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CENTRALISATION
A the general election, for decentralisation said vary in London. This is really bould Scotch hationalism and Welsh rightly: "Town history outside to happen. A country small London, is interesting only until as England can have only one nationalism “failed as com- we come to the eighteenth ccu-major administrative centre ir letely, as Communism. But tury. Then it is banal. Take up there is not to bo great incon- I would be wrong to think the history of one of the more ventence and Inemelenty, The that there is nothing behind significant British cities and see new system is turning out a farce. Whether this' not true. When Whitehall ministries despatch to these, movements; and that you come to the last few genera- the regional-centros ihird and they can be disregarded. They loan it becomes mere sitialles fourth fate officers,
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extent) Welsh people, and
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may in time take an ugly By "Windrush"
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Redistribution
VIP'S ARE ON THE MARCH
By Ward Price
Baby
Cryptic initials
2.1.
Local experts
So hends of 'big British con- cerns in the Far East often find themselves cailed on to neglect their own dTairs while listening. to theoretical speeches bysmem- bers of the various nationalities represented on a UN commission, If they would only leave us alone, and a foreign bonicer to
Scotch and Welsh nationalism are in part romantle movements, based on the desire to revive post Historic glories. But this is the one important way, but crane
is be a complete organism. 'AIL least important of their causes.
are second and If the movements had no greater its institutioris Impetus than this, they could be because its best people have gone neglected. Their power lies in away." POWER THROUGH | the fact that they are a genuine
--and necessary-protest at the London too large DIFFUSION
draining away from them to The
loss to the provincos in The episode of Mr. Bevin London of the vital life of Scot- not even a gain for London. For
land and Wales.
London is much too large. It is and Buddha's Tooth, as im-
The Scotch and Welsh are not not a city, with a corporate life. proved upon with the ex-the only people in the British It is an accumulation of peos for local talent. quisite taste one always ex-
Northern· Industrial middle class ive in dormitory with history, could quickly be to the United Stator of Indonreind me to Handkolt. "Our financial pects from the Kremlin Fress, is not without a certain sardonic humour. Izvestia, for once in a long while; pro vided a laugh for its readers but is now in trouble with the devout in Ceylori. The Moscow paper published a cartoon showing Mr. Bevin kneeling before the sacred
UN
Over South East Asla aj alphabetical title they had never migratory and predatory previously heartl.
Dut it is not everybody, who swarm is spreading-not of welcomes the appearance of such locusts but of International bodies in their locality. Diplo investigators.
matists on the spot where such Investigations are started find They belong to the vast athy, their work considerably increased of, officials of the super-State} by the necessity of reporting
arting what Something is being done by whose capital la Laico Success," Is going on to their Governments. the planned redistribution of in-1 Since the United Nations have Business men are appealed to 'dustry. But though-the factories so far been able to evolve po by Chainbers of Commerce or may be moved to the provinces, agreed polley for the Far East, a Federations of Industry to "si the hendquarters often remain in substitute activity is the dispatch | fr" on these international probes. London. The provincial univer- of teams of Observers whose "We"[want to know what these sities are growing rapidly, and in brief sojourns in the countries tellows are up to, so that wo theory are supposed to rudinte concerned are expected to provide shall not be taken by surprise" is
But in misterial for ultimate rgetion. activity and new ideas,
their request fact their influence is not always chsy to trace.
Their badges of office, aro rown, In Scotland, and perhaps in) Wales, ardal solution might be of cryptic initials. From one of found by the creation of Scotch the Bangkok newspapers ↑ take following characteristic and Welsh parliaments. National the
He is mill. vital enough in these sentences
"Headed by the Special Ad- countries to ensure that nationai parliaments would act as a focus see the Assistant Secretary
General in charge of UN Econo- A city like Edinburgh, recking i Affairs, the Joint Technical les who have suffered from me without a real civic le. The
Assistance · Exploratory Minslui this. The this
In Slam may be eccentric, systom to England suburbs, and are taken to their revivifted as a national capital loft Bangkok for Djakarta: areas, so Important ['economically.
have R similar work in the centre by tubes and Blut clearly there could not be
"The joint Misjon la composed but works well, Dut of complaint.
less user. The time
"Yet It Is the despale of, the cause
Man- parliaments in which they separate
of the representative of
professors and 'experts' sent out civic life they chester, Leeds, Birmingham, ECAFE, FAO, UNESCO, and has been heard about this. be- should give to
by the World Bank, the Inter- spend strap-hanging.
lihh other great provincial centres WHO
Monctury national
Fund and cause it is hard to give it
How can political expression. A home-rul-
this impoverishmenty in England. How can their vita-
You will find similar tropps ECAFE (which is the 'Economic ng movement for Lancashire or of life be remedied, and how canjiity be restored?
of unonymous. UN functionatics
Asin and the Far
·Council for Yorkshire would look absurd on local life, outside London, bo It is possible that time mayin almost every elty of the Far Eas the face at it.
Hiven once more the vitality and bring its own solution. For the East. They travel on diplomacy cannot understand why rieimess which it needs? Nearly new ways of life brought about the passports, exempt from Ci-we have three rates of exchange everybody agrees that the over by invention are slowly making toms...and Consular control, The
the whole problem out of date air-transport companies *redp Iviational tepls and Customs But how can it be rectified7 In 'small thic organisation of the British Isles is very pecutior. Only its But certain lines of reform are vision, and fost read transport,
Nothing can be done overnight. by telephone, newspapers, tele pince to place;
This new privileged cluna brules categories of commercial
tráfisactions" familiarily has prevent it from trendy being trica. One of these the distinction between town and Cosmopolitan bureaustáls
There would seeni to be two being more often commented on. is to break up the conocaration country, London and provinces, everywhere rated as pt. the VIP Nearly
classes of Western Infitience in one Orth of the people of the civil service at Whitehall will gradually lend to disappear. category.... of the United Kingdom
In the future, London_and_the
Dye are The regional system, storted, dus
They pass ahead of ordinary traders, importers, bankers, and Far East the experienced huddled together in London.
ing the war as w07 Emergency":{ ¿country will fuse together. Per faro-paying bassngers, get into others who keep international London are all the important measure, la being kept as a perhaps it may be said more truly gleaming moter-curs instead of
the manent ministries, the bank offices
trade ink, and the wiseterEs feature. This, the that nearly all the British Isles the alride omnibus, un bre
who seak to impose academtlic head offices of most of the great whitchall ministries ure main will become, at least culturally, nehirled off to the best Hotel ne-
'commodation, the city, can pro- Bystems which they had worked commercial firms and many of the taining officers in the key towns an extension of Lention.
out in thele owh studies before industrial arms.
which have been designated re- In that case, the problem off videt tional centres.
decentralisation will no longer bei Their reservations take preco- becoming advisors" to UNA
+ "Can you The experience with this ze-acute. For whether a man is Hy-dence of other guests, who may
be turned out of their "arey, are the any good in what I asked one of Whilchall offices or Launcestor, be will be equally rooms to provide quarters for U fornier class.
Well they are collecting a for Cambridge. The legal profession live dispersed a part of thoir at the centre. The Londoner, as them,
of sinustier that were not avail- is based on London. The "wadinft over the county, all the a peculiar privileged being, will
able before," was the answer, tional newspapers are published important decisions are still made have ceased to exist.
They insist upon the best as all "but they have no practical issue London. în le in
expenses are paid by the United in the form of action." Nations
budget, which, being-When these roving commis- provided by the subserhitions of sions have tabulated all tho the
various member-States, figures, registered all the facts means that the taxpayer contri- and listened to all the views of hutes among the rest,
their mixed and many-tongued member". Such amenities are shared not
the probieni of tho nly by the delegates themselves Communist menace to South but by the staff of - translatora, į East Asin will remain asʻgtovė as secrelories and typists who ac- ever unless action is taken apa company them.
Peculiar
government
rale for inter-
relic and calling on Buddha i The present social arki econo.itrowth of London is a discase. Country, tied together ich trot in flying them from charges,- and two other rates for
to give teeth to the British lion, lying with a bandaged head by his side.
The figure of the mangy sore-distressed. British and lion has been a familiar one in innumerable cartoons in all sorts al ill weather through all Britain's storray years. Between every war it is the custorn of those who believe her days are number- ed to revert with glee to this symbol; and so far the mangy lion has always come to life with almost ageless vigour.; There is a common feeling nowadays among quite a few people even in China, that as a world Power Britain is through. We don't propose to wave the Flag or do any of those things which are faintly frowned upon as being not done in the best circles But we do suggest that a lot of people who read the world situation in this way are read ing it wrongly.
American
It is the sent of a University which has in seine respects-
though certainly not In all form has so far been disappoint- ing in London, Leeds, Leicester even
supersected Oxford ading. If some
rondy
As a result, London drags to- wards itself, out of the provinces.
nearly all the ongrelle, ambiti- Birds are a menace
remain centred
to pilots
By Mathieson Darwin
Insisting on best
It is the good fortune of this
new international Civil Service to be paid in American dollars;
ous and talented men of British society. They work in London. 17| they,
on becoming prosperous, try to spend their week-ends in the country, they do not thereby align themselves with the coun try against London. All their in London. Only in old age and active interests retirement do many of them live: permanently outside London- and then they have ceased to I had the opportunity of George Bibesco when he passed to be exempt from all income count.
examining a most peculiar over Allahabad. One bird smash- lax and to benefit from Nub- ed into the engine while the stamtial itravel housing and The other side of the picture is mechanism on, the tarmac of second, diving from 10,000 feet, married allowances. the stagnation of the provinces. the Royal Aeronautical Estab went through the wing like a As world-roving commissars One who has led the agitation lishment at Farnborough in stone, ripping a great hole.
The they esco the crushing financia Hampshire. It was a rocket plane crashed.
of the idea propelled aeroplane fuselage In the First World Wor
dirigibles on rails used to test the effect French. thought
as far as and planes 'and went of a dead duck on the wind-using cagles to attack shield of a jet plane.
Attempting to train the birds Both the RAF and the dive it pleces of mept suspended Ministry of Civil Aviation are en cupilve-balloons.- alarmed at the number of ac- De Labiliere says that when
the fuselaget
the
ut
to
eagles) made deliberate attempts
struck his machine,
duck smashed a hole through
burdens that all modern States,
impose upon their citizonts: dej
The purpose of their not action
They may recommend but do not have 40 shoulder the responsibility of executing. That is left to one of the range of higher bodies to -which-they-report:———
but Jakobe as
Adding more
They themselves tend to throw
of engagement
off sub-committees, entailing the
supplementars
personel, which often continue
2:
*** had such a smashing little black market in petrol coupons, too!"
It is our belief that Britain and the cause she serves were never greater, the strength: and devotion of her own kin and offspring never surer, and there actually have, been the nature and need of her. But what ought to be under- mission in history never stood, and too often, isn't, is Commonwealth clearer. Her power has been that a new diffused with her respon is being created which may sibilites-but, at need it can well-prove-stronger and more be concentrated. For a cen- durable than all that went tury and a half, Britain and before. Responsibility and cidents caused by birds collid- he was flying in Scotland hvo the greatest of the nations initiative are now shared ing with planes. In the US, big predatory birds (presumably more than half the airlines pilots are reporting to drive him away. Had he nea that ever sprang from her over.
Controversies that collisions at the rate of two thanged course they would have could always be regarded as World.
in existence to the benefit of their well-paid members, whig sworn friends in all that used to rend Westminster per week.
the subject of their activities mattered-but not as allies in generation after generation Even a sparrow can knock Damage by sparrow slowly, makes its way by one report dinge after another, in the war unless direct provocation now only fitfully trouble the hole right through
of a modern, fast-flying fighter, forced. à decision. As..for Mather of Parliaments.
sa the Farnborough people ara
Little birds do almost as much central files of UN
In South East Asia L hava Western Europe, it was a There is: always the ex-carrying out tests to find out the damage. A sparow hit the wind-
Dower of various screen of a big US Army obser- come across several (instances of source less of support than perience and the sage state-penetrating
vation plane, crashing through it enterprising young married of danger.
craft of Britain in the back birds.
Only, of course, they don't call and causing the plot to make an women who enjoy a bigger ins These things have changed ground, available when them birds. The researchers re-emergency landing on a highway. come than their husbands du ch of getting themselved radically. They have chang sought but no longor, im- gard them 25 liquid objects in Another small bird crashed inle result
Dead rooks, in air transport, passed through engaged in minor cunzelly by ed less by British than by posed. Indeed the pressure fragile containers,
and European now comes from without, no crows, starlings, sparrows had the bulkhead, teavalled the lengthing department of UN whocola
leven turkeys | (to sknulate the of the cabin, penetrated the rear Initiative. The Atlantic com longer from within-from effect of a swab); are suspended wall and ended up in the baggage munity may be moving too Washington and Canberra on wires in front of a rapidly compartment aft fast or too slow, bat in essen- rather than from Whitehall.moving dummy plane and allow
a reinforced action of a Spilare They have to ake some big wing which would have resisted tials it is solid as any of the A week or so, go, in the ed to crash into the windshield. older groups or empires which course of a speech summing birds, because the airlines which almost anything less powerful have played their part in up the debate on China and serve the tropics often pass over than a heavy blow from a ham- her and clusel. Swans have history. It may be, true. that South East Asia, the Minister country with a native touris
which includes condors, eagles, mashed propellors and
dented the forces potentially, arrayed, of State, Ma Kenneth Youd-
and vultures.
g Engine:
Corse cowlings.,
have against them are formidable, ger, lid stress on the prin- It has been found that a "wind-done more damage than on AA
shell. but, it is doubtful whether ciple that henceforward shield made of laminated inse
vinyl with extended plastic ed-When the RAF concentrated con they are more formidable, initiatives in Asia must come ges and other strengthoning do low-level attacks against German relatively, than the whole mainly from the Asian coun- vices, having a total thickness of transport, in the last stages of the might of the Nazi war tries themselves. Britain had three-quarters of an nch, would war they found that one of their
resist the impact of a four-pound) machine which was thrown made, a greater contribution carcase projected at 300 miles worst dangers "cume from the Gocker offbirds they encountered, against Western Europe in than anybody else to avert a per hour."
The Eindhoven: raiders ren: inta 1940, when the United States schism between Asia and the
docks of Isprings, swallows, grese had no part in the struggle, West, and no one else, he said,
arad wwwy But it is of Asia that was so well placed to prevent
One of the giftcts came back naturally thinks mom out the two worlds from splitting Board specifies that wind-shelds part of a gone on the tral- here. Since the waty a tree) apart • .
shalt be "of sufficient strength tong edge of his pinne; another Shocked his ground-crew My mendous...transformation: Bar | There are stories, perhaps withstand the impact of a fourhablan out of the cockpit cover- been seen. At the height rather fanciful, about how bound bird when the ad.in blood. It was from a suugh-
blano i fying at the spoed zapij of her power Britain in the Kremlin and Feking are, to proprinta to drew leck, stock, and barrel divide up Asia. There are after into to limb, Immediately red pogall
No wonder the leader fis • from the Indian subcontin- mysterious comings and go ent, from Burma, and Cay-ings of the Chief of the Im-squadron of Mustang fighters shouted, aver the radio, the foowa lon. It is easy enough dor perial. General Staff and of almost, classic injunction "Dubr the short-sighted, and the the British Defence Minister. brother duckwhen the
CAB)4 malevolent to regard this as It may well be that sooner or encountered a sock of
înd steala A. number u monumental sign, of wears later we shall hear of thore Hallon cumhunden kanaver arr ness and decay, Andi goleil i creations of the South East the voluntary hot like map the would be. If the
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armed Landing grounds.
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