Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-09-02

"A Conservative government, had II oeen
elected in 1945, would have faced the SELF
same problems. And, as any fool in Britain
knows it would have been obliged in the end
to use methods similar to those employed by
the Labor government Without controls, with
out rationing and without planning all would
have been irretrievably lost"
"2-Our Yankee critics are saying that the
British are lazy, that other European countries
are more speedily solving their problms. This
is a laundering insult More than that. the
allegation is monstrously wide of the facts,
British production in the first quarter OF
this present fear was 131 pecent of the pre-
war figure for 1888. OF the Western Euro
pean countries only Sweden (neutral in the
war; and Denmark can beat this achievement.
Britain is the only Marshall aid country to be
earning a higher proportion of its dollar re-
uuirements than before the war"
"Who dare say that these results have
been achieved by nation of soft-living slack
ers enjoying a life of ease at the expense OF
American largesse? Who dare claim any JUS
tification for the gibe of the New York Daily
News that the old British backbone is turn
ing to putty?'"
"3-It is alleged that your dollars are be-
ing used by the British government to finance
a welfare state'-a luxury which hard-work-
ing America cannot afford. This is the most
staggering lie of them all, spread by your
American magnates with the sole OBJECT OF
sabotaging sane Christian plan they never
wish to see imported (for obvious reasons) in
to America itself"
Brtain's health services, and our policy OF
full employment, have nothing resotely to do
with the causes of Europe's dollar crisis. They
are financed by the highest rate of taxation In
the world And the welfare state is far from
being Socialist stunt 1t will be carried on
Gf they are returned to power) by Churchill
Tories. The Conservatives have announced
this policy officially"
Dollars or no dollars, austerity or starva-
ton, we will democratcally vote for the gov
ernment we want Labor, Liberal or Tory
whether or not it suits the book of your Wall
Street wolves or power-drunk political wire
pullers."
eve appreciate, and are deeply grateful
for American help: Let there be no doubt
about that. But to say that Britain is livint
on American charity is nothing more or les
than kindergarten economics of which any
thinking adult should be ashamed. An alive
and-kicking Europe is just as vital to youi
future land to the American economy as 1t Il
to Europeans"
"You want to save dollars, yet you sneel
at our austerity living. You scream at us fol
failing to sell our goods in the American
market-our prices, you say, are too high
Yet you are gripping our dollar earnings b!
pling up your tariffs against us, more than q
percent on British woolens and 35 percent OF
chinaware."
eve know much remains to be done. W.
know we must work even harder. But yol
may safely relax. We are not an ignorant o
indolent people. We're old hands at extricat
ing ourselves from abominable messes. And
you may feel sure-we will do it again"
I'VE ask for fair hearing fair judgment
Too many of you Americans are being foole
by grasping, bgoted tycoons, by brash around
the-world-n- -one-day politicians, and by you
lying anti-Britsh press"