"SAY- 10 MONTHS,
WHAT'
A
NEIT, NEIT - 3 YEARS'
TIMING THE FAVOURITE
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, ́ JUNE 20, 1957.
ARGUMENT H
U drumu which
To
sur- malicks any headlines. But it is
Bon my which the winds of pull- teal debate are likely to blow.
the London talks on dus armament has largely 776 mtre fact that this evaporated as the spectators
your's report shows that the have tired of the diplomatic number of weekly allowances fencing match in which the granted by the Bourd increased run by 44,000 and that two and a combatanta appear to very rapidly away from one quarter million people received
payments during the year another ut the slightest hint of a conclusion.
tough to start a debalo, debato.
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Why should one person in 20
Mr Macmillan's note to Mur- in prosperous country require shail Bulgaria proved him a state highly
udrait foneer,
ald to provide him with bare means of sustaining
at least th
life? (That, by the way, is aff
vince money for. It is not in the
business of dispensing luxuries.)
when the enemy is a long way the Bourd is allowed to ad- away, but it seemed to create more irritation Uusi admiration among the public.
And why should the problem getting worse Instead of better?
be
In part, the answer is simple enough.
Just over a million of the re-
The Britia public has been deeply moved by the hydrogen bomb controversy and, although very few people have changed their minus about a one way or nother, everyone seems to agree that there is very great urgency about the disarmament cipients, or two in every live, are old aged pendaners. Their The debate on problem.
the wire efects of the bob have pensons only slightly Improved
tince the present system would take
Introduced bomby
just after the war, by lurve by no means kept up with
prices.
empliteised that!
unly
a handful of destroy the country and it is by that its
กบ means certain
possible to prevent the
arrival
of that nuber of bombs, how
defences might ever good our
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As a natio, we live on the edge of financial
disaster. A great Empire statesman
sounded the warning. But there is a way to
banish the spectre of bankruptcy for ever ...
HOW TO SAVE
How to save Britain!
question!" said
"What 21
My friend.
"Things were never so good.”
Are they Not according to a man
whose opinions merit th
deepest
respect-Lord Bruce of Melbourne.
Lord Bruce was Prime
Minister of Australia for six
years.
Now he lives in
Great Britain.
Since 1047 tir- $7145 hairman of the
Fine
poration for Industry, which has raised vast sums Ic: Bel
ms that would otherwise denied the money they need for expansion
دیدا
He luis
uncovered t statisti
that should art
As a sharp cur.
cvetive to the present mood of
thoughts optimismi
IS
£3,500,000,000
-by- ROBERT
EDWARDS
perty +3
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Here
at
That fignare * De difference between what Britain has paid out in ten years a what we have received from exports and investiment income.
YO
Brajas
BRITAIN
A hartal overses 1st 10 develop
farestikkers kang atala, dis
in the Empir
IT IS, NEEDLESS TO SAY. N
COLOSSAL
It reprezent
which r City
living in the d degre
which
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tul
POCKET CARTOON
By OSBERI LANÇANTER
"Don't tell me if le inonives
a breach of security, but
just which continent had you in mind ? **
True guide
here is a
which tivese guie 1 Tutamm's present pa fion.
voitat
The gule:
* Fewer Toy By they were in 1951, when the Tory Party came to power. For NEX MOHEN we have toiled and, at the end of it, there is less in the Thank aan ever.
Angilang
tux
clse?
Lonk
AL
1 rtain's share of the world export market in manu- kketsuragi apands was 22 per cent. Now it has stopped
to 10 per
11 Busive period Ger- share has gone up from
t to be my CRIT,
many
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It is
grave
OMBINE
Agures
with
these alarming
Kvenue from Burma,
1,381
602
GOLD AND
DOLLAR RESERVES
1,078
957
845
852
838
JUNE
1951
1952 1953 1954 1955 1956
MAY
1957
Ian Britain's fortunes have Buctuated The last total includes the 2201 millon borrowed in December from the International Monetary Fund.
Let us square up to the truth. ut all Thuney would not look
Britain it dollar doles ated. And they might colse,
My prediction a lew
weeks of an accommandation be- en America and Russia may verbo fulalle, as the signs wow clearly suggest. And that would mean the removal of the minin incentive to the Americans 1 Subsidise Brillan.
What would happen to
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les of then? Would nothing be left but Malaya, despair Fortunately, not so.
and the West Coast of Africa
By the process of breaking up Optima cari prevail 50 continues. long common sense prevails
the Colonial Emple
Add the Government's foolish also,
+
The shortage
MR WILLIAM
S.
no powerial evidence of this was the surprising demand hast week for a Royal Commission to look into the possibility organised passive resistance
of
The National Assistance Bourd makes up the guy.
Most of the rest are persona receiving unemployment Insur- ance, sickness insurance, or the grants which are paid to widowa and
mothern unmarried
The stato insurance scheme is just no longer adequate to meet the nerds of people who have no other money.
So, it
in each case, the National Assistanco Board fills the need. The political debate, thero- fore, in going to be over Είναι $1 came not from the sval
question of what it is that no- propounders of such views but tional insurance schemes are in- from Commander Sir Stephey tended to do.
Are they just King-Hail, one time boss of intended to supplement the in- naval intelligence, ex-Conserva dividual's private means or ure 1tive M.P, and founder-Chair-
they intended to maintain him man of the Hansard Society.
completely in time of trouble? Sir Stephen is wat o
The Socalists hold the second
The view strange view; 10
Tories
1101 iro easily attracted
unanimous.
But neither is
PALEY,
com-
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c'mises.
MAN
likely to want But he appears to believo to raise national insurance pay- very strongly that conventional ments if that means raising in-
of defending
Britain dividua)
contributions by any
means
have either become, or are in substantial amount They have clanger af becoming, worse than recently gone up a little and the insoles and that the only hope public nutery has been tremen-
for 1 is to evolve a system dous which
would make it useless
to
for an enemy le. Invade us. He is not sure Just how this is be achieved nor even prepared be
10
swear
that
it could
achieved.
But ho and his supporters are sure that the matter needs. toolding Into.
The annual report of the No- tional Assistance Board
never
available throughout the Empire
in sufficient quantity
America's needs.
A huge treasure
to meet
walls to be
Enterthed. All that is wanted is
the money for
Investment and For
the initiative to spend 11. nothing like the potential wealth in raw of the Colonial Empire materials being
exploited.
It is a crime against Britain, the
Colonial Empire, and bumanity, And who is in the dock? The responsibilty rests Alan primarily Lennox-Boyd. the Colenia! Secretary
upon
Mr
During the five years of his association with the Colonial Omee he has had the oppor- tunity of leading a crusade for Colonial expansion. He has not done so. The minerat reserves ure there lop. He has jeyt them untapped. There was the wealth to be garnered, He neglected the Harvest.
Ha negligence is all the more deplorable because he knows very well what the Empire has to offer. In his 1031 election address ho wrote:---
"I believe in the Lutute of It is the the British Empire.
good greatest power for the
world. richest ATTO food.
it in the the world 11
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So it looks as though we shall
จาง
muckling through -
National
with the help of the Assistance Board.
Unfortunately. the Board
give not empowered in unee to troubled politicians,
es
assist-
Armour
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AR LENNOX-BOYD should
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