AMERICANS’ VIEW
SITUATION IN BRITAIN NOT SYMPATHETIC TO NATIONALISATION p.A AUCKLAND. Aug. 26. The situation in Britain was a common topic of conversation in the United States, said Mr S. J. Robinson, managing director of B. J. Ball (N.Z.), Ltd., of Auckland, who returned today from San Francisco. While the man in the street, for the most part, realised that Britain must be helped, he was a little doubtful why he should continue to be taxed for that purpose when Britain was engaging in Socialist experiments. “United States production, wealth and prosperity have all been built up under private enterprise and private enterprise is now more than ever a dominant feature of industry in the country," said Mr Robinson. “People are therefore suspicious of the nationalisation of the various sections of industry in the United Kingdom and they do not see why they should be called on to pay, in effect, for these experiments. In a way, it is, perhaps, unfortunate from an international point of view that a Socialist Government should be in power in Britain. Churchill is still the ideal of the Americans.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26550, 27 August 1947, Page 6
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185AMERICANS’ VIEW Otago Daily Times, Issue 26550, 27 August 1947, Page 6
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