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GERMAN BUSINESS ARMY A tree still

tion.

PLANS INVASION

grows

in Hampstead

By Arthur La Bern

Firms trading with South But, while it seems clear the| So far as can be assessed it America will soon be facing Inspired not a little by nation-support, also from new concerns venture strankly commercial soéms assured of considerable cut-throat German competi-alist feeling. Well-cemented bual and many which were never pre-

ness ties can be of great political viously in South American trade. They have taken the old England described the realdents value to Germany in the future. And the Germanic thoroughness

This is borne out by the ex-of its preparations bodes no good plum tree away from the little of Hampstead as a godless lot pressed intention of making a de- at all for business rivals,

garden in Hampstead and of Bohemians.” Danger to British trade planted a slender young strip- I don't think either comment.

For Germany this is a goldenling in its place. opportunity of regaining rapidly

Not a world-shattering event and at shall cost lost overseas perhaps, for the old plum tree (named after Mrs. Jack Straw)

This is the inescapable on- clusion after studying the plans of the grandiose "South American Expedition, 1950, and after hear- ing the views of numerous Ger- man firma on its chancos,

-By- Ian Stanbury

need be taken (too seriously.

It was Jack Straw's Castle

This new challenge takes the form of a well-planned and ima

markets, ginative economic expedition

To that extent it spells danger to had really had its day. But this that Hampstead Heath in 1872: which will set out from Munich

British trade. The pound sterling is no ordinary garden, this was 'dedicated to the public

of beechen green and having narrowly escaped becom in May with the intention of re-tailed coast-to-coast examination is less attractive than ever be- garden

new housing estate. Charles All news contributions to be former place in the South Ameri- ben cumpleted to give would- Deutsche Mark is a very hard plus tree was no ordinary plum Dickens used to enf a chop there

gaining for the Fatherland its after purely business matters have fore, while recovering Germany's abadows numberless, and the old ing cun sun-and. If humanly possible, be emigrants the most exhaustive currency indeed, and a currency tree, for under it one morning in after a walk over the Heath, and of vastly increasing the area of evaluation of their

chances in which seems likely to enjoy a May 1818 was written one of the nearby on the White Stone pond that place.

loveliest odes In the English the infant Shelley used to sail little-known areas of the contin- prosperous international future. The expedition looks like D

1 Can British Arms avert this language. ent."

puper boats. winner. It is staffed by hand-

threat? Is such a cheap, Melent picked men, and the planners Gorman Amy formerly doing a service available to them? Can The plum tree has gone but this seem to have thought of every-large South American trade brethe Commercial Sections of Bri- | 210-year-old mulberry treo is still thing.

enthusiastic about the expedition's į tain's South American embassies there, and round it on the lawn Chief personnel will be high-prospects of success and it is easy compete with this? These are grouped a class of American powered sales executives, com- to see why.

urgent questions, mercial buyers, experienced inter- mediaries, ndvertising experts, scientific report writers, journal- ists and cameramen.

THE WEAPON OF GOLD

are disclosures Striking made in an article published in the "New York Post" about the extent of Soviet gold smuggling as part of a planned rouble offensive against the pound and the dollar. The article, written by Sylvia F. Porter, declares that Russia is now smuggling vast fortunes in gold bars and coins to her agents in key spots of the world — in Sweden, France, Italy, Switzerland, Tangiers, Hong Kong and Macao.

Inside reports are that the Soviet's shipments of this most precious of all monetary metals just in the last 15 weeks run for above $200,000,- 000, may even surpass the $300,000,000 mark. The gold is being taken out of Russia's metal reserves, loaded on Russian steamers, shipped from such ports as Vladi. vostok to such ports as Mar- seilles and is then being re- routed to the Soviet's financial agents in the chosen areas.

It is not being done "off- cially"; no announcement of the shipments has been made, of course. But from Zurich comes the story of large ar- rivals of gold bars "in transit." And the bars have been iden- tified as Russian.

From Tangiers and Macao comes the tale of the sudden appearance of big bags of gold coins and bars. And the bags bear not only the stamp of the USSR but also carry the stampings of the original owners "Reichsbank, 1912." "Federal Reserve Bank, 1932," (It was in 1932 and 1933 that gold was fleeing the U. S. for "safer" havens.)

When General Eisenhower addressed the nation's_news paper publishers in New York recently, he urged them to seek clues to Russia's plans in her commercial and economic transactions. For, often deals in this area reveal more than a thousand diplomatic manoeuvres,

All have at least 10 years business or industrial experience of South America, and to their technical qualifications they can add ability to speak fluent Spanish and Portuguese.

Team's aims

Illicit deals in ivory

By Dudley Hawkins

Before the Der

Even keen гаседоста generally know that horse racing

do not

as used to take place behind Jack bright as the flowers in the gor Straw's Castle-long before the

students in shirts and Lice

den. With อ South Carolina Decent, one of them is reciting the words written in this Kardem more than 130 years ago:

Derty was instituted.

We find in the old Courant a record of o three-horse

гдее

Thou wast not born for death, being won by Mr. Bullock's

immortal Bird!

No hungry generations tread thee

down:

"Merry Gentleman.'

But

She "merry gentlemen". and their lady friends who fre- quented the Hampstead Heath

I hear this passing race track were of such low com-

The voice

night was heard

clown.

The aim of this formidable team are simply "to create larger markets for German products." Highly organised gangs of a cup of sticky sweet coffee, men-?n ancient days by emperor and Ehasis is on helping small and ivory poachers ar taking tone the need for Ivory. in Western Germany to renew heavy toll of Africa's biggest contracts lost through the war elephants.

medium-size, firms and factories

and to make as many new ones as possible.

What is

Atter weeks of Intrigue and secrecy, the message reaches the actual hunter.

pany that eventually the authorl- ties put a stop to the racing there.

I received a minor shock fromT tho exterior of the world- Prices are discussed. The skip- Yes, the American lad with the renowned Bull and Bush. This per leaves, and the trader con= | bright te and the crew-style song-famed tavern now displays venlently inds "pressing busi- | haircut is recling Keats' "Odeja huge blue and crimson neon Using bows and arrows tippedness". In another village. Here he tea Nightingale."

sign, a sign får larger than that displayed by any public house in the reason for this with poison lawless native hun- contacts an African, who, in turn,

cunning and contacts yet another native tur

Piccndlily. On the edge of lamp- ce vorate assault on South Amerl-ters operate with

stend Houth that sign seemed car markets 7 Simply this: Ger-secrecy deep in the heart of the ther inland.

sadly incongruous. man businessmen can travel African jungle, along the bank of abroad again, but currency res- the Tana River in Kenya, trictions and red tape hamstring

They are the under-pald key pense of a prospecting tour as far men of an illelt trade which has acid as fouth America is pro- a turnover of many thousand

e expedition will be|pounds a year, hibitive. the commercial traveller for all Federal Germany..

A ring of smugglers accepts the Every concerni

sly to be in-ivory and dodging Customs offi- terested has receit a handsome elals, sells to merchants In

orth the ad- | Indlà. prospectus setting vantages of the scheme: and the very low cost is attracting large numbers of firms who unih now of South have been thinking American markets entirely in terms of the distant future,

them considerably and the "ex-

Air-mail advice

For as little as £2 the expedi- tion undertakes to find at any given centre a fim capable of doing business with the German customer.

The elephants in the Tana River area are the biggest in Africa, their tusks often weighing as much as a hundred-weight each. As first-grade ivory fetches pound at the auctions about 258. in Dar-es-Salaam and Zanzibar, that puts the value of a single tusk at a little more than £100.

Seven thousand people from all parts of the world visit. Keats' garden in Hampstead every year. Only this week it has been visited by Indians and Italfaris, Inside the Bull and Bush ond Swedes and Germans, by people heurs more provincial accent than from Toronto and Tunbridge Cockney. The reason is that the. Wells, from Barnsley and the TU.C. hospital, the Manor House, British West Indies.

almost next door and convales- cing miners and other Invalid It has been written: "In the workers from the industrial areas first century there was a cargo there to try to induce the do- penter's shop. In the last century year-old parrot to talk. there wis chemist's shop. From one cante Christ, from the other came Keats."

Wartime

1

escape

During the war Keals' house at Hampstead narrowly escaped total destruction from incendiary, flying bomb, and shelf, and the local authorities are appealing £5,000 to put the poet's tor house in order, and to buy some suitable period furniture.

Madrid's problem

The housing problem is serious the world over, but in few places can it have re- sulted in more drastic action than in Madrid.

One of the men leading the battle against the poachers told me that the ivory is used to make Surrounding the deep jungle of bracelets and ornaments which the river are wide open steppe are negotiable as a "bride price" lands, where grows the Acokan. when Indion parents want to thera Frieztorum...a tree-rather have their daughters married of. Ike a holly-from which the poacher makes one of the dead- The gangs employ tactics which ifest painsons in the world. would do credit to the Secret

1 gerles ok His arrows which have detach- Service, working under-cover men so that all ex-able steel heads aro flighted with

vulture feathers. cept immediate links Expert opinion backed by up-known to each other.

"These black scallywags have

It was in the garden of the to-date fact and figures on the

This Is how the scheme no fear," I was told. To test the old Spanlards Inn, of Dick Tur- commercial possiblities of any area from Panama to Patagonia operates: An Ind.in. anxious to- polson, they nick their wrist with pin fame, that Keats heard the

secure a good husband for his on arow-head, let the blood run, nightingale singing, also costs £2.

For £10 customers may receive daughter, needs earved ivory, then apply the paste-like poison following morning in the garden Stuttard, hundreds of by air-mail 35 yards of flm and bangles and ornaments. He apto it. If the blood, turns black, of the house in what

on any enter preaches an Indian trader in his,then the poison is virile and they Keats Grove wrote his immortal than holes in the ground or In any "expertise" prise they are interested in. Fees village or town and a message is are ready for the kill. Some of ode. fall sharply when the expedition passed down until it reaches the them even taste it." is given severnt commissions to unknown leader of the ring in fulfil

Not-too-bulky samples will also

India.

Ero un-

inen

who

Working

Alld the

Madrid's

As quickly as the authorities

Lat

Unill recently, writes William is now citizens lived in nothing more

caves on the outskirts of the city,

In that garden the young poet found Itouses

the cave- had fallen in love with 18-year-dwellers, other citizens moved in gangs old Fanny Brawne, who lived to the underground homes. When next door, and to whom he be-the caves were full they dug Ivory poachers work in gangs, camc ertgaged.

holes in the ground, lined them be taken along and presented for The "master-mind” has, on his inspection in all likely quarters. books a number of

with wood and put sacking across Contacts will be made, contracte sall dhows great wooden-built, seldom fewer than six, and often

Keats and Farmy never mar- will be placed for home firms and lanteen-rigged sailing vessels as many as forty. Their arrow- Herr Schmidt will even get across the Indian Ocean to the heads are marked with their own ried. For two years later, he dieil the top to keep out the wind and photograph of his Latin associate African coast. They carry legit- "signature" so that there can be in Rome, at the age of 25. Fanny

Brawne remained single for 12 Now Madrid's mayor has or- if he wants one.

mate cargoes, but before calling no dispute over the victims

years, and in the museum next|dered_that_all make-shift houses. Apart from the sushi fees the at Zanzibar, Mombasa or Lam, Normally one man can carry to the house you will see the red be cleared from the outskirts as only expense is postage. Right they glide silently into one of the one tusk about eight feet of garnet ring which he gave her, soon as possible. from the start a regular air-mall myriad creeks along the ragged solid ivory.

Already no and which she wore, until her doubt because of the approaching service to home customers will coastline.

death.

-tourist season — giant bull-dozers be maintained.

and excavating machines have "churned up" the homes of some 50 familles.

Real business

150 for an outlay of, say, "250 manufacturers may within a few weeks or less be in a position to

Now the real business begins, place valuable orders in places they couldn't previously have Contacting a trader in a coastal found on the map. And be In a village the skipper, using the Bosition to know all the relevant customary oblique approach over facts about the firm they are doing business with, even to know, by running off the Alms, what the South American set-up looks like.

Her treasures

Here too you will see the gold which she wore, inside

rain.

But the hunters' job la not ended, for the lusks have to be hidden from the.. ever-active patrols of Kenya's game wardens. the ivory is buried in Usually,

For the present, the unfortunate accretly marked caches, at a safe locket We know how deeply the

distance from the elephant's car-which are two locks of his, fair people who watched their suburb cass. They may stay there for hair. Here too is a piece of un-homes being ploughed into the Soviet treasures her gold

weeks, even months, before the finished embroidery on which to ground, have been housed in hoard-variously estimated at

time is suitable for their collec- is said she was working when communal centres provided by tion.

the heard of his death. The the Municipal Authorities.. from 2 to 5 billion dollars. {

needle is stiti in it. Why then is she sending such

Some dhow skippers, refuse to

All that is worrying them now fortunes outside her borders. Eye on future

take full-size. tusks because they That irresponsible eld gentle-is what happens when the tourist are difficult to hide. Often they man George Bernard Shaw has season is over. Many of them and doing it "unofficially" too?

Allled authorities do not think

provide saws so that the poachers described Hampstead as the most feel that by then the authorities We know that sples are tradi- the expedition intends to try

can cut the tusks into two-foot hopelessly damned centre of may not be quite so sympathelle tionally paid În gold and dabbling in polities while overseas, A fashion problem-"What lengths.

callous suburbanism on earth," and that they may be forced to and just before the war an return to their "underground", Russia surely pays off hers in though business contacts with is the matter with the fez?"

From hideout to sidpper, the American business man visiting homes. metal as we surely pay off Bouth American Nazis will un-is worrying industrialists ivory goes through the long chain

doubtedly be renewed. what

mao, nobody ours.. But

and business men in Cairo.

undercover of

After being the popular man's knowing anybody else except his espionage could possibly war- rant this level of smuggling?

Financiers who study and

Fort

fashion problem

of

psychological warfare on the hat for generations, the Egyptian immediate contact. The man who tez or tarbush is now losing killed the elephant gets about West.

favour all over the, country, and two shillings for each pound of deal in these mysterious mar- Second, Russia is creating the fex-producing industry is al-ivory, but by the time all the go- betweens have had their “rake- kets see three explanations. these hoards in outside spots most at a standstill.

off." the price is ten times First, Russia is building up so she can pick up foreign cur-

In 1930, some 5 million foz greater. The coasts town mer gold hoards in key spots for rencies when she wants them were produced, in 1939 the num-chant, incidentally, gets the big- future "dumping" purposes--the pound, the dollar, etc.-bes was less than 3 million and gest cut.. is getting set to dump gold in at prices much below the in 1940 only about 300,000 were the global markets to drive oficial rates. For gold still manufactured. So far the manu- facturers can offer no explana- down its price at crucial will buy any currency at a ton for the slump, save that mo- moments. She already has discount in the world mar-dera young Egyptians prefer to dumped plenty of the metal. kets. And again, the econo-go bareheaded.

Carved into trinkets

Much of the Ivory finds its way to Zanzibar, where It is carved into the trinkets so much in de mand by Indian fathers-in-law.

Ivory has a great historical.

Her sales in Paris, Tangiers, mic and psychological ad- Everi a request by the manu- etc., during February and vantages to the Soviet are facturers that all Civil servants significance in India, but Indian March were a major factor in clear.

be forced to wear the fez has elephants do not have' large tusks, the sensational slump in the Finally, Russia is getting in been turned down by the Ministry and for centuries ivory from world black market prices for position to wage a rouble of-of Commerce and Industry on the African elephants has been im- gold:

fensive against the pound and unfortunately, move

grounds that the Ministry must,ported.

with the The Queen of Shebahad bang The reason: to bewilder and the dollar, to back her cur- times.

les made from the tusks of the terrify the industrialists; of) rency with gold in fact as Europe and Africa who cóm. well as fancy when

Described by the dictionary as ancestors of the three-ton beasts tasselled dull-red truncated which are hunted so remorseless-

have faith only in gold as a move. This is internation- been popular for, the simple rea-

the wearer

охреть

"But now the hunters are them- selves hunted. The Kenya Game Department, though understaffed, is gradually, tracking down these ivory poaching tribesmen.

pletely distrust paper money, and if she is ready to cone," the fez has, until now, River.

ly, in the jungles of the. Tana measure of value and their al money-juggling in the clas- son that it added to a person' own fortunes. When the sical tradition. A pattern of height. Worn by the

Writes Margaret Gilruth, the fez world gold price crashes, their competition and conflict is can possess a special code of it confidence is bitterly shaken, being drawn and Russia is own. irer is hoppy, placed at angle it means their willingness to invest in seizing upón", every – weapon the back of the head; it indientes. "We, too, watch the “vulfuros, and continue business activi- the capitalist nations ever the ́ties is

A happy-go-lucky mood and an official told me. of any deeply undermine devised fall to art bitively warn, close to the forehead if And they watch very closely. sell gold on the black markets. I on our own in this sphere, we to talk bulan yer th

Customs warehouses at, Mumbass, Unofficially, she could and will commit an unpardonable. In spite of all these attributes, ful of men, who are determined |proves the vigilance of this hands: she has dumped and she will blunder. No, a criminal however, the lezers doomed to me wild creatures: af "dump to wage economic andy blunder."

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