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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1951.
"If you're going to say that Gaitskell ought to tax cyclists, for Pete's sako
keep your engine running."
"
London Express Service
FESTIVAL IN
IN THE EAST
END
LONDON. By David Temple Roberts temporary
of.
blocks of tenements, ugly cine-
*** for re-housing in London.
56:0
the housing and In the East End that ought to mas. There are small shops, and Nevertheless, bring visitors if they are not re- little stores selling slick, cheap, town planning you will
are not "Festival" frolics but pelled by the idea of looking American-Imitation clothing.
London's long-term alm. round "just
project."
nother housing.
On The Cheap
is
a
the M.P. likes his exactly remodelled, but House of Commons.
brand-new
THE RUSSIAN ABROAD
By John Fisher
TOT long ago the Russian an excuse for not answering
NOT
nowspaper, Evening awkward questions.
to understand, someone
may
Moscow, printed a story Also, there is always, the charging two British chance that if they prolend not diplomats with trying to believe them and talk, indis kidnap a small gilt statue of crozily. Venus from the lobby of the
A final reason why few Rus- Savoy Hotel in Moscow, siang speak English freely is the They were laughing at the it may be double-dukh to the time, the paper emphasised, secre police man who accom- panies most Russian diplomalle skittishly missions, and who is supposed to
know everything that goes on,
The story WEA written and probably drew Laughs from its readers too.
the
So one good way of embar- sing the Russians is to peak do them in English.
To smile
makes thing: tea dimes worse. The main exception to the rule
Mr Gromyko.
But the prandes of British diplomats abroad are enly half as funny as the solid conduct of Soviet diplomats when the leave their homeland. In Paris, Berlin, Athena ard Helsinki I NEVE have watched
Russians ignore their surroundings like Rus- steopwalkers. Abroad, sian's eyes may tell him that the speak English, Mr Gnomico, the ordinary citizen is far better off Soviet representedive at the Big than in Russia, but would Four talks in Pails, is probably never do to be seen admiting the most farthcoming. At a lunch this,
Of the Russian diplomats who
sgiven recently by Mr Jessup, the Consequently the Russian United States delegats in Paris, abroad protends that the ordin- Gromyko even told a funny ary life of the elty he is visiting story to lustwe now a set of simply does not exist.
facts can mean different things to differens people. He said he had heard the story in London.
"A woman went to a doctor,"
Meetings with other diplomats
are cut. Soviet ofcials leaving Me Cromyko sal, "and she said Russia travol, if possible, by she wasn't feeling well. Soviet airplane, or the AWO Russi
"The dedior examined her and
ships. Sestrortsk (meaning Little Sister) or the said: "I have good news for you, Beloostrov (meaning While Sea). Mrs Smith'.
certainly Megars
"The woman replied:
'Oh, and Vishinsky would d'm not Mrs Smith, I'm Mis
Smith'.
kamost
have "gone Russian" on their trips to and from Lake Success if there had been any Marxist trans-Atlantic service.
Everyon
to
10
else unto the the town
''Well," said the doctor, in trab case I have bad news for
you.'"
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
The LCC is now pushing that In the Russian Sector of Ber- retreat down, and Hn, and in other Iron Curtain
After Gromyko finished his EW visitors to London
areas, there are special restau- story he toki the guests: "This see the East End. The East
next Sunday the bell from
rants at India Dock brought purchase, for the town planners tall.
which
travelling I consider a typical example-of modern For
campanile will most, London silk and spice and cotton ker- to try their skill on. Also it is a doll to say that Trinity Church
Russians are expected to ferd, Anglo-American humour,"
At Soviet ambassies abroad the is bounded by St chiefs; the West India Duck main road area-alongside the
staff are often expected back on its old ground, in
Against this solemn back- Paul's nt
and Imported sugar in the days East India Dock Road-so it has one end
when it was a luxury, at prices
new disguise. The East-Ender patronise only one bookshop, one ground, the story of the swo
tailor, and so on. Hyde Park at the other. that would make some modern more than the average share of
daughing British diplomats and will like it now, as much as
Only once have I scen the the Venus de Mczow may scom Even those who go as far as West Indians pray for old times, schools (three), churches (two,
Russians really fored out into strange. But how much easier the Tower of London rarely
The boat sets down at Poplar, one of them with a large and modern social centre).
the open. That was in Saloniko, diplomacy would be if all the venture into the vague, where a
too, when their delegation formed Russions,
hughed, more strange city begins. lovely nameless, and "unguide- East End visitors say, "But this shopping arcades, public houses,
part of a United Nations Com- often. booked" area that lies down is another city, not London at a clock tower, and so on.
I suggest you do not trouble mission looking into incidents on all". Cars are few; people walk
100 much with the Festival Greeer's northern frontier. the river-the East End.
unlike the 'shop- purposefully.
The area "on show" will only
There, the Russians had little exhibition on people's
pic
Jake seeing idlers of London Town, house 1,500 people, roughly, on
the housing estate. They are small hotels But the London County Coun- The main streets are wide and its thirty acres. And that cil (encouraged by the Festival open. The skyline is an irre- course, is far below the average putting on a show of building offered; and as the hotels did not
methods in Britain and how to
provide mea
meals they had to go out gular jumble of warehouses, people) has made an attraction
do town planning-all demon-Into a public restaurant for them. They chose the best restaurant, strated in o gay marquee. But
the Olympus, and Ove leading il la advertised with a fine, high members of the Russian delega- crane erected, uselessly, just as
woman <zere- tion, including a a landmark to be seen from the tary, booked the same corner table at the end of an upstairs In this article I do not want river. The genuine thing is the
gallery every evening. Everything in the Commercial to "lake you round." All I can LCC's real but modest effort in On the face of it visiting the
Impressions. town
two building with its Lansbury Neighbourhood an Road, and the East India Dock da is give a few
First, this is a varied housing schools, one experimental and experiment in planning a whole Road seems to have been built estate. The last thing it could all glass, the other strong, and town area-sounds a tiring way on the cheap. It is substan be accused of is stretching or built for a hundred years.
ital enough, but unplanned, of spending a London afternoon,
Instead of bothering with But
and careless and with no attempt to cutting the human family to At with Imagination,
a planner's paradise.
Festival propaganda, I suggest human interest, and if you want make an attractive street.
wonder off the edge of to have a sense of how Britain It is quite wrong to think of
the Lansbury site into the sur- has made her history, then the the East End today as one vast,
-rounding streets that have not Journey to the East End is worth dangerous slum peopled with There DTC rows of small yet been cleared. They are the making.
desperate, poverty-stricken men Englishman's houses in lerraces, subject for a sad-minded paint- on the verge of crime, The But the architects have played er. Even in the drabbest street
there 19
effort to decorate It is often asked why the East End today is more hopeful their
terraces cunningly. Ex- the flower pots in most win East End of big European cities than hopeless. But it is batter teriors look smooth and equal, dows.
cream paint
The doors is the poor quarter, and money ed and scarred.
but inside, are homes from the brackish with dirt.
ges. resides in the West. Berlin has
From Poplar Stairs, where the two-room size to fit the elderly hang askew on their hinges.
on its East End (now the Russian boat comes
the corner is the chlidless to big dour-bed- And to a wharf, smalt and
remnant of a bombed
and sector); Paris has lis East End
zoomed "large family" houses. abandoned public house, Who- streets run away from ware- around the Bastille. The usual houses and the river. There are There are some innovations the ever built it in 1883 must have reason given is that prevalling sad rows of brick homes--little East-Ender scarely knows ex- been proud of those Corinthian wind in Europe Is from West, so the smoke of the city is two-storeyed houses in terraces, cept from looking at fims. For pillars,
instance, one row of lamp bracket. blown eastward, making the built mechanically equal and "maisonettes"-"duplex" stunli "east end" the dirtier and less crowded together-the cheapest apartments-over 凸 row of agreeable quarter. But in Lon- way, 100 years ago, to build shop? has suntrap balconies. don that is not the whole story, homes for work-people on this And there are six-storeyed The return from the East
Best Way
the
Smooth Look
blocks
lits,
marsh. And whole rows fell the "Lansbury," as well
of flats. with
down at the hit of a bomb, Sometimes a few houses remain- traditional
people's
you
the
The
that colled
ironwork
Return Trip
on End can be made as Baedecker as would say-by trolley bus to houses. An old Aldgate and thence by bus or home 13 ed standing, and families have equipped with hand rails, easy some The best way to the East End crawled pathetically
specially an
underground. this summer will be by ship homes propped up on rubble stairs, and special baths." down the river-just the same
back to
the
But first note other attractions in the East End: there is a pub on
the river called the Prospect
Then there is a way that Elizabeth took to greet a new houses are built for
point to Drake at Tilbury and the fleeing them,
I notice
of Whilthy" with one of the about holding to some monarch James I chose when
traditions and The Festival calls it the "Live others.
abandoning grimlest but loveliest prospects he departed, dropping the
The East-Ender likes of London-the river at work. Creat Seal of England into the river. LCC (who are doing the joby
Architecture Exhibit. But the bargaining in the street, and
and Lately it has become an out- of Mayfair, with elegant post street market is part of The boat will pass the Tower of prefer to call it the "Lansbury Saturday afternoon, in particular, types lounging in the saloon, London, (where Henry VIM be
and a Neighbourhood development in The "Lansbury" scheme
couture house recently hended two
has wives and several
eral Poplar. "Lansbury" commemo“ unfortunate politicians),
and rates a Labour, and pacifist, poll- but provided for them near the
not banned the untidy barrows gave a fashion show there. AP.B. 12 then under Tower Bridge
But do not expect to see. curious double-decited
shops, with an open paved much left of Chinatown, in with a castle at each end).
space and some covering Limehouse, Nevertheless, try that point onwards the East End
against the weather,
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is spread to the left-beyond the line of dockland derricks--and
It is clear why the East 13 poor,
an-who once, hopefully, call-
To Remember
The thing to remember is that English
the
Chong Lam's little restaurant
This is the City of the Marsh, all this project is but one part names that recall one tong meagre menu-they come at Northward from the river runs (about a third), of one "neigh, forgotten. year.
a great flat area, now firm and bourhood" (out of cloven) with Marquis of Granby? So the Down the road is the "Rall-
And it has put a pub along in Fennyfields where I have
called gide,
"Festive found the best Chinese food in Brilon." Incidentally, many all London Asic for "special pubs have historie dishes" which are not on the
Who was the special, near-West End prices. in the two East End boroughs name. well-drained ground. But once of
may stick, to plague way Inn," In the West India and Poplar. The future historians. was a land of marsh and out alm, and it is very ambitious, le
of Stepney #t Long after houses were across the
plain, the water of lo rebuild that great part of the Trinity Church
the river, seeped up, under the have called either an area of East End which the planners heglect and
East floor boards.
on
But the East Londoner is
Dock Road, with the loudest Jukebox in Europe, and raging, roaring, singing, friend- ly clientele mainly Scandina vlan saliore. It's rich on a
U
The blight,?, from want End was a'elty founded old age, or an area of biltz", adopłuble to changes of fashion: Saturday night. mud, and from its mud the **East- Ender' could look up at the from damage done mainly in the and style so long as his real
The East End, also has a *Yiddish theatre, in the. Com- Tower of London on the slight winter and spring of 1940-41, needs are met. He may and his hill the Romans discovered for This chosen area was smitten by new Trinity Church surprising mercial Road, university, an to look at. It is strictly modem art gallery, and, one of the fortress and further West both blight and bille.
with exposed roof truses happiest old-time music halls to the high land of "Up Weat" Also remember that the Lane, and as light Inside standing well above the maredbury building project is not a Dutch barri But Trinity Cour in the world.in Poplar High unhealthy area of the Thames Blunt cone at phenomenal cost gregational Church always his Street.
Conti 7 with housing standards far in been, a centre of local life. It
The East End grow about the" excess of the general. aim in was destroyed by bamb and... FINAL NOTE: There are no dockyards of the late Jeth cen- London. Certainly It has the retired to a solering equare, areas; in the East End, con tury, and their rich trade, at advantage of?, being of fairly back street building,dos ten traty to reports, were the
police have to go in patre. · had to grow, there on its marsh, large area, cleared by bomb or years.
The only difference between -the-Russians and the rest of us was that they would never follow the Greek custom of.
going into the kitchen and seeing the cher chef in order to make sure of a good piece of pork or aysters or chestnut pudding-all of which wer specialities. So, perhaps, they
did not do as well as most of us did.
Once the Russians were dis- That dodged from their table. was when the Nationalist Chinese took the whole restaurant for a cocidal party which lasted well Into the Russian dinner hour.
It was a most effective block- ex:.
Traveling Russians deny speaking English, even they can do so. This gives them
usually
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