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Some things must be done -

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1954.

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IT'S

IN

"B

00M probably

conjures 111 tuy visions

10- of

oil gushing in Canada's Alberta, gold strikes in her northland, aluminium mills thundering in northern British Columbia.

But, however, odd "boom- ing Britain"

Hound, may the adjective fits.

This factories

yeur,

Britain's will churn out three items for every two produced before the war.

Every man lo a British facting

00 percent m will produce than he did 1938.

THE NEW DIPLOMACY

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

"

TIME

BOOM

BRITAIN

FEATURE WRITER LES ARMOUR AND ECONOMIC CORRESPON- DENT RONALD BOXALL TODAY CONCLUDE THEIR STUDY OF BUSTLING BRITAIN

Unsible world markets and Tough special problems, like crecking the dollar market, created further upsels.

And it is still true that, al- though Lho British factory worker plures twice as much 4 his clian counterpart, he produces only a little more then half as much as his Canadian or Ansriedh ppposite number.

For that,

A scraft production has risen belching mills of the Midlands

there ATE many froma prower to Bille to ie today turn out nore than 1% recs as. The American werker

counting" to thly tons or every rewar ton has

eight

of horsepower bothered ver's two civil aireraft o day, record 1710 in 41.on tons last machinery behind him; If that then't sound like much, cas.

British, a scant 31. Ügure how much werk goes int

arlinera phose a modern for

cx-

That is a whopplug leap-... and even nede impressive if you that the per ITHALI remember

American tac- Northern Scotlan! which productivity in

only 50 tortes

you don't count the rectally an increased has

med Cay Russlan pereen in the same period.

Britain's story picbably rings peramental plot plant) will be in vars used to the the first in1 he world, probably strangely

of by several years. It will connly pronouncements gkomy Chancellors of the Exchequer be the first inafor Industrial

in postwar who.

yours, have plant. Fert the impression that often things were more than a little rocky.

The Backbone

Chemical output is up 51 per-

hicles 38

percent.

of millions of

M

Winning Fight

A YEAR OF TREATIES

Does

It Mean Peace Soon?

W

By JAMES WICKENDEN

cold

ITHIN A few the new factories on the

months teri major north plains of Russia and with the milijons of their diplomatic agree.

10

ments have given hope to troope

The first" stops towards the Went of co-existence European unity are the begin- with Russia and China.

nings of a rice-not In arme alone-but on all ages of in- They arr the Balkans dustry. The race is not to keep agreement, the settlement ahead of Communism, but of the Anglo-Persian oil keep up with it.

The object in not la arm for dispute, the Italo-Yugoslav ต่ WOT-Eden would never Trlesto settlement, the subscribe to such a view-but Anglo-Egyptian Suez treaty, to reach, with a great effort, a the Geneva acttlement of temporary equality of strength. the Indo-China War, the the West can try to come

Then, In brief breathing space,

to

creation of the Southeast

tems with the Bast und make Asian defence organisation, co-existence a reality.

con pri-

the agreement on German However, world power rearmament, the ending of no longer be measured the occupation, the exten. marily by industrial standards. Bion of the Brussels Pact

and, last of all, the Saar agreement.

Full Import

In this year of treaties, the

This impressive cataract of diplomalle peace triumphs has hanied most of the long-stand full import of nuclear weapons ing Bore ayots of the free has been exposed. Now it in world. IL brings the unity known that their effect on the

denling vital to

with

the atmosphere is cumulative; that monolithic Communist axis, in destroying an enemy the destroyer must himself suffer from

and the Geneva settlement im proves relations between China and the world,

But the number has been like

22

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glut.

treaties The

global radionotivity which will last for 5,000 years. This fact makes nuclear war the suicida

of humanity. So

mushroom

cloed

effect of them has not been the familiar

may become the symbol of ́ a politically digested.

new human consciente; Also, Ds If to check over- scientific reminder that to com-

that mit optimism, there are signs

the crime of war is the danger of war between bring retribution as surely

if it were administered by visible avenging God.

Israci arid the Arab states is in- crecaing.

more

But the free world will

able to deal with dispute if world tension general is reduced.

Western Unity

bo this

A new

to

This truth my indeed herald millenium In interna- in tional morality and peace,

least there

At

Ls no doubt that the consequences of war have never curbed ambition so much as now. This new dread already of appears to be in the minds

world lenders, to be urging caution and

even Soto

Fortunately, both Russia and

to be pursuing humility. Its effect is, perhaps, China appear

with already showing

the aim of co-existence the

ernestness. They have, at last, scut MOVCH begun to lower the Iron Cur

a

of production in which Britaint hold an undisputed world jeal, engineering and shipbuilding 30 Looking Into the future, percent, paper and printing 32

percent, Britain has started work

FUCH British plant is too old on it vast atomic power

ell it sounds pretty for the b. That, in part, is Station in

All in guid.

one of the prices of being first But hen't in cusy.

in the

Acld. If you have A full and power shortage in textile mill, you can't just throw 1947. he instance, wisted ten 1 away and buy a new one

man-hours, and whenever some major technical Other wor various

material development comes along. You shortages ince hayo calen up have to wait until you can afford millona more precious hourз. it. Your complier who came For sume Industries, drastic in later has a distinct advantage semedios were mentii. Teke And, to survive, Britain must ocal. The end of the wie kund produce a lot of high quality meny pits dragging glong, with goods 1101 preduced eisewhere. pitifully encicnt cquipment and Often, in work of this kind, it is JOR have the basic industries hundreds NOR

pits just about impossible to get s much out and There was a lot of factors

of a man-hour 23 you could leading up tu the glooms of neglected.

To get out of the mess, some with mass production" methods. Electri knocked

power Chancellors; industry

output has one had to find a master pan. And, of course, one of Brilein's more than doubled.

and a lot of money feat. Coal biggest assets by war,

is its topsy-turvy

Coal production, despite the owners investments sold to carry on the

in producing quality that every ton of capital. fight, the changing fece of world simple fact naitets, and periodic shortages coal is horder to dig than the the

only

hope

and for all its Meanwhile, Britain has already last one d

despite a serious problems-ncurly everyme is mastered the technique of muss Every automobile, every nie diep in manpower, has remained ugiced that it is still the only production In the Helds where

bon, met its prewar average, every nut and

they are desirable, Just now, liner.

Steel, of course, is the back- Railways were In a similiar the nation must fighting, fact, produced since the war has

of industry, Is trone bien votally ncrea="/

But it is a winning Oght. Britain's

If pludur-

But wha' is gloomy lo 21 Chancellor may still be a stirring

Nti

of raw materials.

overseas

n had not riten, the country

would have gone bust.

As it is, there i∙lands are just

nicely paying their way.

And, to do it, Brtvin has bud

to work vust cir.nges in the whole paltem of her industry.

T

Simple Fact

begin with, one simple

I

power

Aurces

and

beon worked out.

گذشته

Just didn't have the

Nationcsation seemed a

volution for coal.

the jumble.

THE MAN WHO RESCUED

ROBINSON

fact has to be made clear, WARWICKSHIRE his Apart from iron und coal. Britain's naturel resources are

CRUSOE

By J. W. TAYLOR

many generations of readers mess guve W

torians found rather

young and old.

171

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Woodes Ruzers tha material for the booklet vých Defoe later based his

on

In

so close to being non-existent nostalgic the passing com- thet no oco

ar Robinson Crusoo ople. Prelude to the "discovery" 'of but an academic ment by the Radio Doctor geologist would care to go into in a recent broadcast on the "C" was the fitting out of The dector's "Dover Powder" the subject.

expedition to prey on the was a properation of opium and value of Dover's Powder as commerce of France and Spain, Ipecacuarha which, eccording, to Brain is an importer of raw

a cold cure, "if you can get undertaken by a party of adven to Rado. Doctor, still has cur end an exporter of muda (eating the powder." For them it turers from Bristal. Dr Dover tive properties for combating the factory, if you will. Once upon revived the story of the dis joined it. His financial contri- common cold. He became known time the old cliche "workah covery of Dover's Powder bilewed to rail as a ship's oflear, though there is no mercury

button was ruch that he was

on the "Quicksilver Doctor," al- of the world" was strictly true. by a Warwickshire doctor being given the curious double his cold cure. In the meantime, the rest of the and his historic rescue, of rank of "Second

the stranded mariner later Captain of the Marines." To survive, Britain hea to, be to become the central figure highly effent produce of of Defoe's epic "Robinson

His navigading offfete to the things other people don't pro- Crusoe."

cxpedition W.Os the famous duce so well.

Somerset buccanter, War

Dr Dover was trained in Lon- Dampker, who was

awarded don under "the famous £200,000 later, but died before Sydenham, by whom, 110 Was dio could receive it.

cured et mallpox in the course of-remarkable treatment which out

the Paclie the Dover described in "his, notes:

world has built

its own.

the

workshops of

An illustration or two makes difficulty-plain. Textiles onco the backbone of British indidetry. But other

were

people have been catching up

DESERT ISLAND

The scaman, Alexander

Certain and

SMALLPOX CURE

Dr

in Selkirk, or, more properly. buccaneers pled smoke rising the field. Result: In 1937, the Selcraig, was marooned on a from 1:1 Islet sextile mils produced 23 milikn

cf the Juan "Though it was January, my pounds of gallon yarn 70 desert island in the Pacific; Formandez group. A bost from windows wore

constantly open, millice yards of cloth ovey the Warwickshire medico "flagship The Duice, wes sont and my bedclothes ordered to be week. Now the trials trea was Dr. Thomas Dover, to investigate, with Dr Dover in faid no gher than my waist. seant 14 and 30 million.

command of whose passion for the sea "marines. They were astound- bottky of small beer, acidukted

party

of Sydenham made ma taka twelve thing had to be found to took him privateering. His ed to be greeted by a run-turned with rit of virki, every 34 Something Au the gap.

One Covious

jolution was rescue of Selkirk was related figure speaking English. harshly care. Theprowar in a booklet written by an end while. Sects accent story. It was the smallpox virus this synthetic fibro,

....It: Was Industrial census revealed none officer. · named Woodes Selkirk (Solcroig). of i IN Now 62% million yards of nylon a year come out of the Rogers, Dover's superior on was that he had been put ashero parent mixture, killed, and not factories.

board ship, which reached trouble-making for den Bad Dr Dover who was oon up and Plastle provided another new the hands of Daniel Defoe, on aireciate of Willen Dampler,ution his adventurings, industry and, last year, the He transformed the story and left to fend for himself on Dever eventually settled dowis nition produced 215,000 tons,

A CA D stumpling His native Hkitárids and wrote Into the Immortal adven- this last. Oil refining has grown by 21⁄2 tures of Robinson Crusos, He was taken on by the x-nepistation, the Auchanti There

the book which orystalled times and preeerst copmally is 35

which have delighted so pedition “and” his stories in the slutmy's Lemacy to Eur Counky. million tona.

Hi

from a ship because of

tain.

Russia has taken the lead by

Bottle-

to

the Trieste accepting ment, and by starting to open friendly relations with Yugo- sitvia. She has also begun discuss disarmament in the

although United Nations, far without commitments,

those moves By themselves might mean little, But they have been made in reaction to Increasing Western unity. They have also been made amidst an increasing

of exchange

mis- sicos. tours and international China sports events. Neither

·

пог Rugza 82cms anxious to continue a remote forbidden countries,

But there is another side to co-existence,

it la, that the Initiative ot the Industrial Revolution, once held

by the West, is passing

to the huge Communist states. contemporary Compared to

to futuro China, Russlu and

shrinks, It Europe; suddenly glowing with a few lights becomes a small peninsula of culture compared to ti teeming world of Industry and

new power.

Only by its utmost exertions can the West keep pace with

existence,

in the towards

pre-

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