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VISION 9 De PAST

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1953.

THE KRUPPS ARE GIVEN A WHITE JACKET

By WILLIAM hamsher

BONN.

THERESE KRUPP, widow

THE the

Krupp who

started it all, wrote to a. business friend 11 days after her husband died: "His death is a sore blow. But the business will not suffer."

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SLUMP?

D

THE

WORD

HAS AN ODD SOUND

WASHINGTON. last year since October 1.

talk

about

that is important. And

they slump here in Wash social moo: seems cheery.

and the

"will

State: would mean for you and me-for all of us. The results. not only economically but politically and strategically ice, could change the of history.

course

the widow Therese outlined Alfried had a few months in her plans for the iron gaol before his freedom and his works, net up in the leafy by the Americans,

fortunes were restored to him

little Ruhr town of Esuch. That was in the year 1826. It was the slave-labour count that brought in the main ver- The widow Therese's let- dict of guilty-the use made in ter heads the opening chap- the Krupps plant of pathetic

hordes of Eastern Europeans. ter of a new book on the rise of the firm of Friedrich The Krupps defence blamed Krupp, gun-makers for neur. Hitler's Black Guarda,

They made all the ly 150 years.

administrative arrangements, said Alfried.

Big Bortha

Or Gustav, von Bolen, who was running Krupps when the war storted, the author says: The book closes with a "On the coldest winter day he

would

allow no room to glimpse of another feminine heated more than us every Krupp-Bertha, widowed had his watch out

in 1950 ("Big Bertha," the trunk call he made, and always long-range gun of the Kal-isked the switchboard girl for how long ho had spokori. · This, ser's war, was named after the author tells us, was not oul her). :

of meanness, but because Guse tav was tuch a stickler for order

Herr von Klass's publisher

Her husband, Gustav end precision. VO)1 Bolen und Holbach (1870-1950), married into (Rainer Wunderlich Verlag, the family and the firm. Tucbingen) offers а lovely Bertha's life, says the book, cuition of the book at £3 38. was never easy. "Imagine An ordinary copy costs 32s. 6d. white having to limit play hours Both cditions have a

whitewash

with the children because jacket, just as if it has

produced with

of guests. She was never brush. free to please herself."

They do not want the nation by and large to go und gel too cautious. For this night mean trend towards a mood of ap- ington? Or recession? There has been a tremendous prehension about the future.

Like Bertha, her daugh- Such sinister words sound. Jump in savings this year, 1: is

ters - including Barbara, tha Estimated

Another sensitive by the year's umid this lush, rich, bust a staggering 10,009 million "stock trimming."

mood is

named after the patron ling Christmas-is.coming dollars

But there are two big fac-saint of artillery-are good (£5,717,500,000)

American

which America,

will play their ns out of place have been socked away in '63

business carries lors

and sweet too. They have vast

threatons, the

slocks and unreal us talk of blizz- -far and away

are Part if real dunger highest

when things humming.

not been corrupted by the When the humming With America it is very much ards at high noon on a sum-

figure for any postwar year.

sinks to a lower note the stocks a care of once bitten twice shy. fame of their name, and not mer day.

are cut. This has happened once

even vast riches have they see the red light twice already since the war. but those shoke outs"

will do everything werd Americans relatively painless.

in their power to avoid the danger and defeat it. There A stock trimning touched off will be no apathetic silde into by panie could lood to a real disaster. cesnomic catastrophe.

But there are two ties

to

That savings statistic. Just why are the public saving

on this cale? The old mad rush to buy anything and everything at

To all outward appearance it is the same tree-wheeling, fast spending, everyone's-got-dough America that has roured Into sight has vanished. #codily increasing prosperity eince World War II.

In the great cities the pleturn

luxury looks

· of fabulous

to

In the early days of the Korcan war people bought be- cause they thought that goods might become scarce Aguiu

have, all the familiar glitter overnight. plus.

American

mill

Tax cuts

are

voices Charles Wilson.

And in the run of the

That's all over now. Inflation PEASSURING homes of the men who are paid. America, the shops are stuffed former big business man, who

has just about been beaten in heard. mky

standards- with every sort of goods inodest wages it is still a lot

no is America's Defence Secre never before-alld the dollar tary under Eisenhower, pledges that coming cuts in the defence budget-will-not affect business.

of consumer goods," from TV has recently become "harder," коча to`pleettle labour-saving gadgets festooning the kitchen.

Thrift, huh?

ha

+

And they will be led by Government which will! Also

fight the danger with every last ounce of America's traditional courage and ingenuity and in- ventiveness.

They realise

spoiled them.

How rich, in fact, are the Krupps?

After reading 500 pages of unspared praise of the

a lot dynasty we know about them.

The author, an unknown German writer named Gurt Ber- von Klass, quotes a lin newspaper that when Gustav really started tout-. OR the Republicans, who ing for the Kaiser's Navy were in power in the great orders-in-1907-ho-was-Ger- of '20, realise well many's richest man, with an that if they let themselves bo blamed for "iwo in a row they income of around £7,000 a will undoubtedly be swept out week. of office for the next 50 years.

As for Elsenhower himself, depression

had already ind to say goodbye to one of his electoral the CO in spite of the best bland promises-bulancing the Bud

And of course Joe Doaks the factory worker, who has driven his own car to work for many years, now sits behind whwel of a -whopping luxury Job-and complains because he cannot find any parking space.

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Flat notes

chmen's of shopkeepern

get in order 10 full an

and business run, who are doher one-lower the faxes.

Ing everything these days ex-

Well, is it coming or isn't I fall to the sagacion3 octogenarian

it? On January 1 sure enough

10 sum

Asked by reporters the other day what he thought of the

cept actually get down on their American taxes will be slash- Bernard Baruch, knees to the housewife, people ed by 5,000 mon dollars Elder Statesman and friend of ́are banking their money Instead (£1,705,714,285)

Churchill, and Winston year of spending it.

that should make

everybody matters up. happy-ut 135 for the tine Federal Reserve Bourd But, although thrift is the being. makes it oficial-it reports up to a palat, people in Wash-

this your's output of Ington are bit worried about No need for me 10 remlad economle oytlook ho replied: goods

totais 380 what is prompting the return to you what thorough-going "There are too many is in the thousands million dollary it.

which means that the American siønd- prd of living, already so high, has been Increased by a further ave percent.

that

and Korvives

(£131,428,571,428)

And yet, us though the oboc player were suddenly to hit a couple of nal notes In the middjë of come celestial symphony con- cert, there are wurning omic developments that may spell trouble.

ссол-

Indeed most of the pundits and experts who take a whirl

at prophecy are agreed that there must be some sort falling off in '54.

Bul, admitting that may be trouble ahead, spell it with a t or a T?

is the big question:

Slipping

HERE are some

of

there

П

sluing here in theso United picture to give a clear answer."

THE HABITS OF BUSES

By LES ARMOUR

LONDON. travels through the nearly presented regularly with mystle

speeds, arriving at

THE Association of Muni- train sports, suburbs at expresa- rites.

cipal Corporations (its tion for ahead of schedule. It Up to now, it has been dif- mind ruised above sewers then crawls across the elly at cult to uncover theso and smogs) is determined to small-puce, resulting in mass ceremonies since it wOB not badger the Minister Transport about buses.

Backings

of inte employees, largo known where bus crews came of

scale fittings of delayed suitors from. Passengers have long and general havoc.

hran

aware that they lyed in remoto worlds, since no con- do you

Not, indeed, about the number That of busds, the coal of buses, or Full-Up Bus."

Finally there is the "Always ductor has been known to give Normally, this intelligible directions in any ony of the usual things. But creature discovered only arca. about the peculiar habits of during rush hours but he appears buses.

mysteriously now and then at times when no one ought to be

Its experta have detected riding a bus. three dangerous species of of the tac British bus. (Though -bus- tro causing|ologisis will doubtless find that moderately wrinized brows:--- the species are not confined to

these islands.)

which

Now; however, it has been discovered that London crows are recruited from omong those unfortunates who daily dia pppear into the underground Tallway pasSOGOS

marked "No

The Association, in its naive Exit." And it is at the ends of *way, belloves that these apccles these corŢidora that meetings 1 PRODUCTION his recently

started to head down across Most annoying is the "Slop can be eradicated by the pro- are hold.

and by tho country. including theand-Run Bus." This animni is vision of more buses

particularly fond of London better skigipline among crows. (where a half dozen busas (al) This, of "souren, ja o funda-

mental misconception.

Dutomobile industry;

2

EMPLOYMENT in heavy in-going different places) are ap

dustry slipped by 200.000 in flo descend simultaneously on A September-October. Bufalo, single stop. Cleveland, Pittsburg and San Francisco ene among the big centres which increased ... their jobless during this period;"

The

"Stop-and-Run Bus! More experienced busologists then, is easily explained and the. are fully aware that buges do "Crawling Bus" is sumpta not exist to transport, the foolish corallory aimed at persuading public from one rijkculous place would-be prescrigers to use come

other means of transportation to another.

The "Always Full-Up Bur" là moro diflcult to explain but current theory holde“, Shah, she. passengers on these are off-duty

Since there is only one quejo. focussed on the bus stop sign,

It is now known that buses tuspa 3 BAILWAY GOODS WAGONS the

Ave

arp loadings always onsliiva inaccesible,

exist for the amusement pt. con Technically each factor in prosperity trend should move forward in turn ductory and drivers,

rear

fell ten percent balow. Igat and halt at the sign. In prace. And the aim of those worthies is crews hired by their fellow year e Agures in the past six tico, however, the "Stop-and- to get from one and of the workers, a njeg

Run Bus morely alinks forward route to the other while u This, however, is stulpon- ounningly, acquiring a sudden cepting and discharging asidered unfair by many grows She has about ÷ the bright burst of energy just as it pawon, clintonzers as possible. side? Electric power. pródúow | the 'vitel point.

́since it plainly meloos the game place is the

Trophies" to "craws coming as too simple, and a rula ng that This beat clean as possible to the iɗogi are it may be enacted shortly

tion has been running a heart- Taking second mning sight percent higher than ! "Crawlihat

Slave Labour

Bertha's daughters should. be comfortably fixed. Their brother, Alfried Krupp von Bolen (he was born i 1906), stands to get be tween £30,000,000 and £40,000,000 sterling under the plan the British worked out last spring as compen- sation for his promising not to meddle any more in coal and steel trading.

It also counts us compensa- tion to Alfried for having been at Nuremberg in put on trial

1947.

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