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Britain's Foreign Markets

KUTI

revent article

Great Britain's export trade The Economist pointed out that as "our prepara- tions for offensive action at a later

date

require the continuance

must maintain heavy imports, we our exports to the highest possible level. The wisdom or necessity for maintaining exports to the highest level has been recognised from the earliest days of the war.

In fact the the export trade * largely in the minds of Government officials and industrialists that at one time the production of armaments suffered to an alarming extent. While

altitude this

hus changed very considerably under the Churchill regime, the two-fold object of maintaining the war effort at the highest possible pitch and of keeping a normal flow of exports is recog- nised as the great problem of the moment.

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It is true that Inroads on Britain's foreign exchange resources during the first year of the war were not heavy but the continuous and in- creasing delivery of orders for uero- planes and armaments from abroad must considerably widen the gap be tween imports and exports unless the export trade is maintained at # higher level than now reached. To achieve this it is necessary that

additional markéts should be secured to replace those lost in Europe and that existing transport. facilitica should be improved,

"CAN'T YOU STOP THAT NOISE OUTSIDE?”

We fight for ourselves and

The France of

N

to-morrowW

OW that the position of France to crystallising, the Brst temptation of all will naturally be indigna- tion at the men who, without popular demand or constitutional authority behind them, have betrayed our Ally.

But indignation is not enough. The right to anger depends upon understanding.

A handful of

men, however

BY HAROLD

LASKI

by relying, as Franco and Hach

led, upon the armed might of their foreign opponenta.

They are willing to purchase im munity for their own privileges by selling France in chains to Etter and Mussollal

They acly upon the military force important, cannot betray forty of the dictators to give them time millions, even in defcat, unless to organise an authority of com- there have been profound social pulsion they could not secure from forces behind them which have the free consent of the French made that betrayal possible.

people.

privilege of Great Britala to organ- ise that liberation.

Granted that wo hold firm, the next year is going to see a new 1848 in Europe, upon an immensely moru

will be no successful counter-revo- massive scale; and, this time, there lution.

Granted that we hold firm-thuc is now the basic condition of all civilised freedom. But to hold firma, we in this country have to emanci pato those democratic forces which capitalist democracy has so long held down.

The Awakening

We also have to discover tho They put Franco in pawn to Ger-

We also dynamic of the masses. and Italy that they may many maintain their brief hour of power. have to organise the surrender to its brief hour I will be, For Lavai claims of those vested interests which have so long stood in the way and lila like. and Petain, who is no

of its expression. more than their Undonburg, are,

I think after all the men whose purposea and doctrines brought France to defeat

Those social forces are unmistak- able. They are the influences which. in 1848, prevented the political re- volution from becoming a social revolution, and established Napo- leon significantly

D enough precursor of Hitlerism--in power.

They are the influences which censed resistance to Prusala in 1870 and suppressed the Commune in one of the most bloody massacres of modern times.

Poisoned Wells

the

They are

influences which Fought to make Dreyfus their vic

They have nothing in them that is capable of regenerating the soul of France. They have been unable to exact willing consent for their betrayal from any Frenchmen who аго free openly to express their

minds.

The masses of Frenchmen abroad unite to denounce this shameful tim and were prepared to poison the capitulation. We know that the wells of Franch justice rather than great bulk of the Socialist Party of admit his innocence,

France denounces it.

this:

ink Mr. Churchill understands

I know that Attles and Green- wood understand it.

They and

The only way to release this dyna- mic is by immense and immediate steps to social justice. they only will awaken in a full way the whole courage and determina- tion of the people.

They and they only will make it evident to the masses that, with vlo- tory, they have in truth nothing to lose but their chains and a world to

win Th A In We know

In our own day, they are the in- that it is opposed by the trade Auences which used all their power unions. Herriot. Mandel, Reynaud. to break the social democracy of bave

bave stood adamant against it. the Popular Front, and avowedly It is a betrayal imposed by Petain preferred an accommodation with and Laval by means of foreign Hitler at the price even of the liber- bayoneta. It has authority over ties of Western civilisation.

Frenchmen only so long as those foreign bayonets can protect it.

Laval and Bonnet and their like have always been in

in politics the commercial travellers of big bust- ness. They have suffered the cxist- ence of political democracy so long aa it did not threaten the interests of big business,

They were prepared for its sup- pression so soon as it appeared that political democracy sought to ex- tend itself beyond the political field. immediately it was clear that And

to defeat Germany a wholesale

ས་་ transformation of the French eco- nomic and social system was neces- sary, fatal to the vested interests they represented, they were pro- pared to sacrifice France to those vested interests.

With this in mind the decision to despatch a mission to the South American countries is welcome. The object of the mission is two-fold. On the one hand the representatives will endeavour to show that it the interest of the countries visited,

it is in the as it

interest of the whole world, that Britain should win the This should not prove a dif- war. flcult task especially as the india-

For, in essence, they have made cretions of German ögents have dur-Hitler Germany the executioner of ing the past few months been fre-

French political democracy. quently criticised and condemned. At the same time the British rajasion will, in collaboration with South American Interests, explore every avenue that might lead to a further development of economic relations.

Another mission, though dissimilar in character, ki on its way to India, In this case the discussions which will be held at New Delhi, nóxt month,

will include Empire countries only. Delerates from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Southern Rhodesla, Burma, Hongkong, Ceylon' and Malaya will meet to devise the the methodo for co-ordinating best me Empire's war effort. The increased activity in the war zone in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean calls for continual supplies, from, what known as the Eastern group of Em pire countries. These equstries willl in fact be responsible Increasing extent for the provision of all war material to that zone,

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-to m

is

Same Old Model

If they have their way, the now pattern will be a way of life in

which the great principles of 1789

will have no place. They have used the opportunity of temporary defeat to inaugurate the counter-revolu- tion.

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It Will Come

The day those foreign bayonets are overthrown, the régime of Petain and Laval will collapse. On that day a new France will be born. The France of the third republic was beaten for the reasons that have brought us so near to the Abyss; its leaders lacked the will to victory, and they had therefore failed to build the organisation necessary for

period of acute danger, audacity is the high road to salva- We must throw overboard tion. tradition and routine; it a theat that have, in the service of privi- lege, made France the victim of their relentless conquerors.

Whether it be the problem of India or of our relations with the Soviet Union, whether it be the profit-system or the mechanisms of Government, what we need now is large-scale and courageons experi mentalisms.

We are unable to mobilise our immense resources by coercion; wa can mobilise them by.consent.

And the way to consent is to con- vince the common people that all they may hope to be depends upon ' victory.

New World Partners

They had sented the political'

The way to persuade them to the life of France from the interests of the masses because they were not effort victory requires is to show Exepared to extend as was shown them by acts now that their hopes to the Blum have, as victory comes, the certainty by their hostility dovernment and to, Republican of fulfilment,

That is what no French Govern- Spain the frontiers of democracy.

They would not enlist its dynamic ment sought to do since the war In their service.

They were pre- began: that 15 what the Petain- pared to appose traditional France Laval Government neither can do to a new Germany: they were not nor wishes to do. To-day it

Hitler's caretaker: to-morrow it will prepared to oppose a new France to

be the agent of the worst type of 3 new Germanyared for a victory French reaction.

They were

for traditional

Franco on the

model of 1914-18: they were not prepared either for the risks or the sacrifices involved in preparing a victors for the new France.

It has no other purpose than to the onslavement Wof maintain France first to the foreign tyrant. and, were he to win. later to the forces of corrupt privilegj,

is significant that so much of the pattern of their coup d'etal. fol-

The France we in Britain fight lows the previous Fascist models.

Even in those last weeks in which The politicians of big businces Reyndun, sought to infuse new now to liberase is the France of the alls themselves, with reactionary 'alls:

energy into the organising effort, future,

It is a France, already restless at conspired generals, and Divil | servante: to over- the men of the old régime

the fate that has been imposed throw the right of a people to amrm and opposed him at every turn. Its will

Tracy, did not want victory on the Pranos, also, ready to co-

It is a e' the opposition the new terus, for that retory meant, They refuse the opportunity of expression. They

evade consultation with the organs established to legalise the exercise of power. They arek to break the resistance of their opponents within

and they knew it an economie si alding two aid yourselves and operate in the struggle for victory. sociil. „revolutioni a

That revolution will come. It is for we are bound in the inture to the condition of the liberation of go forward as partners, to a prow France, and is will be the proud and a braver world.

Their job is Mercy

SPECIAL MESSAGE from the Chairman of the War Organisation of the British Red Cross and Order" of St. John.

It is difficult for us here, in England, to tell the people of the Colonial Empire how grateful we are for the wonderful effort they have made on behalf of the Bri- tish Red Cross and Order of St. John War Organisation in this country.

I know very well that many people think the Red Cross, is merely a money-collecting agen- cy, and that what we give out to the press as to the way in which their money is spent very often does not reach them, May 1 therefore tell you a few things which we have done since, the beginning of the War to carry out our great task of mercy and relief of suffering, äls

We sent out to France some- thing between £30,000-£40,000 worth of medical comforts and stores.

We rent out 58. vehicles, including 20 Ambulancos, fully equipped: we established large Stores at Dieppe and Boulogne: we established: a Con- valescent Home for Officers, and another for Nurses. and equipped and staffed them.

We sent to Finland £12,000 worth of medical supplies. Two aeroplanes were sent the moment Finland asked us for help, with stocks of chloro- form, inoculation seram and essen- tial drugs,

We sent more than £12,000 worth

of medical stores to Norway, in the aame way, the moment they asked

NA.

In both cases difficulties of trans- port were very great.

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*

We have a large Department which deals entirely with the dispatch of parcels of food, clothing and necessaries to pri- soners of war in enemy hands. In the last war we spent close on £4,000,000 on this work alone.

We have another Large Depart- ment which concerns itself with. Inquiries people for their wounded

hy and missing relatives; This work is of such immense value that it alone. would almost justify the existerice of the Red Cross. At the present moment it is dealing with thousands of letters a day from anxious people seeking information concerning their wounded and missing relatives.

on

We also offer help to relatives in- visiting dangerously wounded or sick soldiers in hospital. This was done first in France, and is now carried in England, often entailing find- for ing temporary accommodation people in the vicinity of hospitals,"

In May came the traple collapse of Belgium, the return of the BEF., and later the collapse of France.

Everything we had at. Boulogne, and all our Ambulances fell into the hands of the enemy. We hoped that we might have rescued the stores, at Dieppe, and our staff, at great risk to themselves, went back time after time getting the stores out and away to the West Coast, but such was the rush to save human lives, we, ut the last moment, had to abandon them.

We have lost everything we put Into France, and all that has to be replaced.

•

Our trained stretcher-bearers and V.A.D.s worked day and night to remove the sick and- wounded from the ships and take them to trains and hos- pitals.

Then the wounded began to pour the "Arst back to England, and Iri days of the Dunkirk evacuation we were asked for £30,000, worth of hospital comforts, which we de- livered to hospitals all over England. We have constant demands on us to help with hospital stores and who have been

shipwrecked

In many cases, wounded by enemy action. All our existing County Organisations are told to find at once all that is needed for that work.

clothing salto.

The Ministry of Health, in whose charge the wounded are now, have called upon us to flad 10,000 beds at very short notice. They will help with the cost of equipping these hospitals, which may amount to as many as 200, all over the British Isles, but it will cost the British Red Cross and St. John War Organisa-

and

maintain

tion, huge sums

them

to stan

We have undertaken to and for the War Office and Ministry of Health, anything up to 200 Am bulances, and we are walk on the way to doing so. A large number of these Ambulances are being suppiled through the generosity of the Do minions,, Colonies and Brilsh Com- 50 of them have been promised by munities in all parts of the world! Canadian 50 by America and we have now another offer from America of anything up to 200 We of

stall and to

equip course have them

We, the War Organisation of the British Red Cross, and Order of St. John, are determined come what Ayto car out our duter to the alck and wounded, .comidance.which the pubİ?

generally placed in

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