The Economy
Sir, —What a picture—3oo,ooo tons of British shipping and 100,000 tons of foreign shipping lying idle in British ports. And our Ministers of the Crown say it is a recession that has set in. If the hundreds of thousands of tons of shipping lying idle in ports of other countries were published, wopld they call it a slump? Our Prime Minister said recently, when import restrictions were imposed, that some workers would be uprooted from their present positions. Also, he favoured import restrictions on certain foods shipped to Britain from other countries. If that is statesmanship and expected to bring peace and tranquillity among nations of the world “we’ve had it,” and we certainly asked for it.— Yours, etc., A LIKELY VICTIM. March 18, 1958.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28539, 19 March 1958, Page 3
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