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A DYNAMIC ECONOMY

The economic health of the United States is a vital matter for the whole world. Judging by precedents after the first world war, there should have been a recession by now. It has not happened. There were Ímurs not so long agn. but the pessimins fled before the rising tide of buoyancy. It is a first article of the Com- munist faith that capitalist ong is certain to crumble, and the Kreml has stakod almost everything upon it. Actually there is no sign of it. Each year, population pro- ductivity in the United States rises, said I'resident Truman in his Budget message, and "our economy is 20 dynamike and growing one

as

The programme of foreign aid has had almost as much to do with American economic stability and prosperity with the greatly improved position in Western Europe. In helping others the United States has also helped itself. The international aid pro- grammes, in the words of the President, "are proving to

ber

Investment paying dividends, far beyond their ost, in enhancing our own reurity and in providing » basis for world peace and pro- sperity."

In every ᎩᎺᏂᎯ".

number

THIS YEAR

US

By

Windrush

vudte.

מ

Bus it

Good Morning!

On with the NÉMINING

China is golkit to get a

new

The old steal muguntes having

2

"Peking 'rendy for Britfth ties." Hong Kong, however, seems in

ttrose with

been convinced that the American | No Jonahe they stump would came.. Americh's The Tamous blockade-running trouping health eun never he dut) Jonents-John Pakis "Patatu," of our mind in our calculations Arkt Duvidi, during 1950,

perity can constitre. In the sun-steal industry this year. fact of 1919. America showed signs of an ecununie. recesin deported. There was great fear, in conto- year, with its as yet unacted, issue is decided that, is on why overrunning

Asia. After Mao | quenco f Western countrĺca. events and he fuld possibil-winn the Koperat election ünd | Tse-tung's victory in Chină, Com-LÁmories recovered. But if there ties, is always more Interest- what happens afterwards,

munism is now a real threat to | kitotild over to a mal ang seridus ing than the old year with its deelded in 1950.

A third issue may or may not Malaya, Indo-China, Stems, In-economie slump in America, thus the main to prefer the Amerienn

This is undonesia, Bortna, and oven India would sertaluly very much. In variety) acspecially disappointments and dead into which does not directly con- and Pakistan. The goverment crease the risk of war timbaghdul vamillan hopes, What will be there the British people. But they of some of thier countries have, It the world, Runnin has always course of world affairs In will be affec'ed indirectly by its true, a bertain strength. 1950?

The Issue whether in strength which can be sáp- | Marabu Tile

con survive in pod. The Western countries andy Yugoslavia. As long as Titoiệm be able, by economie aid," to but- td | ponthiuen, there is hope that with tress the non-Soviet countries of benign are being fought out in the development of radicul socia-Asia, flow this can be done wilf

At aktyorn the sands of the politics. Al the start of the yaurisin In different countries, they oprtaluly be one of the chief quos-

These 'arg'ading of the tauen Nite a pleasant odour Is Warded to be decited in various different Russia, it is still possible for these issues will not thereby become pawns of tions discussed at the Colond which W be the theme of history to England.

conferante ways. Al the

of the British Comet 1930. Only in come up thin and of the you

individual citizen talig areole meets Breek. monwealth. The West must find can the some of them hay have been des cided in one parleular way.

ways tf glving nit which do net 'netion - which; the small way of Myrtle's gratifier suggests The

offend antionalist susceptibilities each one of us, mar inuence that the troubles in Nicotin decision Is hrevpenble. i L

roslit. But it least we can li man's life as a citizen is to have

for cause suspicion and fear, any meaning, in hot to try to KAP what are the issues of the Tape. I must ce tilimself taking part in the frent world dentist And often he must take kiden.

What are the insues in 1950?

Reds in Asia

body in the world. It is whother The fourth hasure affects every

A fifth Issue for 1950 try to understand what is happen mostly Cypriots. Countinian can be stopped from whether America's economic prosing and what is at stake.

Four days

Within 40

years

man

to the moon

By John Ralph

Ran

The first isnue for people in Great Britain in whether the suckshould be able to fly to the alist experiment is, to geotuttu This 1 ili be decided by the moon in four days.

There will be three goueral election, perhaps naxt mah pertumps

This in June.

phases in the development of the WILDE when maru powerful

rocket mocnship-anif the rat is inutes will this be determined by ment of rocket propulsion have well advanced. the whole alectorata, by the sam been developed, Travelling time of the people, and not, as happens for So often in polities, by a tese in- dividuais or a somali elite.

1

take the That will nteessary, moonship outside the force of 1hd elif's mall and into the pull of Me moon-at about 200,000 miles from the chrth. und 40,000 miles from the moon,

the 250,000-mile journey Insproved versiona of the Vtriple the moon would ha kj should be cut to about hottra

nin"

It sounds tanlastic? Scientists and rocket technicians in Mittain mud in Amerien ndmit

10 forecas thal therapis itrest are genernity rash. 18

The general election is bound Lo i have

gorul comunqUMMEN,

Saint ulservors, by ne mana unfriendly The Libnur Party, foal that if Labour keeps power the ecmendie diluti of Great Britain will be harder than ever. This purty Docwilso

obstinate attempt by the Labour Gover-

of the

SKJO

pro-

have shot more tha 100

Willy Ley. describing what # intles estimates that it would take abbuí Info the outer atmosphere, varty-three minutes to clear the earth's

selertile Instruments Ing bringing to onrth new informiton

about the upper ni.

722103

The sound stage will be nt- which |mosphere-piercing pockets

will establish theit dwn paym 40 mament orbits around the earn. thay are

sha! reasonablo tine for In the second phe, too, $10 ment la win safety for the country Years IN bay "freezing" the eronnale life Lesearch, experiment and toslu on manned rocket will make tra

age rockel ship to have been continental flights,

mack to the Moon.

iftmosphere,

Aller eight minutes, when the Iue! for the first part of the journey is exhñusted, the earth lity 1. would appear like a great w grually diminishing in size, this st would shine with terrible Incandescence,

nhead the and moon would be a grout whute, sang mas“.

At the point where the forces':

of minon Aravity

แก earth

The reply by the Labour Gov.¦evinpleled, and a safe return trip, For die Anal phase there will } of eminent ta the economic

ire oxpérienced rocket crews, well inorge, the rocket will be moving challenge of our times. is to try

For the Rocket Era has arrived usquainted with space travel, and shiently only 11 few foot per the economic system

of several rennd running in fixed grooves, in fort,

a fact which some of us, over-arcustomed to speedin safely can only be found by slow occupied with the possibilities of miles per second and she extril- ing the economic system to adapt atomic energy and jet propulsion, ordimry conditions it,elf continually to changing cir- have overlooked-and the rucket vall in the fringes of gravitational Cistineo.

will prove the

force. grenicht-ever 10- volution in transport,

Economic volcano

The other

which ".

A gentle landing

Then, as the moon's pull i felt, it will gather speed.

Now the ship will have to be Ita tail

f

Full possibilities of the racket

whot realiser

German not were

scientists, among them Willy lay, turned round, so that

points nivenwards, now working in Amerien, per- flected a new propolsive force.}

The landing will be very They made the first rocket drive

worlds will longe be mysteries. Man from the Earth will be able to Ko to see fur himself.

The Labour leaders have failed nino to release the energies of the British people. Everybody agrees that we are living on an Geomorfid valeuno, If we cannot overconto

economic arials, We may wikán a matter of months, ax- purlenco tertible privation and filiation. But the government has failed entirely to stir or Bro will, to save the people with the thermaelves. The Christmun celo- brs ions were a striking proof. At Nobily scoffed when be talked noise is deafening. a time when the nation's need wax of the likelihood of a moonship in work, much of the nation helped 1989. itself to a much extended Christ-

IDUS holiday. It <irew

arious Christmas since 1920,

A few weeks ago I was ot at lecture at the Oxford Univeralty Selontine Club, by one of Britain's oremost rocket experis, Mr. A. V. Cleaver.

THO true of perspective,

261743

Ba. Now we ser you, "MR".

Mnol.

Before you envoys sal s

wlto

bow,

And sock to boară nu export

trade,

Quite unubashis) and undistnyel.

We know

understand

you

WIEL

This claợp we give is no "glad

land."

Nor shall we call you "Comrude")

We're out for just what we can

get.

For we have problems alert to

Beyond the Future of the Race. Such Jittle, things "reeting

ends"...

And chaps who cry for dividends,

Pat called our Tories fade away. And in their berates one fine

ciny

Wisit our Socialatie Wight, While Left and Centre will be

quilu

Turned to criation in tielchue, i And very much the sume as

you, (Wheratore. It's altogether wrong To worry Kong.)

much about Mong

"New cure for insomnia,”

Ꮟ

A

At last some shetpless nights.

Female of the spectos,

Lion tamer who put his head much like the take-off, the rocket in a lioness' mouth gut it badly

moters will be switched on, and chewed, the mochship will move geňily toj

by fiquid fuel. 25,000 m.p.h.

Roar,

then silence. the Aurface on its firestream.

Для the ship touches, the The ascent of a rockel is terri motorn will cut off. Most of the ing. It rises slowly, standing work will be

the done not by on itu tat of roaring flame. 1 pilot but by pre-set instruments. early secokration Ik slow. The

Getting back should be eustet,: The recovery programme in

for the take-off from the idoli, Europe has beer so successful

effort than that it is expected to cost

Atrics, gathering speed, it requires moch less losses walgh an its feel-20,0001b. leaving the earth. $2,000 million less than or-

What would your fathers have of alcohol, water, quid oxygen, iginally estimated.

Outside The pull of the moon, A

sub-anylegs to finance the most lux-sald in 1009, he asked, if they hydrogen peroxide and potassium the pull of the earth will bring stantial

had been told that in 40 yet parmanganate-is devoured saving

boing

+ there would be a. bomb, n singlej

the shift hacke--nehrly all the way made in the current year in

If a Labour Governments in robomb, which could destroy a city? In the space outside the at-ta complete silence. this and other aid. This not

eleted, and if it is at last eign-

Imosphere, with nothing to relat pelled to apple with the crisis, only helpa, the Administra-

been their its progrem, the rocket is 100 per instead of staving it off incnth by reaction to talk about television cent efficient. Hon in facing Republican month by stali masures, it may sound pictures, the jet-propelled critics of foreign aid, but he impelled by events towards

Comet, which could fly to New In little more than a iniziate tho redical measures Indeed. enables it to press for the ear very

fuel in the rocket is exhausted. The shadow of Mr. Aeurin Bew York and back in a day?.

But stro ly pussage of funds for tech-

rocket, conillinos. 113 van as a possible prime njinister Compared with the rocket the lightning progress in silence, nical and capital assistance to

m.ph. Jet plate inertly. under-developed countries. It

So does the shadow of a capital creeps. Through the sklem. The levy. Thus it is clear that the German V2 touched more is a small but essential start.

general cleetlun may start dramits How great the plan will grow has yet to be seen It will depend largely on how events are shaped in China.

begins to hung over the country: 600

What would have

tie new trends in British affairs. 8,000 m.p.h.

Speeds, of 23,000 m.p.h. A record issue will be fought more are. not considered out this yeng, though it will not likely in the future. necessarily be dealded during the | Much is being done in Wost-tain-and-with-st the Canmon

year. This is whether Great Bri. ern Europe, where develop ment anyway had been advanced

wealth-cas arvigo es a major power the world affairs. The des cision of this date will depondsin far beyond part on the way that the first the primitive develop ment of China. Infinitely more can be done in thut vast

I t

J

so important in its assurance country-But not at pre- that what is done or planned sent. No new money will be today will not lightly be re- provided for the Chinese Na-jected tomorrow. tionalists, and the Communist regime, prefers to go its own way. If it can accomplish its tim in growing this year enough food for China's own requirements, on adequate and not starvation, lövels, the groundwork will have been laid for a new industrial structure. This can have no secure basis other than a healthy and adequate agricul- tural and food economy.

thon

and

LTE-

Gradually the pull of the earth brings it from. Its dkywards course into a curvo, and then nose-diye to the ground.......

For a fight to the moon fuct frar eight minutes only will be

In gold we trust

---- (The Boga Oj· Typ Of For tune's Soldiers. O. Henry might well have written it, maybe.)

1

*

properlyno“ matter, when dr where or how. acquired.

Henty. You can forosto no doubt Readers, you have read yoke. the Climax How the two adven

Dusty columns of troops injarat, green uniforms appear over soiled uniforms winding

the brow of tho. kill behindi 475 Chily the two ubiquitoɑb' VAARA down to the dancing bluere lett waving piesports- und wators of the China Sea....title papors in the outraged fate Bobbing, junks waiting to of the new rulers. With them Recovery in Europe has still take them off to the Inst tiny stands their Consul, pointing ro- two years to go, and mean- bastion from the continent steam proudly under the Stars peatedly to the Task Force which while Asla has hardly come they have retreated, across and Stripes offshore, to testify to into the picture. But it is with a mobility worthy of a the sanctity of American national realised in the United States better cause as keenly, as in Britain how great are the issues. The groanetiled Uttle teahouse on the The scene in curly roofed. future of the free world, may clifts averlooking the Last Beach depend in the end upon the head, as rebel guns grow louder

furora lived on to beconds. Head of ability of the Western foun- on this breeze, e k

the Civil Aviation Department tries to help raise the produc- The tall dignuled figure of the and Chief of the Air Force of the tive output and Living Great Leader in highly polished usual Far Eastern arrangements New Popular Repubita. (with the standards of the teeming mil-military Jackboots nnd flowing The United States Governlions of Asia before Commun- cloths, every inch a general of regarding the payrols of thosp ment remains determined to ism and distorted Nationalism isters each with a valite full of there sh

gonerals, surrounded by his Minorganisations.) throw its full weight into the turn them to a servile course, jewellery and big denomination cuch incredible happenings it is there should be a marillin movement form expanding

www.greenbacks suved from the wreck that here in this Oriental land of world economy and the im- It lg unfortunate that there of the Repubile,

compromisu đặtherty is "always; a provement of living standards | has been a divergence, be

The tears in their almond eyes way out of a dilemma if you look everywhere, so as to build tween Britain and the Unit-as they turn is bid a fet adieu to hard enough firm barriers against the evil ed States on the recognition their American advisers and long- Let us close on the now o tides of poverty, and misery of the new regime in China: time colleagues, left with little to Minister Wollands Air Gentral The President has reiterated But the Administration at compute them for lifetime Chen happy in their Peking Peo- that strength depends not only least understands, British repent, serving the Party except ple's, Falacco

trining deeds to the national on weapons but on economie "motives, and its own concep- airtines, ku

And the Brent Ladder banking. growth, social health and freq| tions of the action required

in the sunshineTM of Miami tolicing democratic institutions. He are not so very different. The The railways had fallen into intcutinab over the Good Old has the courage of his convic Republican critics may make fashion and were the Navy Premiere, wyth, ex-Generals In the rebel hands in rather plecement | Days at Lent-Lenid; and ECA reenerally con- wilf his drawvallo ministers; EX- tions, and the last Presidential it more difficult for it, and for sidered, unisalcable, vlections, which confounded us, in the development of an was sill, of ociscae - filled-là, minko friendly, shadowy od banka, the all the prophets, showed ho aid programme for South East a little revenue by bucconeering, people have not yet been able to had the people behind him. Asia. But it will take time nasty, evacuation of even the Last

about-and. necessary' in case of aj prize upan, vertiging he Idiyapita of the recent storm anyway to get this ideo in Bastion.

Team | ăn, the pores in O. Henryl.

here. Not with all the winruti

Fuf; cóuráo, hrpdori thinking in the world.

over China, the Republicans solid motion, and by then The fire intensites. The party. It couldn't

Incredible Boodames the prodiito,

scem reluctant to discard the many things may have moves with more speed thare dig bi-partisan policy, which is changed for the better danity to the walling lunch, as the

1 may be easy to scort at: thoi men whópinn, these space ships): of the future.

**But ww now. laugh at thei people who laughed at the ideas; of Columbus,

We have worked on the white, Oxford University Scientifle Club. lining in theory): Genver told die.

he practice will follow." «Why ddes man want to do these thing?

Sald Cleaver: "The urge in thàn‍ to find things put in completely| Irresistible: "

short and medijim

3

'Experfehco 'nroved that he was

not a lioness"tamer.

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