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Show Economic Highlights ! I Happenings That Affect Dinner Pails And Pay Check. J The British experiment in socialism is of unusual interest to the American people. First of all, we naturally feel a much closer kinship with England than with any other country except i Canada. The bond of a common language and common institutions institu-tions is a strong one. So is the : fact that we have been allies in two great wars, and millions of Americans have visited and liked England in either a military or a civilian capacity, England's trials and tribulations tribula-tions under the Labor government, govern-ment, therefore, are continuing to occupy a top spot in the American Amer-ican press, and they have been the subject of millions of words of reporting and interpretation. And, of late, many of the interpreters inter-preters have come to the somber conclusion that British socialism, just like European socialism, is putting ideology ahead of everything every-thing else. Henry Hazlitt recently touched touch-ed on- this in one of his Newsweek News-week columns, when he wrote: "Fanatics have been defined by Santayana as people who redouble re-double their effort after they have forgotten their aim. So the heads of the Labor government are forgetting their ideals of liberty, lib-erty, forgetting even the mater ial puipue oi meir pian, ana drive grimly ahead with a plan that has become an end in itself. Meanwhile their planned economy econo-my is running out of coal, running run-ning out of food, running out of dollars. And perhaps most serious ser-ious of all, it is running out of alibis." This point of view is not confined con-fined to the United States, nor even to Mr. Churchill's conservative conser-vative opposition in England. Some of the Labor officials have engaged in sharp differences with Mr. Attlee, on the grounds that his program is unworkable. This led to a near crisis in the Cabinet a short time ago, but Mr. Attlee was sufficiently strong to ride out the storm. Even so, there is still some unrest un-rest in high Labor circles which may make its appearance again. The growing strength of communism com-munism in England has been a cause of worry. This does not mean that the communist party itself is of substantial size it has only two members in Commons, Com-mons, and it is a .sorry also-ran in most elections. But some avowed communists have risen to positions of considerable influence in-fluence and authority. As an example, ex-ample, the leader of the coal miners is an old-time communist, and a faithful follower of the party line. Some writers have openly raised the question as to where his final loyalty mIc.. lie in the event of serious troS between the Soviet Union i?? ' one. hand and an Anglo-A can alliance on the othtr In many circles, the government's recent actinn ,r : levying a 75 per cent net S?J.a tax on American movies ftt step which was immediately"? lowed by a ban on film 2Lt to England by the Am2i2?S ducers is regarded aslant been motivated more bv Ss i gy than by economics. Ami : films are in high favor land, and attract about 70 f cent of the total movip t? I dance A strong S made for preventing furthS V oort of England's dlhS&fc ar supply for entertainment & the Labor government, fig! 0f S,P5ing on a Prohibitive! ?U could have simply blocked t& profits in England. Then Am can producers could have 3 of them have said they werS in to do L's 1.043 . pondont exolains tho t-v hv-Tfa ing that Sir Stafford CrM , instigator. "Feels that U s fiA ; rreate a longing in British hSji . for the fancy plumbing and . veniences and th fi"a? gadgets and luxuries wiftSRP Hollywood crams its sets. 3 ??uAd TVkfu t0 d.u11 this aPpHi tite" If this view is COrSf- lauirhas -banned AmS11 films befause it doesn't want U British people to see visual?? tions of comfort and luxury attitude of mind behind that t iL uncomfortably close to the tim st tality of the high Soviet official Q Many a study has been nadE as to what the rank and file ll the British people, now livlX under an austerity regime mucS more severe than that in efrv during even the darkest dayiV the war, feel about all this. I has been found that there I much dissatisfaction, and ft I crumbling has naturally increc ed as food and other rations ha-been ha-been reduced. Yet th?re do seem any strong feeling that ; change in government would t of benefit. The Labor gover: ment has won a number of Jr elections, since the last generi election, by comfortable major1 . ities. The mass of Enrlish vote-are vote-are apparently convinced tlr Labor should be given ever chance to make a go of it Tt feel m fj, it is said, is in part f result of a fairly general bed. that the Conservatives, despi Mr. Churchill's forensic t liance, haven't offered anythb sufficiently, specific to swingj ... popular sentiment. i |