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Acid Test at Polls Feb. 23
"Continuation of’ Nationalization Program : Depends on Verdict at the Ballot Box
‘By BRUCE BIOSSAT,
When Britain goes to the polls Feb. 23 to vote in a
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general election, the voters will be deciding whether to push forward on the road to socialism or turn back toward a sort
of “managed” capitalism.
¥ ‘The eyes of the world—and espec
jally the United States
Britain's Labor Party Reforms [The Mudlark . .
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go on with the story—
~ —will be fixed on the British Isles that day. For it will mark
subsidies sets them apart from Labor, the Conservatives distinguish themselves from their main rivals chiefly by their intent to “bring nationalization to a full
the first great test of Britain's widely heralded socialist experiment — ‘now nearly five years old. Labor governments in Australia and New Zealand have toppled after long years in power, Wilt Britain's Labor regime, the last remaining in an Englishspeaking nation, stand or fall? Whatever the outcome, the “welfare state” is not at issue. Both major parties, Labor and the Conservatives, propose to maintain and develop the social services usually lumped’ under that label. ] The battle lines over socialism Aare._drawn between. these. two. parties. The Liberals, the Communists and a handful of splinter parties are in the fray, but no one expects them to get far. Labor Points With Pride Labor is standing on its fiveyear record and promising more of the same, It is proud of the social revolution it has engineered. Great industries like coal, elec-
tric and gas utilities; rail and:
truck transportation, civil avia--tilon and overseas communications have been brought under public ownership. Vast new services like the much
disputed national health program]
have been launched. Yet Labor's biggest hoast is ¥full employment.” British unemployed rolls are at the lowest
peacetime levels in many years. |'
Industrial output is 30 per cent above pre-war times. Production per man has risen six per cent in a year and is still climbing. For tomorrow, Labor's leaders ; to maintain jobs for all and “fair shares” for all. Aware that irksome rationing and price controls are alienating many +Britishers, the party proclaims its intent to relax these bonds
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Extend Public Ownership Labor likewise would extend public ownership to such industries as sugar, cement, meat, water supply. It would “mutualize” industrial = insurance — put the companies in the hands of the policy holders. : And, of course, it would carry out the nationalization of the _ stee! industry which already has been voted by Parliament. The scheduled date for that move is January, 1951. 3 ! Observers note that Labor plans to nationalize at a slower ‘pace from here on. Industries already taken over amount to about ~ 20 ‘per cent of the British econ"omy. The new program would add only around five per cent, leaving 75 per cent still more or less free. What do the Conservatives offer the voters as an alternative? They, too, promise full employment. They would keep all existing social services but extend and “improve” them. They would ~ reduce taxes, both direct and in- . direct. . a : +7 And they pledge to wipe out’ current food subsidies that give . consumers grocery shop prices below world market levels. To offset this move, they would protect the poor by upping family allow-
Frank Goodman, secretary and Mrs. Russell Schultz, treasurer.
stop here and now.”
would be undertaken.
to private control the civil aviation business and parts of the
fields. “But they rate it impractical to
return all nationalized businesses
to private management. The differences between the two parties on this general issue are crystal clear, But the Conservatives’ support of the welfare state, with a footnote reading “we can manage it better,” seems sure to draw fire as a British version of the ‘“‘me-tooism” sq often criticized within our own Republican Part And in the field of foreign policy the two big contedners in Britain look more alike than they do anywhere else. Both are primarily devoted to advancing the cause of the British Commonwealth, but they also want to work more closely with Western Europe and the United States. : i Recognize Trade Angle
parties each recognize that Britain’s economic future depends on restoring sound trade ' balances with the rest of the world, particularly with this country. Thus far in the campaign the
about acknowledging the -large role played by U. 8. aid in getting Britain back on its feet. to admit the fact, and have gone on to accuse Labor of squandering the help recklessly. .. ..
through the Conservatives’ argument: That they will be more efficient managers, giving the Britisher more welfare for his money
relatively free to earn the rewards of his initiative and enterprise. They propose, in other words, a managerial revolution.
poses to get on with the same socialist revolution that it started back in 1945. ste
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They would leave the steel industry in private hands. No new efforts at government ownership! |
They would consider restoring
trucking industry. Coal mining and rail transportation might be decentralized and reorgan to stimulate competition within those
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hadn't a notion where he was, the | Master has been: pleased to hon-| or me with his compliments, The. Hall has distinguished itself this time.” ; ¢ . When Mr. Naseby and his little, squad filed into the Master's of-|
smiling. Ca “You did well, all of you. Yes Clement Attlee: The promise is more of the same. =e Se him. “Don’t know what would gd have happened if it hadn't been for the servants. Those others {didn't know what they wefe : |abqut, eh? Prevented something]
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very nasty, I expect, h'mmmm?|
Ugly little brute, by all acounts.”|
was hungry he was.
telling how long he'd been sneak-|
my word!” When he had dismissed them, Sir Gilpin Jarvey sat thinking for
carefully dictated his report to the igeneral--a- remarkable document; beginning with an indictment of the Household Troops. 3 » ” 5 SCOTLAND YARD had re-
~~ Winston Churchill: The promise is to manage it better.
its two representatives at the castle. The response had arrived
tory will recognize as the famous “Busher” Ash. His appearance in the Wheeler Case su his two baffled colleagues and strengthened them in the view that there was more to the matIter than met the eye. gi Ash was a tall, thin, rather shabby man with intense black
he had got his soubriquet of! Busher from a way he had of slowly stroking the underside of ‘his beard with the back of his hand. And Busher Ash, being a me- - Mrs. Attlee: For five years, ning. Labor's first lady. . : Instead of at once tackling Wheeler, who, he reasoned, would ; z keep; he sent for Mr. Naseby. . Ash found Mr, Naseby's behavior suspicious. He turned to {the next witness on his list. And this, unfortunately, was Mr, Brown: > pineal
"CHAPTER THIRTEEN MR. NASEBY set forth with a reflective smile on his A arriving belowstairs with the air of the successful major general that he had turned out to be, summoned Slattery, Noonan, Munn, and the four-underfootmen who had served the Queen's 5 shaled them Into a docile: rank, and informed them of the mission
{yourself to: open th about that little game
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inground; days,;-probably;. steals 4 i hat he could, too, I'll wager. | i me at that great booby |SPasms obviously weit Ieifnes i oo i * [for the purpose of ev y DE a a Ee ihe grew irritable, and finally lost
sponded to the call for help from|
thodical man, began at the begin-|
| Being Informed that the |Queen’s gillie was ill in his room, he went there and knocked on the door. But the voice that answered him sounded as if a huffy
“Hauld yer clatter, man! Swi
-itective . called through the door. “I'm coming in” —for of course he /didn’t want to get a sick man : Ft out of bed. But he found the sick Mrs. Churchill: Her husband's [man standing at a table, kilted, i shirted, and shod, and pouring from a pitcher a large mug o
Thieves Get Everything ™**™. , . . : : THE HARD EYES of Busher But Kitchen Sink Ash glinted. But. looking at this
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Hicks’ resi- nim, and taking thought that]
Hicks did, once they got home.
Strangers carted away two bed-|
stove, a wood and coal circula- ta haa
“a ff-and-tel-her-I'm-ramfeezled.’,
Synopsis: Windsor Castle is in a tumult. Wheeler, a T-year-old Mudlark from London's East End, has slipped into the ‘Castle and surprised Queen Victoria and Disraeli at dinner. Later Mr. Brown, the brawny Scotch Gillie of the Queen, gets drunk and lets Wheeler sit on the throne. Servants, the grenadiers and the police are investigating the case. It bids fair to become a national scandal. - Meanwhile, Slattery, the candlelighter, has developed a romantic interest in Noonan, the scullery maid. Now
+, on
“That's it. You don't mind a little chat about it, I hope?” "A sudden fit of coughing yackes {Mr. Brown. “Ah, as ye see, I'm fice, ‘they found him positively | sick mon,” he explained apologetically. ; — = “ é ; “It won't take long; just make indeéd,” he chortled as the pos- ble” Ash ‘sald sibilities of the thing grew on : ourself comfortable.
own armchair,
his temper again, S 3 ys”
yet, came away with sharpened
suspicions.
“Later Sergeant Wotton entered; the Guard House to hand Inspector Ash a telegraph message which, when the inspector had deeyes and a pointed Vandyke, and ciphered it, became his latest instructions from the Yard: ; YOU ARE TO INSIST UPON CUSTODY OF SUSPECT. IF DENIED COMMUNICATE IMMEDIATELY. UTMOST
IMPORTANCE. himself.
Lord Frederick Incledon,
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s = THE INCUMBENT su ‘to the great Peel, founder of the | Metropolitan Police, was Sir RichMEMPHIS, Tenn. Feb. 10 (UP) (great ape who, servant or not, ard Cross, one of the most astute — When the big moving van was said to order the Queen about gentlemen ever to occupy the
pulled up to the fromt door of ike a drill-sergeant: measuring Home Office. He had high principles and was not likely to inter-
dence, neighbors didn't thinkitact was the thing in a case in-/fere with the duty of Scotland anything was amiss. But the yolving royalty, he said: “Come Yard even to oblige a com
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lips, and,
en —— - satin sini— | They told me you were un/der the weather; iself in so ‘you needn't disturb e door. It's ‘last night.”
I only let my-
hospitably, offering Mr. Brown's
-But-if-the change in.him unconvincing, so was his testimony. He pictured a little vagrant gaining access to ane of the pest guarded citadels in the “ : world by a succession of accl-'fice from this disturbing interREESE YOUR parden. YOu [dents that was all too pat on the view that Kew sent ni of er P. pi P» itace of it; he wus absurdly vague message to Inspector Ash. {about what Had ppened after“Hungry, you say? Aye, nO wards, and many of his answers to direct questions conflicted with ir. Naseby's story. His coughing
THE TRUTH was, of course, a while, and his one eye glittered. hat the SVEBIRE yas Jaeely He Then he summoned his clerk and had no recollection of anything /that had happened after he and| . |Wheeler had come up to this| |room together from the coalhole in- the courtyard, but-he. had a} ‘dim impression that something disastrous ‘had occurred, and In this dilemma was too canny speak freely, Besides, he disin the person of Inspector W. P.!/liked policemen on principle and Ash, whom students of Yard his-/in~ particular disliked the. way this one kept brushing his beard at him. Ash, though again he RY not-insist just
“Odd,” the inspector thought. “Of course I'd insist on custody!” Early that morning Major Fon-| toon, of the Guards, had laid the matter . directly before General
Lord Frederick agreed that this was the kind of thing one could not easily hush up. The Regiment {should hang onto the scoundrel till it had discovered the facts, Nor did he fail to anticipate that the police would come poking 'their noses into the case; he perbull might be penned up inside. sonally would attend to them, he. maid. 21 d in the meantime it Ret : » might be convenient 1f the prisonIt's the:police, Brown.” the de- Bah isd for a time. Fontoon cheered up. Old Inky had known what to do, right enough; he might yet save the
mander
oi | TIOUS mAtter™”
agreed. And he sent {street for Commissioner Kew. It was on his return to his of-|
tol:
The message came from old Q
Lord Frederick went to see the
of the Guards who was" also the/don he huddled up like an old heir to a dukedom. campaigner and. slept on dream“And as you know,” the gen-|lessly. eral explained, “the protection of| Her Majesty ig the Guards’ first responsibility.” : The secretary replied: “I believe it is also the: responsibilit of the Yard's Special Branch.” “Well, I suppose it is, in 4 way, “~~ oblivi ri but this is a castle matter; it| RS occurred in the castle, and the Wake him up!” ; i -Guards' terri-- The prisoner was given a shake iby one limp arm. But it fafled: ul rouse him.’ Hé was seized WY oear A we'll both shoulders and shaken brisk-| pg y _But_he only whimpered and ut ther$ ws Do appeal. Be. iy. But. he_only whimpered fore the whole sank back into his void. eeler | fghting, “yelli
Seven o'clock, and over his of lice too, 1 {breakfast in another part of the with all kind o’ castle Colonel Coggeshall was a {praised of the night's happenings. |
t 8:30 Coggeshall himself,
castle, after all is tory.” .- secretary smiled. “But,” said the general, turn the case over to you time, of course! Don't you agree that this is a bit out of their was exhausted." Her Majesty's safety is “Here!” ay her considerations. said impatiently, and p why ave doubled the! : ¢ Fr at ho nave doubled down he took hold of the lapels
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“He's “filthy. The Real Estate Section of the big SUNDAY TIMES is NOW the Caprnisht, 1980, - by Theodore. {home-shopping center of Indian‘time had stopped. Wheeler was apolis. It has PAGES OF REAL BLACKSTRAP MOLASSES rasleep.in.the big caken-chair: AENTATE ADB every Sunday; -—Blackstrap- molasses; by ~ prod It was cold in the Guard Room PLUS news, pictures, special ar- uct in the sugar mills, is in use in the early morning and no one!ticles on local real estate, building, as a raw material for making threw a cover over him, but be- general business—all in one handy transparent plastics for airplane ing used to the doorways of Lon- section, for your convenience. noses and other applications. ie ce re —e ton maitre rem Sa A——————————————r———
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