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Plan To Earn More Dollars And Get Britain Out of Hock

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New York, Tuesday. words. Already the alle has load up with American sold at

T last a plan emerges been chosen the Sinclair Oll Fort Knox,

building in Rockefeller Centre, Who thought up the wunder- just off Fifth Avenue. This is ful idea of sending over the

that will help us to stand on our own financiul feet, earn more dollars, and perhaps get us out of hock.

The plan is simply to have a big, permanent ex hibition In New York-and In other American cities later of British manu- factured products.

The exhibition will be called "The British Aisles"-an Ivlous, but effective, play

an ideal alte ri my opinion.

buses? He deserves a knight- hood.

There will be 38 large stands, and leading British firms are The British Industrios Fair, is

more interest

already bidding for them. This also attracting is to be our show-place and shop than In previous years. window, right in the heart of the

.Tho Americans, who fancy city in an area where more than themselves as the supreme go- 27,000,000 people

pass, every.

getters and super-salesmen, are year.

The Board of Trade and the Bank of England know about this project, but have kept mum to see how it develops. I learn- obed about it from Mr T. H. Cham- on berlain, whose brain-child It is. Chamberlain has been following this Dairy's campaign to earn dollars and called on

me the

other day.

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How is the evidence compiled? course of 35 and we cling to them like I followed limpets. For long one of candidates right through their own pet theories has programme. In it were sons of concerned Army Selection-miners, barristers, gos engineers, parsons, sollctor's clerks and Boards, and I have always Customs officials. felt sorry for the candidates a grim, appearing before analytical tribunal of psy- chiatrists.

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He said: "It seems incredible that we hayo.no-permanent ex-

DON IDDON'S DIARY

hibition of British goods in New Impressed. They are even com- York. The Canadians have ing around to the idea that it their exhibition, the Australians might be better to give us the have theirs, and so have the opportunity to earn dollars and Netherlands, the Swiss, and the not just borrow. them. Portuguese.

fotas for the allons, they have

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This is a very important week The Democrats are

been wiping the floor with Politicallyötaidewitzstunnede

There have been special Italian expressions as a result of Presl

announcement weeks in the large department dent Truman's stores, there have been Italian that he will not run in the elec sales drives and promotion cam- tion, but they are not too dumb paigns. Italian goods are enjoy- or dumbfounded to know that ing phenomenal sales.

they may have a better chance. with a less controversial candi-..

Plans all laid...........

SHAMBERLAIN, an English- CHAM

man, a world traveller, and an artist, showed me letters from want to show their goods in a number of British firms who

The British Alsies."

He asked me to keep their

names secret for the time being

He showed me detalled plans and piles of correspondence.

General Eisenhower's support- ers. He has also been hurt by the actions and words of General MacArthus...

General MacArthur has been dancing on Taft's grave before the body is cold.

Some of his speeches have been to the far right, even of Taft.

Fire and fury ag

had to give a five-minute lecture on any subject he liked; in one Bession I attended, a civil ser vant from Preston talked on Sheffield fighting. buil engineer told us how to make

"So what to do about it? How date. marine drive shaft, ths to sell British goods?

On the Republican side, Mr "Obviously we need a per- Taft has taken some wounding With a pole and two planks, Gloucesters' captain lectured on neither long enough to bridge Judo.

"water jump his task R.A.O.C. from Altrincham di manent exhibition, and we are body-blows lately, mainly from

Infantry

captain drum was to devise a method of coursed on "fest and footwork".going to have one.""" getting a large petrol and his entire team across a described a visit he had made Len foot

chasm. This he to Tibet: managed most ingeniously, al- can- though, in fact, his team was "Rapier" Among the

the didates-men now in civilian one jobs - were flying squad orthodox solution of the prob- policeman; a schoolteacher who lem. hurdled for England before he

Though different in dr all the N the last day came "Exercise

Crucifix," where for I had not been at Westbury was severely wounded in the

time the five teams more than an hour or two before last war; a former employee of command tests had one

in common. With strictly limited only

had competed against each other, in the leader an uneasy suspicion that I was the Anglo-Iranlan at Abadan;

In a Tree to passa i cwt drum dificulties by "off net" hardened into certainty. student who Usted as his twin; resources racquets and overcome large, ugly hobbies "squash

to filed with water through the In the grounds of

40-yard course with Victorian house Westbury, in palaeontology"; and the manager telligent planning. He had to over

THE American ale is full of" size up the special proficiency

shellfire and fury, and it la Wiltshire, the Regular Commis- of a ginger-beer factory.

of the various men under him, a hosty obstacle the "crucifix" round which the drum had to

There is no doubt that this and one team soon found they be manoeuvred sions Board of the British Army

cropping up has its headquarters. Here, week

a great asset in a

vd half-way. Here team spirit and exhiblilon is needed. I think I surely time Eisenhower returned

will come off, but the proposed to the political battlefield here." after week, come the young men

tieutenant adept at "bends and wound planning always pay opening date of July 1, seems a

In New York it's not easy to the -some already serving in

hitches." When the latter's own dividend,

examining and the

15 tell whether the emergency. Army with temporary commis- slons, and others straight from RANK and background count turn came to take command. he staff can tell you in advance, lile optimistic.

disconcerted to find that with

psychic insight,

The ironical feature is that a over or not. It has been an- civilian jobs who have decided for nothing at all. The burly was

strong point had been exactly which members of a on a permanent military career. miner's son from Yorkshire hind his

the noticed by his Military Testing team will spend most of their good deal of American capital is nounced that' the ban on white

behind what should have been chance as just as good a

Officer, Major Lord Seymour time holding on to a rope end,

an all-British project. Arriving at Westbury in reat.

who gave him the only task batches of 35-40 they are split into five teams. Each team car- Snobbery of any kind hus no where no ropes were usedl

It Is at Westbury. ries out all its tasks under the place direction of

Lieutenant- ability alone which counts, and Colonel, acting as Deputy Pre- this is unfailingly revealed by sident of the Board, and Major the group tasks, most of them with the quaint title of "Milltary staged in the fields surrounding

PLANNING ability was also Testing Officer," President of the the Board's headquarters,

unearthed in an "indoor situa- Board is Major-General G.W.E.

I saw a dozen different com- tion." First cach man gave his

The announcement about tyres Heath, who came from com-

written solution to a problem.

The tour of the three London almost coincides with yet an- manding the garrison at Malta to mand tests. There was "Belsen,

e..master-stroke of other

rehearsal. On air-raid succeed Lieutenant-General Sir where a large vat of "acid" bas the capture of secret documents

Once I understood the system buses la Frank Fesling,

over a high wall with the sole in Crete-and then the team

-Association deserves ers are asked to assume that an aid of the limited amount of

I

mental gradings of the candi-Travel private tackle provided; in its precarious argued the whole operation out I found myself making my own showmanship. and the British Thursday, at 8 p.m., New York-

con- drive of ours has received so two atom bombs on the city. progress the team had to pre bonus for imagination to the dates I had watched. The West-every congratulation. No dollar "unfriendly" nation has dropped

& much vent it from touching the candidate

favourable publicity no who suggested that bury grading habit Lo

The official release says that or spilling any of its the water carafe in the General's taglous, With some apprehension will tour. There have ground

en me that even this

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quarters should be filled with it dawned contents. THE

casual visitors to the Headquar been editorials in almost every we are also to Imagine that wood alcohol! meeting General

come newspaper and magazine, and five-m.p.h. wind will blow a ters Mess are bound to

news blanket of radio-activo mist the Jake

of their hundreds Down by

Five Hrath's "examining" team is

Brooklyn, over South In these Here the

group discussions under the microscope their

Their acute "Broken Bridge." humanity.

Licut, stories, hosts the I, the natural lender quickly shrewd

hundred and seventy-nine air- who with Colonel

once hold understanding of human nature, candidate in command when

An Not even the Chicago Tribune raid sirens will shriek, and there thoir

ap- commonsense

Finally, bespectacled emerged, and yot others arrived was

and Inter-Services boxing title, an-

be mock rescues. will two proach to the complex tank captain who not long ago gained character, determination,

pot other with

Cambridge has suggested that they are were

driven by spies or are here to according to the authorities, "all Of a notable DSO, for gallantry constructive Idens assessing the worth

Each candidate blues, and the Army cricketer.

temporarily deranged perRONS". very wide variety of can with the Gloucesters in Korea; overshadowed,

will be taken into custody, Next didates. Three days—which is all

Thursday at eight o'clock is ob viously a good time to stay at home with a good book."

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side-wall tyres has been lifted. The supreme sacrifice of giving. up white-walled tyres was made We certainly will never sell in February 1051, and people After the candidates had left

asses our goods in quantity If we don't zaid that things were really get- I listened to the Anal

This was au- ments on two of the five teams have them on display for all ting desperate.

sterity. Next thing you 'knew are Ave Americans to see. on the course, There

a man might have to wait three gradings, No one got an "A"

R.N. It is good to see our business or four weeks to get a new car, the move. There has But now apprehension has sub- (outstanding); one, the

(above men on lieutenant, got a "B"

and one Or two been advance on all fronts late sided. average), finished wi somewhat pro- |ly..

carious "D's" (a bare pass). 10 be manhandled and hauled from a German general's HQ,

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DOORS THAT ARE (ALMOST)

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WOMEN

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The crilics have

In show business Sadler's business are Mr and Mrs George Wells Theatre Balic has re Bailey, whiese South Wales ship-eived only mild praise along repairing docks are known to Broadway. everybody who has ships at sea, said that whether the troupe call themselves, funior or not their Says Mr Bailey: "I-And it very

performance is definitely useful to have a wean on the compared with that of the

Women

qualties

David: 2. The shareholders will object. "Women are very competent to group tests, the candidate with of Lithgows, Ltd., world- 3. Women, in any event, are be directors, even of banks, board.

They have a shrewdness of which men luck." ship- dime to get on with. bluff and bluster as his stock in famed Clydeside

mind and a different approach trade, pnd the man who, with

ideas of his builders, goes 52-year-old

to problems which can be very constructivo

helpful." own, spends his time criticising Lady Lithgow. And on the board of Pawsons and Leafs, everyone else's suggestions.

Psychiatry, as such, plays no big wholesale textile firm. part in Westbury system. It goes 36-year-old Miss Rose

based entirely on a combing tion of written tests (to obtain mary Phelps. an estimate of the candidate's

Is

the

Fine jobs, both of them, for Intelligence

and educational

Here, one standard); group situations, women to hold. which

rapidly determine his might thinkt, is a sign that at potentialities as a leader; and in- last "big busincks" is opening terviews, which roveal his its boardroom?lors more readily character and attitude to life. Once ho is off duty, he is free to

to women.

"Men

director of Gascoignes

usefulness

vlous company; which

rave notices. Even so, the huge Warner Theatre, far too big for ballet, reports excellent busi-

me

This preoccupation with what the customer might think is

MRS George Gascoigne has been ness. specially marked in the bunks,

There is a stupid Idea that in- lido

hus- Off key to t No woman can hope to be vestors will not back a company (Reading) ever since her come a branch bank manager, which has a woman on the board. band started this milking ma- chine and dulry. engineering

*The Say the bank chiefs: wouldn't like to discuss their It is high time this idea died business 30 years ago: Says she: TRUMAN CAPOTE'S

Grass Harp" brought out a financial affairs with a woman," out. For women today are help- think women's

ing to run some of Britain's best springs from the fact that they dazzling first-night audience, How do they known and most prosperous companies. Took at a problem from a dif- but some of the play seemed off key, to me, Cecil Beaton's "set- and Savings American bank, the St. Peters

Among them is Miss Dorothy ferent angle."

tings and period costumes are And her husband, who has inspired. burg (Florida) Loan Association, is run entire-, Cadbury, one of the directors of ly by women. And its resources the £37,000,000 British Choce seen the business grow from a

£600,000 George Tabor, who used to concern. to, a But it is not as simple as that, have risen to more than £4,000,- late Company, which controls tiny

be in Fleet-street, has written a Cadbury Brothers and J. S. Fry affair, says: do whatever he likes, with no Family Induence, rather than 000.

and Sons.

commendable play, Flight into is bitterly supervision or snooping to sheer business ability, is the rea

"My wife comes to the factory

which Egypt," worry him.

son why these doors have open-

There is Mrs Annie Billmeir. every day. I would far cooner eloquent and drew excellent re woman in Britain Her husband, whom the City have her round the place than Lady Lithgow takes over the ONLY

a refers to affectionately as "Jolly some men," can describe herself as

Elleen Peel, who decorated Job held by her husband, the late bank director, she 52-year-old Jack" Bilmeir, started at 18 as Sir James Lithgow-to keep the Miss Mary Copley. And the an 69. a week office boy in a Mr Cameron Cobbold, gov Venus Observed, points out ernor of the Bank of England how wrong I was in forecasting RADUALLY, à "profile" of

name at the head of the firm. awes her good fortune to the fact shipbroker's office.

might well faint at the idea of And Miss Phelps succoeds her that her family runs a £1,000,-

"Jolly Jack" would be one of having a woman director of the a flop. Miss Peel is right. The more than a dozen headings, in- cluding an estimate of his initia- father, chairman for many years, 400 family bank in London's Old the first to agree today that his Bank. But his family brewing play and all in it are a success The opening of the picture success in building a millionaire business-Cobbolds, of Ipswich tive, determination, "enpoelly to to represent the family share Jowry. unity" (le, his ability to bring holding in the firm.

For too few women are gat Copley's Bank is small in shipowning business has beengate along very successfully The Man, in the While Suit is all the resources of his, group to bear pri atasic and hold the ting up among the top brass of comparison with the giunt "Big aided in no small degree by his with Lady Blanche Cobbold and additional evidence that the Bri But during the war, wife, who remains a director of Mrs P. M. A.. Clifton on the thore producing alment

-boardan teain, together), and this sense industry and finance on merit. Five.

when her brothers were away, his comp successful married

it very en«. of remporisibility. It is uncanny alone.

Why? Because leaders of big Miss Copley ran to watch the Forolle" cnsizing at the Final Board Conference, business Bolleve: 1. The cut clently.

Uncanny

experience and skilled, each man is built up under

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