even the unlod leaders are) One further personal note: cent of many colours seems to subdued and advising caution. Despite the fact that Daily Mail be coming apart at the seams.. Big buaincas, which has clean- sports writers consistently

There is a rending nolso, ed up fortunes and tucked them have

North tipped Preston Buliona hy off. Cufflinks jam away in the past fow swoollen End's opponents to win in vari- and the studs are insecure.

seizing the years, in

oppor: ous Cup-ties, my money remains Within a matter of days the tunity to advise bigger output. on my home-town.

hero important policy

and longer hours, and few dollars. abroad, which seemed resoluto and right, has come to appear irresolute and wrong.

There is talk of revising, and oven reversing, the U.S. Gov- ernment's programme for Palestine.

Some White House advisers want no part of partition, and almost all now appreciate the Importance of Middle East off, the necessity of keeping Russia out, and the danger of complete ulienation of the Arabs.

Washington is looking wist- fully toward London, hoping for advice and support, and no ne in high places la slamming the British any more.

It in a huge dilemma, and

Harry Truman is right in the middle of it. Simultaneously he is caught nodding and nap ping by the break in commodity

The extraordinary difficulty that is experienced in discover ing any member of the civil ser- vice who is prepared to admit that he really profits by the re- commendations

of the Salaries Commission, when it is estimated that the cost to the taxpayer will be in the region of twelve mil- markets. lion dollars, is in line with the: representations now being made by the European Civil Servants" Council.

new

are

Just when he is demanding controls to curb inflation the country starts

diving towards

dellntion.

Cheaper To Live

Hoarders Hit

Film Subsidy.

Now the Government steps There is no doubt the nation in to ald Hollywood. The has had a shock. It has been State Department, which is reminded that there is no royal America's Foreign Office, has road, no one-way street to informed producers that it will limitless prosperity, The sky ask Congress to vote 10,000,000 obviously is.not the limit. And dollars to help distribution of it len't so much the money that U.S. films in foreign countries. has been wiped out by the toboggan slide as the psycho- logical effect.

The tycoons, who are the worst hit-and I have no sym-|

This is part of the pro. gramme to make the voice of America louder, and the film city is grateful.

pathy with them-are the The movies will also probably hoarders of huge supplies of be included in goods shipped food and goods who, expecting under the Marshall Plan. an increase in prices, were The film industry is also helding the stuff buck so they pressuring Washington to as- could dump it later on to the slat in moves to pare down Bri- hungry publle who would pay ain's 75 per cent.' tax, but almost anything.

They have been caught hold ing the bag in their warehouses and will have to unload at a loss.

Courtesy Returns

President Truman says he hna That's enough on his hands. an understatement;

The cinema capital le anxious for action because Canada and other British Empire countries contemplate moves similar to Britain's.

These stara

COPR. 1949 BY MEA BERVICE, 1996, 4, 14, 395. U. 6. FAT, CIF,

12-29

"I brought him along to turn loose when the bloodhounds get too closa!"

Britain's Evasive Inaction

By G. I. Schwartz

Övermuch praise has been ae-¡rise”! Aro' allowed! Who does corded to the Government's so- the allowing and cut of what? called wages policy an ombodied Imagine a bank manager sending are twinkling: In the White Paper on Personal for his customers, and pleating town raising Incomes, Costs and Prices. This with them in these words: “If Bob Hope is in

for the Red Cross. piece of refreshing realism" all you people get larger ver millions The British-born comedian does resolves into a banal affirmation drafts I don't know what is going

that if inflation dccent stop it to happen to the bank,” more for charity than the rest will go on. The responsibility It has always been the pics of of Hollywood put together.

for seeing that it does not go on a foable Government indulging Errol Flynn is seriously ill.is then coolly placed on the eit-in inflation, "We are not the in- and work on his latest picture. zenry.

stigators: we are otily supplying "Den Juan," has been abandon- Now there are still a few pro- inaney in response to the public's plo who would deny the State demands." The head of the ed.

the power to control the volume Reichsbank was still talking like of money and credit. Advocates that in 1923 when the mark had

t free banking are still to befallen to a billion to the found and heard, and their argu-

Including His Own

Rarely has a man seemed so A good part of the twelve wrong. He is, trapped in a re- million goes, as it should. to volving door, trying to walk those in the lower ranks of the the other way.

Another welcome result of Service, but even so it is unlike- The public look on, astonish- the recension has been the in- ly that any public sympathy willed by the spectacle. Hoping crease in courtesy among the be awakened for any attempt by for guidance, they are being dispensers of services. Waiters, shopgirla, clerks, taxi-drivers, the Council to upset the main given acrobatics.

Fearing a stock market crash doormen, the butcher, baker, scheme, assuming that the pro-

and perhaps a depression, they and grocer all have become visions for officers with, basic

are being

asked to support much more polite overnight. salaries exceeding $1,499 per legislation to clamp down the For this we offer thanks. month are implemented. Points alleged boom. of criticism there are some of

There has also been quite an the conversion rates of entry into

outcry over other developments The hood- on the home front. the

scale

seriously

ed hoodlums who call them- anomalous in their application to At least there is one big com-selves the Ku Klux Klan are on individual cases. These are mat- fort here. The cost of living the march again in Georgia, ters which are capable of appro is tumbling.

carrying fiery crosses, beating, Prices of butter, sugar, meat, up Negrces, and pledging them is getting an enormous amount responsibility for providing the priate trenient through the de

the clamped down upon the amount partmental head, and do not bacon, fish and fowl are skid- scives pompously to the defence of publicity, but his opera community with a stable mone of money and credit. Then we justify condemnation of the over-ding. Egge are now 3s. a of white womanhood:

"Peter Grimes" was roughly tary system, and the power to do could all come forward for a 20 handled by the critics after the so, should be in the hands of the Petit The money wouldn't be. all planning that was attempted, dozen, butter around 48. per ...

per cent. rise, and we wouldn't Government. No one seems to be able to opening here.

It has with conspicuous, success, by the pork about 2s. 6d. per 1., Bu-

become

business naked the gar 28. for, 5lb.

do anything about these dan→

axiomatic as in the case of do- there. If Commission.

Everything from

Michael Redgrave and Flora fence What had be implicit banks for larger credit facilities pins to gerous clowns, and President Robson will star in "Macbeth" for many decades was made ex-bilis, the banks could not grant cost of administra pianos is suddenly cheaper. Truman's 'The high

in order to finance larger wage with the aig There are

recent message on in New tion, in contrast

York sometime this plicit by the present Goverment larger credits. And they would Kalca in the big civil rights, including his anti-spring. gardly rate of spending on public stores and the small shope. lynching programme, dis- improvements, has been a source The cost of clothes, household missed as palpably political. of controversy for years past. To goods, shirts, underwear, day, personal emoluments have lingerie, shoes has been slash- assumed almost fabulous levels ed. and the taxpayer who has accept- ed the necessity

of the increase

in the bill by twelve million dol

Crazy Weather

L.

Suits that were priced £20 a

The weather has been as week ago can be bought for £15. crazy az the political scene. Everyone in making rapid The thermometer has jumped

what it means, but no

Marlene Dietrich will`acon ment is by no means without Government Funk? be a grandmother.

acumen and merit. But, apart Britain's Benjamin Britten from this vanishing school, There

that is general agreement

Lilli Palmer has just been awarded 25,000 dollars bonus. No wonder she likes Hollywood. And we thought there was aus- terity out there.

when it nationalised the Bank of

ment,

Overnight!

I

Suppose the Government now i

Samuel Goldwyn has cut in Esgland and continued the com- stave off the demands by putting half all the salaries of his big prehensive war-time powers over up the rate for advances. I executives and his own.

exchange transactions and invest businesses with reserves tried to Anance large wege and salary bills they would, have to sell securities and security prices there would fall. · Either way would-be-a-ride-In the rate of All the inflations that have Interest. Is this what the Go occurred in the world since 1914 vernment funka? The collapse Jars, would certainly look ask-calculations, trying to work out from 10 degrees to 55 and back. The week's film is called have been due to the positive and

the cheap-money policy? ance at any modifications in the knows. Certainly not the ex- States. and New

cne again. Floods devastate eight "Northalde 777,!! starring conscious acts of Governments. Well, it can't stop inflation with-

York is a James Stewart. proposals which pushed it appre perts, who one day preclaim quagmire of melting,

Excellent a A modern Government can call a out restricting the

Jamount of dirty well as a lucky number.

halt to: Inflation overnight. The credit and it can't restrict the ciably higher.

that necessary and healthy anow.

members The letter of the week is from have never stopped denouncing ing the price of credit. It can

of this True, it has been an excellent levelling-out has taken place

Govenment amount of credit without affect- Cunard-White Star containing the inter-war regimes for doing evade the issue and attempt to Government year for

finance. and the next warn darkly of a Our distinguished visitors, my passage ticket to England this very thing. Read the de- run the economy by a delirious The year's end will see a sub- smash-up that will make the Lord Rothermore, chairman of on April 29. Only ten more bates on the nationalisation of mixture of cajolery, * nagging, stantial budget surplus. There skycrapers away.

Associated Newspapers, and Diaries can you bear them? the Bank of England. Never, bluff and incoherent physical is, however, no special reason to The little man with the lit Frank Owen, Editor of The proceed on the assumption tha: the pay is more worried than Daily Mail, however, have taken Leap Year is the time when who in 1901 and 1931 imposed has landed us at the frozen

They say in Hollywood 'that this country forgive the Ministers for two years and look where it :

never, never would the people of controls, but we have had that the high buoyancy of the revenue his wife, who does the shop it in their stride.

girls prefer their men tall, deflation at the instigation of the limit will be maintained. On the ping. All hopes of a wage in- The Editor is now in Kansas dark, and handcuffed.

Hank of England and other sinis- Middle the 'general state of crease are now out of the win- City observing the contrary,

Footnote: Food shortage is ter figures behind the SCOOPI trade discourages such optimism.

West. I gave a party for him not helped by politicians ex- The Labour Government sat out the other, day, inviting 40 peo-pecting the public to swallow the monetary control would he to make it quite certain that all One of the main reasons for the

ple. Fifty-seven turned up. so much. delay in obtaining the approval

centred is Whitehall, of the Secretary of State for the Commission's recommendations rested on this factor: doubt whe ther the Colony could afford the price permanently. In all prob ability we can, but the situation will call for careful watching if the Financial Secretary is to pro- duce a balanced account.

Jockeyship

dow.

100 Years Ago

(From the fles of tha

"China "Mail").

.

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By SHEPARD BARCLAY

"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES"

OBVIOUS NOT

OBVIOUS

'dummy

The arguments of the Whits Paper-If it can be called argu- ment-proceeds in blissful diare- gord of this. Anyone would

Molotov: 'No War For

think that the fiduciary issula is Five Years

regulated by the people who an

In football.coupons. Apparently

London, Mar, 1. it is the mean in the street who 'A' member of the Labone conducts open-market operations Party today said in the House the Russian and offers Treasury Bills on tap of Commons that

7 West led his spade 3, the 2 be and tender. Tha role of the Foreign Minister (M. Vyacheslav ing played from dummy, the K by Government is merely passive Molotor), told a London dinner East and the s by Bouth. The spade and le attitude one of pure party loss than three months What appears obvious in not neces took the second trick and the Qhemevalence. It acts as a spiri- go that there would be no now. Captain Raymond Blackburn The "Rustomjee Cowasjee" which sarily so. The declarer, who makes the third, Now South saw he need-tual advisor. This can be seen war for at least five years. sailed from Calcuta three ronths the first few simple plays according two dummy entries to bring in from the terminology of the ago, with a very valuable cargo to habit-such as putting his lowest the diamonds. If he had played the White Paper. "The Government said a friend of his attended the "last dinner party given la The suggestion that Hong mounting to gently $800,000, buy not card on trick sure to be won by 10 would have been one and the log general considerations. It London by M. Molotov and his

and on the first two spades, the foel bound to set gut the follow- Kong should import some profes arrived, and very great fears have defender's top card will find ble heart & the other. Those tricks, plus is not desirable for the Govern deputy (M. Androl Vishinsky) sional jockeys for the racecourse been entertained for her unfety. She laziness expensive in the long run fire in diamonds and a club finesse the view of the Government it is during the last session of the

ment to interfere directly.......... .In springs from the present dearths left Bingapore two months ago, and that he should have played at unmarked by the opening bid would essential The Government Council of Foreign Ministers.

and Every once in a while it will develop heavy gale having been experiene that of good amateur riders. It is not ed In the China Sex by the "Astarte necessarily high card, inntead of his bava rade sare. South tried ** cannot stress: too; highly,...The Capt Blackburn, said: "M, to be expected that it will be the "Elita Penelope, and other ver- lowest. That can be vital for por edhe and rent overment must, press upon all Molotov forecast one by one

- overtaking with taken very seriously, Nor, for self, it is confectured that she must poses of unblocking anit, for creat the Athen putting forth the dia engaged in negotiations or many things that have occurred that matter, is it likely that Hang have low her masta In that gale, lng an entry into the opposite band mond K. But Ear Won, sit hits wi

decisions.

since. M. Molotov said he TAK Kong could offer anything like a and been unable to make this part or otherwise.

thu-hoart «K-and J, then got a later

under no illusions, that, war An applicatlon was made in The figure attractive enough to tempta borities some time ago to dev

trick with the-club: Kwhen South

No Compunction was not inevitable but that bad to "lead the Bolt, from his hand established, professional : Jockeys patchin Government - verrel to labk

PRALIKASA there would be no war for Ava to go down two.

The Government has no com into the Colony's SMG for her; the information which was

years. United Press, N punction in poking its finger: Into every other corner of the econo my, but in the one held hi which CZECH MINISTER It'han2 been,socorded 2-dicial ye

ESCAPES

Prague Dr. Hubert Ripka

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An alternative proposal that then to hand, however, was not of 8.9.763

that distinctive character which 11.4.1.2 salinds much more reasonable would lead them to take on their own. D. 7. 8:7'3 WBDA2 that the Jockey Club should en Woulders the responsibility of end-c7 gage the services of a retired ing vessel in search, when the ne Jockey of some reputation and counihbility which they would face |toʻrinder to the Lords of the "Adz establish here a training school uttalty of the wear-and-tear, of in for young amateur riders.

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