Continuing "The Expanded
"The Expanded Commonwealth Plan"-Part Four
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aspects of their way 10 a sound balance of pay- the tected emtinental economies of important member of have gone to the stimulation pendezal
ments and therefore to economic to foreign ere- U.S.S.R. sovereignty of United Kingdom dollar Sterling Commonwealth tim
independence, form and ditor power exports; but if the Sterling should draw on the Dollar insulate an economie area exe
The United Kingdom TA In the period of competitive to provide the Area has surereded in earnings of dependent ter. tensive enough
the best market for the primary musexistence strength and pros- དྷ་iakན་ materials
And bulancing its books it rituries deposited in Landou Catal
products of the overseas Com- perdy must be sought not in the markets shout wine!
unwealth countries She can- free trade shibbujeths of the past thanks rather to the in the Sterling Dollar pool, would go down
not, however, adsorb their whole but in notional and regional primary products of British and fail to make appropriate
The Con- comomies able to stand Salus production. oversens dependencies the return in the form of capital
tinental European market is thus through arrangements of mutual
preferenc*L* event of West Africa, the investment or goods or ser rubber fin of Mainyn Mitch vices. will depend on the future relationship with the
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The Europe Commonwealth relationship is of Brst importaNEG In the economics of an Expand- ing Commonwealth. So too is the question of migrationi Offeral
holch that Common- opinien wealth countries would wish
reerul ruch year between
150.000 and from Britain. These experts be
200,000 migrants
keve we can supply the destred
number of migrants without nay danger to our economy as long as the employment position the United Kingdom continues
nt
and present
the
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Miss Dudgeon at work the has
stand
camaru
special
sttached to the wheelchair.
London Laurina Servlet
Miss Dudgeon gets
to the top
-IN THE WHEELCHAIR JOB SHE CHOSE FOR HERSELF FASHION model lar photographer sits in a angles. Friends posed.
poses, click....
"I was
The United Kingdom Can provide many of the consumer goods and much of the equip~ ment required by the overses Common wenlib but the latter's
happy if I got them in focus." dernand
both
camera goes wheelchair. classes for
A cousin rigged up a dark room. Brods cannot be met by
and another
Her name is Delo Dudgeon An enlarger was made from a United Kingdom alone, partien- *
no violent picture for the glossy and she has just reached the biscuit tin. larly if in supplying the goods long as there are
Buetuations 12 GAIS economic women's magazines is in the
top unong Tashlost photo- she is also obliged to supply the
The biscuit in is still in use. circumstances. In fact, the out-
that is re graphers. She hus Just Anished ental for their production.
A scene
hos of 17 hats for a But Miss Dudgeon
since a comunission
the apeated scores of times a day Mayfair milifner. A commission passed the examination of
I British Photo- -except that this parlicu- for a dress house is next en, the Inslute
even
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averaged bag. flow since 1945 has The surplus capital and ply about 120,000 migrants ductive capacity of the countries year of the European Coal and Steel Community and of Sweden ami Switzerland can be and should be used for development in the overseas Commonwealth more than at present. The econ- omles uf Britain And many European countries are compet- ing not complementary. There is, frowever, givat advantage to be
by Hained
Britain
the and Commonwealth from economic co-ujuration with continental Eumpean countries, some which are themselves responsi It is suggested that Britain is ble for overseas territories. The overpopulated in that the more
of population rises
home above ermprehensive development
the more in- Africa will require economic co- food production
United vestment is needed in industriel uperation between the Kingdom, the Union of South effort to pay for imported food
Africs.
The Central
ان
African
Federation. France. Belgium, Spain and Portugal as well as the emergent African states
Sterling is not only a Cum- monwealth, but
The argument for large-scale migration can be pushed too far. In casence is this: given the opportunity and the raw materi
of adult als, a hundred pairs bands can achieve more with a given quantity of basic capital oversees than they can at home.
and raw material, it has been urged that the United Kingdom would do belter to put capital into Ithodesian than into British roads because if that drew po- Dulation to Rhodesis the European, gestion of British roads would The Sterling Area, be relieved and more wealth currency. which includes two European created in Rhodesia, countries not of the
Common-
wealth, is thked through Lon-
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Without either contesting or don with the European Payments accepting these views it is fair! Union,
O.E.E.C.'s
Since clearing to draw one conclusion.
for The proposal
a 1945 the Commonwealth coun- system. Common Market
Europe tries have received from Britain based in the Arst instance on fewer migrants than they wish- the six states of the European ed; they have needed to seek Continental Coal and Steel Community offers now citizens in both danger and opportunity for Europe. The proportion of Bri- Britain and an Expanding Com- dish migrants has only been monwealth.
about 30 percent. Non-Brish Immigration into relatively
Economic Unity empty countries like Canada and
the
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Australia con change national character and even threaten their Internal cohesion Britain cannot join a rigid carried too for. The Com- fiscal ami federai union. She monwealth is conceived as cannot enter into a more intl society of nations and mate association with her
cosmopolitan melting pot. European neighbours than with her Commonwealth kinsmen and partners.
of As the The Commonwealth her concern Continent La not only with the
centre
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This is one of Delta Dudgeon's
pictures of autumn hats,
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list
Yet four yeurs Dgo Misa by ANNA LANDAU
Dudgeon, then 24, had taken nothing
more studied than Π holiday snap. it was then, returning from holiday in France,
that she caught pollo, It robbed her of the use of her legs, partially of her left arm.
In a Sisompre hospital for 15 months, Miss Dudgeon-she had been science student, secretary, then drama student-thought of a new career. "1 wanted to do something I wanted to be able 10 support myself."
In occupational therapy hours ahe wos allowed to practise retouching with une hand, Miss Dudgeon was not natisßled. She took a correspondence course in photography i followed faithfully.
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graphers. One of her practice portraits-of her mother-won a place in Ita exhibition last year.
This year 11 of her ple- lures were included-"one per- cent of the exhibition," smiles this dark-haired girl with the delicate features,
A car Lakes Miss Dudgeon
she round London:
drives 12 has a tiny rope- herself. She operated lift at the back of the first studio to take her to the floor of the mews where whe shares a flat with her mother,
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In the story of Miss Dudgeon's career there is an embargo only one word, "Please." saya the
to Miss Dudgeon, "don't use
word 'courage' it doesn't come
When she maved home Kensington she took shot after shot of a box lit from different
into it.
THE ATOM GOES
TO
SEA
• Atomic ships are in the nows.
Last week it was announced that America and Norway are building atomic-powered marchantmen, Britain is also at work in her shipyards on cargo vessels. But the plans to chal- lenge America in the atomic submarino field as well.
TOMIC power for war-
ship propulsion is here. The
United States
has
By Vice-Admiral B. B. SCHOFIELD C.B., C.B.E., (Retd)
Nevertheless, replenishment after attack will be necessary, and ships will have to rely on the Ficel Train for further sup- plice.
With regard to food, the great advances which have been made in the
the preservation of fresh food by refrigeration should cont siderably simplify this problem. Sailors must have their quota of fresh fruit and vegetables if they are to keep it,
Variety in the diet - Is also a very important factor in the maintenance of the morale, of
periods.
already carried out trials with it in a submarine, and the results have been so successful that plans are being laid to fit it in all new way from solution, mainly due men cooped up in ships for long to the radio-active danger oren ships from the large attack which would result from the aircraft carriers downwarde. erach of such
aircraft..
craft
MOBILITY
In Britain, we too are plan- Doubtless these difficulties will ning to build atomic powered be resolved but in the foresce There is no reason now, why submarines. It is an event as able future aircraft carriers ships should not stock up with exciting as the change from all would, as before, need to be enough frozen fruit and veget
abies to last at least six months. to steam at the end of the last replenished with aircraft fuel. to
century.
The number of bomber which All that is required is to inertaso The first result of the new a carrier can carry for her air the amount of· rozitrated.
this the stowage Is also method of propulsion will be to
· nyollable, and. limited by eliminate the necessity for fre- size of her magazines. Possibly should be facilitated by the quent re-fuelling which has smaller bombe been one of the besetting probe destructive power.
of an equally reduction in the space taken up will be de by modern propulsivo lems of naval operations for the veloped enabling
stowed in the same space, but
more to be MBA Aston; we can aco that. Inst 50 years.
meanwhile provision will have the mobility of the Navy will be to be made to re-arm the car Increased by the introduction
nuclear-powered propulsiori, "this
by
but with all the continents. On It is all a matter of balance: the other hand, a Continental there/le clearly room for migra Customs Union which excluded tion from continental Europe to Britain might shut her out from the Commonwealth. Frenchmen important markets, subject her and Dutchmen were after all to more formidable competition the ploneers in Canada and at in the overseas markels and the Cape. In general, however, lead to
German economic there is much to be said for en- hegemony in Western Europe. couraging those who have been on to the It is in the interests both of anglicised to travel
Commonwealth Оустасав Europe and the Commonwealth would moreover be possible
the to reconcile
Continental spare more British stock for need for closer economte unity Canada, Australasia and Africa home place in the preferential with the
system if their which is and must be the basis economy was being filled of an Expanding Commonwealth other Europeans. economy. It has been suggested
should be an ex- Το make such that there
an Inflow change of secondary preferences effective it would be necessary between European and Com- to encourage the movement of monwealth 'nations. This would property as well as of persons onable the preferential systems into the United Kingdom, This of the Commonwealth and the reinforces the case for rolating French Union to remain intact the Commonwealth with the while discriminating In each European economie area and for other's favour against outsiders, the harnessing not merely It would call" in "question the British but of other... European | ment carriers. Most Favoured Nation principle capital to the development embodied in the General Agroe overseas territories, ment on Tariffs and Trade and other agreementë”. This principle pertains, however, beam to present reliller than the One World® philosophy rybich took posseselota
NHO TOMORROW :
The Process of Association
of
of
a battle
In
REFUELLING During the war in the Pacifle riers. the British and United States The introduction of guided one of the major probléma seets each. had a fleet. train misaites as the main anti-ait- of re-fuelling-will disappear, comprising tankers, ammunition craft ammament” of
On the other hand the food and supply ships, also repieniai- group introducen a new factor for a well-equipped. Flose. Trath
in the
and if it is to be a supply organization, remain In the future the need for Those mirailts which have been muxillary to, the striking-power refuelling, will be eliminated, developed, take up a great deal of the feet it must be com But what of the other require more space than the anti- of properly designates mentar sende
aircraft ammunition "hey re-equipped shlow--and not The dimculties surrounding place. Bince, however, they are hazana ekalection jog, merchant, the Introduction of atomp much more accurata dawer will ships : Tacón over on the powered aircraft seem a long be required,,
Make break of war, "
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