CONTROL OVER EXCHANGE

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25955, 8 November 1949, Page 5

CONTROL OVER EXCHANGE

Rewards payable to INFORMERS “ECONOMIST” CONDEMNS BRITISH PLAN (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) <Rec 8 p.m.) LONDON, November 7. a £! lcle headed, “Back to Titus ftaS’n , e “Economist” says: “To Chann^° ple the announcement by the of the Exchequer (Sir caJSi Cri PP s) —'it came out quite ? :n a written answer to a PareaSS ntary Question—that ‘in suitable u-hn\ rewai^s will be paid to persons tipc°JvX e i_ lJ ? forma ti° n to the authority i Ch leads to convictions under likei n ° s Control Act, must seem las - st raw. nf th i A lr Chu rchill, in the course rQ s* e . la , st General Election campaign, that the principles of Labour “rrpoi- 1 niust inevitably lead to the o , f a British Gestapo, he was n - widely derided—it could not hapIt be S ins to look as if the —it • t_°w es Mr Churchill an apology “F 1 ? £ a PPening here. control is one of those °t the law for which the f one may—or may not—be prepared •n«v° n T* d u a justificatiqn in expedicfinKi c no moral basis. How ~~ since it prohibits transactions vp?,? were perfectly legal only 10 , sgo . and are still, in most L p .* e . s jninds. honest (though ilvKai) to-day? this new branch of the law inrij;^res a *. countless points with the bleary hfe of the ordinary citizen. tokf ro ?'bits him from going abroad ft en " e wants to; it prohibits her (if tav; Ord l narv citizen is a woman) from it in > er normal jewellery with her; ves such absurdities as the proUp*;* on n - the sending of stamp col.J.° ns to schoolboys abroad. tatin this collection of irrifran res t r ictions. the secrecy of the y’ us can be and is violated in peace

n9w there are to be rewards to Sfk mer t s , and relators. The State is -Y to Put a premium upon Uhnn s ?. yin S and grudge-bearing. not tbm. L ‘be criminal classes. but the whole population. No •m of economic control is worth this we - Away with it!”

qG'nnan Miners Killed.— Seventy man miners were killed when the Hin?supply blew up in a uranium Zwickau m the Soviet zone, hnar * p Western-licensed news‘Sozial Demokrat.”—Berlin, "Member 6.