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· So

"Then later on, perhaps who knows?"

London Express, Bervice

Socialisation

has failed

LONDON,

TATE Transport has

finished the

year

with Д loss of £14,100,000.

this great State

octopus of ours, which em-

braces in its tentacles the says BERNARD HARRIS

railways, nationalised road haulage, and the water- ways, records a total loss of £39,600,000 in its first three years of nationalisation.

Put that beside what is hap

Sheffield, alaughterhouse. in Sussex were delivered at a in three years of state owner-

Ten tons of potting sand was lost for a month on the journey from St Austell, Cornwall, to Croydon.

ship

union

trade-

tested-about rate increases of up to 0s. In the ...

One small parish in Notting ham is so Incensed at being

WHATS

G NAGA DIANEY

P

by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE

LONDON.

For relations between their RINCESS MARGARET two countries are not cordial.. will make several EXPLANATION: The man changes in her life from Jordan" thought_the_man when she comes of age this from laraei was the Spanish

Ambasador,

'month.

Her finances-the newly- Franco at home granted allowance of £6,000- TIENERAL · FRANCIS00

FRANCO, a legacy of GEN

4-year and

controversia £20,000 loft nino years ago man-of-the-moment, is a non- by MRS RONNIE GRE-smoker who takes a little wine

at meals. VILLE will still be run by the Queen's Treasurer, MAJOR SIR ARTHUR PENN.

MAJOR OLIVER DAWNAY. the Queen's secretary will continue, to work for her, write ing the drafts of her more im- portant speeches.

The Princess will appoint her own lady-in-walling to handle Increased correspondence and

engagementa,

She will probábly buy a car. until now she has used THE KING'S and spend more money on clothes...

She may also give bigger contributions to her favourite charities, particularly those for children.

The Princess has told friends sho does not intend to move from her four-roamed "flat" on the second floor of Buckingham Palace, which used to be the royal nursery, suite.

other y

than

Although Princess Margaret will be comfortably nit, she and THE PRINCESS ROYAL, who is also allowed 20,000, have much smaller incomes.

⚫members of the Royal

'has. QUEEN MARY allowance of £70,000 a year, PRINCESS ELIZABETH £40,000, and the DUKE OF EDINBURGII £10,000.

charged 13s, in the £ mare by the East Midland Gas Board Citrine that it has told the bound to Despite that, Lord forecasts still higher charges take away the gus lumps.

£40,000,000 losses and power cuts that will go on for years,

INCE 1940, when the airways Why has Lord Citrine, with were, socialised, the tax A truck of urgently wanted steel took 37 days to reach Bury a high reputation as a

Partly payer has had to meet losses of loader, talled? St Edmunds from Cardig.

because the other nationalised more than £40,000,000. If the workers are Even the coal

Industries like coal and tran- coats of the Ministry of Civil the roll- complaining about

sport

make success impossible. Aviation are added, the privilege Farty because qualities other of owning the dir lines has been ways, and congestion at railway

about Junctions, they say, le making than those developed in trade costing the taxpayer another coal crisis more prob

unionism

£2,000,000 a manih," necessary

What ablo.

ruccess. But chiefly because only

prevents a profit being 5 It really The Railway Executive re- an exceptional genius could made? It.le the old story, State Trade-union plies that the congestion is due, cope with the job. Such a man? anxiety,

pening to coal, electricity, gas and cables, the other major businessez and nationalised what does it all add up to?

Simply that Socialisation has failed. Why? Because the genius who might make it work can't be found,

Members of the Government trouble to no longer

their

conceal

bre

far

"

an

Farewell ?

goodbye. BENJAMINO GIGLI, ...who

cert" aty, Rovigo, Northern Italy?

|

He likes driving at 80 miles an hour, tunny ishing from his yacht Azor, and Hunting and fishing with British equipment.

With his wife DOŃNA CAH- MEN POLO ho lives in a white- stone palace, El Pardo, ten miles from Madrid,

He rises at six and before breakfast rides one of his Arab- lan or Irish thoroughbreds, Ho plays tennis and works 16 hours a day.

...

No social gadabout, the only private party he has ever given was for the wedding of his daughter CARMEN.

Close shave

HAVE been intrigued by the destiny of the ginger mous- tache of LEONARD CRAWLEY, British international golfer

Before he played the Ameri- can MRS "BABE" ZAHARIAS, she announced: "Ho will cut off his moustache if I beat him." She did.”

Crawley still retains it. "Mrs Zaharias is a fantastic woman, he said. "Do you know she started the match by kissing me on the bacic of the neck..

Democracy

to

OR her private, visit

London for the Internation- at Horse Show, QUEEN JULIANA of Holland' will bring

to only a few small cases.

Her daughters BEATRIX (13) arry their own bags, 197

leaders are equally unhappy. Mr toʻa "a shortage of trained loco-, hasn't appeared, and if he did ov977; administrative/ das just given a "farewell con- and IRENE (11) will pack and

Joe Scott, of the engineers,

says:-

Mr Arthur Deakin, biggest

£2,003 in

Touch of red

It would be most unlikely that When a non-political board motive crdios.”

of experts took over the Cable He, says, he will soon give up One year

the excuse is lack, he would get the job.

Wireless network in 1947 singing and and

retire to a villa "The British Electricity Au- of coal; the next lack of men,

Soak the customer it continued to be reasonably near this little town where he excuses and always thority is a democracy run stark, Always

profits

of first made his name. GAS made a minute pront of well, fun-though staring mad.... Let's get back deterioration of service,

£1,722,000 were little more than It

Its first year. half those earned under free is not merely that the to the good old days."

Transport Commission already Where does the Gas Board lay trade-union boss of them all, records accumulated losses of the blame? Like electricity enterprise.

Then, last year, the Post Office Hardcastle Medal for the £39,000,000, but this year there on its near relations. the Coal

became responsible for the ad-T will

most startling outfit of the certainly be મ further Board and the railways. loss.

The gas chiefs complain of 13 ministration. And the rot set week goes to DR EDITH BIT of nationalisation proposals and How are these losses to be percent ash in their

One firm wrote to Cable and WELL. coal,

Wireless:- met? In the usual way the against 10 percent before the

the taxpayer war. customer and

"Because we have only will be milked again,

one coal merchant, it is a little Already 2-10 percent increase dificult to get what we want, in freight rates been push they say, like all ordinary ed through. It is proposed lo make yet another increase in mainline and London

gives this frank warning:-

"Any considerable extension

we shall get the biggest whack- ing we've ever had."

What has happened to call forth such: condemnation? ---

Coal dearer

Co

OAL now costs between two and three times as much as

citizens.

Tran-

They complain of profiteering fares, which will hit par by Lord Hurcomb's railways,

heavily those ticularly

who and threaten to meet it by

It did before the war. And it sport.

is poorer in qualify.

cheap way by free-enterprise coastal ships,

Even with these so much must travel daily to their work, sending more of their coal the The minimum fare on Lon- higher prices the Coal Board is

don buses, trams, and trains stin £4,000,000 short of wip- ing out its first year's Joss will be 2d, Monthly return rail farea will cost another 2s, in of £23,600,000. This year it is the & more. likely to lose money again.

Its failure was so lamentable that last winter we had to im- port foreign coal at loss of £4,500,000 to keep going. And already we are warned that we shall have to do the same next winter.

In, the London area the cost of travel will be 16s. in the £ more than before the war; out alde London it will be nearly doubled.

'Patching'

WOULD it be better policy W to reduce fares and tempt more passengers?. Lord Hur- comb, brusquely, says "No." He forecasts higher fares still

The nationalisers claimed that when coal belonged to the State the miners would work with a zest they never displayed when they served the private capital- And worse still he declares ist employers.

that the railways have 50 uttle But what in fact has hap- money to spend on renewals

The man pened?

like their and repairs that re-equipment new impersonal managers so is very difficult. "In the main little that, they are leaving the assets are being patched instead pita by the hundred.

of replaced."

Put the responsibility for that on Lord Hyndley. He was the first head of the Coal Board. He built the system.

It proved to be a system that had no place in it for those human relationships which mist

ba

That is a very serious stata of affairs. A disquieting com- mentary on the efficacy of na- tionalisation.

Gas had been nationalised only two days when the policy of socking the consumer started.

Some of the Increases are more than even the supporters of socialisation can stomach,

in.

"Your cable service has

become completely 21.JLm

reliable and is a menace to any firm engage in overseas bustness.

"The delays complained of are beyond anything which the be excused, an

can

grounds a

Daf temporarily heavy

traffic,... They are due to a complete indifference on the part of your organisation as le now exists." With second-rate service has gone the usual story of steadily declining profits.

She turned up' at' a Society of Herbalists meeting wearing a shapeless, floor-touching black dress, a lörig black coat, andTM" floppy black hat.

Only touch of colour was a spray of red coral on her coat Lapel.

I was writing, a poem about snow on the bare trees at the time, and this spray reminded me of them," she said.

Phoney peace

diplomatic

UESTS at

No wonder that even Aneurin party were astonished to Bevan is rediscovering the vir- see the Minister of Jordan, The Bristol Socialist Party has tues of private enterprise and PRINCE ABDUL MEJID HAI called for a probe into the run has just declared publicly: "I DAR, dressed in Arab ning of the Southwest Gas the State administrátors can't do monial robes, cordially Board,

a job, then private firms thould ting with R E. ELATH, the Traders in that city have pro-- be allowed to do it."

Israeli Minister.

cere-

chat.

POCKET CARTOON,

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"You know what Vit 2*, Ambassador, Dr. Mosiddeg

just hates to be outclassed?")

The liberties taken with “Alice become

CURIOUSER

London, July 26. ONDON has been dis- covering this week that there can be

In

failed? Because he is a great ing. Lewis Carroll as.

Why has Lord Hurcomb quite as much fun in screen-

AND

LONDON STAGE AND SCREEN by

CURIOUSER

to

you are prepared for that, this The real Alice-Miss, Menella Wonderland in colour, with its Dodgson, over 70, a great-niece

of the author, was unable metry movement and tinkling leave her, Leamington home to tunes, is nothing if it is not attend the premiere entertainment.

civil servant and runs the rall-recapturing the spirit of RONALD ROPFR adenoidal contribution

ways the way Whitehall its department.

Over Ave years. a milli Happily English voices pre- dominate. Richard Haydn's pounds has been spent in the

as the making of the films I

pected to be even more popular the foundation of every

Caterpillar is unmistakable,

carlier." Dimoy: pro- Stato. Tran- Dickens, Nourishing industry,

while genuine. Wiganese is de than two tectable when Tweedledum and ductions,Pinocchio" and "Bam- New Lora Hyndlay goes, in sport is top heavy with ad-

its adrainis ministration, and its

bi Tweedledee turn into Lancashire his place will sit Sir Hubort trators not

knockabout comedians. necessarily Houldsworth, legal-Civil

enough for so big a job, Servico mind.

It is one of the Can he restore what is Socialisation that you missing? Will he make nation

alisation work!

You can give the answer in one" guose

Railways worse CCORDING to Lond Har-

perience for them,

defects

big

can't

Бутра

T2 is a fairly

You could test this pro- position for yourself if you knowledge that the east," in mado a point of seeing (a) cluding the Fat Boy clutching a of Dickensian characters In pork plot sat down at South Kathryn Beaumont, the 14- 3 fully to prediction

Bank to no make-believe spread year-old London girl who speaks always give the important Jobs full costume riding through but one in the most sumptuous and sings as the off-screen see the steady growth, of's new to the men best fited by ex-the streets in a stage coach Dickens tradition, partly with Allee, is guilty of Americanisms public for opera in this country.

only when she's "through with and not least in the provinces. white rabbits or when sho Chier stimulus in this direc The waiting queue is always on their way to sampling at the aid of Americans

thisers.

Ands herself "this small. To tion will be television; a cur; a long one, and too often men a celebration dinner some': have to be selected for reasons "werry substantial wittles" course, what you space of off-set these points for con- example of it in the dest

expect, it to gratulation, Mr Disney

perimental

televising other than their competence.." A comb, head of State Trans Less juice

and (b) Walt Disney's Intest be unless you know Walt already beard through a lead Glyndbourne, the success of fantasy in celluloid, "Alice very well. Puriste, to whom Ing trade Journal on the other which has been described as o port: "All the principal indices

in Wonderland," which in the Cheshire Cat or the Bad side of the Atlantic that "the landmark in the development of efficiarry on the railways

· British socent of some of the of the art in Britain, tetraye have improped." "But no traders

''In" very" thick and, The, BBC spent over £1,000 -and very few travellers first year of nationalization,

by liberties: which followed by £7,108,000 last Through the Looking the sacrosanct, may be shocked share that vlow

Glass:

curiouser and curiouset, If fow many Obvodities and raporting Mayor Intend the Federation of year

dony that with all mumble." The Dickensian episode rank critic British Industries declares that But was that due to better from Pit The "despite, increased" Charger the service? Far

profts

higher ing as neither stage nor screen the deviations Disney has pre- ponda on which side of the pond chestra and rude audience all camels from

with the notable exception that served the spirit of his subject, you happen to meet the new the little opere hot batore

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well as in prewar days,"

Traders.

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In the three years

they can never

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