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U.S. TARIFF IS THE GREATEST PARADOX
average for all Septeh sold in the States. American.tax and trade mark-ups boost retail price. FOB. price here roughly equals wholesale price homo market."
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Ah, the American tax and tratie mark-ups-there again is the hurdle.———
I have tried to investigate the situation and have come out with these findings, chiefly from the American financial expert Miss sylvia Porter:
Roadblock
Why? To protect the American home market, of course.
Even so, this is no reason for not hammering away and putting everything we have into the dollar drive. The old Elizabethons _would not have given up.......The...
new Elizabethans must not.
Campaign to bring the barriers down! Urge the scaling-down.uf the tariffs! Send the salesmen out!
New York, Tuesday.
OME Americans say to me hesitantly: "I suppose it will be time before Bome
will be "British business-as-usual." I Say: "Well, we are a nation of shopkeepers and we are not shutting up shop, despite the grief and the mourning. The King would not have wished it, and I don't think the new Queen wishes it."
THE tariff is the major road- The vision of
TH 冠 new
block barring Britain and Elizabethan Age, apparent- Cordenenal Europe from earning
For instance, Mr L. Smithsun, ly much discussed in dollars in quantity. Miss Porter
"We have
Woodhouse-street. a positive of
Leeds, says: Britain, has not yet caught genius for bewildering and an- writes: "I feel I must write and foreign friends. protest at the stuff you are con- the American Imagination, tagonising our
We preach our plous phrases tinually writing about what we but it will.
about freeing world trade and we must do and must not do with
regard to the U.S.A.
For
U.S.A. what to say and what
is time that. we put, and not to say?...:lt
someone in this country spoke up for Great Britain,"
I would be grateful also if some of my correspondents would ap- preciate that I am only trying to help when I point out occasionally where and how we go wrong here.
But other news is beginning to Bogart wants. They would like find a place. The new Ameri- to know what Eisenhower thinks.
can liner, the United States, New Yorkers are still having which is nearly completed and money trouble, and Mayor Impel- makes her test runs in May, is litteri promises blund, sweat, tears, toll, and taxes. I expect getting somo attention.
the entertainment industry to be The claim is already being gouged again. It's always con- made that she "will "beat""the" sidered fair game:~- Queen Mary. That I doubt.
The new play "Venus - Ob- The United States cost 70,000,- served." starring Rex Harrison
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By Donald McCormick †NTIL Elizabeth II was proclaimed there was only one sovereign Queen in the British Commonwealth and Empire. Now there are two. The other is 53-year- old. Salote Tupon of Tonga -and no minor potentate is ahe. Hers is the only self- governing kingdom within the British Commonwealth.
́ At 6 ft. 2 in. in her slik stockings she rates as, the world's tallest Queen. Sho presides over 'a group of Pacific Islands and has made them the only Pacific territory where everybody can read and write. Educa tion is free and compulsory. On her orders crime films were banned in the islands. and since then Tonga has ga has had no crime.
Every youth at the age of 16 is given a plece of land as his birthright,
So for the two Queens of the Empire have never met. It is possible that they may when the postponed Royal tour of Aus- tralia and New Zealand takes place.
Her day is full THE new Elizabethan
age is going to see women taking a much greater part in public affairs throughout the Common- wealth and Empire. Already
000 dollars, and two-thirds of the and Lilli Palmer, staged by Sirnada's
as
women are in many key posts.
First and
only woman Speaker Nancy Hodges of the British in the Empire is 62-year-old Mrs Columbia Parlament.
She is often regarded.
Eleanor Roosevelt. writes a newspaper column, "One Woman's Day." (Mrs money came from the American Laurence Olivier, disappointed Roosevelt, widow of the late taxpayer. She is only 52,000 me. Very few could tell what
U.S. President, writes a column tons, compared with the Queen author Christopher Fry was get-called "My Day." Mary's 81,235 tons and the Queen ting at. I don't think "Venus
Observed"
Her day is likely to be ob Elizabeth's 83,673 tons,
served for long."
It's been a disastrous Leason for British imports. "Collector's Item" collected no money and no audiences and had to come off. "Gertie" was a flop.
But she is longer than either of the Queena-380zt.. as against the Elizabeth's 987.4 and the Mary's
075.2.
American experts say that be cause of heraluminium construc-. tion the United States will win the Blue Riband,
4 What does the Cunard Line
Instead, there is much talk endlessly about the virtues change, why don't you advise the say? "Come and show us."
newspaper space and radio time devoted to whut Americans call "the sweep- ing Royalist revival" in Bri- tain,
of competition.
"Simultaneously
threaten to put, trade laws on our books that could stand as models for economic isolation....
Mr Smithson, I have been We give away billions in money and machines to help our Allies speaking up for Britain so much This is not un accurate produce more, and we urge them and so loudly for so many years. term, The British are to sell to us so they can earn that I am hoarse. Royalists in the blood and dollars, No sooner have we sent the billions than we alap on in the bone we who are trade terms that make it im British all know that possible for them to sell on any There has not been a scale to us.", Royalist revival. There is majestic continuity of royalty.
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AS S for British business, I expect it to be not merely usual but accelerated and more extensive.
I have received a large number of letters from business men during the past few days, and most of them stress hope and faith in the future.
There you have the great paradox.The United States which would apparently prefer to give away the dollara 10 Europe than have Europe earn the dollars by selling its goods here.
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there 18 Currently, criticism hore of Britain, and The two nations stand very close, what-there is is all in the family.
and the King's death has brought
⚫ stilled tension, calm,
and quietened the belligerent.
The tributes continue to 'pour in, and royal blographies occupy pages of the newspapers and magazines.
The Election
won't run. clearer?
Do-it-all Chaplin
starts at 6-30 am and into it ahe squeezes her official duties, newspaper work, gardening, bird watching, and housework. Says Nancy: "In 41
I have years of married life neve: 16
laff the house. unwashed or the beds unmade. And: Tido It all myself." In New Ze
Zealand is another
woman planeer. Mrs Hilda Ros ds the nation's first Minister for Welfare of Women and Children, No one would guess that this THE Charlie Chaplin Gim
a grand- "Limelight" is completed.
woman is mother. When delayed-by- Chaplin is star, writer, producer, railway breakdown she hitch- director, composer, and orchestra hiked a conductor. Now all he needs are audiences. Chaplin hopes the premiere will be in London.
ride from a passing lorry to reach the capital. In THE alicion campaign is be
time for an appointment. The Minister entered the capitol on ginning to boil and bubble. It is now definite that President The 18-year-old English girl the rear of a truck, seated on bags of grain! But she made the Truman either will run er hʊ Dawn Addams is starred with dobe.
Could anything bo Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson
in "Plymouth Adventure."
are worried that too many show duction Lady
General Eisenhower's backers The James Mason family pro- Possessed" has folk, flm and stage people, and been, mangled by the critics. assorted headline-hunters are People wonder what could have clambering aboard the Elsen possessed Mason to make it. hower band wagon and loading it down.
The people aren't terribly im- pressed with what Gable or
Fought hard
IN Inda where for centuries
women dook a back seat ind remained in purdah, Rajkumari ILDW Health Amrit Kaur is Minister. Once she was Gandhi's FOOTNOTE: Americans say secretary. She is a Christian. no one is likely to invade the
whe fought long and hard FOT United States-they could not against the caste system. afford to live here..
many years she was one of In- dia's leading tennis players, She learned the game at Sherborne Ladies' College, in England, ambition is to build in Aporta stadium In every Indian city
Equally prominent in Pakistan Is the Begum lagit All Khan, widow of the Pakistan Premier, who Was assassinated last year,
When I saw the Begum che wore a dress designed by her- self to symbolize the emancipa tion of Pakistan)
Concluding a Report on the British Army in Korea
NO SHOWS FOR THE
THE TROOPS
BECAUSE IT'S TOO COLD'
is TZOREA In winter
Some express annoyance K bleak and desolate be
over
The
American
By Montgomery
Korean war began in June 1030.
This clothing should have been sent out in time to meet the ex-
Hyde, MP
Her
thema Zorened the Pakistan
Division, last winter. In fact it began was that it was too cold for en- their familles send these by air
of our
ARTIE'S HEADLINE
the smoked a cigaretten And This beautiful -year-old
in philosophy There is an adequate supply of
and English newspapers in my recent comments
messes, and these supplement the National Women's Guard, which locally published yond description. The wind
news sheets. is rather on the lines on the unimpressive dollar from the hills bites through
the Commonwealth troops for But the newspapers are mostly WVS. But our interests are "drive" here. The chair-
to your marrow.
some months and there is only national journals. Most men like perhaps more masculine, anys man of the clothing manu-
one mobile cinema unit in the to see a weekly newspaper from the Benum. "All members have
The official facturers Joseph May and
excuse their home town. At present rifle drill." Since the war began, 20 ceptionally severe conditions of
East, west, north and south Sons, Ltd., of Leeds, Mr
months ago, there have fo reach the Commonwealth ter
tertainers to go out at this time mail, which means, in effect, the women of the Empire are Morriss May, writes:
been approximately 8,000 Division in appreciable quan- of
stars prevent American
from buyer United Kingdom casualties titles In November 1951, and a year. Yet the cold did not that they themselves have to making their presence felt
pay for this postage. I think flculties arose over sizes. There visiting the front of Christmas, this charge might also be re- seems very reluctant to 150 killed, 1,400 wounded, were shortages of the larger sizes, and the Americans seem to be mitted. pay an agent's commission. 1,100 missing and prisoners of some articles, particularly provided with a good supply of
. Our experience has of war.
The Americans, Canadians came
boots
and Farkas. Happily, the aims and projectors. The prin More Leave? been that the buyer talks a with incomparably larger with 2.000 Parkas at the most entertainment.
to the rescue cipal reed at present is for live lot of hot air about quality, forces in the field, have critical time,
Finally, there is the subject of but when he is asked. to suffered over 101,000
Other amenities › are fairly leave. In answer to a
question pay for it, it is quite another casualties. The Communists
antisfactory. Mali deliveries in the House of Commons' Inst question: he is not Interest- have lost more than a mil-
from the UK, are as rapid as August. Mr Strachey, the then lion men.
numbers of men still can be expected. But, our man War Minister said it was ex- that extra vacancies on pected clad in the old type of clothing still have to pay postage. During my tour of the battle with battledress and woollen some of their letters home, would be avaliable for, officers
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and other ranks going on leave front I wore the new winter jerseys. But by now the expect- „
fri Japan. I do not think these have additional supplies
IL a British clothing which has recently been ed
expectations have been alto- Issued to the troops and. I must arrived and all our Forces have sends home a gift
gelber fulfilled. More ¦¦troops apprealata, that most Ameri- admit that I found it excellent. the latest type of winter car cipient has to pay Customs should be able to have can manufacturers sell the The string vest, maintaining as monts.
and purchase tax or it leave in Tokyo. or in Hongkong, goods for roll by big advertie it does an insulating layer of air
Until recently there has also You can buy quite an attractive both of which places are only. Khg; but I do not tainic there is next the skin; is a wonderful
any English manufacturer who foundation, protection, against the been a great shortage Nauft for about £210s. I think
Japanese silk kimono, in the day's flight from Korea. tan afford to take a chance on ex cold, So niso is le zaberdine stoves and held cockers, My It is unfelt that the wife or Notwithstanding these gélov- trovagant: advertising when the Bosce-lined Parka, which of these articles, fill in use, return is so small, and you have worn as an outer garment. have been improvised and have sweetheart to whom this gift is ances, I found the morale of our to operate against the high
yhigh.. Everyong met was in £3 on it. Unfortunately, supplies in sued to serious accidents when cigned should have to pay troops in Korea remarkably tariffe A
they have exploded.*****
[good heart. And theirs la no dfisket actent quantities have been Inte Ah, the high tariff—that is the
Another complaint is about The loss to the national ex- pleasant or day task. They obsthole, which my business menthe lack of organised entertain chequer would not be very deserve everything that can be emplasse
The new type winter clothing meat for cur men. Korea has much if the Treasury were to done for them
ed.
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