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TO "THE FEW"
By
In the sunny late summer, of; the present Dean and a com- of Myra, who may be regarded 1940 was fought over southern.mittee of influential persona, England one of the decisive The chapel now dedicated in balties of the world. It was the easternmost of a clustor of memorial fuoght by a handful of fighter five small side chapels, grouped pilots against fantastic odds. round the end of that glory of Of these men Winston Churchill Tudor Gothic architecture, the said: "The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Em- pire, und indeed throughout the wor'd, except in the abodes of tish airmen who, undaunted by the guilty, goes out to the Bri- odda, unwearied in their con- stant challenge and mortal dan ger, are turning the tide of world war by their prowess and th tr devotion.""
ERIC L. BIRD
Editor of the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects,
as the patron saint of youth.
The principal part of the la the window of stained and painted glass which extends across the entire cast was of the chapel. It is com- posed of 48 lights in which the aim of the artist has been not merely to create so many sym- bollent pictures, but to make the east wall a brilliant Jewelled curtain in which individual lights form part of a grent translucent painting. The lower lights contain the badges of the Chapel of Honry VII. Britain's 6s fighter squadrons which took greatest contribution to world part in the Battle, the Royal Arrangements made for the architecture, the Perpendicular Arms and the badges of the 'ec'ebration, on July 10, of the Gothic, which culminated in seventh anniverary of the open- the Tudor period. This chapel Arm. Here also are the flags Royal Air Force and Fleet Air ing of the Battle of Britain, in- is acknowledged. the finest cluded the unvelling. by King flower of that noble architecland, the Union of South Afri
of Canada, Australia. New, Zen- George VI of the memorial to tirral epach. the men who gave their lives in tween 1603 and 1519 by Robert Ca. Poland, Belgium, Czecho- slovakia and the United Stater the king's thone perilous weeks of combat. Vertuc.
from al The memorial is, perhaps, mason, to contain the tombs of of America; pilots typical of a country whose long Henry VII, and his family. The those countries, as well as from battles. It is not grandiose; it dicated to the Battle of Britain four panels are symbolical-pic- history contains many critical little side chapsi in it, now e-Britain and her Colonies, gave their lives In the Battle. In does not aim at impressing the pilots, was intended by the
tures: a plot kneels before the beholder; it commemoraton the king for the tomb of his uncle,
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of the constitutional reform pro- men who died, not the deed they Henry VI, but was never +1sed Him: Our Lady with the dead rare stamps my kid ain't got in his collection?"
performed. It is not even wholly for this. During the Common- Christ across her knees sym
the body of 400-year-old wealth chape in Westminster Abbey, Oliver Cromwell was buried in mother and widow, a
bolises the sacrifice, of the London, has been placed a new a
pilot beneath the chapel kneeling before them; a pilot alter and a stained glass win- but it was taken away in 1661. kneets before Christ cruelfied; dow. A roll of honour bearing In 1722 the body of John Chur- a pilot triumpha in the Reattr- the names of the fallen airmen chill, Duke of Marlborough, one rection. The upper part of the stands nearby. The memorial is of Britain's greatest soldiers window contains the Heavenly essentially simple, peaceful, and Winston Churchill's ances. Seraphim. the Sons of tho sacramenta!. It is not publicly tor, was placed in the valuit until i
to Blenheim, in the Souls of the Fallen rising. placed where the forgetful will its removal
Morning who shout for joy and ignore it daily; It is secluded so Enginnd, in 1744. In September, to Paradise. The Rose of Eng that those who remember can
1940, during the Battle of Bri-land forms a background to the come to it and pray.
tain, a bomb blasted out the old whole design; branches encircle
Clearly, he cogitated after the Thorough roading of the situp heart Q was led, this fits the window and a fragment pierced the squadron badges and frame tion existing at the
moment is | Whitehead rule; covering the Q the wall. The hole it made is the figures in a formal pattern incomparably better than depend- with dummy's X would force the welding the whole design. Ating, on some so-called "rule" of A, allowing the defenders also o Jewelled Curtain
play which at the best Is
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FIRST THOUGHTS
Final judgment on the merits posals announced in detail this morning will be reserved until there has been opportunity horoughly to digest the correspon dence. That they will command a substantial measure of public approval can, however, be easily predicted. In essence, the Muni- cipal Council scheme differs in only one important respect from that broadly outlined by Sir Mark Young in August of last year. Instead of a membership of 48, as he then suggested, the Munici- pal Council will be formed of 15 Chinese and 15 non-Chinese.
During World War II, some- making a total of thirty. In one wrote to the late Dean of finally recommending this change. Westminster pointing out that Sir Mark Young to some extent the knights who fell at the accepted the views of those who battle of Cressy in 1846 are opposed a large Council as Bikely commemorated in a window of to prove to unwieldy for practi- Gloucester Cathedral, in the cal accomplishments without un- West of England, and suggest
protracted discussions.ing that those modern knights Doubtless, there will be some who battle of Britain the founded the Abbenes the 9th it stands the altar to English that in order to obtain the result contract was imposible, for there will insist that the membership of might have in the 10th of fits the
the hand, memorial in the century. St. Peter, its patron Walnut remains tur large, but it is Mother Church of the British saint, and St. Edmund, king and architect, Professor A. E. difficult to see how the total people. While the war continued martyr: on the other side are Richardson. It bears the royal could readily be reduced without plans were laid and have now figures of St. Thomas of cipher supported by figures re thrusting into the discard the been translated, into reality by Canterbury and St. Nicholas presenting King Arthur and St. 597
George, the work of the sculp- HQJST whole idea of a genuine Municipal
tor A. Council, substantially repretenta-.
Hardiman, The chapel rail la of silver in two DKQ2 tive. Perhaps the most interest-
parts joined by a silken cord; COB ing new disclosure is the proposal
on the altar are a cross of allver to appoint a Town Clerk from the
and crystal and two candle-| United Kingdom, whose duties.
sticks; flanking the altar presumably, will be to initiate the
two silver candelabra. All the Municipal Council into the long-
silverwork was designed by J. established and soundly-tested pra-
Seymour Lindsay. cedure of municipal governments
duly
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in Britain. The appointment, in of its once gay self, appeared sometimes the first instance, is to be for two today to have surpassed Lisbon duress. Sometimes they report pilots and aircrew who died in 4H years only, a decision governed by as the crossroads of world in- it to their employers, but more the operations of Fighter Com-
reluctance of Sir Mark trigue, with
South was a player who was 198 Russia and the often they are frightened into mand, Bomber Command, well filled up with book-loarning | DA 2 Young to commit the Municipal Western Powers in an caplonage silence, he said- - - - Coastal Command and the Fleet except for the most valuable CK 1086 Council to Receptance of au duel unparalleled since the early Take the case of an average Air
"S Arm-operations which Part of a good bridge book, that official nominee for what
clerk making 178 to 200 Schillahot the enemy out of the skies rest of your knowledge. First, ho days of war.
which tells you how to apply the An official of the Americanings per month. His 1,500- and destroyed his massed in- was famillar with the eight-year-
SA687 certain to prove the key appoint
HAJ 10.6 4 ment on the Council's paid staff, today that he was
quite easually calory diet costs him 117 Schill vasion barges. The roll gives old Whist maxim Legation sald
"positive Ings. He cannot possibly pay the names of 1,298 men from hongur with an honour. Second,
D 10 0. CA.J In this as in other matters, Sir the Legation's lines were tapped. for ront, clothes and other eseri the United Kingdom and Co- he knew the amendment of that Mark Young's recommendations On the other side of town, a tlals out of the remainder. So, lonles, 47 Canadians, 47 New in the 1920's by the famous Wil-vulnerable.)
(Dealer South. Nelther side how a liberalism in approach to calm-voiced British officer anfd, for an extra 100 schillings per Zealanders, 85 Poles, 24 Austra- bur C. Whitehead to cover an
highly complicated problem that "We have never for one moment month, he can frequently beans, 20
What playing principle should "" Czechoslovaks, 17 honour with an honour only when influence, the North-South choles provides in itself all the attesta presumed that our lines were persuaded to provide informa- South Africans, six Belgians doing so promises to promote for trumps on this deal? tion that is necessary to dispose of not tapped."
and one American. It is ane lurking suspicion that the Intelligence reports show a A Legation official
of kings have been crowned, her the Battle of Britain for, said, Colony is being offered the shadow recent marked Ughtening" in "when the Control Commission Parchment, bound in blue lou- statesmen, poeta, divines, wri- Winston Churchill said as the
ther and was illuminated and not the substances of an indicating that espionage activity generally impossible to
Soviet security precautions here, discusses all, we
by ters and warriors buried or battle opened: "Upon this bat find it is Mias D. Alcock; the lectern was commemorated; in the nave is the depends the survival' of advance to self-government. The
tele designed by J. Seymour Lind- the tomb of the Unknown Sol- Christian civilization. Upon it Municipal Council is to be master
is not one-sided,
phone local offices of blg say.
dier of World War I. No more depends our own British life Likewise, in its own house, free of any fear nightclubs and bars in this old on these days, the Socony and shrine of Britain.
In any one of the dozon gaudy American oil firms,
Westminster Abbey is the fitting place could be found for and the long continuity of our of veto unless it should attempt world capital, you can spot too Shell people find they can tele-
In it her a memorial to those who fell in Institutions and our Empírð." to go beyond the exercise of the casual eavesdroppers who look phone any number in Vienna- powers to be delegated to it. First like characters right out of E. except the American Legation".[ impression of the final framework Phillips Oppenheim. Liquor He pointed to the phone on is, indeed, warmly favourable. flows freely in these places and his desk. And throughout there is the im. the universal subject of conver That's a direct outalde line.. plication that the new constitutionsation is international politics. I cannot get any number the may be regarded as but the A security officer for one first time I dial. But the
Western power said stepping stone to even more im minor officials and employees of right through. My first diali- Austrian second time I invariably get portant advances, always provided the occupation authorities were ing serves to alert the monitor. that the citizens of Hong Kong frequently used in the game of He then sees to it that I get show themselves capable of self. Atting together bits and pleees, good service--while he
llatena administration.
He said many of these people," he 'cold. were easily corruptible, because
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The time-honoured rumour of International Fund if Britain and a pending increase in the world the U.S. desired it. But do they? A British officer said, "Wa price of gold has been more than Same months ago, the U.S. do not use the telephone for the usually widespread recently Treasury expressed, its opposition transmission of Information that and in the face of to any alteration in the dollar might be of concern to outside denials. Gold share markets in gold price, The present story is interests not even our private all parts of the world, as well as that it would now favour suchen "Free" gold markets such as Honga change, first, as a way ol Increased. Soviet security pre- Kong, have been staging a modest producing a dollar profit on its
cautions became apparent, dur boom on, persistent reports that gold stocks which could be used fraternization rules were streng. ing the early summer. Non- the U.S. buying price for gold to finance the European recovery thened- and rigidly enforced. 200 will be raised. A change in the plan; and, secondly, as a means of
Soviet officers who had be 350.-sterling-dollar rate at present uring Increased dollar purchas come friendly with their Wes 35-ems almost out of the question, ing power in the hands of those tern opposite numbers quietly so an upward adjustment in the verses countries which are still disappeared and were replaced U.S. buying price for gold would in possession of gold reserves. by a new crop.
resumably be in the guise of a Such arguments are not over The new ones are very cor. uniform change in the paritica convincing. In the past, the US, ook very formal and very dis fixed by the International authorities" have been disinclined tant. In many ways" ary more Monetary Fund. Such a change to encourage gold output at the scient "add"they seen to be a would raise the price of gold in cost of the production
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