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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 21, 1941.
B.B.C. GIVES STARS BLAST
1.
AN ULTIMATUM
TEST RECORDS
MICHAEL REDGRAVE, the stage and film star, LOST
and more than a dozen other well-known actors,
The chapel of the Lon- actresses, producers and musicians have been in formed by the B.B.C. that unless they state in writ-torial Park, E., stoutly don Chest Hospital, Vic- ing that they withdraw their support of the People's built of stone and brick, Convention they will not be allowed to broadcast again.
They were given a week in which to think it over. The facts have been reported to Equity and the Musicians' Union and will be raised in Parlia-
prevented
the loss of
many lives during a raid by taking the main shock bombs which has fallen lof one of the largest
lin London. It shielded the A special committee of which look I should not be employed Beatrix Lehman, the actress, and by the B.B.C. again. This is a hospital from the full Walter Hudd, who is now playing a matter of principle which must force of the explosion.
ment.
in "Thunder Rock" at
the St., be fought out.”
Martin's Theatre, are members, ¦ Lew Stone, the dance band has been set up by the National leader, has received a similar Council for Civil Liberties to demand. fight the ban.
“None Of Your
Business"
Mr. Redgrave told the "News Chronicle" that
a week ago he received a letter from
the B.B.C. asking him to call to dis- cuss an important matter.
Policy Of The B.B.C.
Greater damage, was done than any other hospital in the country has had in a single night's raíd.
But 85 patients and 76 nurses, doctors and other members of the staff all escaped and even When asked if the B.B.C. wish- without serious injury.
So badly was on these inter-
the large north ed to comment views an official replied: "The wing shattered that it will have
demolished. policy of the B.B.C. is not to in- to be
The nurses' badly damaged by vite any person to the microphone home was whose views are opposed to the blast, and the fine, modern sur- national war effort.
gical and X-ray department, opened by Queen Mary in 1937, suffered seriously.
"Our policy has not changed "I was interviewed by a B.B.C. since it was stated that Sir Hugh solicitor and an executive,” he Roberton (the pacifist) would not said. "They told me that the be allowed to conduct in a B.B.C. Governors of the B.B.C. had de- programme." cided that those who supported the People's Convention should not be employed.
I would TEACHERS
"They asked me if write a letter to the organisers of
the Convention withdrawing my; OBJECT TO
nort and send
a copy to the B.B.C. I replied that my per- sonal views were none of their business and that I did not pro- pose to discuss the matter any further. Of course. I declined to write any such letter.
FIRE DUTY
Miss A. A. Kenyon, moving a resolution at the conference of the National Union of Women Teachers at York demanding that
" asked them directly If this meant that I should not receive another B.B.C. contract, the and they replied that this was
89.
Anti-Ban Committee
"I reminded them that I was
"because it is
Loss To Medicine
a
The pathological laboratories were completely destroyed, serious loss to the hospital and to medicine.
Invaluable apparatus and re- cords of the study of respiratory discate for the past 80 years, made Including investigations during the present war of the effects
of bomb-blast
on the lungs, are lost beneath a mass of rain-sodden rubble
and wreckage.
Despite the havoc, the hospital Ring reopened for out-patients within nine days. Soon many of
.the
Are watching of schools should be incorporated in the general scheme, complained that the wards will be in use again. The staff keep as a souvenir the teachers were being drawn in
great metal base of the bomb "by the back stairs" to fire watch
wrecked which
hospital. at their schools.
"Many teachers are doing the Several of them have been re- commended for awards for cour- broadcasting on the following work," she said, Sunday and they said this would being presented to them in such age in rescue operations. be in order. I hope my singing a way that they feel that if they last night didn't do the country refuse they will be victimised."
the I shall support
Miss S. M. Burls any harm. committee which has been form- teacher who did fire watching ut night was not fit to teach children ed to fight this ban."
"I believe about 15 people, all next morning. well-known broadcasters. are af- Miss F. M. Brooks, of Leeds, fected," Miss Beatrix Lehmann said that in some cases senior told the "News Chronicle" last children had been asked to do
fire watching. night.
"I haven't been called to see the B.B.C. because I am not under contract, but I presume that as I support the People's Convention | I shall not be allowed to broad- cast again."
COLONEL
"SHOWERED"
CHEQUES
said that a
Provincial Damage
It may now be stated that the following places were damage in recent raids:
Birmingham: Prince of Wales Theatre; St. Martin's Church.
Coventry: Coventry and War- wick Hospital; St. Mary's Hall.
Christchurch: Henry VILI.
School.
The Duchess of Gloucester, wearing the uniform of Deputy Commandant-in-Chief of the Order of
the St. John, toured bombed area of Coventry, accom- panied by the Mayor, Ald. J. A. Moseley, and the Regional Com- missioner, the Earl of Dudley. Afterwards she went to the ceme-
Mr. Arnold Goldsbrough, form- er organist at St. Martin-in-the- Fields, and Mr. Phil Cardew, well known for his work in connec- tion with B.B.C. musical shows,
The King has commuted a tery and placed a basket of flowers were also called to the B.B.C.
sentence of cashiering to one of on the communal grave of the and invited to take similar action. dismissal from the Army is the air raid victims.
Yesterday they made the fol- case of Lieut-Colonel Frank A memorial service was held ewing statement to the "News Kemedy. Couper (43), of the in the
Holy bomb-damaged Royal Armoured Corps, who was Trinity Church. Coventry, for found guilty by general court- members of the staff and patients martial of three charges of scan- at a Coventry hospital who were dalous conduct and 10 charges of victims of the raids, noiudie al conduct all relating to dishonoured cheques.
Chronicle."
"This is a matter of vital prin- ciple. We haven't the slightest Intention of renouncing our views
of being de under the threat prived of B.B.C. work. They are no concern of the B.B.C.
“Political Blackmail"
neTM
"To accept this position means that we accept the proposition that every person should nounce his private vlews if they do not concide with the B.B.C. official view before being allow- ed to broadcast.”
Andre Van Gyseghem, one of most brilliant of the country's producers. saw the B.B.C. of- ficials in London. :
"I was asked. if I would write a.letter withdrawing my support of the. People's Convention," he told the "News Chronicle," "I re- plied that I did not gubmit to political blackmail and that I would not do anything of the kind.:
"I was told, very politely, that I was not being threatened, but that if I did not alter my out-
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It was alleged at the trial that Colonel Couper "showered ont cheques knowing that there was no possibility that they would
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The Rev. A. P. Wales, a chap- lain af the hosõital, referring to the heroism of the staff, said that some nurses lost their lives and others were seriously injured when sheltering little children with their own bodies,
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