"I suppose I'm
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but I don't see
why, at my age, I should put up with second-best... For
instance, I'm fond of the theatre; but, believe me, I'd rather stay away
than see an indifferent play.
... So that's why, when you offered me whisky, I asked you to make mine a White Horse. I daresay some men hold that one Scotch whisky is as good as another. Well, when they know as much about it as I do, they will think differently."
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all the home defence pro- blems before the Government, none is bigger and more complex than the maintenance of London's commercial, administrative
It is domestic life in time of war.
which remarkably
a subject on
and
little has been heard so far, but an immense amount of hard thought we are has been given to it, and likely to be told a good deal more in the near future.
So vast a
question, involving 8,000,000 people and 600 square miles of property and business, is not re- solved by defence measures alone. Even if there were so many 'planes, anti-aircraft guns, balloons and air raid shelters that the life of the counted rela- individual could be tively safe, the life of the capital in a modern war would not be assured. How far could "business as us- ual" be expected in London during war? Until hostilities began there could be no final answer, even if the Government made their plans public. But by piecing together what is already known on the sub- ject, one can form a clearer pic- ture than most Londoners have in at the present mo their minds ment.
REMOVING THE "CITY"
Damage and loss of life, though they might reach considerable pro-
are
A striking close-up of Their Majesties with the Canadian visit.
portions through air raids, are not pers. The significance of such de- suburban home t TI the greatest dangers. Dislocation centralisation may be judged by an inward movem is potentially a more serious fac- the fact that the City's night-time it is to-day.
population of 11,000 becomes near- arrangements wo drastically adapt tor, and it is against such a con-
ly 500,000 by day.
Private cars tingency that the authorities
DAILY TREK TO WORK most actively taking precautions.
two ways: Whitehall, too, would cease to be roads, to conser for the R.A.F. If] It is met chiefly in
real centre of Government. by decentralisation and by dupli- the. cation. For both, plans are well Doubtless small staffs would re- carries on under main in the underground fortresses trol, as the railw advanced.
Decentralisation, for example, which the Office of Works has been be expected that constructing under the system, which ru will help to preserve two of Lon- busily don's most important nerve centres: Whitehall Ministries; and the ex- power, would be
evacuation sible in preferen heart of tent of Civil Service London, the City of commerce, and Whitehall, adminis- may depend to some extent on the There would alm effectiveness of the first air raids, boom in bicycles. trative heart of the Empire.
With "key" com The City of London, as we know But generally, civil departments it to-day, would cease to exist in and their staffs would be evacuat- istration decentra wartime. Plans are being kept secret, ed, mainly to the western side of ed to new and s telephones becom but there is reason to think that London,
Certain other big concerns cen- tance, though the such great institutions as the Bank
Exchange, tred in London have similar plans, tainly be drastica of England, the Stock
defence Leadenhall and Smithfield markets, calculated to disperse their business civil
banks, from the centre to the circumfer- trusively the Pos tremen and headquarters of the shipping and insurance companies ence of London's giant circle. Thus doing a would be found elsewhere during London would resemble a slice of work to countera
pineapple. The circumference downs.
Here, as with Preparations for the transfer of would be bigger, and would form a
City and ties which suppl this essential business, to be car- larger target, but the ried on with skeleton staffs in safer Whitehall could no longer be de- electricity, the
destructive cation comes into zones, have been in progress for a stroyed by a single
If a telephone long time. On the tremendous blow.
At once there arises a huge pro exchange is blow reorganisation which the evacua- tion would involve the biggest com- blem of communications. "People Office must be in mercial houses have concentrated have no idea as yet how they might to restore their attention for many months. travel to and from business. For round-about Clerks have been working late, dup- many it might well become a daily changes are inter licating necessary books and pa- outward or parallel movement from that a quick tran
war.
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