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World Copyrighi De aranorment with Rossinu Standard.

What will happen

on Sept. 18?

by.

•

BERNARD HARRIS

LONDON.

N London and New York the financial soothsayers prophesy that September 18 will be the day for really big news,

cur-

They say that if the Americans insist on rency adjustments as the price of further dollar aid to Europe then September 18 will be the day on which the world will learn that the pound

sterling, together with a few other European currencies, has been official ly devalued.

Why do they plek September 107

First, it is a Sunday. And the one day of the week when all

the world's markets are shut is

obviously the best to choose for such a momentous ment.

It was on a Sunday-Septem- ber 20, 1931-that Britain went off the gold standard.

The French franc, according to this source, is to be reduced Swedish by 17 percent, the erown by 14 percent, and Italian lira by 9 percent.

the

On the argument that their economics are closely linked with ours, Norway, Holland, and Denmark are thought likely to

follow us with a 20 percent cut. And presumably most of the Sterling Area would follow our lend.

Now my view is that if these American

forecasts of what

I might be that momentarily the pound would fall as low as $2.50 in value.

MY SIDE OF LIFE Tho CHAPMAN PINCHER Column

Germ Bomb Gets First Try-Out

D

ETAILS of America's In this light the germ-bomb newest secret remains a powerful delerint,to attack. But there is no scientlic weapon the germ foundation for the claim, that it bomb have reached me is a super-weapon expable of from the bacterial warfare deciding wars overnight,

station at Camp Detrick,

Maryland. They are the

SEEN THE BOSS ?

first facts on which the public can make an assess- ment power.

TWO Hours spent Bunting ants with

of the weapon's Edinburgh University scientist

DITIONE

0EK EX WEAGGE MORLEY showed me why totali inrian. States aro often compared with ant-hills.

The bomb fia a cluster of 4lb. canisters each contain- Ing an egg-cupful of con- centrated germ - culture. Dropped from a high-flying aircraft it cascades the canisters over the target, long different anta tako to learn Tho canistors then explode the way through a miniature separately a few feet above maze, Morley has proved tut

the the ground.

Initiative in any ant colony rests entirely with a few enter-

By timing how

Latest held trials, carried out prising individuals, in Utah, show that one-tenth

of the germs survive

Any new venture, such as a the switch from nest-repairing to

explosion and get scattered in food-gathering, is always started. the mist-form essential to pro- by these boss, ants, which in duco results.

By counting the germs which settled on culture plates sent- tered over dummy target areas, U.S. Army bacteriologists have reported that four tons of the bombs would contaminate one

maze tests mrely make the same mistake twice

Tho ant masses, which are way through a maze, follow the usually too stupid to learn their

others slavishly.

When the bosses decide on a

The Fund, with still more square mile of battlefield. About mass move of population, the to promote exhalf the troops there might be which seem unwilling to leave

millions,

WDB

selling infected.

change stability by foreign currency to any country swift temporarily short of

member's money.

But if we handled our affairs aright there would be a recovery. We should soon be able to look the dollar in the -face without being tied to it.

reat usually follow them. Any

their old bomo are carried off

ANYONE HOME?

A four-ton bomb-load ex- by force. another

ploded over a town would con- taminate an area about half a mile square, infecting perhaps 1,000 people.

A country wanting to make a substantial change in the value Then, and then only, would of its currency would first have we know that we wcro really to get the Fund's agreement. pulling out of our troubles.

Neither of the twins has been Why, then, do we not let the a success. pound go free?

First, Sir Stafford Cripps and his colleagues are against it. It conflicts with the Socialist policy of controls.

Second, our hands are tied by one of those evil legacies from Bretton Woods-the rules of the International Monetary Fund,

DESIGNED TO CURE TROUBLES

1s to happen are near the mark it will be a black day for us.... TT

Events have shown that wo made a blunder of the Drst or- der when, under the rules of the Monetary Fund, we tied the pound to the dollar at the Oxed rate of 4.03.

The blunder was in seeking to achieve fixity in a chroile world.

A WHITE ELEPHANT

·

Three other facts in my infor- fmation reduce the operational

scope of the weapon-

*

BIRD' WATCHERS Eave discovered that when swifts, immigrating at 50-70 m.ph. across Britain, pass over any site where other swifts have nested in previous years, Experiments have proved,

they circle round, scream that derm-bombs are most harsh notes, then fly on.

a low unreliable. No field commander would. dare plon an assault on

They will do this over nesling the assumption that a target sites Inviable from the air and which had been germ-bombed before any of the locally 'bred. must be sufficiently softened." birds, which will later occupy

them, have arrived.

Experiments aimed at pro- 2 duding epidemics tu order have felled,

THE Bank has lent less than £200 million, though the re- sources available to it are more than £2,000 million. And the Agures the Fund are roughly

Question which the British similar-it has operated on only

Trust for Ornithology in trying a fraction of the intended scale.

to settle: Do the swifts somehow get to know and remember the It has folled because it Effective antidotes to the exact locations of all these sites, machinery won't work smoothly germs which could be used or have they some uncanny and its services are too costly in the bombs can be mass sense for detecting them from for most of the member, coun-produced. The big-scale manu- the air?

facture of penicillin and other

HERE'S HOW

Was at an Internation) conference al Bretton tries. Woods-a New Hampshire, US resort-that the Idea of tho announce-

The Fund, in fact, has been germ-killing drugs has already World Bank and Monetary Fund described as a "financial white weakened the striking-power- germinated in the summer of elepliant."

of the new weapuil 1044.

US stall chiefs are convinced These twin institutions were it should be better if we with-start epidemics would be of

In the view of many experts that only germs which do NOT flight. designed to cure the currency drew from this international strategic troubles of the post-war world,

The Bank, with millions

and talking-shop

regained of world is still in a

control over our mess. What sort of

contributed by its 47

monetary Buarantee money

affairs.

-(London) Express Service)

NO LONGER MASTERS

DUT

But the

the really compelling have we that we shall fare bet-member countries, was to make

ter with the pound at $3.22, or, loans for reconstruction. reason for the

choice of indeed, at any other fixed rate September 18 is that it marks than we did with it at $4.037 the end of the four-day annual meetings of the World"

The new-rate of $3.22- Bank

·be- too high or too low. It is guesswork of the worst sort.

and the International Monetary Fund in Washington.

And it is to the Monctory Fund that Britala had to go for permission to change the value of the pound.

For in the curious set-up of this post-war world we are no longer anasters in our own house so far as our own cur- rency in concerned.

Taby"

FOOLISH POLICY

HAT, then, is the alterna-

tive?

Clearly, it is to set the pound free to And Its own levél. A

value in warfare. Highly infectious germs have beun ruled out because of their boomerang ellect on occupying troops.

C.V.R. Thompson Reports The American Scene

The Fund is dominated by natural, fluctuating rate based! AMERICAN tourists applying let, "at n sacrifice to their dlet the cook: "Burn the British."

the US but nearly 50 counteles, including such financial pigmies as Costa Rica and Ethiopla, nrg entitled to a say in how wo

| manage our money affairs.

SOME American

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HOW THEY TICK

FOR RESEARCH :. on. tropical medicine scientists have long needed a youracans of tracing the movements with of individual mosquitoes in the feld, Now they have 1

NEW YORK.

♫ for passports to visit Europe only real remedy for the finun- how to answer criticism, Com on supply and demand, is the are to be given a brief course in cial ills that beset us.

munist and otherwise, of the

American Medical Assocla- tion-wide advertising cam- With the pound freed, we Marshall plan.

tion. usually

reticent as paign against Blump jitters, should be able to disentangle

Britain's General Medical

Typical slogan: *Arc ourscives from

the dollar Washington's Stato

in Now cutting your own throat Depart Council, have begun shortage, which is the root

of ment

to slip hut begun

4 York "elreus" which is to tour your tongue?" most of our troubles. We help sprightly written booklet into the US to educate the public ed to create that shortage by every passport it issues.

ageintt President Truman's ABOUR: The high command By feeding the larvae on a tying ourselves too closely to

national nealth scheme. All is of . Amerien's unions has liquid previously. bombarded It warns the bearer of six comers are invited to ask any decided to give the dollar, and we continue to

up striking with atomic rays, the scientists sustain it so long as we keep to whoppers" the Communists question they like of the 23 för-higher

after wages

this can rear radionetivo- mosquilões that foolish policy.

will tell him.

doctors who form the touring year, and to concentrate upon to ordır. When releared these a fight for shorter hours. Their can be tracked down by means target is a six-hour day and of a sensitive Instrument which

picks up the ruys they give ofL

Firmer knowledge of the

WILL THE S BE CUT?

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Our chief trouble is that too These are that the Marshall company. are even prepared to forecast many nations are not eager to plan aims at starting a war, Individual changer.

trade for sterling. We have en colonising Europe to prevent anXAMPLE: Senator Charles a Ove-day week. One authority runesis. that couraged them in that by In-American economic collapse, Tobey has been saying in the pound will be cut in value velving ourselves in the dollar, imposing the American system many speeches lately that the A servicemen's wives are toad our methods of keep-

MILLION От moro ex- mosquitoes' flying habits wi by 20 percent, which would scrumble.

on Europe, dumping American trouble wis the world is that be recrulled by the American make it worth $3.22 Instead of health is to get the pound ac- Western Europe of its strategie US Government to ball it out

The way back to financial surpluses on Europe, and looting sit back and wal's for the Legion in an attempt to drive ing them in check, the present $4.03.

cepted. more and more widely materials.

or Communists

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Sitting

The Fence

In view of the

absence

of Nathaniel Gubbins his annual pilgrimage. to The Nest, we are this week without tish of The

NOW LUPULON

*

10

DREWERS know that substance in hops isa' powerful called lupulon

29,000. Umes. than carbolle acid which attack germs

US doctor now report ex- periments with lupulon which suggest. It may be umtakes ins combating germs which attack people.

their

On

On

A SWIFT RECOVERY

"tho upon

Recently in his as a trading currency.

at Temple,

pathisers out of the entertain- New Hampshire, How could that be achieved? "Just plain lies," says the Senator Tobey gave a practical ment business. If the pound were allowed to booklet.

demonstration of what fo First to be tackled will be find its own level it would even. Another warning is given that thinks the world ought to do radio and TV, because most tually reach a point at which Communist "malice and mis- stead. Although 09, he join- of their programmes are spon other countries would decide information" will try to make od moighwours in a pleks-and-sored by advertisers Sponsors antiseptic, being that it was attractive again. the American feel guilty about shovel brigada to mead a half- of shows with Left-wing costs stronger

egolast the food and drink he takes, or mila of road the Government will be warned that their goods the foreign goods he buys.

should have repaired. Ho will be boycotted unless they beer. "Don't fall for that either," said:

Vo are just helping sack the performers. Say's the guide.

ourselves as we always have." Tourists are also asked not to

Said W. C. Sawyer. Legion

would become again a based

handsome bar, the

counter man, "Such · en'ertalnerg currency in which trade could meal" their European friends when ordering what is known Robeson have no businasa in bo done.

may serve them.

locally as a toasted English the theatre or on the radio."

home town

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