BRITAIN IS GETTING ROUND "RECOVERY CORNER"

Chronicle (Levin), 15 December 1947, Page 5

BRITAIN IS GETTING ROUND "RECOVERY CORNER"

Received Sunday, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 14. The effort of Britain' s people was taking them "round Recovery Corner'"', said Mf. Herbert Morrison in a political broadcast.* After review- ^ ing the economic and financial necessity for cuts in rations Mr. Morrison s&id the middleelass had had a difficult time. ' 1 To share things out fairly we have had to asn some people to accept a lower standard of living than they had been used to. All of them accepted the situation with a good grace. ' ' Mr. Morrison, comparing the present and prewar conditions. claimed that the Government had found jobs for 1,500,000 more peopie and Britain despite all her diiticulties was exporting by volume oneiii't.h more goods. The battered and rundown railway system was moving one-iifth greater loads with 15 per eent fewer wagons. Steel production had reached a record peak while mmers were raising sufficient coal i'or Britain to begin helping other countries. No country except the United States had spent puch immense sums and send so many goods to relieve ihe war-shattered peoples. "Let us be proiid that we carried through despite all our trials." Sir Stafford Cripps, in a message to British industrial leaders, urges them to postpone unessential replacements and rely a little longer on maintenance and the adaptation of existing plant as part of;,the Government 's plah 'to' 'rbduce Capital expenditure. The schemes for expanding exports and supplying basic industries like coal, steel and agriculture should eontinue, but the expansion of production for t.he home market generaily mus.t be deferred. The Federal British Industries and the National Union of Manufacturers sapport Sir Stafford Cripp's appeal.