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1953

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1953.

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

WORRIED ABOUT

THE ENGLISHMAN NOT GAMBLING

By Les Armour

LONDON. Finance Corporation,

wants

LORD Piercy is worried in of anal lottery

about the Englishman. He thinks the English have lost their taste for serious gambling.

in the gapy.

to All

situation may well become dan- He is not being flippant. The gerous in the near future.

There is as much money about ns there ever was.

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pro- gressive laxation, higher wages and welfare plans have spread that the bulk of the avail- able capital is in the hands of millions instead of thousands.

Not that they don't tuen enough shillings into the football pools or wager enough on the nngs (if any thing, they are a little too familiar with the local Because the millions have they tend to bookle)

but that they are only small sums,

spend rather

and, than save too slow on the kind of when they do save, they don't thing that keeps the nation. invest. The man with £ió in his going.

pocket is not interested in own- Ing 10 shares in a corset fac- little capital tory or a steel mill. He would have a, wock end Investment rather chairman of at the seaside or make the down and Commercial payment on a sewing machine.

There is far too around for risky ond Lord Piercy, the Industrial

WHERE BRITAIN AND

AMERICA

T

LONDON.

HE American maga- zine, Time, and ita stable companion, Life, play an im

portant role in the life of

on reason

In Britain there is no maga- zine which plays a similar role, The reason for that,

is geographical.

however,

The Brush

DISAGREE

By BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP

Alice

.are

C2

The opening sentence the key to whing follows.

Relations between and

current

icu

that America wants us to be strong In the military and poll- like tical spheres, but would to sce us less strong mically.

071

econo-

The Scheme

So the gents in striped trou- sers at the Stock Exchange are taking Lord Piercy seriously.

1 they con persuade thu Government to lend a hand, they hope to get some of the £500,- 000,000 gambled every year ant even some of the £950,000,000 collected by brewers and distil- lers, the £821,000,000 spent on tobacco, and the £187,000,000 which goes for entertainment.

Here's how the scheme would work:

be

and

The Government would sell £1 bonda (available In two shilling parts) to buyers who would agree to accept only one Take, for example, the case or two percent interest and hold

this Consequently

1 may be that we are

The band money would The great struggies are never of Malayan rubber production, them for 15 or 20 years,

but which must be considered along invested in important home and the American people. Both two-page spread Anglo- remplucent in Britain, and un- between right and wrong,

the right and the with the Communist-inspired

developments publications are strident, American misunderstandings is doubtedly in one or two cases between

was only de-overseas 1 balanced we were stupidly careless in partially right. No one can say terrorism that frequently biased and they unquestionably

scientists that the British way is the only feated by an immense expendi- the bulk of the return would go

Into a common pool. of British funds and ก have un urchin delight in and condensed reports of many allowing Communist

competent inen and women to occupy confidential posts in way, nor that the Americans ture

At regular intervals, the Gov- and tragie toll of British lives. blowing peus at top

per are lacking in judgment hats who draw regular salaries from our laboratorier. But we

crnment would hold a draw and but when they set out to the magazine. And that is the mit the Daily Worker to belch realism..

America does not want Bri-split the pool among the win- why Churchill, Eden, hatred against our way of life

China, ners. rubber, to inform their readers

Quite frankly many of us in tain to sell and even just as we permit Communists

the

handi, other

Thus the customer would, save emergence of but, world affairs they doit Butler,

Aneurin Bevan

studying to

Parliament and Britain fear the for

cocotte America, as the great importer, his principal and stl be in the Jocal brilliantly, thoroughly, and

Germany as the great councils. Quite it carefully,

frankly

of Europe - not

will not pay a price for under

raw running for prizes as big as tho with a full sense of respon-

we prefer to have them in full

the Irish Sweeps and the football gives view

rather than hiding and Adenauer, for there is always rubber that will injure

the pools. producers in albility.

in Germany the period of the sythatic in cellars. conspiring

the the USA

man of moderation and honour USA. The result is that

have Everything in the

USA it when she is armed and workers in Malaya wil Briiala are MU Corsa

more violent than here in

standard of living the new Strong Man has ap- to low a these islands. than Americans think,"

once The gates

that Communism. will prered. floreer, the winters are colder,

more have a breeding ground. the summer is hotter, sport is

Thus

ourselves in we And brutal, the rich are

Britain and by no means for cord

gambling is opposing

for richer, the generous are more to Time, CCORDING

the first time-in fuli

principle-whether agree on generous. And, undoubtedly,

QUCH a Germany could smile ment with American public debates at

strategy charitable purposes, the general the

The constant immigration from first on the West and then but in full disagreement with welfare or the bookles benefi United Notions and The Europe is a source of worry as

of the public on the East, changing her mood American tactles.

Large seetlona private debates In the Chan it is a rt.

source of strength.

think that get- the

ngrce. the world,

10 necording

response. selleries of

schemes of any 14 is all to the good that the rich-quick that the policies

of of the Therefore, it is not to be France, with the memory

that the two countries are not

will magazine Time hos brought kind lead to moral degeneracy biggest three Prussian invasions, merely wondered

not the Anglo-American sce the

tend to absorb and emerging this divergence into the same fears different but actively opposed. cleavage

Editors I hope that its

will money which would otherwise back Briteln is holding

on relations springs from the dis- yet again. Germany

realise that what I have written be frittered away but the house- whereas America-perity-in-age-The-British-have- wants to make her the Euro- sense of the centuries which I voter for the rearmament in this article is inspired by a keeping allowance.

and

of schse

Nevertheless, Lord Piercy und pean bure of Western Defence. governs their philosophy, their of Germany because we can- sincerity

not Jess than his friends will certainly make in the responsibility Britain continues to covet the manner of living and their cut- not have a

out a strong case. while look on world affairs. To the centre of Europe, and because their own. Aerlen brands her as a Come British there 5 nothing really the Russians are such fools numist menace. Nor can we in new. Problems may appear in a that they will not come to London complain at the com- fresh gulse, but they are just terms

But I with the West. ment that China's only the same old problems. Thus, never east a vote with so heavy response to us is to slam the to the British, Hitler was no n heart. door in our face when we call more than a savage repetition with kind words and flowers. of the upstart Napoleon.

les are such

tiny affair that

the Londo.1 national morning

newspapers

with linked-up

printing planta

are

In London, Manchester and Glasgow, able

the Breakfast to reach table in all but the most mote places

Will Be Read

ques, in Britain, the power is with the newspapers and not with the magazines. By con- trast, the immensity of the United States makes it - possible for a national news paper to exist. The New York Times is the nearest thing to it, but aeroplane delivery Can only operate on va sonali retall basis..

Therefore, in the USA the national Beld is dominated by pubileations such де Life, the Saturday

The Gap

wan smile of

China,

more

the

show

Undoubtedly the Chinn issue reveals the kap between the

Time, British and American point of

Revolutions

Same Fears

vacuum

ever-

Evening view. Here, indeed, in a funda-tullons run to a pattern. The destroy human freedom. Except

Post and the re-print best mental divergence." ster, The Reader's Digest.

thal Thus you will realise when the current issue of Time publishes a closely printed two- page spread under the headings: THE U.S. AND BRITAIN

Allies Undermine Each Other To Foe's Benefit

Thus you will see the widening gap between the American and the British out- look. We do not lie awake at night in fear of Communism 10 the British, nearly all revo- ara political creed that will decadence or the weakness of for the fanaticism which it in- o America Coinmunism is

the existing term of monarchy spires in weak minds, there is the enemy. To Britain, the or well intentioned despotism small difference between the enemy is Imperialistic Russio. When I talked with

rising of the Russian revolution and that of General brings out the

the French. Douglas MacArthur in

hungry mob. At the head of New the

mob there are ulways York a couple of years ago,

On the inflammatory

other hand, the pointed out that whenever in

tient,

cp-

are apt 10- and ideallets who Americans the past Britain and Russia and portunists

Communist under every bed. scream that the bloody destruc- engaged in war, either as allies tion of the existing regime will They even present the embar or enemies, Britain saw to It

world LA followed by a heaven on rassing speetnele to the that when the war was over

being errth where liberty,

x-President brother- Russia was never allowed to

head and cquality will reign charged with deliberately con. reach warm water. In

for ever and for ever

tinuing the employ of a proved

spy.

im- Such "January"

kend Communist Since the mob cannot und "February"

maturity chocks those of pri- (who have always saved Russia the mob, any more than

love the real. from conquest) also made

can lead an army, who know and it vate soldiers

the revolution scon collapses America.

other

you may be certain, that i will be read and studied in Britain words, those famcus General<

not only at the Foreign Offer but at 10 Downing Street.

The man in the street or the

impossible for Russia to wage and the Strong Man appears.

woman in the home (I think war at sea in the winter.

that is the right order) will ask why the opinion of one publication shoukt carry EO much weight. Who or what is the Editor of Time that states- men should give him

cars?

Anonymous

their

Q

Clash Of Ideas

UITE frankly, we in Britain are not nearly as concerned

That is where Britain and - China Issue

Ger-

America disagree about many. The politicians in Lon-

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don, with their sense of history TINALLY, there is the question which I have already described, of Britain's recognition of: are not convinced that the Ger- Chini. It may be nows to the re- American renders of Time, but many of today bears no with Communizm is with Rus lation whatsoever to the Ger- this action of the then British

ian Importation, no matter by many of Adolf Hitler,

Government was. taken

with whu name it operates. We do Three times in ilving memory the knowledge and support of not elieve that Communism Germany plunged Europe into the American Administration.

living times in KNOW something of the can be defeated by the most war. Three

Gov- Certainly the Chinese bomb which memory Germany invaded and

eriment has treated our envoy inner workings of this pub hydrogenated

occupied France. But in thaso Jleation. It has a good deal in science can create. Communism three monster gangster

studied contempt. raids with a

To Da Americanism, with "Alcoholles can only bo conquered by Germany was victorious only employ Anonymous" vera that strange Capitalism demonstrating the in the first. Therefore is it not would make the comment: "55 secret society where reformed world that it gives human possible that Germany

has what?" alcoholics gather together and being better way of living. In learned her lesson and can now. re-live their dangerous nights other words, it la a clash of put away the knucklo duster and besotted days by mutual ideas and ideology,

of the criminal and take up the : confession enlivened

truncheon of the constable?

common

anecdotes,

by

Thus in Loncion we do not allow Communiam to rob us of

We do not suggest that the our sleep, except when it is

staff of Time are alcoholles, Jinked with aggrandiroment

Great Cocotte

The Chinese and the British have much in common. They are very patient 'and, consequently, in no great hurry, China has always had a basic distrust of Russia, and also she has a long history of trading with. Britain.

It is true that Moo Tre-tung a a. Communist, but we British believe", that he is being of all a Chinese.

but they are certainly anony and expansiontam as in Russia. WITH logie on their side tho mous. Worse than that, they Like many other MPs I felt no Americans raid to us, hope and som syntholler." An item of embarrassment of attending a you do not rearm the Germans three hundred, words in the reception at the Yugoslav Em- they will ruin you by magazine be, the conden bassy when Tito vislied London, able to concentrate wholly on Unhappily, the difference be

may sation of reports from five Certainly he is'a Communist Industrial production." No tween the Americans and the members of the staff. The but his open defiance of Stalin doubt, we suggested In return Bilih are not confland to the secret izlouths of the FBI are was the heaviest blow to: Zois" UND exciso dulles could be tasuce of German) rearmamébé not more bidden from the perialist Communism that has imposed on Gorman, exports as the containing of Commun pubile cyo than the bays, and boun. dollvered since its threat

comribution p

Western In Britain we have girls who contribute to Timer fist darkened Unifie

skles

European Defence).

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