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PROPHECIES for 1948

POLITICS AND PERSONALITIES

By "Cross-Bencher"

LONDON.

TMR HAROLD WILSON, the 31-year-old Presi- dent of the Board of Trade, lunched with his attractive wife in the public dining-room at Westminster.

They looked happy, and no wonder.

They are young, and he was about to an- nounce to the House that he had come to an agreement on Anglo-Russian trade in Moscow.

There may be difficulties in the details, but Mr Wilson's achievement is the first good thing to come out of the East for a very long time.

Slap-happy

THERE is another Minister who looks happy

now. Mr Emanuel Shinwell has not a frown' on his brow.

"I always sald we would get the coal," is his theme song.

It is said that Mr Attlee has asked the Secretary of State for War to ration his speeches. Mr Shinwell does not mind. He belleves that coal will speak louder than words-even his.

But it will be hard on the misreporters, who, according to Mr Shinwell, never got him right.

On committees

RUSSIA AND BRITAIN

P

Let us have more trade and less loose · talk

JOHN

by..

GORDON

If all political relationships be tween us were to break down the disaster to the world would be incalculable.

But it is abundantly clear that ploughing the fields of politics alone

harvest.

RAISE the Government for thoughts, and by and large we is not likely to reap us a very rich

the sound sense it has live the same life. shown in resuming trade talks with Soviet Russia, and At no time, and under no the speed with which its nego- circumstances, can We ever tiators have reached agreement imagine ourselves on opposite în principle.

sides in war.

Let us hope with all our hearts that the agreement in principle will become as swiftly an agreement in fact.

And let us resolve that this is only a beginning; that we want, and intend if it can be done, to see our trade with Russia swell far beyond the pre-war figures.

There are three sound reasons for that:-

1

But we must also remember this. We British are a great and independent people.

We have a magnificent record of achievement, a proud tradi- tion, and an unparalleled his tory.

TRY TRADE A method of approach

Isn't it wise, therefore, to let our. political associations hang by a tenuous thread and try the approach

of trade?

Through increasing trade we can come to understand each other better.

THE

HE House of Commons is rightTM to hold an inquiry into the Bud- get leakage that brought down Mr Dalton.

Not to have done so would have encouraged rumours, speculations, and canards.

But why so many lawyers on the More than half are proctising or former proetising bar-

PIT PROPS, in very short supply commillec?

(£1,093,000). SLEEPERS, for which our rail-risters or solicitors,

ways are crying out (£280,000). PETROL (£1,618,000).

We sold to Russia in return:-- Machinery (£3,548,000). Tron and steel manufactures. Nickel, tin, lead, and copper. Ten (£533,000),

Raw rubber, of whicht

When Parliament sets up a com- mitee it should ensure in ita com- position that it is representativa of the House as a whole.

we have Privileges

now a great supply available (£2,818,000).

The small Committee of which quealloned Mr. Garry Alligkan included

At- the

Raw wool, of which we also have torney-General, Sir Hartley Show-

plenty (£1,110,000).

TRY HARD

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Worth the effort

In addition, we did a large trade in prewar days with Estonia, Latvia

We bought £1,500,000 worth of

cross, KC., Mr Clem: Davica, K.C., Mr J. S. C. Reld, KC., and Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, K.C., former Attorney-General and triumphant British prosecutor at Nuremberg.

They were scrupulously nir.

From talks on trade, once we and Lithuania, now Incorporated in They were also efficient. more and fear each other alle begin to trust each other a Hitle Sovie: Russia.

Nevertheless, any witness, though less, we may well make an advance butter from Lalvin in 1930, and sold innocence may not need an ad- to co-operation

If confronted with the wider field of her in return coal, wool, cotton, and vocate, might, world restoration.

even herrings.

such a battery of big legal guns, feel happier if he could bring his And we can keep shining like a

Lithuania Beni us

If there £1,208,000 own lawyor with him or star of hope above us the greatest worth of butter, £1,331,000 of bacon, were fewer lawyers to face. ideal for which man can strive and much timber. world in which all men live in ami-

The value of the "amateur"

Our economy may be creak- ing, and groaning under the strain of a colossal war-during We need desperately many things Russia can give us; which for one year we must wheat for our bread, dairy pro- remember we stood alone be- Commencing To-Morrow: "YELLOW CANARY" | duce for our tables, leather for tween the civilised world and nately and freely, and in which war that food back on our much-needed should always be considered.

boots, timber for our the barbarism of Nazism-but barism. houses, sleepers for our worn-

we are not broken.

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2 Russia needs just as des

perately many things we Our place in world can give her with advantage toWe are rising and we shall our Industry, machinery of all rise. We may never again be as kinds to enable her to increase dominant in the world as we her productivity, nickel, tin.

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copper, of which the were in the 19th century, when British Empire has such a pro- we were the greatest trading fusion, raw wool, and above all and manufacturing nation. raw rubber, of which plenty is

available now that the United But we intend to remain one States has succeeded at Geneva of the Great Powers. And it in shutting us out of her home would be perilous folly on our market.

part if we permitted any other nation,

and however close

3 At a time of great and friendly we may be with it, to stubborn political difficulties shape our policy and decide our with Russia, trade may well be destiny. the solvent that will save the peace of the world.

it

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ty, through which all men move Isn't it worth a great effort to get "Juryman" clement. I commitiors becomes an outlawed relic of bar- houses?

Just think what trade with Russia means to us today. Before the war these were the main things we bought from Russia:--

Russia wants from us machinery, electrical equipment, steel raila locomotives, and sawmill equipment.

See the world, charge the country

Our production of these goods is THE ordinary citizen cannot spend now near the highest figures ever

his money on travelling reached.

abroad.

DAIRY PRODUCE. BARLEY (£1.185,000 in a year).So let us give the trade agreement WHEAT (£2,104,000). HIDES and SKINS (£3,338,000). FLAX-now very much needed

bere-(£1,532,000).

SOFT WOOD, in which we have

now a famine (£7,303,000).

But he has a great consolation. Hu sending M.P.. spend it on abroad.

a great welcome.

Let us shake hands with the can

And let us Rusalan people on it. determine that once our hands are clasped they keep clasped.

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

earth."

This Parliament has been notable for its patronage, but of all its forms that of members travelling at the taxpayers' expense is the most deplorable.

Twenty thousand pounds Mina gone on this. Some M.P. openly boust at the distance they Lave travelled without putting their hands in their pockets.

THE Moonbeam is safe-but what shore is this, for I see by your

not anywhere near

we are still on the the clothing that

It is good for M.P. to sea the He was told it was Wog-| world, but is it good for the world moon. Waggling Parva villagers, gling Magna, hard by Waggling to see some of our M.P.s? We are the natural bridge between armed with picks, spades, Parva. "Ah" he said calmly, "I had the Old World and the New, belevers, ropes and mattocks feared it might be Worthing again." Especially when the British tox-

tween Communist Russia and copl- lalist America.

America is finding political probe lems with Russia extremely difficult.

WAR TALK Don't encourage There is too much loose talk in the world about the menace. of Russin, just as there is too much dangerous propaganda in rightly. Russia about the peril of the Western democracies.

So are we.

We

blame the Russians-maybe

payer foots the bill,

Falstaff paints

(Yes, mattocks. Why not?), followed the hole in the sand Greedy until it disappeared under the DEAR Miss Slopcorner, rock.

The Mayor asks me to say that | DOLITICIANS often seek relaxa- Levering up the rock, they found his official request, supported by the f tion in painting. The latest re- the rocket wedged deep down in the entire Council of Sopping Overcole, cruit is Mr Walter Fletcher, Tory sund. All the members of the ex- was for an official photograph to be

M.P. for Bury. pedition

Dr. Strobismus But we must not forget that they confused."ure safe, but somewhat hung in the Town Hall, bewteen the

(Whom thograph of Blucher at

at Waterloo He has recently held a successful are a people whose thoughts are God Preserve) of Utrecht emerged and Mr Sylo's portrait of Alderman one-man show of his pictures, poles apart from our own.

first, wearing only the rim of his Class. It should, of course, bear a Too many people, especially

straw hat. He said that the rocket formal inscription, if any. But, in He paints well. Not so well as Mr in the United States, talk about Their conception of life is almost had dashed straight into the ground, addition, the Mayor would adore to Churchill, but far better than Hitler the inevitability of war. It is as different as life on another planet. and that it was his opinion that have a more unconventional picture did. the sort of talk that makes wars

had gone wrong. Pro- of you, with a message for his eyes But Russia's way of life is her something inevitable.. We in Britain own business, and no concern of or Dendergast annd Mr. Ray alone, as it weru.

Hoplio supported this theory. Sir Archer Tatham and Professor Alban H. FAGGOT, Town Clerk.

were non-committal. Trowie

are to examine the Epitaph yo experts rocket on the spot, to find out what happened,

should not accept it or en- ours. courage it,

We have, no more right to impose our system on her than she has to impose hers on us.

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We are the natural allies of the American people. Our con- ception of democracy and free- dom Is theirs.

We speak the same speech,

We are equally dis- THE Doctor's first words on emerg- think much the same trustful, if not quite so much afraid. | ing were: "Tell me, good people,

we

NANCY Air Pocket

SAFE

That Jifferente in outlook is at the root of most of our political He took it well troubles with Russia. She distrusts and fears us.

WEE

Yours truly,

Here ites the best chef in the jungle: Something fell on his head with

Mr Fletcher, a man of Falstaffan girth, has considerable wit.

He knows more about the Far East than any other M.P,, and this knowledge was of great service to the country during the war.

He also talks many languages,

And they found was his latest con- and is an export in finance.

fection.

In every way Mr Fletcher can be Bombe surprise meringacoutang, described as an all-round man.

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