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Our Socialist povernment

Thas Turned Brifáin into

a big, concentration camp.

The people have never.

Ruched such depīks of despair

The Socialist

Liberty. Industry

is ruined. Britain's smashed"

"Stagnation! Bankruptcy! -Wilff-thesa Socialis3 in.

power collapse is Inevitable

in Britain

How lucky you are - living in civilized countries- not like Britain - Starvation-

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THE times are out of

Joint. Even the rains are late. Now we are saturated with steaming showers, the gutters run in a tepid torrent adrift with garbage. (The sweepere are on strike again.)

But for your footsore corres- pondent, once more hopefully on the plod, there is no reviving splash. Prohibition is with us and not the most chota of pegs, says the law, may be sold to a living soul in Bom- bay.

I

Alone in the Harbour Bur, one watches the down.

"Marshall Aid

is a big mistake~ Just encouraging Cripps. Britainy

brak done for!

AT HOME

Gad, Britain's credit abroad is sinking, daily! That's what happens when you have a Socialist":

government!

MALA GUBITNI Un arzankamani with Kwik Stan

OUT-BUT STAYS PUT

Mr Corrin, from Los Angeles, tells how Britain can earn more dollars

For GUARDSMEN, read COWBOYS

T

NEW YORK. HREE thousand miles from Now York-ns far to the west as London is to the cast-is one of the richest potential markets for British goods in America, Los Angeles. Some of the men who come over to drum up dollar trade go there. A great many do not.

• • •. because ` Amerleau

children do not buy tay soldiers any more. Cable from FREDERICK COOK

WOOLLEN'S and piecegoads. Mr Corrin and our products had for years been so inferior in quality to American and so dear that they had been unable

They should. Los Angeles to buy any. Now, however, Is the capital of a brand new quality is improving, and they industrial empire with well are in the market again. over 4,000,000 people. The SHOEB. The best British fastest-growing America.

city in

From the standpoint of British goods, the most important factor of all is its very newnesa.

makes are selling well. Mr Corrin mentioned one teml- sports shoe priced at $27 (£6 158.) which was moving steadi- ly, despite the high price.

Makera of this shoe, he said had the right Iden."

"When they heard that we were interested," he explained,

Even for American firms, "they circularised 0.000 of our the Los Angeles area is a customers direct from England, tricky market because of its with beautifully produced own special requirements. brochures describing the shoe. How is Britain doing there?

"They found A wonderful

Mr Philip Corrin, general market. manager of Bullocks Inc.. who runs the four biggest to our workshop and cut it

India, which has spent millions see litle enough, being done to department stores in the on refugee work, on a policy of help them inherit the earth. liberal imports, on waging a

area, has been answering preposterous war in Kushmir, is was here, or only a year, and the

It is more than a year since I some of my questions. now in her trade balance in the changes are both subtle and some £70 striking. The adventure of

red the tune of

"Old-fashioned'

for those who watched with She is already overdrawn on the through too much resentment Here are some of the things

JAMES CAMERON

"I took one of the shoes down

"They shipped us the bicycles

anci

FORGOTTEN pour over the Indian Ocean

and reflects: No country has gone back to India to answer the question: How was ever 80 woefully wet and at the same time so dis- far has the nation progressed towards fulfilling the

tally dry.

hopes which inspired her campaign for independence?

patriot Nehru seems no longer

clear through with a band-saw. able to stem the growth of vin-

"Everything in it was per- repressivo legislation, riletively

fect: the plywood braces, the and pride which all Indians

steel arch supports, the leather now appear to discuss continual

and the stiching. No wonder ly.

we buy them for our customers." It is all remarkably depressing, million and going down fast. Independence has crumbled

BICYCLES Theta Mr Corrin as an example of the Sacrlice the excitement

he sald, as he went one by one quoted courage

and agreed release of £60 million It is not India's fault that she through of those

long Mat of mer-

wrong sort of salesmanship, same people worth of congertible sterling.

inherited an when they were fighting for an

"Your bicycles have always administration chandise: ideal.

Now it is being said that un- which was already

been first-rate," he said. "When Now they have got it, les Britain releases another tortuous. It is not India's fault British makers are selling well. we poured orders over there.

fantastically and Gandhi would have his Dears big slice of mullateral sterling that

CHINA.—The Big Five among you got back into production confirmed. He well knew what from the balance Ind'e cannot shaky economies of what might Bullock's

Partition has created

these And what happened? orders from night happen when the ruled tide over.

Wages are already have been one integrated whole. firms are three years behind- hand. But there are smaller But it is someone's fault makers who are finding it hard in broken-down old crates with that leadership has been re-

book of Instructions placed by repression, scrifice to market here.

dozens by graft, economie develop.

of parts we were sup- ment by such

Bullocks have dropped two posed to put together, Well, reactionary and wasteful #ddle-faddle decoration did not conform to have to be precision-assembled. But bicycles such firms completely because we did at Brst. as this prohibition,

modern American standards, The great Congress Party, which served its moment in Corrin, "that they

"They

tell us," sold Mr have dim- history bravely and well, is

"We found we were wasting now loo big, too strong, too undertake new designs or any them together, and we always culty in getting designers to profitable hours trying to put untrammelled. Those in opposition have no one else designs in contemporary styles. finished up with half a dozen miles behind prices, and ration to vote

"Modern designs are being parts left overf ing is obviously inefficient and have a vote) than

for (supposing they

the newly made right here in California allegedly corrupt.

selling for far less. created Socialist Party-which and are

"Then our own manufac- It took a really exceptional they do, for The martyrs did not gain grace-pices of administration to an fast. That, or the Communists. from the smaller firms is dull tion. We stopped buying Bei- The new Homespun Govern when they gained office.

It is developing Much of your dinnerware turers got back into produc-

ment, with a kind of relentless

logonise both the Big Bosses und

and old-fashioned."

tish. Too much bother. And plety, has got a continent of 400

Meanwhile, The streets of GLASS WARE-Far too dear, they were a terrible price any- With the primary object of the working masses together. COMMENCINGillion people in the process of defeating opposition from Lett Business la cagey about putting Bombay are still littered with But we are selling a little of it. way.""

tapering off. It is not a gay and Right, the Communists and money to Government projects hundreds of homeless sleepers, TOILET PREPARATIONS.

TOYS-"Your lead soldiers also cost the militant Hindu bodies, the until it feels sure that Nehru's sprawled motionless on the hard, Established concerns are doing In hundreds of thousands of Government cut

savagely into Socialist egalitarian principles hot pavements like the refuse of well. We are selling more than are wonderful, Famous all over pounds in revenue, killing any elvil liberties, controlled

the some past, unnoticed battle.

world. have died of exhaustion.

But American hope of

tourist trade, and en- Press, encircled labour.

Nothing, we might think, will

But they have a top organisa- children do not buy toy soldiers The workers (and it has not Rendering sombre meditation in

tion in this country, advertise any more. all quarters.

to be forgotten that two world ever change in India. Today in the gaols of India are wars have turned vast, pastoral be

goods And how wrong we may yet extensively, pack their reckoned to be

attractively in the USA and sume 23,000 India into one of the eight big- political prisoners, "detenus" gest industrial nations on earth)

make them as good-loolding as held without trial-more than

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Four days of the week are now prohibition days in Bomuny. once India's gay became the rulers, and begged cosmopolis. Very shortly all them to live as simply in goven- India will be permanently and ments as they had in gaol by statute dry.

experience. It in

The people turn

the

IT is not renily very funny.. there were at the height of Bri-

For so does India celebrato..... rule.

any rival USA firm,

C.V.R. Thompson Reports

The American Scene

Left-overs

"From east coast to west, it's Cowboys, everything is cowboys. Lariats, holsters, guns, costumes. like the cowboy actors in the Alms.

"Tell your manufacturers that if they created dyes to make cowboys, broncos, Indians, wagons and so on in the same quality they've been making toy Boldlors for generations they could sell millions here."

·CUTLERY - Shefeld has completely lost this market us far as Bullocks of Los Angeles

If you can call this grim business Now the Dellil provincial po celebrating-its-second year-of-litical conference has just independence, the formation of condemned the Government for fla Constitution, the approach of these things. It said: "It is so Use Sovereign Republic.

Important for India not to take This capricious prohibition lead to conflicts.....

any step which might tend to

Jaw is only the least of the new Conflicts, nevertheless, there factors which

sem to have ars already. In Calcutta there afflicted India with a deepening, is a really serious demonstration restless senas of frustration and almost every day, lathi charges, REAUTY SCHOOLS and lasts longer, it is easier to turn, disappointment. The Congress (enr-gas bombs, shooting.

LANS under which British are concerned. cooking classes at being and it is the only Government,

PLANS solution to

and born 22 months

students American

We New York's trafic problem." Ignored in Washington

used to buy a lot of for a

and teachers swop schools will Shefeld cutlery," said Mr Cor- ago into a greater flood of godd will then perhapa any Govern-

broker's four-week "investment How

be abolished if Congress passes rin, "but United States dams BUSINESS: Ido ..Secre- Lupino has produced, but Kenneth McKellar. His objec- stuff comparing in every way n Bill sponsored by ment at any time, is now meet- JEHRU, with his melancholy course for women."

Senator are now turning out top-grade Ing the reaction which faces all honesty, admitted it, "We are tary of State Dean Achitson's not appeared in, D picture tions to the plans--"unneces-favourably with yours. And ot odds-on favourites who do not grown too far from the people," departure, for the Paris Big about unwed mothers called sary claptrap." pay off.

he said in a half-hearted effort Four conference did not signal and Lin 10 explain his team's use of the end of defence Not for the first time has a methods he himself had always tions.

prepara- Hardwicke

UOTE from an overseas have the financial

· LUGGAGE-Much too mas- Car makers have re-

backing to bitterly against people turned

news agency article on sive," he said. "Made to last a produce Shaw's "Caesar its llberators. It is, somchaw, opposed (that provincial gover-ceived token orders to be pre- Cleopatra

and Anglo-American relations: "Itlifetime. But We just cannot .. Pongy Cum is timo sadder here; one had hoped for nora in the new repubile, for

to sell that stuff these days. People stance, shall not be elected but nominated).

more.

Bitter cry

Sir Cedric

Palmer

much less money."

for Washington to jet engine mins will now kill only three realise that Britain is an ally, do not want 11"

to switch

Tho

חור

Atomle

No blind buyers

Commission announces people, instead of six, as a lady not a satellite.". American Mi Corrin does not believe India is going through a bad Calcutta riots no longer make a £4,750,000 Improvement pro- gangster in her next picture, shops have found a way to dis-that British manufacturers can stage, economically and political- news.

Ject at Its Oak Ridge national Gun Crazy," Charles Pose of old-fashioned pouffes compete with American on a 1y. It is now admittedly the There are strikes -- like, for laboratory.....Now that Air Loughton, the snarling Captain and hassocks. They call them quantity basis. - last rampart of nominal "de- example, this sweepers' stoppage Force-minded. Defence Secre- Bligh of "The Bounty" several TV seats....Why Mra Perle goric mocracy" in all Asia. The day right here in Bombay,

tary Louis Johnson has cancel years ago, is to appear on Mesta, Washington's top party when it, too, will be put violent In Eastern Punjab troops had led their super-carrier, Navy felevision radiog the Bible. giver, accepted friend Truman's ly trial cannot be far off.

on

to be called out recently to sup- Glers call themsolves "Jolin-

Broadway cri

critics say the offer to be Minister to Uny Only a little while ago one press a violent outbreak of po-son's Air Force, Water Divi- Ronald Neame-David Lean Luxemburg: "I think this post might have said that India was fitical, passion. Public meetings slon."

film "One Woman's Story," is in ព advancement. for bet. I do not think one will be a fairly good anti-Cominunist are banned.

luminous by Hollywood stan- women.".

able to say that for long..

Afterthoughts ALREADY Congress un And now Big, Business, which New York should give up its POLITICS: How Congress is incl: and a half higher.....

opposed, unchecked, the was always the financler and gleaming yellow monsters for doing: In six months 6,003

women to defeat a proposal buyers in this country nowadays. single power--is nccused of the framework of Indian nation- an American version of the Bills have been introduced, and SLOGAN adopted by Americas do not are not, and never will. growing daily more and more alism, has been hit where it much-abused. Londen model. 458 have been passed, which is that they should be forced to rew

She reasons: "It takes up less why Washington wags call this tire of 60 instead of 85, the male It is а Into the smug totalitarian trap, hurts. The fall in stock prices | which destroyed China's „Kuo-, la so steady and now so serious space, it is easier to get in and Glal session eighty-worst retirement age: mintang. The great and beguiling that Industry is suffering badly, out of, It is cheaper, to run, it session.

Over it all, you can hear the TRAFFIC: Home from what dards, but dem by the standard HAIRDRESSERS predict that disliusloned and bitter cry of she called "a love affair of their

"Brief En- the shingle bob will come the angry patriot: "Don't betray with the London taxi," Sylvia counter," which Noel Coward back this autumn And dress Our struggle don't. para's ́e Porter, New York's only woman wrote. Winston Churchill_right!" Anancial expert, argued that

designers say skirts will be an

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"What we expect from your when we come to buy la some- thing af better quality than we can buy here," he said.⠀ ty, you will sell nothing. You "If you cannot give us quali- must study the market, and our very much changed tastes.

"Firms who do that are get- ting the business. Those who

are na, mora

blind" strictly competitive

(London Express Service)

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