PRAISE FOR BRITAIN

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 2, 30 November 1944, Page 5

PRAISE FOR BRITAIN

TRIBUTES TO WAR EFFORT. NEW YORK, Nov. 29.

The New York Times, in an editorial headed "Blood, Sweat and Tears", pays a glowing tribute to the disclosures in the White Paper giving the statistics of Britain's war efforts. "The British were fighting Hitler, part of the time almost alone, for two years before the Japanese bombed us into the war," it says. "The British have stood up magnificently against every weapon Hitler could throw. Our British cousins have fought the good fight and held the line and contributed their full share to victory." The Herald-Tribune in an editorial says: "The White Paper gives many interesting evidences of the impact, of total war on British life, but all add up to an inspiring picture of a. great people mobilised for every sacrifice and pulling their full weight and more in the common struggle, in which they have never flinched or failed."

The British Minister, Mr Harold Butler, commenting on the White Paper, predicted that Britain would retain wartime controls and food and clothing rationing in the interim period between the end of the war and the time of complete reconversion. He said that at the end of the war British industry was certain to be taxed beyond its capacity by the demand for building materials, clothing, food and other consumer goods of every type. There was likely to be the establishment of priorities for allocation of all sorts of manufactured articles. Mr Butler added that 1950 was a reasonable guess as to the time when tiie controls could be lifted. However, the Japanese war was an unknown factor capable of upsetting the whole calculation.