1950-03-01 — Page 11

The Bangkok conference

Meating in the United States Embatay in Bangkok ware U.8. diplomats from all over Ambassador at the world, Hore, acated around table, clockwice from contre foreground, aro: Large Phillip C. Jessup, preciding: Ambassador Edwin F. Stanton, Thailand: Robert C. trong, First Bobretary at Taipeh; Ambasador Myron M. Cowen, Man las Hock.r A. Doctittie, Charge General Willam d'Affaires, Karachi; Ambassador Robert M. Bootten, New Zealand: Contat Langdon (hidden), Bingapore: Ambassador John Muccio, Korea: William Bobald, Supreme Com. mand Allied Powers Diplomatic Chief, Tokyo; Ambareader H. Merle Cochran, Indonesia; George. M. Abbott, Conrus General at Balpon: Edmund Gullian, Ministar-designate to Vietnami Ambas. cador Loy W. Henderson, India; Kart L. Rankin, Consul-General Hong Kong: Ambactador Al. bert Murdough, Pakistan; 'Amba trador J., D. Satterthwalte, Colombo; Henry Day. Charge d'Af. faires, Rangoon; Ainbascador David Kay, Burma, Ambassador Peter Jarman, Austraila; and W. W. Butterworth, Axaletant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. (AP Photo).

CANADA CAUGHT IN

A TRADE

‘SQUEEZE'

Ottawa, February 28,

Canada, is 'caught in a trade squeeze which is worrying her economists and has already caused unemployment on a near-dopression scale in hor three great winter seaports of Halifax, St. John and Vancouver. - Her traditional overseas Markets, including those in Commonwealth coun-

tries, ore folding up because of currency difficulties.

So far, she has been able to find alternate markets in the United States, which has now become by fur her greatest cus- tomer as well as her greatest supplier.

But this trend in North-South trading has left the seaports out in the cold and they are having the bickest winter hungry thirties.

Halifax and St.

since the

John each have more than 15 per cent of their total working, force unem- ployed. In Vancouver, the Bure ds higher. Almost the only con- madily moving through the ports in quantity is wheat, and that can be handled with a small la- bour force.

unemployed

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in Cannda-about is feared here, would be bound the same number as in Britain, to wedken Canada's position which has more than three times this respect. Catinda's population.

Canadian labour bodies claim that the actual number of unem- ployed in over 400,000,

Canadian economists and Gov- ernment officials are also worried over a less tangible Implication of present trends In Canadian trade.

Political angle

They do not want Canada to became entirely dependent upon the United States markot for a variety of reasons. Chief among them is the fret that,

apart from certain bass metals, the United States is quito: cap able of producing all the things that she is now buying

fram Canade.

In addition, many officials here believe that the loss of overacas markets hus played a part in aggravating nationwide unom- Equally important are the po ployment, although the connne-litical considerations, Canada tras tion is not so direct as in the said that she does not want to Tease of the scaports.

be a camp follower of the United The Dominion Government ex States, Complete trado depen- timates that there are 323,000 dence upon the United States, it

Twelve

months

to make H-bomb

New York, February 27.

A leading Amorican scientist said today that it will take about 12 months to develop the first experimental hydrogen bomb.

By the same token, few Confu- elan affeints here are happy to ace what they rogard as a weak- ening of Cunada's position with- In the Commonwealth-for they

THE CHONA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1930.

WANTED--AN IDEOLOGY

It is more than a month #ince the Colabo conferrNICE - ended. The conference wRS Hot a flash in the pan. Its by: solutions have not been pigeon-holed. The economic -conference at Canberra wirlch it proposed is now being pre- pared by consultation between the Dominions. The British general election has caused a little delay; but it is still hoped that the Canberra coh- ference will meet in April ór May.

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became necessory. They rosa "out of the circumstances of the (éébnomie "šyslem, hat simply be-

popular

Hong Kong tu cause socialist Ideal ftud" become

pulfed off

Manlis, Petruary 28, THA Hồng Kông của ông Ocean Pride, which ran aground yesterday at the an trance to Buble Day, Olonga- po, was, reported, to have been pulled off the reef by United Britet navad Vētrāla Batöd kl Otongapro.

The Dean, Pride's urgent cần tập chunia Ha Anh -sŵerid-by---both-whipa-and-

planes-United Press.

When the young men of Asta study this political and economtle Instory, what should they com clude? Some people might shy that de mbat ini Aalá háð Dibly Júst begun, its industrial revolution, the same system which served the Anglo-Saxon world wo well when it was in the sale conditions 'shnillä: now, bentibuted in Asia, But this is to overlook some vital considerations...

But if the economie problems of South Abla er belig het!fely studied, the same cannot really be said about its ideological or spirl that this is quite natural can be tual problems. What kind of

social system does South Asia wish to understood when it is remember-

ed that British Uberalism develop prevalling? The younger generation is slik very open-minded in peculiar conditions, and in ad. Much too te attention is conditions quite different from means, or may mean, something

those of the East 1oday.

being paid in London to this fact,

Anglo-Saxon cult

First, alment none of the Asien countries have a capitalist class comparable to the merchant bankers of London a century ago. Thus they have not the resources of capital to develop themselves in the same way that the Anglb- Saxon world was developed,

Second, the "Slate "today

very different from the corrupt; clumsy, heavy, lumbering thing of three centuries ago, Stafe action today is not necessarily an Incubus, The slate may be ja

scalety.

By some people in England It la hoped-rather light-heartedly that British socialism provide p modol for the East in te next| Angib-Saxon ́, cult of personal | galvanizing thing in Eastern stage of social development. Corberty, the cult of the freedom of

What was the origin of the

tainly some of the things which the subject?

have been done in Britain's ex- periment in socialism have caught the public. The health service, and to a lesser extent the cauca tional reformis, are widely, dis cussed. The claims of socialiam that it can maintain full employ- inent are also winning world-wide attention.

If the present aystem in Britain enjoys prestige in the East, it must be realised that it is because of the new institutions and new rd- forms of recent years. It is not the old underlying liberalism of the British system which attracts the young today. That has much more limited appeal-and

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GERMAN EMBARGO

TO CEASE

London, February 27. Moscow Radio sald today that an agreement had been

signed for the lifting of West Germany's embargo on steel exports to the

Soviet zone.

quoted

The Radio, which message from the official Soviet news agency Tass in Berlin, said that it was signed yesterday by Mr. Joseph Orlopp, head of the East German Trade Department, and Dr. Gindi Kaumann, his West zone counterpult,

the West Germany imposed embango on February B because

turies

Every youthful mind in1Asla^fa" in the 17th, 10th and 19th denimpressed-if also often repelled wealthy class of mer- --by the Russian experiment. The Russian system cannot be in model for those who value things which the roligious tenders of humanity in the past have chef- Ished--mercy, truthfulness, non- violence. But nobody can ignore, Russia. It is the example of a society transformed. and now held together by the overpower- ing might of government.

By Windrush

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

chants, bankers and business men developed and flourished in Eng- land. These, in union with the squirearchy-the mass of smaller land-owners-found

themselves strong enough first to break the | absolutism of the Bluart monarchý, and then to keep the government under strict control. - By means of ent, these classes, hedged Parliament, the government round. They laid dixed limits to what it could do. They controlled the amount of money which it could raise. They made the liberty of the subject dandet an object of worship.

Problem for philosophers

The totalitarian state muit exercise a strong attraction upon all the idealist young men living in societies which suffer from poverty, confusion, frustration.

the

The totalitarian State is organ- ised like an army." At the top sits the dictator, or the dictatorial cabinet. From top stretches a chain of command

reaching down to the poorest penannt. In theory, 1be Totalitarian Atalo

should be the best Instrümönt for

Almost the same kind of poll- inaugrising society, setting up

revolution Was carried tical through in the United States. There a mercantile class, aided in party by the planters, overthrew the British Government soon after the middle of the 18th century. and set up a "free" system.

applying

ng science, and creating wealth. In

golas hds often happened in Russia the totalitarian state often worka even more imperfectly than, the state which has no planning at all Yet the theory continues to attract. It attracts more than rather vague ideals of.

which liberty of the subject,"

the

fear that when trade tiés disap- the East zone; kall' falled behind it in which the scope of covertí-taken by themselves and......in tia,

pear, other ties may follow.

All these implications are

consideration ceiving high-level

with deliveries under the inter-,

biral trade pact-Reuter.

HE FINDS HK TOO EXPENSIVE

to tho

Aystem the sys Laberd The ment was rigidly limited-suited abstract are felt to be outmoded the circumstances of Both Britain and rather pointless, End America at the time. In those days, bureaucracy was

What can to be even more incompetent young men of South, sin ns an Stalaction Ideal counter weighing Com- than it is today. was often a burden on a com- munjem 7 This is the problem Bangkok, February 27.

munny which had in self the for the philosophers of Asia, and Lleutenant-General Luang Kach

means to contrive its own pros-the philosophers of the Western Sohgkram who was flown out of perity. The liberal system an

countries, especially Britain and Thailand to live in exile in Hors the other hand allowed the enter-America, which hope to Rong for allegedly leading a plot posing members of society to South Asin saved from Russian to overthrow the present Thai grow wealthy as they liked (o control Government, Is complaining that, long as they kept within the the cost of living there is very criminal law). Thereby the higli.

wealth of the nation as a whole' increased the most rapidly.

hure. Possible solutions, includ ing even the possibility of mak÷- I Canada. part of the sterling, asen, ure being

#erlous giyen study.

Thanks largely to the Europe in Recovery Programme, Cana; din expects to be able to hollt substantial portion of her British markets for at least another year. But 1951 is expected to tre a year of basic decisions for Canada, and at this point her economists admit that they can Sources said that in letters he not see what the answer will be..has sent here he held hd: To see if they can find some would ilke to be sent elsewhere. elues and also to look for new Associated Pitss. markets, Mr. C. D. Howe, the Trade and Commerce Klister, and My Lester Pearson, the Mi- nister for External Affairs, have been touring Europe and tho Far East.

CHINESE BEANS

FOR JAPAN

Failure in UK.

In Britain in tho twentieth -century" this libéral, systém hús already broken down. It falled Acause," with the Increasing complexity of the economhle aya Tokyo, February 28.

tem, the national economy could. Thoir Andings are now being The rst shipment of 15,000 no longer tanetion in conditions studled by trade experts in'

tons of soya beans to Mapan in which everybody-pursued his Ottown, who are interested arrived from China at the Bouth own advantage and there was no proventing Canadh from having:

er port of Moll yesterday: central" planning authority. The to put all her eggs in one market

The Jill news agency stated thẻ, bid automalle system of economi basket-the United States.

Benih trit) Jardine, Mathesoning no longer worked.

The pany is handing the sign of this was the mass unem Company is and

ployment of the twenties Encly thirfiksa),, .

Tios with UK

A

tran

The news spents mold Japan · will send textile in Chine in ext change for tint of the shipment.

One move in the right direc tion, economists here agite would be for Canada to streng then. Her frade ties with Britain Dr. Hugh C. Wolfe, chairman The statements were made in

They view with alarm the factorGr of the Federation of American | an, atlicia . I tho

that Britain is gulting: her pur magaziúc; Scientists, said that even then "United Nations world" a

chares pri-

trom Canada and ant there is a fair chance that it i vale 2 publication having Thi

times, acgotiation of the 1950 will not work at all-that it metal connection with the UN. Anglo-Canadian 1000 contracts" will prove to be a dud.

degenerated almost into a slang- ing match,

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Dr Wolfe said Russia would have great advantage in an bomb war for two reasons:

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1. Russian industries aro riot crowded in big cities like Arme- ricam, pošta.

Zi, American, pobbleáro accus.... tumed to a higher

standard of

Hving

down aff water

Rupply

paralyse the American people

and other facilfiles would bend 76 -

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The "Ivory tower" boys here are convinced, that Bel tâln will be able to expand her safès to Canadá skla year and the-next, but will not da zöld to Valance her trade with dy hada at anything like the 1949 tável, when Canada Hotd: urls tain

$700,000,000 (abut R220,- 631,000) adal

Tins mears that Britain will

both materiallë: anal pakéhdlógia: bave uncontinge id cuther

fically, while the : Frantam

could live on fool mult syfy

the other hand, the Work

leall

parn Live advantage in the tomb

devilor rates, of Jentziari to deliver the Cdreadful, Wing

chase from Canalla, ang, supplies elsewrierd ius. sho ing alrently in the case of beeti Telty and beweeg đá tamo oftly four commouretea?

„A“ econginler experts

are

it thefe two things that can nada could do to prevent tremt stun conduằng: 14,

kalfat; inde,could, throw upOTU ther restrictions on United States.

vg Höwdvar,, recalling that this imports coming into this country. country chawi under-estimated' thus creating a greatly expanded tha:1 Rusalan"; ability on the artificial market for Brigh Morh bránth development, bri Roode, «. This sho is unlikely vyko

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