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YOU JOB

NERF

The dollar crisis threatens. ns directly as did the German U-boats in the last

US

two wars.

There is only one way of

gathering to escape-by gether the countries of the British Commonwealth and Empire in a political and economic unity which will free us from dependence on the United States.

1 am glad that the So. cialist members of our dele. gation to Strasbourg insist

ed that--whatever the Con-

might

The

Why Americans Will Not Pay London

A

LONDON.

T frst I did not re-

cognise her volco.

There was none of the

A Visit

CHARLES GRAVES

ilting challenge of "Ask I prophery that if English what the boys in the back hotels pald a 10 percent. com. room will have." There was mission to American travel none of the swooning huski. agencies the number of American ness of "That low loft hook. visitors to this country would be

doubled next year. That look which leaves me weak,"

Deyond that, the Catering Wages Act, with its surcharge of · 10 percent on bills which we It was a nagging voice. aro now fold does not tree the customer from the moral respon- She anfu unglamorously, ability of tipping the staff: the "What's tho mutter with Sc. limit on a restaurant meal; you people in Britain? Are and the scandalous price of you a nation of masochists? wines and spirits are further

deterrents. Why does everyone take a. delight in saying that you Whisky—and wine can't have this and you can't. have that? Before I'd been here 10 days I had lost 8. Italy who find the'r bill is enor

English visitors to France or in weight. The only person mously increased by a 15 percent apparently who can get me service charge and a 3 percent fresh eggs is my hired car elly tax ton wall understand the driver. How do you expect annoyance of American, visitors when they find that an official Americans to come here--I ss, Engilsh meal has various mean a second time?"

Her voice lost its petulance and began to plead: Couldn't you send me at least one pat of real butter? Surely you have relatives in the country. I'm told that I subjects like this there should an get food parcels sent to be an absolute agreement, be-me from Germany but that tween the main porțies,

seems to be taking it too for. What d'you say?"

Whichever party with the next election and I belleve It will be the Socialist P. rty

would be immensely helped by

We should alm to get all our a reduction of dollar expendi food from Commonwealth and ture on labucco. Empire countries, and from

Qur own lund within the

possible shortest

time.

красе

of

Prefer Europe

extras in the form of house charges, permission to dance. and the latest, surcharge which makes a complete monkey out of the original bill.

Americans are not used to this kind of thing in England-what- ever, they may expect on the Continent.

As for the price of drinks; the whisky mensure in the average West End hotel is so small that when poured out looks more like a dirty glass than a drink.

Measures on the Continent are far bigger and, whatever the Scotch Whisky Association and Well. if that is what happens the English Gin Distillers may |to a £1,000-n-week Hollywood say, there are now Continental film star in a London luxury brands of whisky and gin which hotci what about the reaction of are at least as palatable as those THE main lines of an Empire the average American visitor to which can be bought in the United States not half the English food and economic policy Britain-the sort of visitor who

prices. should be lald down before the next General Election and

carts from £800 to £1,200 a accepted by all candidates year. who do not intend us to re- main permanently subservient

If the Americans do not help It is quite

that we wrong the British then within a few should skimp ourselves of im

while months of General Election the ported feeding stuffs,

Governnient will be bringing in large quantities of British

tobacco, This is forced to take measures which American

where party politics came in. be very unpopular. Without doubt we are on the

If we were to substitute for to America. But

so are they.

tobacco mure Americans

face Auterican will mounting unemployment if we Rhodesian, Greek, Turkish and soft currency tobacco cannot buy their goods.

The other recession may become a slump. there would be immediate and widespread complaints which A Democratic government In W

fan against the Taries would would America great danger s f Socialist us.

Yet every sensible politician Germinent in Britain.

knows perfectly well that we The odds are, then, that 20

solution may be simply cannot temporary

tinue to import American to- bacco at the present rale. On found.

temporary.

be

in

But it can only

✩

THE Americans will not for

over tax themselves to put their Industrial competitors on fect. The American their automobile werker will not relish

paying taxes to help servatives may be willing to British cars to compete all over do-we In the Socialist the world with the cars which Party will never subordinate he produces,

ties.

But the Commonwenith and Empire must come first.

*

Mortified

According 10 the Tourist Association of Great Britain our

When it comes to wines, American visitors are having a

and restaurants The road to the Decline and wonderful time: are determined English hotels

three times, the, Fall of the British Empire is to come back next year for charge two to

of their original buying have lengthened their cost soft and easy, but there is more.

clarets, another road, hard and stony average stay in this country from price of champagnes,

days to seventeen days burgundles, Alsatian and German If they were content ut glorious, which can make five

(Tourist Board figures, definitely wines. of our Empire a greater force

not mine) and in June spent with a mero 50 percent profit than either the USA or Soviet

two and a half milion pounds they would have a quick turn- Union.

over and would ·

encourage (including their fores). can, we must

American visitors to stay longer. Oh, yes?

We

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and we

-(London Expræer Sorpios)

C.V.R. Thompson Reports The American Scene

begun to

generous prepared to be their dealings with us, then we should be willing

to endure criders OUR gold and dollar reserves

for and hardship are dwindling well below time even greater than we en £400,000,000.

Gure already.

THOSE biscuits known for When they reach the danger

Ono

ts certain. I{ His reason, they say, is that centuries in Britain n። point and surely the Iron there is "drying up" of Ameri- he is afrald that otherwise ginger nuts are to be renamed Cancellar will not let them can help to and investment in the Republicans will return to "gingers" before they can be ret below £300,000,000 without wih 22 countries. there would folationism.

thing

As it is, our most amiably dis- Anybody who has been on the Continent in the summer months posed tourists from the United wil look very sceptically at the States cannot fall to register a Tourist Association statement. feeling that they have been For Americans do not come to "rooked." Britain in anything like the numbers that visit Europe. Why not? Why is it that they find attractive than Europe more England?

No 10 per cent.

There are several reasons. The most important of all is never mentioned.

ten

They had already been warned

back home that they would not get a lot of good food, as opposed to Allings like potatoes and cabbage. They were quite pre- pared for this. Some of them secretly thought, no doubt, that a mid diet would do them no harm

But when they find that zip for sip and mouthful for mouthful London In particular, and Eng-

It is that English hotels, as a land in general, is a great deal

commission to they feel mortified. percent. American travel agencies who

And when an American feels send clients to them. It is only

+

5/- Maximum

Sir Alexander

Wo_must_bo ready. It nec our bonds with the Comman--

Anancial break cessary, for a wealth to any European with America. It may not- organisation.

nimust certainly will not-

But there can be We want the closest unity come now.

NEW YORK. NOTICE in the window of a whole refuse to pay the normal more expensive than New York with France and Holland no permanent solution until we

stand on our own feet in the OR THE FIRST time since Chicago "local": No tele- and the other Powers of

dollar the wer without sterling area

Trumanties have vision shown here. Western Europe that is aid.

criticise General Ike Our prezent dependence on Firerhower. compatible with our Empire

They poured the dollar is damaging to both

GOODBYE TO Peekskill par-natural, therefore, that the travel mortifed he feels wounded not for "expounding

U ties have been' held by a agents in New York, Chicago, only in his pocket-book, but in countries. It often makes the scorn on him Americans

the glories of the middle of sc.m arrogant.

group of summer residents at Seattle and other big American his, coul. the road." This 13 a sure slen

BIG this New York suburb which cities divert their customers to makes us look beggars.

of their belief

lief the general will

against Paul the Continent where this ten staged the riots are no risk the Americans tho

presidency against

Robeson. in Tuman

They will spend no percent. rake-off is a routine or his

in nominee

more summers ut Peekskill, aftale. 1052. The Republican they say. "because of the Fas-

What does (Tories) are just as convinced cist influences there."

True, there are thousands of Maxwell, chairman of the British he will try to force them to

Americans there were 15,153 in Tourist Board, say to all this? adopt him as candidate.

June who insist on coming to Can't he persuade English hotel- England in spile of the travel agents. The fact remains that it irritating twopence or threepence keepers to make a present of the is In spite of them and not because of them that Americans who are being charged several a day for newspapers to visitors exported to Ainerica. The visit this country.

pounds a week for their accom- United States Pure Food Ad-

insists on President minstration that

the HAIGES

For not only do the French, modation? Truman is a Socialist came change because the biscults do Italian, Swiss and other Con-

Can't he have a really impar- tinental hotels pay 10 percent tial grading of English hotels from:

two more pubile men, not contain any nuts

the price of recently. Sald Opposition Lea

accommodation for visitors sent such as the Guido Michelin pro- ther Joseph Martin:

DEQUEST received by

to them but they also pay 10 per- vides in France? posterous for him to think his America's Foreign Offler cent on meals, drinks and even Can't he persuade. Sir Stafford election last year was a clear

a leading Congressman in some cases on elgars bought Cripps to persuade Mr Strachey mandate to lead the nation to from

Ireland's --- raise

diplomatic in the hotel lobby. Socialism.

to do away with the ludicrous status from a legation to an

-58. maximum-for-meals--nt least And "the danger from within" embassy. Reason: "Ireland's No wonder that American to visitors able to show American hour Em- WHETHER our

is yet of America

becoming a Wel contributions to our welfare travel agencies endeavour to pire.

W come or not, we should fare Stale was the reason Sen have been tremendous." The shorten the average stay of their or other hard currency pass Can we persuade the Ameri-

more rigorouslyator John Foster

porta? Congressman's name John clients in England as far as is Jeans to let us "pool" with than hitherto a real Empire for accepting, against his will, McCormack.

humanly possible...

Above all, what is his reply to them part of the greatest Em policy-first an Empire food pire the world has ever known? policy, secondly វាព Empire a Tory invitation to run again

It is furtunate indeed that the my accusation against English hotels that they are cutting of However necessary for the reonomie polles, thirdly,

RDERS have gone aut from two Queens and other Trans- their noses to spite their faces manite Herbert Lehman. 0 moment some

Washington that U.S. air-atlantle steamships have their by refusing the all-important immigration such ar Empire

policy, they are fourthly, an Empire strategic

men aro 110 longer to wear home poris in England. rangements may be,

Many 10 percent comm'ssion to these alled

for the policy.

Yorkville, the floppy caps with

These require atarERMAN-TOWN

in of them, however, stop en route hard-belled American travel familiar

where future of the Empire.

higher and more intimate Em- in New York, has formed London during the war. The at French ports.

the agencies? descend in large The

American and British pire organisation than we have a group to raise dollars to re- new cap la stiff and smart as Americans statesmen, facing one another yet scen.

build bombed German cities. a Guardsman's.

quantities to tour the Continent.

a vast upheaval--how can we pay

for the food and raw materials we buy from dollar arcas?

II is ludicrous to talk another American loan.

If Trumnos proposed li KISS would throw it out.

nt

be a great rally to sterling. Sterling is the only alternative world currency,

If we were to challenge a reationary American Anan. cial policy we would triumph Even far earlier

than most people Con-

suppose.

Only one solution of the im- mediate problem remains- tara-scale American invest- ment in our Colonial

menace

pursue even

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