BRITAIN MAY BEAT AMERICA IN TRADE RESTORATION

Wanganui Chronicle, 4 October 1946, Page 4

BRITAIN MAY BEAT AMERICA IN TRADE RESTORATION

“First out of the woods" in the race for the restoration of peacetime trade may be Britain, for English vacuum cleaners and other goods made since the war's end are in use in American homes because the American goods arc unobtainable. “America’s policy has always been 'Sell, sell, sell.’ but now she has to do some buying, because she hasn’t been able to make the goods herself," stated Miss Beatrice Brown, who is revisiting Wanganui after seven years spent in the U.S.A. “While England has been work.ng America has been striking, and the way things are going over there J. think Britain will first out of the woods. - ' she added. The film industry is another instance whore Britain is racing America. Not by any means is all America the country that Hollywood movies would give us to believe, Miss Brown stated. Hollywood was having a bad influence with its divorces and loose morals and lights. However. Hollywood was now realising that unless the standard of her productions were improved they would lose the world market. British pictures were now beginning to give lhe American efforts a run for their money, even in America itself, for they gave the public intelligent fare. Hollywood was beginning to appreciate that photography and production skill was not enough.