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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1980.

MENZIES' MEN TRYING

TO 'SACK THEMSELVES

powers, liking it.

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Since it turned the Sociallats out of office last month, the Con- servative coalition Government of Mr. R. G. Menzies has devoted; itself to the task of loosening. State controls. The first-fruits of this policy have already been pre- sented to the people.

The most striking result has been achieved in the new Nation- al Health plan.

The

By ARTHUR MORLEY

Ministry of Development, headed by former British Minister to the Middle East, Mr. I. G: Casey,

A BRIGHT AND TIDY TOWN

By ALEXANDER CLIFFORD

Australians rubbing istries are likely to be abolished; "Only private enterprise can their eyes in wonder at the by consolidating the armed forces develop this great country, an- departments into one Ministry of nounced the Prime Minister—and | spectacle this Dominion Defenco

he is working now to give privato capital now offers--a Govern-

Ministries of Post-War enterprise its chance.

Petrol rationing has boen ment stripping itself of Reconstruction and Repatriation

are certain to, be wiped out, and abolished. A Ministerial · sub- apparently, their functions taken over by the committee headed by the Trea- Buror, Mr. Arthur Fadden, has decided that national growth and

In April 1945 I wrote a story even the vital task of growing: food for Britain is being ham-about Rheine, in Westphalia. pered by lack of petrol, and this The British Second Army while sterling petroleum is being had just captured it, and the sent to unrationed Argentina and to the Continent,

place was a smoking, flaming mess. Note to Attlee

The population had fled and The Prime Minister, acting on their homes were spilled out into the committer's advice, has sent tho streets. I wrote: "If you The new Minister for Health; Not just-talk.

strong messago-described semi-don't think the Germans are be Sir Earle Page, announced this And these prunings of the officially as almost an ultimatum ing punished, you should come week that he could not under- bureaucracy are not just talk to Mr. Attlee, demanding ¿ and walk through Rhalne.". stand how the Australian citizen Mr. Menzies has appolated the

A German prisoner whoso bome greater share of sterling petroleum would benent by being called appropriate Ministerial and door, siternatively, more dollars for was in Rheine picked my story out of a dusbin in an Antwerp upon to help pay the cost of parimental committees to carry American petrol.

clic's free overybody

prison camp. teeth, them out and he has warned! The Government's case is that prave it to the local historian. operations, medicines, and hospi- that ho expects quick results. tals. The citizen would be much Australia in 1939 was governed earn more dollar while vital The local historian used it as happier if he were called upon to by nine Canberra Departments rand-transport, and agricultural nicles of the town. And the other text for compiling the war chro- help pay for his own require- and

many Ministers, Mr. tractors and machinery ard ments, Sir Earle felt.

Menzies wants to get

back to cramped 'in the strait-jacket of day he wrote and invited me to something like that number, from rationing.

visit the place.

So came back to Rheine. And 19. the present

The Government also proposes it's the cleanest, brightest, tidiest Accompanying the pruning is a to remove rationing of butter, town you over saw,

Governmental cream, and tea but here general lifting of

on private enterprise, berra is hastening slowly.

though a film had been 'It's and removal of unnecessary rest-

run backwards. Tho tiles are riellons on individual liberty.

(Continued On Page 10)

back on the roofs and the roots The houses. gloss is in the windows again and the goods in the shops (though very much better goods).

The houses I saw tumbled into the cobbled streets are back just The two as they used to be.

The blown-up bridges are back. textile magnates are back drink ing Rhine wines in their clubs, Tho housewives ATO carrying kome their

Sunday pro-wor Joints.

Against controls

Therefore the Government, in the interest of the people, would refuse to introduce a centralised free medicine scheme, auch as had been introduced in Britain.

The Government was against the principle of Government con- trois because they "rob the com- munity of lis independence, maka for Inefficient administration, create a pyramiding of bureau- cratic/

controls, and increase

costs....

Sir Earle announced instead a scheme that has been received the with acclaim, and dubbed

Self-Help Plan" and "Medicino Without Tears Scheme,"

The essence of it. is that the existing friendly societies, hos- pital insurance schemes, various medical benefit clubs, and the Red Cross should enlarge their membership and

offer wider health services. Members pay a reasonable subscription weekly to these organisations, in return for which they receive all possible medicat attention and treatment.

controls

It cannot produce more food or

It's a life of ill-

ease in Belize

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Can-

the

He took it home

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As they were

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MARSHALL AID AND PLANNING

By NORMAN CRUMP

The Second Report of the promptly halled with a general Organisation for European cry of "Muggins, and the offen- der has to take one card from Economic Co-operation is a every other player. formidable document.

and

Fantastic customs rules

It combines a detailed review of the progress so far made by Western Europe with a series of

American customs regulations forecasts plans, projects designed to show what either appear to be constructed on much can or inust be done, if Western the same principle. It is not only Europo is to achieve equilibrium a question of the Tariff itself. after Marshall Aid bar conie to Under the Quarantine Act, Im- an ond.

ported plants must have their Its conclusions are not entirely roots completely free from soil, hopeful. At the best

it seems

which reduces their chance of likely that many Western Euro-survival.

The pean countries will have to restrict Buy American Act mes their dollar expenditure. Nor will it be at all easy for those to buy foreign, building material. Under the marking regulations all countries to make any further importe must be marked to show substantial increases in their ex- their country of origin (how does one mark the metal part of a Elaborate

carving_fork?), organisation

portu of America.

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Paris,

the

The American form price sup- port scheme imposes physical restriction upon the import "of agricultural products.

Organisation for European Econo- deterring to instead of

There are times when one be gins to wonder if either United States or the Western Then there is the classification European countries are going the puzzle. No one knows until he right way about the job. It must tales, how his goods will be classi- Marshall Ald i ned, and therefore he does not granted that proving of great, and indeed of know what rate of duty they will necessary, help to Europe. Britons have to bear.

So fantastic is the position that must never forget that the far- shall Aid money is found by tha, the Dollar Exports Board serious- American taxpayer, with the re-ly suggests pilot shipments made sult that Congress has both a with the sale object of testing right and a duty to see how it is the customs regulations.

But the result has been the growth of a duel organisation. claimed that Amerlen has only to spent.

Mr. Hoffman has repeatedly On the one hand there is the spent on importa a little mord purely American Economic Co- of her total national income, and headquarters in Washington and would be solved. Would not operation Administration, with a Western Europe's dollar problem its subsidiary headquarters in radical overhaul of American By RICHARD GREENOUGH

customs procedure, made with the On the other hand there is the object of

do just as much The little 8,800-square-mile | three-quarters the little

mie Co-operation, domicilest (in good as Marshall Aid, at far less - The historian, as he showed mo "Patch of Britain," British Colony's trade

Paris and representative of the cost to the American taxpayer? After Britain's devaluation last round, was hopelessly torn be-

Western European nations, desire to make

Britons, too, must give their Honduros, where they seem September British Honduras was tween his

Between them they constitute manufacturers their heads. This to prefer the Stars and Stripes the only spot in the Common-understand how much the town

one of the most elaborate plan- means a reduction of taxation, a to the Union Jack and their wealth exempted from the new had suffered and his prido

ning systems which the world has withdrawal of controls, and a rute, Then the blow fell, and way it had been rebulit. And so, own pale blue and white British Honduras was brought for the matter of that, was I

ever seen. They plan for a whole general recognition that a manu- group of nations, and not for a facturer is entitled to his reward. "baymen" settlers' flag to into line with the rest of the Where was the punishment now

single country. is either,

We paused outside a brilliantly Overight topsy-turvy sterling area.

This Second Report of CEEC There is no need to elaborate on.

matters which are cle

clear to all cost of living rocketed up 40 perit shop (German towns at night insists by implication again Colony. Aid if needed

look as though a concentrated | 381555

and thinking people. Suffice it to say First of all there in its position cent.

Governments of that under the regime of the past effort was being made to con- again that the All people of limited income

The scapegoat

The

these countries must conform to four years, D sumo surplus electricity).

manufacturer has who need medical assistance will on the map. Stuck along a 175-

this master plan. Intra-European to attack the American market, Immediately, first Belize

window was then be able to receive it from these mile strip of the coast of Central

a vast, artistically

payments, industrial or indeed any new market, with organisations; the Government America, 05 miles deep, cradled

capital expenditure, one hand tied behind his back. proposes to assist financially only by Guatemala and surrounded by the rest of the Colony, whipped arranged panorama of pink flesh trade and

up by the small but powerful-hams,

galantines, development, tongues, pates,

all mu

must conform to it, if the organisations can show that a batch of small, powder-key" and vociferous group, the Peo-Joints, goose,

Calcutta electric pablics, there seems

dificult to believe that the It they need money to fulfil their why it should ever have become ple's Party, pinned all their treu amoked ocis.

Lazard Brothers are sponsoring "It's wonderful, isn't it?" anid average American citizen belleveg British Colony-ex-bies on devaluation. The Government also intends or stayed

Hence the protest "memorials" the historian. "But, of course," in this degree of planning. It is the issue in London of £3 million tu give financial encouragement cept, of course, for the sake

delivered to Governor Garvey for he added anxiously, 95 per cent wrong that in any country the of Calcutta Electric Supply Cor- Government of the day should poration Debenture stock. This King and of the population can never afford transmission to the to hospitals and research institutes It forms part of the British Parliament--the fact that Parila- to buy any of this."

have to accept planning as an in- stock carries interest at 5 per without, however, interfering West Indies, though the ncarost

strument of ment is not sitting makes

regardless of cent. is repayable on or before with their essential independence. British

poilcy West Indian

Very confusing felpad. "I individual interest

the political tenets of itself, its January 1, 1970, and is issued at differenec and in-

Jamaica is 460 miles from the

Ono can only my that the re-

a price of £98 per cent. A rupee centive are removed by making mainland.

supporters or Its electorate. And the Inhabitants

Hence, too, the nightly meet-

must have

Nor can it be right, for a Gov-Debenture issue, on the same everybody Government servants, are most jealous of the fact that ings, the torchlight processions. Raining 5 per cent the efforts of these organisations they are not West Indian,

but and the hanging of the effigy of gargantuan appetites. For it wasemment to demand the utmost terins, is being made simultane-

the Governor, with much "Down not a big place and this was by manufacturers

all perishable stuff, and Rheine is enterprise and effort from its ously in India; will be sterilised, and decay will Central American.

and exporters, Amer- no means the only butcher's. set in," said Sir Carte. Editorialists

while simultaneously swathes Nature plays topsy-turvy tricks with Britnin-God Bless and commentators throughout the

It's all very confusing. At the southern end of the ica" shindy.

Bri- them with the chains of national land have been quick to applaud. Colony the Puntagorda

Hence all the Bellzo arca is

Anti-Britain The new Government has acted

tain is still paying millions of and international plans. slogana: pounds n year to feed the Ger- the bearing

What then is the way out? The with equal decision in other fields, one of the wettest spots

world,

Inches of hence the threats that unless the Mr. Menzies has warned all his rain a year, while 120 miles

averaging 200

But fow Germans will simple answer is, give the manu- dollar is revalued there will 73

deny that they themselves are facturer and trade their heads, Ministers that cir first task will the northward the river

appeals Belize civil disorder, and

eating better than the British. and let them get on with their be to see whether they cannot the Colony's

nations, including other main

For the Germans, of course, it job. organise themselves out of

United States, for help and is very exciting. Their recovery a often suffers such scricus

This applies to America as well Ministerial job. Three full Min- drought that, as last year,

TOMS | protection.

tha

has been a continuous, visible as to Europe, America has her After careful analysis

of process. huge trunks of mahogany which

own ways

of selling goods, made the Colony famous

and public feeling

But for the British the shops in whether home produced or ex-

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"Once prosperous taxino; be foute) with I have come to the Rheine~are, on the face-of- i ported, and here the British man-

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The river is the only means of getting them to the coast for ex- port, as there are no railways and only two very narrow high- ways in the whole Colony. The result Inst year was that the eco- nomie, ife of British Honduras was at a standstill until the rains came.

Then there is the Colony's money, British Honduras's dollar is tied to sterling and it was de- valued topsy-turvily at the end of last December from two dollars and 80 cents to fdur dollars to the pound,

that the people who praise America and serenade the father shocking and rather alarm- You can't blame the Ger- United States Consulate are

maring. really anxious to be taken over for they have been governed and mans for becoming prosperous, as a United States protectorate controlled by the Western Allies. They are too familiar with the But you can wonder whether the

Jim Crow laws there.

All they naively want United States dollars given Invested in the Colony.

are

Western Allies have governed and watched and controlled them or along the right lines.

First, however, there la another There is no doubt but that side of the picture consider. British Honduras is an acutely My historian was wrong when depressed Colony, one of the he said 95 per cent of the people most, disgraceful black spots I've could not buy, but he was right seen of British colonial adminis-in principle. tration in the West Indies,

Had a raw deal Apart from the dollar's

maladministration

ufacturer (would be well advised to study a pamphlet issued re- Board. But America also cently by the Dollar Exports tariff and her way of adminis- hus her tering it.

is an old family card There

known as "Muggins." gaine

The essence of It is to get rid of your cords. The rules ore, by malice prepense, complicated in the ex- treme. Any breach of them de

Illusion of plenty will not have enough broad.

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And she would not have the The rich and there are rich in smoked cols it sho could sell de-post-war Germany-can live very them. But her currency is geared valuation, there has been cross well indood. The workers and too high and German prices in 1.

intermingled Government officials can afford the world market are payable That devaluation provoked the with Whitehall niggardiness. In their normal necessition, but not So Germany today is consuming present unrest and threats of the past the Colony has always the luxuries. The 1,250,000 un- the things she ought to be ex-ROCHE violence. Protesting that their been run exclusively for What employed in Western Germany porting. money had been devalued the could be got out of it.

cari only just koep body and soul So the brilliance of Rheine is "wrong way," articulate people Until a few years ago there together.

more fragile than it seems. That In this steaming semi-tropical | were no attempts at agricultural And the vast new poor, the unspannable dollar gap yawns forest Colony ate now raising development, road building, cap-arth class "the refugees from behind it; unemployment and the temperature above its alrea- ital improvements, or even simi- the East are in many cases liv-hardship are tucked away in the dy uncomfortable level.

ple though important reaffore- ing in conditions of horrible side streets; the things in the They want their currency back station of the denuded forests. squalor and misery.

ghops ought to be on sale abroad. on the old rate, where It had Belatedly, something is now Moreover, Germany's shop- But nothing can dira the skill stood splendidly alono aftor- tho | being done. With Government window prosperity is based on and hard work and enthusiasm general, devaluation by Britain | and private farms up-country, Europe's worst dollar gap. Only which have gone into cleaning the ́und'the rest. of the Common- plus sensible productive plans by Marshall Aid can bridge it. Ger- town up and robuilding it. There

wealth.

the Colonial Development Cor-many alone has no prospect of can be doubt whatever that.. Briefly, the case is that theporation in Belize for the exten- doing 50. British Honduras

the Germans, despite their ter dollar

sion of existing crops was alon

and tho So a great deal of her present rible war years and their terrible linked in parity with the United cultivation of new ones such as good living fa a facade which States dollar since before the end papalne powder, which is alres-must collapso when ERP period of undernourishment, are working far harder than the of last century, and commerce dy being used in New York for finishes. She will still have her British. And they are already between the two countries had the tenderising of meat-it seems smoked eels so her shops marcoping the leyard. comented the relationship. The the Colony is being reshaped in-still look rich and gay. But she United States took and supplied ' to a paying proposition,

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