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CAN WE MEET THIS CHALLENGE?

160

180

£

120

120

PRICES

TAKES PRICES OUTPUT

80

80

02.02.

1951 1952 1953 1954 1955

BRITAIN

40

40

1951 1952 1953 1954 1955

GERMANY

160

120

80

1:40

Muine 1951 1952 1953 1954, 1955

JAPAN

Or is there trouble ahead?

HIS, is a year of chal

FL

Krea! we

lenge In experiment.

Ca have the luxury of full em-

without prymeal continuadly rising?

Here is the big test facing Me Macmillan,

rising prices in the past year in that wages and salaries bave Hisen iwice 24 fost да production,

Higher wages are an excel. If living They prices ent thing

standards, and inean good thines for all.

But there is golden rule. Output of goods must increase by at least as much y pay päckets

Bankers. stockrofters and Commerdows of the Exchequer

iten deserabe billation As too Ollerwian reonomie Troubles much money elving too few blow up sooner or later. Roods

definition A better

1/2

Take a look at the charts on

The charts above show the outpul story of Britain,

Germany and Japan in the last five years. They

show. too, how Britain lags behind

by ALEXANDER THOMSON

Morr

ff is ships, cars or handbags There will be beneill, for all the result must be the tanre It We can manage it They become more dificult to exports, safer Jules and a stup Thele in the never-ending che to e sel in export markets. prices become too high.

cost of itving Take the housewife with her Is It Impossible to lift output shopping ba,ket, The foreigner with existing plant? Not at all,

Pinewher ku Li

In Coventry the other week one managing afreelor told me that on als Factory individual But when mitpert keeps ahead output enald be raises! al sist of pay sales søte ere on a sure 25 pererat“ vylihut any exten whner in overseas selleg pre-man-power Add your goods are right

"HLOVA buying.

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Other facity bestes agreed. Many people may

that it |

use of full employment an

with us this page. They tell the out- The difference between the blocks on the chart show the

Items mista the way the Gor- First E

two wand pur story of Britain, Germany two is almost startling 1ise in production. The highest mans have been racing ahead have 10

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jobs and Japan in the last five years. IN JAPAN there is the same represent wages anul salaries with their Volk wogen cars and the Wetture State that our out-

The toerense in them puts the other goods

put lugs ht hind that of the Ger- Chang few workers.

AL #lance you enti see ont showing. Certainly wages bave

mites and the Jap: For

Bul look at exputusion in sulput right in the gone up sharply wages have been golug vini diTerence,

stunde

the Japanese with

We have got to show that it up much up, and there has not IN GERMANY the rise in the end put "incks."

is possible to have full employ- been matching expansion in production

1950 (shown It is keeping way alcad of When wages to up more than textiles and shipbuilding

Stags What we have to do now is to ment withoun any output.

Idack)

far greater pay all the time.

production only one thing can

Otherwise we may stot have Labour costs for enet, new that our production catches Wakes ÎN BRITAIN the story is the happen:

other way round. The smallest unit of aufput must rise too. up with wages in the factories. it for keeps.

The recent Economie Survey than the has tok us that the main entise twhites

The

Alive

been has

131 increase

Iceberg On

The Mantelpiece

by Thomas Wiseman

occasion in previous

NTHONY STEEL, minute bitch like

back from safari The Hollywood

the

I'm no uf

10 Apart from her

flut she i

I'm

can

cun

Eo out to work you were really hot in Hollywood now and

she wants to prove herself. STEEL. I was never engaged perfectly happy for her to do bodanical garden, said: " to that . I went Lo the that, too. I feel can also de haven't

I've slept for

Three register offler to Brad out what

well in Hollywood pretty time it days." The reason for Mr

opened

and everyone had some very interesting offers sold 1 was engaged

co-starring roles, Steel's insomnia?

the sort of man who walks out more casily work in Hollywood on an engagement This is the than she could

In England. They wouldn't know what new Steel

WISEMAN

du with ப girl like her ubylons qualities what is it that here. I couldn't ask her to Mig

Ekberg has Kak that

live here and do nothing but changed you from a determined play Ealing barmaids. bachelor to a devoted fiance?

STEEL. She's so very honest, completely frank. She isn't sort of girl who wants to be WISEMAN: What did your seen all the time. She doesn't other girl friends think about FOT about going ut Q

the news of your engagemeni? She's perfectly happy to relax STEEL: I couldn't care less. at home in slacks and shirt,

WISEMAN: What do you have

WISEMAN: Do you still hove in common?

all those paintings of nudes in your bedroom?

He spent two nights in an airplane flying back. And on home he his first night had loo much to think about to get any sleep,"

report that Mr Steet's think-sessions have nocturnal cover a wide variety of sub- Jee15 BRINK from Aplia Ekberg, his new fiancee, to the prutlemen ΟΙ Her Majesty's Castorns and Exelse Department with whom he has a dale of a (10 strictly unromaatte nature

Slain about those presents from Ara which adorned his Angers and wrists cuffs und when he returned).

Urgent command

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My arrival at his Krusington week and fat-12 guineas now up for sale-produced an urgent command from Steel to his zeerciary: "Bring out the cyanide, vintage year."

He was wearing an Engilsh blazer and flannels, American loafer shoes and at of Anita's presents.

ས1

haven't even had time to

change my shirt since I got back," he said.

On his mantelpiece: a selec- tion of revealing photographs of his lancee with Inscript.cns in her handwriting. "You can read them," said Steel, "but please don't quote what she says," Without quoting them I can tell you the Swedish Ice- berg's messages were far from ley.

I accepted agin and tonic (unlaced with cyanide) and sat on a crimson selice,

S

STEEL 1 am glad to say that she is interested in the same things I un.

WISEMAN; STEEL: Yes

That helps

STEEL:

No nudes

1 don't know what Nudes? you are talking about,

There have never been any nudes in this flat. I don't even WISEMAN: Is it true that undress to go la bed. Sleep In she earns a good deal more my camel-hair overcoat, you money than you do? matter?

STEEL: Yes, it's

Does this

true. But

And

ANITA EKBERG-The pictura Steel took,

Now it stands above the fire.

I anticipate that Mr Steel is going to be no more than an occasional visilor to England in

know. Unlike Marilyn Monroe.

Anthony Steel leavea Buon will for Florence, where he I don't think it matters a bit. make a film called "Checkpoint the future.

and probably marry Miss I'm perfectly happy to be the breadwinner and for her not to Ekberg.

There will be a lot to keep

Don't miss the tombstones.

WHEN IN GAY PAREE

SAT sipping I

"You know," ald Steel, "1 am delighted to read you when the alr you are writing about anybody fragrant. except me. Couldn't you make

piece about

this

Harvey?"

Sportingly

Laurenco

WDS

By JOHN TANTAN

dry in Paris. There are so infinitely instead of taking the lift you'll find it tiring-but worth while. martini outside the Cafe many,

YOU CAN see the world from You can loze in the sunshine de la Paix, in Paris, and 985 feet

chh up: you

hear or you can admire the view— watched the world go by. In ballads sweetly sung in swanky probably the Angst, and certain-

famous, the warm

in the ly the most spring sunshine night clubs,

fresh ant YOU CAN have your pocket world.

is Underground the Metro plcked:

will take you almost YOU CAN pa a fancy price which

and pretty and anywhere quickly for a fancy-sounding dish Around me there was little of got egg and chips.

cheaply. So there's no excuse the big-city bustle-but if one

for missing the suburban Cime- listened hard enough there were The first thing that must diere de Pere Lachaise (Ceme- at least a dozen languages being strike you about Paris is the tery of Father Lachaise.) spoken within earshot.

traffic. Not only that there is no Sounds a bit depressing os a 1 explained that even Above them all echoed the, speed Umil. that traffe lights tourist attraction but believe me Laurence Harvey was entitled (exhortation-familiar to every are kept to a minimum-but it's worth while, to the pleasure of reading visitor to Parls-from

that The also the sensational fact about someone other than him waitresses to sample their de- the system works. self (if he ever indulged in such licious pastries and sandwiches. And, of course, there's the thousands most unknown, but a practice), So Mr Steel "Pa-toes-rec, sonn-vcej," was Janguage.

The woman next to many famous, and not'a few in- resigned himself, sportingly, to their shrill,

repeated cry-and me in the bus from the airport famous, Moliere, Chopin, Mar- his fate.

what awoet music it was,

-obviously

drst-timer al Ney, Sorah Bernhardt, RELUCTANT TO LEAVE turned to har friend and said: Rossini, La Fontaine, Oscar

"Why, even the children speak Wilde...

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FAMOUS NAMES Here are the tombstones

of

One of the discoveries you can make in Paris is that the sauciness of the Folies Bergeros is largely legend.

We studied a head of Mr Steel on his sliting-room wall which had been sculpted by his

I was at the end of my first French." former mother-in-law.

slay in the city. After 10 days I had sympathy, too, with the "It hasn't got any bigger," he I was just getting on terms with woman who looked over the top zaid, "I use it to hang my hats the place and having savoured of the Eiffel Tower and multer on, My first wife threw it at a few of its delights, grown ed: "There ought to be a safety Forget that it really plays a me once, and I cald don't kick used to it Idiosyncrasies and not."

minor part-and you're left with my head around I may need to recovered from the minor mis- It's here, by the way. that a family show. A rather special use it one day." Mr Sieet I dia. fortunes that bofall any inno- the innocent sourist taken one, though, as it happens to be covered in our subsequent cent abroad. I was reluctant to for his first ride in Paris. Ho the most colourful and specta- exchanges was using his head. leave.

pays 200 francs for a souvenir cular music-häll in the world. As I sut' where the Avenue that costs 120 at Km bottom. Not merely to put his hats on.

Some of the night clube The conversation went ilke de JOpera meets the lovely On a sunny day there are few quite respectable, too, even by UhJ8:

Boulevard des Capucines-it has finer spots in Paris than the top prim standerda. In at least WISEMAN: Will your marri

boen called the fifth coITET of of the ore de Triotope it your pour ander men of je d age to Anita Ekberg go through the world ruminated on the moner's rumming short, and you "Lady of Spain," and "O, Mein Or is there liable to be a last- things that can happen to you choose to walk up the 215 steps. Papa, mung really well.

If this happens, Mr Rank will im In Hollywood, Miss Ekberg

and the kind of success that have only himself to blame. Mr never very ecstatic Stewart Granger for which Steel is equally well about co-starring with all thoso

equipped.

giruffes.

found there Steel was

No darling

it's the same coffee, but it's

the Taikoo

Demerara sugar that makes it taste so

good!"

Got a handy 2lb, carton of Talkoo Demerara Sugar to-day and try it la coffee or on cereals

TAIKOO

are

SIGAR

TAIKOO

DEMERARA

SUGAR

Makes all the difference IN ALL SHOPS L. STORES.

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