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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY; SEPTEMBER 16, 1947.

How do we stand in the world?

by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

LONDON, Maybe. But who will be the

to squeal if they do?

E British should be made grateful and embarrass- ed by the writer in the U.S. magazine, Look.

We should be grateful for the spirit behind his article. His desire, manifestly, is to help us n our difficulties, which are considerable.

We should be embarrassed be- cause the picture he paints of our position is no exaggerated, so die torted, that we can scarcely recog nise the element of truth that contains.

Urst

Nothing is surer. But against that, The British must export still more.

in

certain obstacles are reared; the rise in American prices, which has made raw materinis more expensive buy, and the existence of the Ameri can tariff, which makes our exports more expensive to sell.

Look gaysand R is a generous thought that it is worth America's while to help Britain. But Look does not, I think, realise why it is worth America's while to do so.

is not simply that Britain is

a sound ally. It is not even that Britain is America's best foreign Britain is the

We British are in the position of a patient lighting lustily for his life, with a good hope of recovery. And suddenly Look, ke a young buyer. It is that medical student, rushes out of the world's chief market because of her ward shouting, that the hand of dense industrial population and her death is upon us, and unless have a speedy and generous blood iransfusion we are surely going to push the dalsies up.

We

Which will be 'most inconvenient for all concerned, including, a Look United States of points out, tho America.

The Patient

In the meantime it is disconcert- ing for the determined man on the sick; bed.

that

Before we put on our black ties the look at another let us take patient. After all, there was funeral ceremony in 1940, the one the corpse interrupted by leaping from the coffin!

He is starving, alleges Look. His tired. Jack-lustre, waxy features de- clare it. He needs better food. So he does. But he is not starving.

poverty in raw materials.

For these reasons no other power can lake her place. The United She States certainly cannot do so.

ot her is disqualified on account riches in natural resources.

These facts may seem harsh. But it is as well they should be realised. For Britain were not restored as trade, the the king-pin of world consequences for America would be infinitely harsher. The cold wind would blow upon the United States not from one region but from 20.

Two-way help

role in

+

Americans

International

That is an exaggeration equalling ideas, but of restoring Britain with the Tusy and irritating propaganda all possible speed and ease to her which depicts the British diet as bet- natural

the economy. ter than it used to be before war.

He is short of vital articles, coal, timber, clothing and so forth. In- deed he is. But It is a long way moment from that situation to the

death when the clammy hand of falls upon the Brilish brow.

A good effort

It was surely stupid to insist in that it the ti Loan Agreement British felt they could not

afford Virginian tobacco they must also cut down their purchases of Rhodesian

whol For tobacco. consequence?

was

the

The British were impeded in ro- establishing their old, natural trade associations. And by falling to buy where they could afford to buy they tween what he sells abroad and what spread depression where they need Who could possibly bene- not do 50.

conduct? nt from such grotesque Certainly not the United States.

There is a yawning chasm

he spends.

be

It is sadly true. But the whole of that gap is caused by money which the British are spending

in commercial purposes, above all, maintaining the British zone la Ger-

many,

on non-

The British are, in fact, exporting as much by volume as they did be fore-the war. It is not good enough. But as a death-bed effort it is not bad.

They are doing so in spite of the coal crisis of the winter (which was, ourse, a symptom of general

of

*- AND I SAY PRANKLY THAT THE WAY YOU'VE FOLLOWED ME ABOUT HAS BEEN NOT ONLY SINISTER BUT EVEN HOSTILE.

SOVIET TOUGHNESS

TO

jus. & U.K.

INSEPARABLES

VIET

UGHNESS

right kit Downtro)

United States and Russia are

POISED

FOR

WORDY WAR

D'

IPLOMATIC officials in Washington predict that American relations with

By JOHN

The Soviet Union are likely to

enter a new and rougher phase HIGHTOWER

forth-

UNO

And it is one of the elements likely to embitter the coming debate in the General Assembly.

com-

Russia's rejection, the four-Power „meeting on Korea has been postponed.

Serious

at the United Nations Général

fits For these reasons the

A new incident which should, In their own Interest, look Assembly session, which opens

into this pattern occurred last upon the question of help for Britain in New York today.

week when Russia rejected an with the

purpose not of making

If the United States does not American proposal for a four- American British trade conform to

A whole series of dramatic

to developments, heightening the take some measures to help the Power conference to try

and hard-pressed European countries reach an understanding on Russo-American conflict bearing vitally upon related to exist until the Marshall Plan Korea-something which the problems of the European can become effective, Russin Americans and Soviets have economic crisis, are foreseen. will take advantage of the re- been unable to do. The Rus- sulting political and social chaos sians said they preferred to con- Foremost of these will be the to push Communism aggres- tinue negotiations in Korea, a Truman Administration's de- sively in Western Europe. Thus course which American occupa- cision on whether to call

a the intense rivalry between the tion authorities consider. special session of Congress to two great Powers is one of the plotely hopeless. As a result of consider a temporary ald fund chief elements figur- for Europe. This would be an ing in locked door against the billions conferences now under

NEWS NOTE- advance

The General which the Administration hopes

come more starkly | Assembly of tho Congress will provide early way. And it may be- next year for the long-term

in other apparent

United Nations Marshall plan to help European events not directly re-

mocts at Lake lated to the question

Success

ment officials to bring today State Department

the experts of a special session of

whole Korea gave up their last week-end Congress.

problem to UNO. The holiday to work on the latest Diplomatic officials predict objective would be to try to fix facts and figures which Ameri- that the United States and responsibility before the world for can officials brought back from Britain will shortly formally the failure of the two Fowers to Paris Economic Con- announce a plan to boost coal carry out their promise of providing

Korean unity and independence. the ference; "secking to translate-production-in-Germany's Ruhr

Similarly, Secretary of State. Mar- the mutual help idea into con- mines as a means of promoting

both European recovery and shall appears to be confronted with crete terms.

10 an early decision on whother German economie revival.

bring up in UNO, the long series

Russian-supported The plan is expected to give of

Communist the Germans themselves, much manoeuvres which have pt the greater responsibility in the Balkan nations in a state of political operation of the mines and to turmoil.. give the United States a more In general, American officials say. powerful voice in their general that while they would prefer not

The hard way?

highly

has

real

There is a danger that a coloured article such as Look published may disguise the issue. It is not whether Britain is going to live or die. It is whether Britain is going to recover the easy way or the hard way.

an will not be

overstrain), In spite of having older population and an Industrial equipment which badly needs re- newal.

What does all that add up to? The British should give up some

of their foreign responsibilities?

recovery.

Mestly, the decision rests with the United States. But if it is to be the

While it has not been hard way, let us be clear that Britain

travelling that road emphasised in recent State De- alone. Among her companions bepartment pronouncements fore the end of the trail is reached the subject, one of the main will be the United States of America. considerations in official think- In the end we shall all get by. So ing on the European situation

we are all entitled to cheer up.

is this:

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

"These

pass

the

a bad name.

The

It is not considered odd To woo with processed co-dust,

on

OL

engagement.

considera,

tion is being given by

some

State Depart-

to burden the Unlied Nations with

One of the main provisions such problems, they probably wil calls for the creation of a joint have little choice because It is ex- British American board to re- pected that the Soviets and place the present exclusively the issue with strong attacks

satellite representatives will British supervision of coal pro- American policy. duction in the British zone of Germany.

their force.

оп

.

sald

VIGURES issued by the The policemen of Hull FIGUR

Board of Fiddlemerce were HULL CITY POLICE recrulls Or a slice of frozen cod.

Parallel with the Assembly meet- Dainter are to be smiler."

had seemed ing. It

that the 10 When Mrs hotly challenged.

too, I hope, and more sensitive. The The wit of Rivarol

In the broader political pic- nations with primary interest in a Fearfull announced that 717,849 tall policemen of Hull, bawling

might ANYBODY who quotes his streets, and caring

own ture, the coal agreement will Japanese peace settlement

hold their initial micoling without remember simply scunges had been distributed, a about

should

provide one more Russia. But the United States, has Liberal screeched, "To who?" nothing for art or literature, have epigrams

what Rivarol said to the poet who gof the

Place

of the Western apparently abandoned hope for such "To-wit-to-hooooo," replied Mr infiltration of smaller and quieter rected a distich of his own. "Not example

des Powers' determination to a preparatory conference prior to pulicemen will please all who use bad," said Rivarel, mais il e Tufter (Cons., Nidgely Vale).

the Wilberforer Museum or have to longueurs. But there are tedious handle the economic, questions the General Assembly session.

In it." It was Rivarol who, through Lowgate, where the passages

Own in their

zones despite the author (the

A State Department official Mrs Gowke was on her feet before all policemen gather in the morn- seeing Forlan

Russian opposition, which has that just what procedure will be along you could say Gruyere.

ings. May the Hull police one day "Plaisir d'Amour") walking stunges," she said, "have been sche- be as small as the Papuan police, with a manuscript sticking out of blocked agreement on the sub followed in this connection remains duled for overall zonal throughput who can walk upright under the his pocket, cried to him, "If one ject of welding Germany into undecided. Russia has rebuffed an per target unit." (Government bellies of the pigmy cows, is the didn't know you monsieur, one one political and economic unit, American suggestion to broaden the cheers.) "I take it," cried a voice, wish of every man who cares for would rob you."

In fact, there is evidence all basis of the Japanese peace-making

to Include

more than the great hat this means

Tail-piece

along, the line of a general de- Powera. reading that special food had cision to push Soviet opposition been taken to a dcer on Its aside and .go ahead with Earlier, the State Department was way to the Zoo, I could not help efforts to solve the interna reported to have decided to go ahead repeating the old tag, "I could not

Soviet representation-Associated. love thee, deer, so much, loved I notional problems on the part of on the Japanese project without

Press. the American Government. venison more."

of allotted

ughter.).

basic civic fun.

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