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THOMAS GOMEZ JOHN RODNEY JOHN HUSTON JERRY WALD

Bowen Hoy by Richard Brooks and John Huston • Based on the Play by MAXWELL ANDERSON de Produced on the Tecken Sogs, by the Playwright Corpory " Male by Man Stiner

The Socialist Plan, The Tory Plan, And Now:

Brown's Road For Britain

HAVE reason to thank Providence for many mercios. Not least among them is that, being an Independent, I do not have to draft Election Programmes.

I tell my constituents that, if elected, I shall do as.

I think right, and afterwards tell them what I have done. Since that is what each of them would secretly Hko to do himself, my seat is practically impregnable. But, since I have to fight both the Conser-

vatives and the Socialia to hold

it, 1 ke my eye

021 their pro-

grammes,

In

POLITICAL NEWSFRONT"

by W. J. Brown, MP

civilian standards." And they

I dealt with "Labour Belleves would give equal pay for equal

Britain" come timo ngo.

work as between men and

Now it is the furn of the Tory women In protamine-The Right Road what?

for Britain."

the civil service.

Bulk buying is a great evil, So

It is much harder for the the Government. We recognlae,

Torles to draft

"We intend to honour contracts already made by the programme too, that the political views of

than for the Socialists.

GULEE

The back soat boys

Landah Express Sarvice

int

The millionaire chasers

HAMILTON (Bermuda).

N the sun-scorched Bermuda Islands the locals are watching the latest hand being played in the hunt-the-dollar game that has been going on here over the years.

In the past two years every major hotel

in Bermuda has been transferred to British hands.

The latest player is Billy Butlin, the holiday camp millionaire, who, with some friends, has spent £1,250,000 on two luxury hotels-the Princess Hotel here and the Fort Montagu Beach Hotel in Nassau, Bahamas.

by

pep up

the bait

JAMES COOPER

Brown has to pay unskilled When first opened it did good coloured workmen £10 werkly, business with the middle-aged But it is and finds R better to pay fores set at 70s. daily up. and board and £12 10s, a month quiet now. 10 waltresses brought from Canada rather than £20 to local coloured girls who live at home, and do only half the work.

the

Rival No. 2

She also bought Inverurie, a smaller hotel for 90 people, which has closed for the sum- mer, because of shortage of labour,

Rival No. 4

the

What

the Left does is to promise to trading a necessity. Long term. some Governments make State improve the position of its sup contracts may

be a valuable Tax- means of offering the producer

porters by raiding the re- Sources of its opponents.

expropriating or

the

in Empire and Commonwealtir

minority for the benefit of the countries a guaranteed market."

majority is enormously popu- Inr-with the majority.

"Nine-

tenen for fourpener" is a very

attractive cry, until it is dis-

that for some

covered

countable

No Right

The Socialists promise "Full Employment,"

Bo the Tories repudiato any sug-

that

the deliberate

anc gay-"We unde- renson, the nine- Restlon pence is worth no more than creation of unemployment la the old fourpence. Meanwhile, necessary to maintain high pro- How are the Right to overcome duction and industrial discip- the natural advaninge of the

So it goes on and on.

leads with Left?

The Programme the left. but nover uses the right. No one can win a box- ing match that

•way.

Sombre Terms

Not by pretending that all is well. For it manifestly is not. Moreover, to pretend that it is,

line,"

at the Socialists should talk The Programme is indignant

would be to pay tribute to the as if social services began with a long list Left which for four years, hes them. It produces

measures had charge of our affairs.

social security So of

the Socialists what The

Right Rond for produced before

But it starts Britain" does is to set forth in came to power. sombre terms our sad plight as this list at 1018. The effect is exactly a nation. and to blame

to do to the Liberals the what Socialists for as much of it as possible,

That part is easy, But the

mere

more

the Tories complela of the Socialists doing to them. Lloyd George might never

sombre our plight, the have existed at alll heroic must ba the Blunt Truth

remedies.

And herole remedies

lose rather than gain .votes.

Great Evil

The blunt truth is that when

Or

A great increase in produc-

tion means either that we work Thus, the Programme holds longer hours, or that we work

These two hotels, now rented by Mr Butlin to his

Thanks mainly to bar profits

Forty workmen have So, after pointing out that we foreign ald ends, and perhaps camp company, Butlin's, on whisky at 4s., beer at 3.

flown in from Warrington, Lan-ure a nation which is failing, to even before, nothing can pre Ltd., for £22,500 each, Brown says the hotel has laken

cashire, to work, stripped cam Its own living, n nation vent widespread unemployment caused a 90-minute heated one million dollars since open-

army shorts, 66 hours a week nintaining its standards only and drastic cuts, In food sub- sidios and social services alike. for £15 a week and board. An- by charity from abroad, a nation pow-wow among Butlining, and is now making a pro- shareholders in the City of a week. Only

hundred pounds ft of several

other 10 will be flown out soon. more highly laxed, because of except a great increase in our time can tell THE STEPHENSON STORY.

la spendthrift Government, than levels of production. From the London recently.

Sir William

Henderson is converting whether it justides a'rental of

Stephenson is

any nation on earth the Pro- point of view of this truth, It hools township, gramme

two not matter into a small Indus hotel

makes it clear £22,500 a year, and is enough a 53-year-old Canadian

What does with its own shops, docks, and Here is an ABC to what to carry over the quiet speli trialist.

la to be whether the Government then nothing very much to the Mid-Ocean done about it.

is Conservative bus service

in power is happening among the after

summer holiday-

Socialist, its own Jaunches His £1 million British syndl- Golf Club, four hotel rivals

before the in Bri-makers depart and

direct to the Queen of Bermuda. cate now controls the ultra-rich arrive in spring.

Bermu tain's oldest self-governing

dian, accommodation 450, the Bui he's not aiming for the trade just in the colony-617 miles from New*

St. George 200, the Mid-Ocean millionaires' York:

says he wants to that nationalisation is a great more intensively, or that we Golf Club-sald to be the third spelng. He

the practices on both best golf course in the world, attract the American Junior exs evil. So what? Will the Tories drop

the nationalised r

sea sides

limit of industry which with Archle Compston as pro- cutive, the £2,000 to £3,000-a-de-nationalise

Road transport production, or that we improve Rival No. 1

THE MOORES STORY: John and Castle Harbour Hotel

year man, on his summer hell-industries?

yes. But generally-no. "We our industrial equipment and Moorts, the pools king

days.

have no other course than to techniques, or that we de all And The came here to convalesce,

Bermudian has been

leave some industries nation of these things together. 50 the island that in turned into a bed-and-breakfast

used," Again, punitive taxa- long as we refuse to work FIRST THE BUTLIN so ed

And finally August 1947 he bought Elbow hotel at 35s, daily. STORY. He bought the Beach Surf Club, the only ble

tien is a great evil, and "a re longer, or more intensively, so duction in direct taxation must long as we maintain restrictive Princess in August 1948 hotel right on the ocean.

The St. George is closed

So from a local company back-

the summer, and the golf club AN all these hotels pay? Mr be a first object of relief."

trial machine far below ed by Sir Howard-Trott,best bay of all the Britons

Bermudians say his was the has never made money.

reduce expenditure either. on American machine in efficiency. -chairman-of-tho-Bermuda Curre On private estates here

Control Bourd knows food subsidies, social services we ahan continue to live on an

Not at He laid an open-air_patio

aver-increasing over draft, and He is sald

acre 10 have pal rich. pay £3,000

As regards food subsidies when further credit is refused on the edge of the Sound, £350,000 to the local owner,

build and get both privacy and how much hotels take in dollars or the Armed Forces?

and how much they spend In all

"A large immediate reduction face A smash-up. It would supplies from America. built a huge gold-and-pink Harold (Pop) Frith, on terms exemption from death duty.

would have a serious effect on have come long since but for AIR-CUNETTILINEET oyster-shell dance rostrum that Frith kept a small interest Old Etonian Colonel Michael He says: "Bermuda may be the cost of living." As regards American aid, which alone, as

and paid for most of the post- trade mark of all Butlin's war renovations,

Henderson,

found the of manager the a small colony but syndicates: Bermude Deve- people smart business men. If social services, the Tories "re- Mr Bevan has pointed out, has camps brought a band

by injuring our and a half unemployed. Balding Bob Scott, 37-year- lopment Company is con- the Bermudians could not make use to combat our immediate saved us from having a million from London to play for

how difficultles on Castle Harbour hotels pay I do not see

social services." old assistant general ·manager ·centrating

We Have Brains to. I guests in white dinner suits of Littlewoods Pools, forswors the £1 million showplace for the British can expect

As regards the armed forces, 300 guests.

think the Bermudians got out at the Tories would improve "the and off-the-shoulder gowns. the idea that Bermuda 19 a

pay and conditions of service, spring-time-only resort for £400,000 is being spent to re- the right time."

which arc

far behind The lounge was trans milionaires, and concentrated open it next February.

(London Express Service} formed into an Adams on the younger set in summer, brothers salon,

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FRANK KATHRYN SINATRA GRAYSON The KISSING BANDIT

Ricardo MONTALBAN - Am M801ER - Cyd CHAINSSE

By forming his own local The way to the terraced din overheads to a

band and keeping managerial minimum he became ing room

a "Quality offers accommodation to 400 at Street" where, under electric £3 inclusive daily up, and most stars twinkling in the ceiling, weeks, when the Queen of bull's-eye-window shops sell Bermuda arrives, ho English china and Bond-street type of goods to the Americans, who can take £100 gifts home duty fres

overflow,

has an

lle estimates that ho will take 1,500,000 United States dollars

Concrete was sunk 20 feet on and 800,000 Canadian this year, the coral to make a dock, so that and says, "We are doing very nicely. Mr Moores ba very pleased."

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the

to

rency

C.V.R. Thompson Reports

The American Scene

are 100 dear

of

the

Now we have, in the brains: and hands of our own people, and in that large area of the planet which is either con- trolled or influenced by us,' all' and the human

natural re- 9ources we need to lift our standards 03 high BLA tho What is American standards. needed is the will to use them. That will will not exert itself while the illusion remains that, without any special effort, on our part, the Socialists will, do us a bit of good, and the Tories won't do as much harm. If Roy Mimeton, we are to condust the produc- for the wants? They

battle of the. future we of the pollBeal American purse. That is because Galesville, is to appear before tion they are being produced by old the judge on a charge of dis- must get rid machinery. The unions have orderly conduct. He kissed his blur of the present.

Mr Beran red a" slogan" to held out against machines which wife at a bathing beach where the miners the other day. It klasing is banned. Midleton's

was, "Work, Independence, defence: "It's my right to kiss

I would Socialism."

put it my wife whenever I feel like "Work first. Then Indepen- dence. And then you can choose how to use your Inde- Britain-baiter, Colonel pendence."

We have

to learn that the of rich Americans escaping the was the first Briton to reopen England States of Mas are plans for factories in the TOP

leave his beloved world does not owe us a living, Continental cold. Today it is on hotel, on May 1, 1047, when sachusetts, Maine, Vermont, seemingly sleepy New England Robert McCormick, said he

countryside which will produce would not full only when the liner Queen

een she took over Belmont Manor. Rhode Island, New Hamp- sicel, plastics, isotopes (artificial Chicago for the Washington he that we have to lift ourselves of Bermuda brings trippers each

no forms of radium generated by despises to run the newspaper by our own bootlaces, and that week to stay one or two nights.. its own golf course perched on

It has accommodation for 200, shire, and Connecticut.

splitting atoms), ond jet he hol Just bought there. Forty-six-year-old monocled

And the goods New England engines. 200 acres and some of the best cannot acil enough of are similar

Instead, he put the Times-Herald Political slogans whatever, will Colortel Basil Brownis in postcard views of Bermuda.

in the charge of his niece, Mes relleve us of this stark necessity. Nor-need the Parties « four" to those which are giving Old charge." He is finding costs here

Maxwell Miller. The paper's UESTION to be decided by polley will undoubtedly be that people of Britain know it to to say this. In their hearts the are New York plus, and the So the £300,000 she is said to England export 'trouble-lenther,

chronic labour. have paid is as much an invest- goods, woollen and

a. Maryland Judge: Can a of tho colonel's

Chicago be true. shortage.

ment in land as it is in an hotel. textiles.

man kiss his wife whenever he Tribune-anti-everything.

private yachts and

the hotel's speedbost could 50x.-an-hour drop guests right on the terrace.

NEW YORK. ENGLAND is having NEW

nearly as much trouble as Old England in selling

would produce more. for dollars,

So New England is looking Figures show dole pay round for newer and more daily, including food, to £10

THE YULE STORY. Wealthyments up 130 percent on exciting ways of moking a dially, with dinner marked at Lady, Yule often came to inst year in the six New living. On the drawing-boards 255., 158. extra for steak,

At Easter the hotel was full Bermuda in her own yacht, and

The hotel opened in February

at terms ranging from £1 105.

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