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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1950.

OPTIMISTIC MOOD IN SPAIN NOTICEABLE

Madrid, October 12,

Spain is entering the autumn in an optimistic mood. The United States,

Congress' vota by substantial majoritios, of a loan of $62,500,000 (about £21,000,000) for Spain has played an important part in this, by injecting an optimistic tendency into the business world. The invitation of the United States military authorities to Spanish ground

and air officers to attend the "Rainbow" manoeuvres in Occupied. Germany also strengthened the feeling that the isolation of Spain is

becoming less marked each day.

A

Editorials in several British and the other Iwo-thirds in newspapers, formerly sharply state of virtual disintegration that critical of Spain, recommend private enterprise had no inter- ing that full diplomatie re-est in resuming control, and from lations be restored between some 30 concerns totally or part- ly owned by the State-controlled Britain and Spain have like National Industrial Institute, the wise tended to emphasise the rest of Spain's commercial life i optimistic note.

in the hands of private owner- ship.

Spali':

The harvest

of labour

is sweet

San Francisco, Octobes II. Peasants in Manchuria n five North Ching provinces are today reaping the harvest 0. hard work,

Winnie calls for united Europe

Copenhagen, October 11. Mr. Winston Churchill said here lonight that a united Europe was one of the indis- pensable pillars of world peace

·He said, "The cause of Europe is the cause of, world 'progress und freedom.

"The battle which the United States, with our support, is fight- ting in Korea under the authority of the United Nations is as much the battle of Europe as if it were being fought out here in our towns and countryside.”

Mr. Churchill was speaking at a blg meeting here following the elimux of his three days' visit to Denmark as the guest of the Danish King and Queen.

Mr. Church! spoke before an audience of 5,000, The speech was being broadcast."

In a draft of his speech prepar- They have in the past yeared for delivery, he said, "All the toiled to make their cotton and greatest things are simple, and grain fields richer, more - produce | many can be expressed in a single tive.

word: freedom, Justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope.

The invasion of foreign tourists, who, up to the end of July, total-

The short supply of most basie led 230,000 as compared with articles has brought in a. wide 300,000 for the whole of

1949. range of prlen controls and con- controls filled hotels and brought

on Imports

exports and siderable trade to the shops of The first are now being in large the major cities. And these part removed, but the others are totels do not include the con-ikely to remain until such time siderable numbers of fourists as the quantity of credits or for making day trips across the eign currency available to Spain frontier in the Biarritz-San bears some relation to Sebastian and other areas.

needs. All holiday resorts reported an At present, Agures reveal, for excellent

*S summer, both

re- instance, 40,000 applications to

They have succeeded and one gards home and foreign visitors, the import of heavy molor

result is that they now have a lot and definitely much better than vehicles but an actual

Insport that of 1049, In spite of the figure of something like 2,000 of money in their pockets. They Until are using it to buy themselves new shadow cast over the interna- such vehicles cach year.

clothes and mere draught animals tional situation by events in this and a large number of Korea. Some commentators in- similar unbalances are remedied and form implements in readiness cel

think that possibly this it would be useless to hope for for the autumn harvest. crisis worked the other way uncontrolled imports.

round; that is, to say, that H Huge fortunes pushed people to spend rather thats to save when faeed

such

with

an uncertain future. Be that as it may, certainty Spaniards

classes of all

have spent much more this summer than in the last couple of sum-

mers.

Wage rises Extensive wage and salary increases in recent months cor. tainly contributed to this. Miners, railwaymen, bank em ployees, building workers, and newspapermen, aro among the

of employeo many categories

who have had substantial in срельев awarded them Ministry of Labour declaion following negotiations between workers and employer..

In Spain, strikes are prohibit ed Negotiations between Cm- ployer and employee take place under Government supervision. I agreement is not reached, a Labour Ministry ruling is the final word and is binding on both sides.

have

by These points were covered Peking Radio in a broadcast 10- day which sold that the amount

"We who have come together here tonight, we also can express our purpose in a single word.. Europe,

"But what is. Europe now ? 1 is a rubble heap, a charnel-house, breeding ground of pestilence aut hate.

"And ancient nationalistic feuda The Spanish civil war gave a punch and zest to Spain's of wheat produced in Manchuria and modern ideologleul, factions small trading classes auch as alone totalled 480,000 tons-40 per distract and infuriate the unhap- they have not seen in centuries. cent. more than the highest re- | py, hungry populations. A number of huge

fortunes cord achieved by the Japanese

"Evil teachers urge the paying- have been created here in these during their period of occupation off of old scores with mathemati

in 1943. last 10 years. Pedro Barrio de la Maza, the Galleian Anancier. for example, kas in a few years built up business empire

which he con trols and which is estimated at about 5,000,000,000 pesetas (£45,- 000,000 or US$120,000,000).

who

Ildefonso G. Fierro, 68-year- old head of the Banco Iberico and enterprises of Spain, is another of linked with a dozen of the great the new financial "giants" have sprung up

in recent years in Spain.

Demetrio Carceller, who rose from a workman in the Catalun town of Tarrasa to the leading position in Spain's petroleum. world, another of the men whe have forged ahead in the back- wash of the civil war.

According 10 a survey Spanish industry made by a B These wage increases

ginin investigating body, 35,000 come at a time when, although

sinall, Industries, mainly new prices of manufactured goods are were set up in Spain between tending to rise, food prices on 1039 and 1930. Spain's own the whole are stable and in some official figures are too loggard

than in lower

previous and belated to enable one to

Cases months.

check these figures.

But the policy of general wage:

Statistics continue to be a weal increases is tled up with the policy of ridding industry of point of Spanish administration. But there can be no doubt that price-controls and, presumably,

the increase in Spanish industry working towards a stabilisation has been very large over the last of the poseta on a realistic basis; decade and that this increase hai This would eliminate the need been kept down by the lack of for the multiple exchange raic electric power and other fuels tộ system by which the peseta has per

(11)

dustrial in

the bit stage owing to

at least 30 different official rates. Permit putting into-operation-In- long "languishing ranging from 30 to 21 pesetas to the US. dollar), to the insufficient power facilities tourist trade rate of 110 pesetas The trouble of feudal-agrarian to £1 (40 pesetas to the U.S. nations which have to try to com- dollar), while the "free" rate in plete in decades modernisations the few European cities such as which have been done over cen- Lisbon and, in Africa, Tangier turies in other lands, is that quote the peseta at around 140 whatever progress they make to £1 (almost 80 pesetas to the

always looks small compared U.S. dollar),

with the needs.

Many materials, such as coal.

Spain is no exception to thi milk, vegetables, fah, which

rule. But it is of interest that formerly had price limits are now she, along with Portugal, Greece "free." In some cases, prices and Turkey, forms part of i have soared.

small group of agrarian lands Wheat is being partly treed Farmers this year will have trying to solve the problem by predominantly private enterprise methods-In contrast to so many lands with similar problems, such as Russia Yugoslavia, Hungary. Poland, China and others, which have chosen, or had imposed upon them, the Communist system in secking their solution Df this problem-Reuter.

supply to

the Government a fix ed quota of about 70 per cent, although there is some variation according to region. The other 30 per cent, they can sell for what they can got.

"Wheat bait” They get 2.50 poetas for quota whoat and are asking aix

"free" wheat. posetas for

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ramaina to bo aton whether this bait will bring back inti the regular market the wheat which up to now has been dia- appearing into the “black_mar! ket. From some points of view, this was not so bad be cause it helped as food the poo; ple anyway, but in equal pro- portions it was also going tr

Four

suspicious cases bave feed cattle, which took it right occurred in the past eight weeks out of circulation as regard at a Coutral Swedish airfield. In providing the people with three of them, fighter pilots incl bread.

to mala forced landings after their motors had cut out unex- pectecily. In the fourth bomber

both engines failed as it wan taking off.

SWEDEN PROBES MOTOR FAILURES Stockholm. October 11. Swoven's oeurity police today began to investigate whother re- current coses of motor falluce in Air Force aircraft lately are due to sabotage.

Belatedly, but on her own feet and with na Marshall "crutches 10 help her in her convalescence, Spain is getting out of the wood

of economic ills resulting in Wor making forced landings was kill~ elvil war, followed by World

II.

11,

"A

weekly, "Economista om

One of the three fighter pilots

ed.

Madrid'schter financla Small pieces of metal, bellaved "somewhat to come from spanner, were amugly but quite truthfully found inside the engine of his wrote recently "Without Mar aircraft-Reuter. rhall: Aid we have, doubled elce: tricity production in the Test fow years. Can any of the nations helped by the United States show w-better record?", Pottery Attributed by Spaing

many come faith In free

REDS SEND CABLE TO WORLD BANK

Washington, October 11.

The World Bank said on Tuonday that it has received a cable from

• General Franco har hever liked the Chiness Communist regime i nationalisation and, except for Paiting formally laying claim to the fusion of some 80-railroads all membership rights cand in into one big State Railway con tereria in the orennication by eth no key industry in Spain hold by the Nationalikey görech- has been taken over by the Slate, mentajan se

Apart from the callways, which] The

were in such a condition after under cuda

the civil war with one-third of

The North China cotton harvest had already reached the pre-war level of 300,000 tons, a year, the broadcast said.

cal precision, and false guides point to unsparing retribution as the pathways to prosperity.

"If the people of Europe resolvo lo come together and work to- gether for mutual advantage, exchange blessings instead curses, they still have it in their

and

which miscrics

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