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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1949.

"Wall, I'm the ongino driver and I'm going on strika.

On the eve of the crucial Washington financial talks; Pago 4 reports the results of an investigation into how American minds are working.

NEW YORK.

S last month has been a hectle one in America. Everywhere

I have been—on the 8.28, in |the restaurants, even on the benches-I have listened to heated talk. And all of it has been along the same lines. Little or about Britain-but who is going to come out on top in the race for the baseball championship-the Cards or the Dodgers?

Tiles

Londub Express servICO

The hate talk

is small-time

against the Dodgers

although

more un-

bo

POLITICAL NEWSERONT

What? No free beer?

By W. J. Brown, MP

SOMETIMES think Nationalization is to be "10- that, next to being the tended." On prezent form, that. Queen in Allco

means that a number of indus in tries which contrive to make a Wonderland, I should like to proft are to be transformed into Communist. The nationalised industries which Queen, it will be remem- make loss, [bered, could make words An ever-diminishing number mean anything she wanted of privately owned concerns them to mean. The Com- which make a prout havu munist can do that, too. But subs'dise an ́ever-increasing. ho can also determine that tries which make a loss. Out of number of nationalised indus- two and two should make this wages are to be increased five, or three, or any other and the standards of. Hving number he likes.

Improved.

I am moved to these reflections by reading the Communist

This is economie lunacy,

to

Party's draft programme for the But the lunary' does not stop next General Election, The there. It extends to the Budget. political and psychological in. We must provide, anys the Com tcrest of this document is pro- munist pregramme,

found.

The programme opens on a "More money for the social bold

and confident note. Unlike services, housing, health and the Tories and the Socialists, education." "who tell the people that they

worsened

Furthermore "unemployment.

must put up with conditions, do

without wage benefit must be increased to £2 Increases, and accept new sneri week for all adult workers." fices," the Communist Party on top of this there must be declares:

"higher basle pay and

ploy-

"That the crisis which darkena ances for all Servicemen.” the whole outlook in Britain in not inevitable. It can be fought and overcome by the action of the people...

Ordinary rules

TOW the orthodox economist, NOW

governed by the ordinary rules of arithmetic, says that our erials consists essentially in the fact that we are consuming more

If we wish to achieve solvency, and independence of foreign aid, we must either consume less or But the Com- produce more. munist is bound neither by the rules of arithmetic nor the law of cause and effect. The "esc- tive measures" proposed by the his programme are:

gressmen and some sections of something vastly the American Presa are frankly pleasant.

While the front pages pub-than we are producing. That would be n lish despatches from Britain anti-Socialist.

collapse of both Britain and blaming Amerlen for Britain's' And there is some evidence the United States."

troubles, the St Louis Post perhaps nothing

not 50 But the Wall Street Journal, despatch says: "What Britain Britain thinks-that much as

one of the most virulent needs in her crisis is American Americans are in favour et exities of Britain, or rather, of understanding as well as del-

Socialism down In the present Brillah

Bolh Govern- lars.

necessary to maintain British strength and

the US. re kinship, which In Congress there was the

It has said: "We doubt that quies in a chaotic world."

Then Senator John Foster attempt by Senator James the British would

allow their Dulles is a good Kem, and nearly 20 others, to nation to collapse. They have

Tory-he is

bringing

the coming elections by with- ment, does not think that Bri- drawing dollar support."

tain will collapse.

by `C. V. R. THOMPSON

1

were

19

are

no: Tom Dewey twice tho

to

i

American,

has

noted,

as

Now if we had a lot more money to spend there are worse

purposes than these to which we might devote it. But the Com- munist

programmo

proposes sweeping reductions in taxation simultaneously with vast in- creases in expenditure. It says:

"The purchase tax on all but luxury goods should be abolish- ed, and also all taxes on food- stuffs and a drastic reduction

made in the beer, tobacco and

entertainment taxed."

Both popular

INCREASED benefits are popu- lar. So are reduced taxes. The two but no matter. Shove them both are mutually incompatible.

in the programme.

110

. cutting prices and profits, True the programnie propotes The next topic is a poor

other second- Washington's cut off Marshall aid to Br- a habit of pulling themselves the right-hand man to Gover-raising wages and standards of to raise some money in

living, extending nationalisation. directions. It purposes a sharp famous "fridge" inquiry, tain if the Government con- together, and

tinues nationalisation.

ably do so asal would prou. Torles' presidential candidate and reorganising foreign trade." Increase in the profits tax, a capital levy on ali blg fortunes, involving President Tru-

The Wall Street Journal has There is another side to this and look at what he is suy-

We have reached a stage in and a 60 percent cut in interest man's entourage.

cited, as one of ils many ob- great American

of the national controversy in

Britain where if you make a to big holders over Britain, and it lan side "England is doomed to great loss you can bear it yourself, debt. that has attracted little no- discaster If it continues the while if you make a proit the But there is no point in tice in Briinih.

way it Is going. To give a Exchequer will collar most of increasing the proûts tax ff There is still a vast amount minimum everybody will it. Profits are taxed to the tune there ain't gonna be no proits. And you cannot meet annually of American good will towards pull all down to one level. But of over 60 percent, and oven Sir Jections to further aid, the Britain, Socialist or otherwise, bringing about a shift in Bri- Stafford Cripps, who cannot be recurring charges out of a single

policy Is u American capit- and that good will is not just tish

And one of the absurdity of

matter of accused of unduo tenderness to capital levy. great delicacy. alism sustaining a Government from the Leftiste.

It cannot be capitalists or anybody else, has biggest holders of the national done with a mest axe."

said that they cannot be taxed debt in the trade union move- any further. Mr Hoffman, the ment

The Programme is strong on Britain's national independence." This is to be achieved. by n drastic- reduction in military expendi ture, which would leave us defenceless, and

a repudiation of the Brussels and Atlantic Facts.. which would leave us friendless. The Programme proposes "the

of all

in the Labour unity

D1050 movement, Labour and Com munist,

who desire to conduct a real Sght for these nims and for Socialism."

"The unity which the. Communista ezeck la the same ricind of unity which the fox socks with the chicken. It is very satis- fying to the fox, but not to the chicken

I have run principal feature of the British "the restoration of genuine anti-situation, the absence of incens

tives to production.

Increase. wages

It

Com-

་

Let us put this Anglo- American "crisis" talk in Its perspective. This has not, been a hate-Britain month along Main-street.

Englishmen

are not taunted as they walk down

alien to its Ideas. Fifth-avenue. And even And the Hearst Press has The New York Herald-Tribune those pot-shots at Britain said: "If the British

Anti-British Tory newe- good. old

TUST a minute! which we have come to ex- realistic and smart, they would paper, and yet it is attacking

for putting across come pect from certain columnists know that, sooner or later, the President Truman

American people will get his most "Conservative" ad- British talk in. Americu are missing, because the tired of supporting their So- viser, Treasury boss John Sny-

comes from the Dolly columnists are on holiday. cialistic experiments.”

der, in charge of the dollar pas of New York (circulation

40,000). To explain Britain's trou- talks. If, then, there is a new bles, sald the neutral Now

On two days running it has THE Communist would destroy anti-British wave in Ameri- York Times the

"Not generally other day,

regarded as

those al- them altogether. It is, there the broadest mind or the ablest published two of cs, it has not reached the America has "conjured up u

most forgotten Zionist cartoons fore, plain that what we should statesman in Washington," personal devil--Socialism."

fat, bullying. John Bull get is not increased production, man-in-the-street yet.

And the motivo?

says the New York Herald- stepping on the infant body of but reduced production.

man some Israel, and so forth. Well, a few American public Tribune. of the

And the Unusual habit

Out of this diminished produc- men and American newspapers American

are calling Compass 18.a Socialist news-

tion, the Communist programme have expressed the hope that "Snyder, the hard-headed, cri-

paper. Conservative, UT what about Congress a tough front.

proposes to "Increase wages and by Washington ical, and

improve standards of living." and the American Press? in the dollar talks might bring bless him.”

Socialists downfall Well, they have been giving about the

in the elections. But most of much time and

them

ecem more ecem

intent on Britain.

holding up the British experi- ment to those who would try And the casual-or pre- it (and they suspect President judiced onlooker might Truman) In America. mistake their talk for Look, for example, at a full- Britain-baiting. That is page advertisement published

overy

paper In because Americans have an in nearly

America at the expense of a unusual habit. They call Pennsylvania steel company. their Government "The Said the headline: "So- U.S.," and therefore they cialism?

Brother you don't call the British Government now the half of it.”

It went on to point out the Powers has "Britain."

that Socialism has for the first time in Britain. Often, then, the criticism of brought to Britain But there It brings a new shape into attempt here to in- British skies—the allhouette Britain is not necessarily enti- was no

BUT

space to

"

advertisement says:

Torks

God

-London Express Service)

The Atom In Britain

to

THE plane selected

carry atom bombs in defence of the Western touched down

British, but rather anti-So- fluènce Britain's elections. In of the new inter-continent cialist. This explains even fact, the some of the rougher talk. The "In England It may be too B.50 Stratobomber. Chicago Tribune, for example, late."

headlined

an edit usuni vigorous slyle beggar

La buck ngain." Identified the beggar Lain, but meant British Government.

·

Virulent critic

QUOTE tho

Wall

Street

into the

Van

Arrives

Dig sister to the Superfort, the B.50 flew into England for the first time recently. With a bomb-carrying capacity of ten 1ons, she may become the spearhead of America's cir striking- JOTCE.

•

Stark lunacy

NROM the point of view of

anyone who wants to se Britain through its troubles, the programmo is stark lunacy. But it achieves intelligibility it you recall what should never be for- gotten--the fundamental aims of Communism,

They are:

1.To make the existing order” of socialy impossible, fomenting every kind of trouble to tits end;

2.The seizure of power and the establishment of the Ono- Party Police State;

3.-Tho subordination national interests to those of international Communism, bond- ed by the Soviet Union.

Every item in the Programme, however absurd and contra- dictory in itself, is related to those three objectives,

Economic breakdown; bud-

Thirty B.50s from Fort Worth, "The warning which Inspired in its

flow have "In Texas, That all this expense was this:

Sculthorpe, this country where your free USAF station at

is at stake, as Bri- dom

it is Inter Norfolk. the present than you think."

The visitors are the 43rd Bomb Group of the USAF, the 30 ful sisters, the Superforts, now The Stratobomber is the focal And a senator quipped that

planes are on a 10-day training based in Britain. She has the point of the great air con- "It is t'me the British stopped

mission. using dollar bills oz Imper

length and 141 troversy in America today. Her Fame 90ft. hankies,"

and by. "the Bri Journal again. "When a Among them is Lucky Lady wingspan. But her tall height champions are fighting in Con- getary bankruptcy; the weaken- the gress for the United States to ing of our eapacity for defence; tish" he theant The

present run on a bank gets under way II., which made the first-ever is 34ft., Bt. higher than

build 70 groups of B.50 bombers the sundering of friendships be British Goverment

tho only way to stop it is non-stop flight round the world. Superfort, There is no explanatlop but to pay the depositure, or con-

That was six months ago Inside she can slow ten tons as a striking-force to operate tween us and other threatened venom, however, for the car vince them they will be paid,

bomber of bombs. With a

from home ground against any people all these are grist to the (March) when the

Communist miti. toonist who drew John Bull as every dollar of their deposits.

four days and bomb load she has a range of continent in the world. a down-at-heel tramp, with That 13 what

However, we may perhaps be this country spent nearly

flew 6,000 miles, cruises at 300 miles If this polley is adopted the thankful that the Programme nights in the air. She bundle labelled "Empire junk" would have to do for Britain non-stop 23,108 miles and was an hour, and Ales fint out at 400 Americans will rely mainly on does not also promise free beer. as his only possessions, beg. And it simply cannot under-

refuelled from the air at the miles an hour. ging Uncle Sam for more bil- take it.

On the round-the-world flight an air striking-force, with these all round, old age persions.o Hons for "the deserving (7)

Azores. Dharan on the Perslan "The immediate results of a Guit, the Philippines, Hawall the B.50 carried 14 crow, but silver-nosed $5,000ft, allitude leaving school, and permanent

bumbers as the spearhead.

Ane weather.' poor."

There has bean plenty of Brish collapse might not be The B.50 will be hard to her normal complement is ten

(London: Express ́Serolce). (London Express Serolos) evidence that

Con- pleasant, but there could be distinguish from her. less power. Her armament is 12 60mm, guns.

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