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-THE WAY WE SNUBBED

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which perpetuated some wer time decisions,

If the Colonics

they were, the self-governing Dom!- nions as they are, wore to furn

blamo them? How often do you have to reject the proffered hand?

Twenters TRADERS IN sway from us now could you

After. It is 20 years since we threw away the finest chance of knitting the Empire trade together by tarif prefer-

ences.

GERMANY

Twenty years hence, 20 years hereafter what will the Em- pire trading position be?

* LONG AGO ference held in London.

It is being decided at the con-

The late Socialist Govem- ment threw away our freedom. The Empire Economie Conference is Under the General Agreement meeting to talk about trade on Tariffa and Trade

(GATT committee. What it decides can affect for short) it bound us to our lives for the next twenty `years.

sumo lunacy as the treaty with the Germons which we ended half a century aga. GATT whittles down existing prefer- ences and forbids any new pre- ferences

In 1932 the sudden in- crease in U.S. tariffs had killed Canadian ex- ports to the States. An Imperial Conference was held that year in Ottawa. The Cann- dians Britain.

turned to by WILLIAM

I am sometimes trap-

ped into saying I was at the Ottawa Con- ference. I should say I was in Ottawa at the time. The con- ference was the most secretive alfair imaginable. Ministers broke into a trot if I approach- ed to ask them the time of the day..

Mr Malcolm MacDonald was Ueputed to keep us informed of what was going on. He be came so expert in telling us nothing three times a day that he has held high rank in diplo- macy ever since.

BARKLEY

What will the Tory Gover- ment do? Mr Ronald Russell, Tory MP for South Wembley, a Canada under a Liberal tower of strength in the Em- Government,* if you please pire Preference movement, says appealed to our Tory Govem- ic me: "It is the party line to ment to end this treaty. We free ourselves from the restrict refused. Canada faced the ive clauses GATT

of wrath of Germany,

Mr Lennox-Boya WOR a.

She cleverly drove a prairie powerful abolitionist as a pri- wagon through the treaty. She vote member when the 50- decided to give a preference in cialists were in power. He was her market to any country in a position to help implement which put no duty on her ex- these pledges when he went to ports.

the Colonial Office in this Tory The only countries in the Government. He was whisked world which filled that bill away to Transport.

were Britain and New South Why? Would the strength of Wales (not yet federated In his advocacy have proved an

embarrassment Con- Australia).

bad stayed?

The veil was rent for me only once, My Information was that the great Imperial ference opened in private in some such terms as this:-

Mr Bennell (Prime Minister of Canada): "To help us salt our beef to you are you pre- pared to put a tariff of 4d. a 16. on Argentine beef?"

In vain the Germans scream- ed at an affront. Where they paid a tariff of £1 we there after paid 17s. 6d. In the next ten years South

Africa, Australia, and New Zealand failowed Canada's lead.

repealing the

German

Mr Baldwin (Prime Minister We freed our hands in. 1890 of Gt Britain): "I had hoped by that question would not be ask- treaty ed at this time,"

if

THE 1952 MORAL

THE Socialists develop a quite THE

different attack

on. Im- My Hugh perial Preference.

Galtskell's line is that it до

But for another 20 years --- Finis to conference the from 1899 to 1910 Britain moment it began, so far as con- was content to receive a longer matters. So much of our cerned the beef trade. Flais to ference in these Empire mar- hopes of cutting our joints in kets, to the immense advantage trate is conducted by the Minis our own Empire. We scorned of our export trade,

try of Food, by bulk purchase our friends and remained in giving

that bondage to the foreigner.

All we get is a row of cocked snooks from Peron the Argen- tino and his boast that in our extremity he acquired Britain's vast investments in-his-country for nothing.

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O back a bit further, to the U-year 1897. We--had treaty with Germany, dated promised that we would never allow the Colonies (as they were 'called) to give us a

preference; We had promised

Germany. that we would never allow Canada, for example, to put a higher duty on German, imports than on United Kingdóm im- poris. It sounds lunatic, but there it is.

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and by quota arrastanet-

tariffs have

то

This is to say we are o So- cialist State in perpetulty.

party megalo-

It is mere mabla. Qulle a short period of competition

and

abundance would sweep the State trader THE Prime Ministers of the clean out of the market.

Colonies respectfully urge Thus Socialism seeks to per his Majesty's Government petuate Itself. For if freedom the expediency of granting in is restored to the United Kingdom preferen shall be left powerless to direct the market we Tial treatment to the products Empire trade

to our mutual end manufactures: of the Commonwealth advantage

exemption unless the Government Celontes, either by from or reduction of duties now covers ita facal freedom. or hereafter imposed.

We should shake of GATT Such were the terms of

as we shook off the Germang 1803. In all these 20 years the resolution passed in the year half century ago.

We should then Empire got nothing but a dusty where I started, 20 years ago, back

answer from Britain. Then with the task of creating an after the first war a start was Empire trading community still made with a preference system to be carried out.

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That's the message in Red on the mat in Stalin Allee

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"Ah, but you should have seen the one that got away

London Express Bervice.

Dear Mother

BERNARD WICKSTEED WRITES HOME

You should have joined our trip the other night

dead

FROM

KOREA

her, I shall be eligible for the

le for t Korean Cat Club..

That's a new ofganisation, the buys have started for restocking the land with cats,

A major i know. Jind so many rats in his Command Post, duż id the side of a mountain, that he sent an urgent message to a friend in Tokyo to send hün A cat by alrmall,

All the time.they were waiting. for it to arrive he used to say to the 'boys: "Just walt-till-that- cat comes from Japan. We will

Korea. I thought we must be EAR MOTHER, Re- three times over, but the major member the

old on came to life: black-out? And how

They laugh rid the place of rats as quick as we used to creep. along the

night, with only a tiny strip country roads in a car at "PLASTED

the Piper of Hamelin." A Gunners," he But when it did turn up it D said. "That's their Idea of was the smallest kitten ever:

... weaned, and no larger than a

tennis ball....

of light showing and you a Funny Joke. re-hanging out of the window

to tell us when we went in side the road here, and

"They've got a battery along- they the ditch?

walt till come unsuspecting type comes along in the black-

Berlin. Callers cannot let themselves

IF the landed families of locked. house door is always

Britain think that show.

This means that until some. ing visitors round their body comes along with the key stately homes of England you cannot as much as glimpse keeps them busy they the big flag-draped bust or should meet Comrade Rudi entrance ball.

Stalin that dominates the

Meicr.

Coming up in the lift, as you He moved his family into flash past one Loor after the a show flat in the Soviet other, you see many uniformed sector of Berlin last June, waiting on the landings. This members of the People's Police Since then he has shown his is no police raid; they just live |flat to 55,000 visitors. there.

And not for half a crown a time. He is doing it all for Stalin, Besides which he in work-

STUDY CORNER

ing full time as a builder's onte ONCE at the door the actual look-rounal does not take and studying Communist doctrine long. The Meler flat la noat, at night school as well

"Too much to do?" Rudi, pale very worm-and very ordinary. This is the kitchen," Kays and under-weight, repeated my Rudi, and, passing on quickly question indignantly when I like a museum guide who does became visitor number 55,001, at not want to, keep the next "I try to do what batch waiting, "this is the bath- his flat. I can to acknowledge what a room, and this is where great honour it is for me to have live" been the first to move in here.” Here is the Stalin skyscraper, a housing block 135 feet high Just of Stalin Allee,

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Kitten hunt

Well, they have a black out and then let off a salvo over other way of getting Into the Korean Cat Club is to out on the road behind the his head.

go on a kitten hunt and bring front lines here, and I can From the darkness came beals que back alive, It is quite as tell you it is far worse than of demoniae laughter.

dangerous as big-game hunting it ever was at home, because ·

In Africa. there

dearly always a prec

alde or other of the road.

on one

Oh, the cats.

If you can captured' cât' on patrol your commanding officer Do you remember last time, I is nearly as pleased at if you was here I told you there had brought in a Chinese. I went up to the front were no cats in Korea?" "A prisoner. line the other night in a been eaten up.

Korean sald they must have all In our camp we' are lifeky. We have a complete family of wild cats living under the floor- Well, Mother, you'll be glad to boards of the officers' mess, and hear that now the cats are the kittens are worth a bottle of coming back to Korca. I had, whisky apiece.

Jeep with a major at the wheel. We were going to see the Royal Fusiliers. The colonel had asked us to dine in his dugout.

'Lights out'

one in-my tent last-night. was after the rats.

It was a great black and white thing, as wild as a mountain leopard, and she bored her teeth and spat at 'me.

With all there. rota" around

You drive on the wrong side even a wild cat is welcome, so of the road here, you I hope she stays. If I can, tame know, as they do in France. We were all right till we Lot

to a notice anying: All lights out beyond this point." And then the fun be

gen.

"Do you know this road well, major?” I asked,

“Like the back of my hand,” he 'said, and went slap into some barbed wire round. a minefield,

A bit further on he stopped beside a signpost at the top of a hill, and asked me to get out and see what it said, I shone my torch on it and read:

shells,"

"Drive slowly. Dust

brings

the point where we are under direct enemy observation, Bet- ter get moving. Torches bring shells too."EN

The living-room has a study

"I thought that's what it per with a sizable picture wan" said the major. "This is of Stalin, and on a table A history

of the STATE STREET

Communist Party chd Volume V of Stalin's works. WHEN the Melers moved, in, From the. Living-room lato a W the East German, Com bedroom, where we just havo munist Party, proud of the start time to observo hammer and of its first all-State street-nos sickip Nagy crossed above a house, not a shop, not a klasik daughter Marianne's bod. will be privately owned in the Harr Meier openg a window whole five-mile length of the Do that I can look down on the finished Stalin Allca told Com- city lights. The window would rado Rudi that party members, not thut.: “It must have got a foreign bit wet, bays Rudi "Give it be interested in a bit of a push it will go back

"Cento” friends, and callers nd They have been thên 9***

nda ever since.

Is

the

Wo hadn't gone mich further when there was a whoomph behind us just, where we'd stop- red."Told you so," zald major nonchalantly, "Chinese one-twenty-two, A shell, know. A bit bigger than 25-pounder. Quite effective."**

you

out

looking

Well "Mother, war is war, having a look round in their I did. It did..

and you have to be prepared "And now" rays Herr-Mofer. for that sort of thing if you want, to dine with coldnels, but threo vlatidi's rocard. Thirty" "I-must

books filled with ing off to a party, meet.

I wasn't ready for what hap- names, addresses, comments; 63As wo go out, in walks Frau

pened next. We were negotiat rations represented by visitors Mielerin bright new Russian-

ing a tricky corner,"

with me that is if you count Scolland ns style velform. She is just back funging out of the side saying: a separato nation.

from duty with the People's "Over your way." Over your Apart from classes of school Pellea, *** ***

Medway. There's a 650 ft, drop on With her care vititas num- children, all the 55,000 visitors

this-side, when all of a sud- den there was a bang like the crack of doom, and the air was Alled with the smell of cor

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had to bring a written permit in her 55,002, and 55,003, and order to gut into the filt,

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Ruiti - Atver on the au/math/

Lisory::Visitors take-the-la

William Hamiher an

If they fotched the game price at home we'd do well with our old tabby, wouldn't we? : Well, Mother, that's all now,

Your loving war correspondent

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