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IN WAR

WE CAN DO IN PEACE

HE British people have just, many of them. While avery other emerged from the most fand drinks healthy milk, we stir up testing war. We have won something out of a tin, and even our the greatest victory in the story. of our race.

The labours that brought us vice tory were so immense and the results: to rent that We ought to be a triumphant, happy, refolcing and

le. But are we? confident people,

On the contrary. By and large for vigour, for energy, for confidence, for determination we make, a pour comparison with almost any people In Western Europe to-day, perhaps the miserable Italians, who have been pretty well useless since Roman days anyway.

except

Joy has gone

cals won't drink at

The same with clothes. A man enn buy pretty well all the clothes he needs anywhere in Europe-ex- cept in victorious Britain and dem fented Germany.

by

JOHN

GORDON

Up and down the Continent, in Now I have a great respect for liberated landa and unconquered the qualities of the Americons innds alike, a woman can buy chic:

as she needs-but in Britain she is for the

tily match. Who Invented ' It? Nof a Swede, as so many Being tired and exhausted many Ane people think, nor.on American, men and women fell under the Gennon or Frenchman but a man spell. A life of klothful ease seemed Stockton-on-Teca.

Wouldn't it be a fine thing to stamp entrancing after all the effort we hud made, and to make it easier we went every British box of matches with cap in hand to America to burrow a the words, "The match was invented thousand milllon pounds, and col-in-Britain." lected almost as mariy. Insults 43

And de

do you know that the starap.. pounds,

stamp the perforated gummed :

the adopted by every country in world, was the idea of a man from How my native town of Dundon? many people, even in Dundee, know that? I was never taught it in school there, but i think I ought to have been.

BEVERIDGE Brat began that per- TAKE

Softening crusade.

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It is a poor state for a proud and clothes, and as many good alockings and a most tremendous admiration

deeds and valour of the Treat people to have fallen into. warned that she must put up with Russian people, but I certainly do If we begin to regard ourselves as a second-rate people, belleve me, her darned stockings until 1948 at not init my country should be`n

un-can led to the tall of America, we soon will be second-rate. or should cuddle up to Husain for protection.

lesst.

The price of victory is apparently to be dowdy nusterity, dull food and a drob existence till the end of time.

WE have abolished happiness, enough of it.

mans.

arc

be

other Hollywood

In fact, a Dumfries minister in-

The future of Britain depends not

withi the assistance of on America, Russia or any

has permunded the world nation, but on Britain herself. And that Edison invented the electric think we are as great a people the future of Britain depends simply bulb. In fact, Dr Swan; of New- I for one think we have had

as either the Americans or the Rus- and solely on the Individual corts castle, had made and sald 50 millim We certainly have a past made by the men and women who electric bulbs before Edison ever ch- You never realise that until

But to me even worse thing than slans.

are the Britisk people.

tered the business, you come back to Britain from an the fact that we are living a drab greater than elther, and if our con-

I can imagine no better adverlisc- excursion abroad. The joy has gone unsatisfactory life in the fact that tribution to the war is any criterion, If they are proud of themselves ment for Britain than a stamp on, out of our lives.

we are coming to accept it as an in- I think we still have the qualities in and thele heritage, if they are every one of our bulls "Britain in- We are the dowdlent people inevitable thing. The chalna have

us to make our future greater stilt vigorous, if they are determined to Europe except for the beaten Ger been riveted so thoroughly upon us

a great and

for powerful people, vented the electric light bulb," Our farmers go to America mans. We

about the most that we do not even shake them in

We not only have the qualities, nothing can stop them.

They regard reapers and bindery miserably fed of all Western peoples, protest.

but we have also the assets within again excepting the shaltered Ger-

Why should we lap up the non- them as American inventions, as in-

of the world. What has happened to us? Why our

bwn island and our own Em-sense so widely spread by enviou deed does most of do we accept these shocking housing pire.

rivals that this is a worn-out coun- Nations witch only two short conditions, this miserable diet, this

try and that we are an effete people? vented the first mechanical reaper. threshing years go were applauding our life of patched clothes, this existence. The real trouble with us is

that To hear some people talk, you would and another Scot the first

the first com- vigour, extolling our grit, and full without culour, joy or laughter in 11 we are letting the leadership pass think that the only improvements machine. Marcovellt in England. of admiration for our courage, now without protesi?

to soft men-men who do not believe in life the last two generoilons have bine harvester was plly us for the drubness of our Ilves,

The famous McCormick, who is Int struggle, inen who do not believe come from America, America herself

America but And I must say that their pity is Justified. Britain is the one land in

in effort, men who do not believe is pretty good at spreading that idea. credited not only th

throughout the world with the inven Western Europe excepting,

in the battle of life. The sort of And what Amerien didn't give us tion, bought his first six machines in course, devastated Germany-where O vigorous people would. No men, in fact, who in a desperate the ordinary man can't walk into an

Krent people would. Yet two death struggle are inclined to de-a Good many other people think came Britain. He merely improved them.

from Germany, who over years, by and buy ordinary cating house

years ago we were a vigorous people. velop conscientious objections

Britain leads Two years ago good square meal.

We were being in the rough and tumble, but clever publlelty, has deluded half people.

What has come over us? who, when other men have won the the world into regarding her as the What has softened us?

fight for them, frame their Army great inventive nation, whereas she

wood to iron and from iron to rejection slips with the same pride was merely the imitator of Britain. We led the world in ships from Look at the facts. Consider what steel, and we still lead the world as more virile men frame their war medals,

our ancestors gave the world. Study in them in spite of the simple 31 what even the people af our own who, crossing the Atlantic in the

kind. generation have contributed to man- Queen Mary, looked round with awe and admiration and said, "Why can't Britain bulld ships like this.

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on

Just one example. I landed Brussels airfield the other day and

Vigorous People

walked into the restaurant, which Even in international affairs we is little better than a carman's puil- seem to have reached a stage when "What can I have for lunch?" we lack confidence in ourselves and they re-determination to stand on our own

up.

I

aid "A rump stential, suc-feet.

to

They have for years preached the gospel that effort should not count in life, but that every man has the right to be held up on his feet by Contrast Britain's record with

of any other peoples the State from the cradle to the grave, | record Their creed is that a man hus no earth. right to carve his own niche in life, but that he should sit placidly in the

plied. And a good,

How often nowadays do you hear culent rump steak it was.

Could you expect that at Croydon, a strong British voice stating a strong

British policy? at Northolt, or at Heath Row?

The only leadership we get is one While every other land is a land

nof two kinds. One set of people of chickens and eggs, Britain is

While every tell us that we can only exist in land of egg powders. other land in a land of good, honest future if we trail behind the United

of America. The other set niche to which some civil servant steaks, Britain remains a land of States soya-bean Sausages, and not too wants us to the ourselves to Russia. has directed him.

The Foreign Ministers Are Getting Friendlier

By JOHN HIGHTOWER

THE New York meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers is moving more amoothly than any other peace making sessions of the United States, Britain, France and Rus- Bia.

ncross

terms of naked power, is caught be tween the bear and the bomb,

A slogan

the

on

LET me give you some of these

facts.

We invented the thermionic valve upon which modern radio has de- veloped, and we know-although too many other nations don't-what Kel- vin did in the field of electricity.

We even introduced the water- closet to the world, a small thing to you, maybe, but one of the great inventions because of the effect it

We all know who gave the world had in the fight against disease the steam engine and the rallway caused by Insanitary conditions. trato, which opened the Industrial Yorkshireman invented It. In France. ern. But let us take some lesser- even to-day it is still known

known

coveries.

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but equally important dis- "English fittings."

I need not tabulate our record in medical discovery. From chloroform The bicycle, for example, to-day to penicillin, progress very largely plays a vital part in life all over the came from Britain. world. It began £9 a seat which a

Germany, of course, claims the man propelled by walking along the aniline dye discovery, on which she ground on his feet. Who made it built her great dyestuffs monopoly. the universally used machine it is In fact, you have to go to Porth for to-day? An almost unremembered the originator. His name was Per Ayrshire blacksmith who Invented kins, and Pullars of Perth, for whom he made the discovery, are still the pedal.

famous to-day.

IN the power pattern, France and which her diplomats prefer to exploit

China hold hot spots all their own. Is that of negotialer.

I would like to see every bleycle The land of Chiang Kai-shek lles Time and again in the Foreign

the Pacific Ocean from Ministers' meetings, the French DC-Pedal that goes out of Britain 10-day America but shares the same con- puty Foreign

Minister, Couve de stamped with the proud slogan: "The tinent with Russia. Chino, in the Murville, has sought often success pedal was a British invention.".

Who did as much as the pedal in produce a compromise fully-to

ventor to make the bicycle possible, formula on

some dimcult peace treaty problem. Because of their political and more than the bicycle the whole Perhaps one reason is that

France's predicament in foreign situation, the French probably see vast motor-car industry?

the un Irish doctor, who invented the the leaders now thoroughly polley is not greatly different, ex-more clearly than most how

pneumatic tyre. practise an understand the pro- cept that it arises from the growing stability of their country and, indeed, cess of seeking out each other's strength of internal French Com-their world hangs on the develop- munism, However, like Chian, ment of a workable peace between objectives and attempting to France traditionally lines up with Russia and the west.-Associated

America and Britain. The role Press.

reach accord.

Diplomats who would know, say that British Foreign Minis- ter Bevin no longer explodes with temper as he did a year ago. Molotov no longer needles

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over what the Russian called im- perialistic sins of the. Western powers in maintaining armies in

According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)

Close attention to spot cards was places like Greece and Trieste the key to success in to-day's deal. and in oppressing colonial

South, dealer. peoples.

occasional sharp There are outbursts, but by all reports the whole atmosphere is easier and friendlier than was in Paris and London. Americans claim this is because Byrnes has main- tained his policy of "firm buti patient dealing with the Rus-) sians.

for The British concede a point the Americans, but plus for the solid front put up by the great array of large and small states so frequently at odds with Russia,

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Russian Diplomacy WHATEVER the underlying cause,) Womediate cause of new harmony is the change in Russlan diplomacy. Despite his strong, taik before the United Nations, Molotov has yielded on vital points of Trieste After the free raise from North, and other issues. Presumably he has South's hard was too good even for expected to get some Anglo-

a jump to four spades, and he there- American concession in return, but fore chose to cuc-bid the opponents' it was evident that he moved first. heart suit. When North answered

A reporter once asked an important with the Bid of four clubs, South's American diplomat why it was that Russio so often took the lead on great moral and popular issues,

(as Molotov later did on disarmament). Things were going badly ot the moment and the diplomat was in bitter mood.

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"The initiative," he said, "always les with the small boy who walks down, the street with a pocketful of stones. It seldom les with the householders who watch him fear. fully through their plate glass win- dows

All these international gatherings split along the lines of real power conflicts. One of real elements "In the present East-West dispute is that Russi la trying to change much of the world alructure built by Britain. over the centuries and now jointly maintained by. Britain and America, It is the Western, nations that have the plate gloss windows,

NANCY

most dangerous spot zeemed to be at least partially covered, and he took a chance on the slam,

West decided to open the diamond ten, from his incomplete sequence. Dummy played low and South won with the blank ace. A spade was fed to the eight, and the diamond queen was led through East, who had been pretty well marked with the king by West's opening. East himself -recognized that fact, and since he was sure that South would disregard if the diamond queen was not covered, Eant did cover with the king.

Declarer ruffed, and then pro- ceeded to run off every one of his trumps, carefully observing West's discards, while keeping in dummy the jack-eight of dlämonds, one heart and the original three clubs.

the West, who must have seen handwriting on the wall, could do no better than hold two cards in hearts, diamonds and clubs. Now declarer cashed the ace and king of clubs, and instead of making the give-up play of throwing a heart on the diamond Jack, he, confidently led a heart to the ace and then threw West in with the heart king. West's forced return of a diamond from the 9-7 was successfully. fnessed in dummy, with the jack-eight.

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Ah, some may say, but these facts belong to the past. What of to-day? Just think of our war achieve- ments. We led the world in war aviation from start to finish. And, belleve me, ave years from now £ we shake off some of the bonds that Dunlop, control civil aviation, we will lead ·

in passenger-carrying

tho. We produced -Radar,- ong vital inventions of all time. And it was our Rutherford's work on atomis (Continued on Face 3)

It would be a good advertisement for Britain if every British tyre were stamped: "The pneumatle tyre was O British invention."

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