REVIEW OF THE YEAR
and crowded into it tours of many of our schools and training colleges and an examination of social welfare schemes, particu- larly those for the benefit of women and children.
Among unofficial visitors were T. R. H. Prince and Princess Peter of Greece, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Cardinal Spellman and the French High Commissioner in Indo-China. The British Ambassador to Japan, Sir Esler Denning and the Governor of Singapore, Sir John Nicoll, also paid private visits. The Colony was especially fortunate in the number of world-famous musi- cians and singers who appeared before large and appreciative audiences. Miss Helen Traubel the New York Metropolitan Opera singer, paid a return visit and Louis Kentner, Maurice Clare, Solomon and Iturbi also gave recitals. In the field of sport, much interest was shown in football matches played by local teams agains the Djurgarten Club of Stockholm and the Linz-Athletic team from Vienna. The Colony continued to offer a warm welcome to ships and personnel of the United Nations forces engaged in Korea. No less than 75,000 United States servicemen visited Hong Kong on vacation during the year and some of these were brought in two battleships, the New Jersey and Wisconsin, which were too big to anchor in the harbour and gave much interest to yachtsmen and other sight-seers as they rode at anchor in Junk Bay.
Two well-known figures were the subjects of spontaneous and sincere valediction when they left the Colony on retirement. Mr. D. W. Mackintosh had completely reorganized the Colony's Police Force and he left behind him an organization which could bear comparison with any Force in the Commonwealth. He was a distinguished and popular figure to whom the Colony as a whole was not slow in admitting its indebtedness. Sir Arthur Morse retired from the position of Chief Manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. He was a senior member of Executive Council and had unsparingly devoted time and effort to charitable and social causes more particularly those connected with child-welfare and sport.
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