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ULIPS nodded and nude s (statues) beckoned when I arrived in Leeds. Averting my gaze from
the flower I was whisked from the city square into a glossy, modern hotel bright with Chinese-red paint and chromium and thought for a moment I was in one of the Statler Hotel chain in the United States.
Lords apparently was pro- viding the answer to my crl- ticism of drabness, and the oharge that we need clean new hotels in our big provincial cities. Lords in fact, has been answering all adverse comments since I came here.
The emphasis here is on the present and future, not on the
past. The old northern saying
"tha does 'owt for nowt do it for thissen" is dead. Peoph have been doing things for me for nowt during my entire stay.
Best-dressed
in Britain
I
WAS sitting
in the hotel
lounge relaxing, when Eddie Waring, the Yorkshire sportsman bustled in. "Got a pencil?" said Waring, and delivered a non- stop speech.
"The beat-dressed people in Britain live in Leeds. We know more about cloth than anyone In the world. The women here are smarter than anywhere else In England,
"Leeds is one of the most
prosperous cities you'll find
Get
anywhere. Nothing will Yorkshire folk down. We have everything-guts, grit, a sense of humour--you've come fine place."
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night life ̈much in Yorkshire, but we certainly go in for sport."
Me booklets
A
Stone handed me some entitled "It's Lle... Jungle Bungie....The Great Frost....Thanks Labour."
One of these read:
to
I've a set of plastic teeth,
thanks to Labour!
When I die I'll get a wreath,
thanks to Labour!
I've a doctor at my call,
A retiring pension small. Though I never work at all. Thanks to Labour,
"Not bad, ch?" sald Mr. Stone, "Why, the bGovern- want us to live. ment don't
He added: "Remember this is a neighbourly city with a small- They don't want the small town mind, and all the affection, trader. What gormless fools. No loyalty, and virtues, that impiles. Festival thecoration for me. Remember that and you can't go wrong." I have tried to re- member it.
you
"What's wrong_with_people?. Why don't they work harder? The working people have never been better off and never work- I remembered it when I was ed less. They come in here and
Haven't
Anything asked to tea-what again?with say the general_manager of the dearer?' Anything denret — 1'å Yorkshire Post Newspapers. show them." Ernest Osborn, the editor-in- chief, W. L, Andrews, and the editor of the Yorkshire Evening Post, Alan Woodward.
When I told Mr Osborn I had been to school in nearby Dews- bury, and was no stranger hew, he immediately pressed a choco- late biscuit on me.
There are many Mr Stones in Yorkshire-blunt and bold and full of bouner.
Yorkshire breeds formidabic women, 100-little Eileen Fen- ton, for instance, the Dewsbury girl who swam the English Channel and whom Dows- burians said I had better men- tion or face the consequences,
Yorkshire, in fact, breeds the best. Who shys so? Why, York- shire folks themselves, and they should know.
We discussed the Festival. Leeds is cold to the Festival. Leeds thinks Mr Herbert Mor- rison is making it too much of a one-man Morrison show, When the Festival is over London will Footnote: (Dinned several have some new exhibition halls times into my protesting cars): and Leds and the rest of the Leeds leads. country will have nothing. This viow is widespread In Leeds,
Hostile to
the South
WHERE IS hostility towards
THE London and the South in
Yorkshire. I report this with
Mr Waring, you would do well restraint. But it has to be faced.
in Texas.
The West Riding is, in many ways, of course, the Texas of Britain. It is bigger, brasker, blunter, and bolder than other counties.
Halting Mr Waring's Ningaro, of speech, I said: "There used
The provinces, and particular- ly Yorkshing, do not want to be "Londonised."
from
At the moment Leeds is feel ing more cheerful about politics, Il swopt many Socialists office in the City Council in the recent local elections and hopes to be a lot of vice here and the country will do the same at good deal of crime--what have the General Election. you done about that?"
In no time at all I was in the office of the Chief Constable. J. W. Burnett, a big, stern man who expressed some reluctance over talking for publication and then talked steadily and pressively for 20 minutes. Crime has
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What about the clly itself? I is well run, clean, compact. Its town hall desperately macis overhauling and a rent York shire scrubbing,
The
The
Holiday Postcard from
Gad, sir, Lord Velveteen is right. The Socialists have given the Empire away To
a lot of self-governing Dominions! When Winston comes back he will Send a battleship and shove 'em
all back into the
Empire
Our cartoonist Low is on a holiday tour. Before leaving,
he promised to draw an occasional holiday postcard for his
readers. Here is the first,
(World Copyright. By arrangement with Daily Herald).
star who said 'No' to the BBC
LONDON. ONDONERS who love
music will always Martin, who is four, for anotherff suddenly went out of her mind. remember this season. fortnight. list of concerts laid on
IRONS Į BY EVELYN
Kubelik, blond, blue eyed,f.
The soft bones of the child's two broken legs knitted, but not
recurred.
s stupendous, superb. football-playing giant oft. in perfectly. As she grew, trouble musical renaissance-there has symphony conductor at the For more than six years she
"London is having ย
rich Lall, nearly became "resident"
TE
New tests of atom weapon Just completed at Balpetok atoll, in the Pacific, Included caporiments in connection soith America's hydrogen bomb project, it la Just announced.
Commanding Task Force Three, made un of man from all tho armed Services, salantuts and ostetals from the Atomic Energy Commis sion, 1033 Eleut. - general Khwood R. Quciada, the man they call
The Dragon
Lady General
HE Dragon
THE
JAGOZAT
NEW YORK.
Lady is a comic strip character known to 99 percent of adult, Americans and 100 percent of the children-demanding, exciting, hard but fair, a challenge at all times. That is how his mon think of Quesada. They respect him to the point of idolatry.
Like De Valera, Quesada 19 part-Irish, part-Spanish, bora Americon.
Omelally, his job down in the islands was simply to "keep things moving." This is some. thing he is good at. He com- manded the fighter pilots who provided the ale umbrella for the Normandy beaches.
In Tunisia and Corsica, Italy and Sicily, Quesada had worked with most of the Allies, but more particularly with the British, who added a brace more to his strip of medals.
He is what the Air Force calls a "hot plot," font of sobring off by himself into the wide bluo yonder. Says a man who fought with him. "You could always tell when the old man was coming Sa. He had hot approach. He'd roll the aeroplane over on Its back, pop his wheels, drop his flaps and you wouldn't see him come in for the dust storm." "A demanding sort of guy." another called him.
"Good to people under him. But people under him had better be good, He doesn't mess around. With him Produce-or get out. you've got to be sharp."
He has
on her back, unable to never been anything like " BBC in succession to Sir Adrian' lay That is what Rafael Kubelk Duult. He refused the offer be- move. All the time, she says, said. Kubelik should know, cause of his wife.
she played the violin in her im- agination. Not until she was In Chicago, where they have a 20 did she play
Quesada is 47 now. The new Lord Mayor, Lieut. for at 37 he is one of the world's Im-
In fact, with been an Air Force man all his Colonel F. E. Tetley, says: great conductors. He led
the house and spend half the year Angers cramped and clumsy service career. "Plans have been drawn up for Philharmonia Orchestra at the for Rafael to conduct the city's with disuse. She went to Paris was a college footballer and for In his time he much needed improvement and Albert Hall recently and some. Symphony Orchestra, restoration.” I hope so. There
she slip to study the hard way back: at a spell played professional base- a rib against the 2 gave her first concert. are far too many courts inside of the audience of nearly 3,000 ped, cracked
bail with the St. Louis Cardinals, that he nearly bath, was badly injured inter- the town hall and far too much took the view
one of America's top teams. In dirt outside,
stole the show from brother and nally. It meant months in hos-
Now, almost fully recovered the thirties he spent some time sister Menuhin, the soloists,
with the Martin Johnsons hunt- from the more recent accident in husband would pital: her
America, she gives frequent per- Africa,
ing llow and buffalo in Central
HIEF CONSTABLE BAR- NETT, who has been in charge of the police for four up Leeds,
years.
has cleaned
I prefer the handsome civic halla fine modern building..
There is scarcely, any crime. He Housing effort
has driven out the crooks and the painted ladies.
earns praise
TEEDS is also pleased about
"The public here are crime- conscious and we have tried to its housing project, Quarry make them so. Our men go cut delivering lectures, giving talks on crime prevention, enlisting the support of the public, Naw,
Hill Flats, I had not intended visiting them, but a Mr Isadore Landey confronted me in the hotel and said: "You must come
no one wants to be a copper's best thing you've ever seen, nark, but most people want to marvellous, magnificent, won be good citizens."
derful!"
The chief constable is a man of discipline who believes in Hill Flats heavy sentences "Согрота! punishment is, I believe, neces- sary in some cases.""
Now, I do not think Quarry. an? marvellous, magnificent, or even wonderful, but I do think they are a pretty good attempt to house people of
would have preferred the som- bre, gror stone to have been bright-red brick.
"You mean flogging?" I said, modest Income adequately. I Mr Barnett said: "Yes."
He gave his views on juvenile delinquency. "Print the name of the juvenile delinquent in the newspapers and that will make the parents kasp their children out of trouble. People fear pub- lley of that nature more than they fear a large fine. We must have discipline, order, keep | people straight."
The chief constable has done a good job and Leeds is proud of him.
It is proud of almost every- thing and everyone in Yorkshire, bust, particularly, It la proud of Len Hutton-the world's greatest balanan, says Leeds. Their tribute to Hutton
and in
The most stimulating provocative person I met Leeds is a fabulous character, Arthur Stone, 80 years old and the proprietor of an excellent tallar's shop, in Akblon Street.
To Mr Stone I said: "I hear you are the great expert on Leeds." Said Mr Stone,
who salts his language with blood- curdling oaths: "There's a tale: Lad, I'd rather talk about Attlee Baba and the Forty Thieves. What a bGovernment!
"Look, I'll give you some pamphlets-take as many as you like,"
Son of the famous Czech leave her. violinist who died 11 years ago. Rafael Kubelk is here with his *
Both Agree
not
formances:
¿
the next is at
Amsterdam, with her husband He lives in a comfortable town as pianist.
house in Washington's most 37-year-old violinist wife, Lud- Said sleek-haired, dark-eyed Of necessity, the is an expert a three-storey red brick place fashionable suburb, Georgetown, mila Bertlova and their son Ludmila at
the Czech club in packer ("Only four suitesses for where some of the furniture West Hampstead where the the three of us for half a year's
has made been
himself by family are staying, "I shall European trip").
in the barement carpentry shop he runs always be sorry about that."
a hobby. His Wifethuy in The Kubeliks met
their She is also, says her husband, narricci in 1940-was Kate Davis
a first-class cook; In the Chicago Putnam Pulitzer, grün house she does mest of the of the famous Joseph
r, grand-daughter Pulitzer dornestic work and looks after crusading newspaper publisher. Martin, too. Her three hours of She was the widow of an Air daily violin practice have to bo Force captain shot down on a
THE THREE KUDELIKS They have four suitcases,
Corner for ever England
From R. M. MacCOLL
WENT to see Roland Shaw- Cross, editor of the Yorkshire Evening News, a Lancashire man who has made good in the rival county. Mr. Shawcross
New York, May 30. the past quarter of a century, immediately poured me cup of ten ( has drunk 33 cups of THE drums of half-for Harold Hubbard, a member
Tgotten, wars, whispered the American Legion, came to tos in four days in Leeds) and then went to a beatoouse in his quietly down the corridors mark of respoat and esteem."
of history tonight,
office.
With loving card he took from
of
SHOULD a young man from the Foreign Office be in a night |
it a portrait, in oils, of Hutton, Across Amenica people honour club in the small hours? Official painted by Henry Carr, a Leeds ed Memorial Day with parades Washington frowningly thinks man himsck. The batsman and visits to the cemeteries not. alurted out at me-the eyes koon, the noco slightly. baitarod where soldiers lie. the chin sirong.
native Prague in 1930, when Ludmila was soloist in the Mozart G Major violin concerto with Rafael conducting. Today they both agree, "The Mozart G fitted in at odd moments. Major has been our favourite
piece ever since."
She laughs a little wryly when Rafael mentions his preoccupa They married in 1942. Two tions as husband and father. She months later they installed is the one with the double job. themselves in a flat of their own
(World Conuright Reserved.-- with Д
housewarming party. Next morning at 630 Gestapo men called, took Ludmila to prison for a week as a “warn- ing" Offence her brother had escaped to join the British. Rafael continued to conditt the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague and Brno ("I played for Czechs, not Germans.")
After the war, things looked good in Prague. Then politics began to matter ("I hate poli- tics," says Kubelk). In 1949, conducting at Edinburgh, hé finally made up his mind never to return home and wrote to his orchestra to pronounce his own sentence of exile.
He misses his valuable library of musical scores. He some- timea regrets his collection of 10,000 stamps (he is still a keen. philatelist) left behind when the Kubellics quitted their home with only hand luggage.
Greatest sorrow for both the
his widowed mother are still in Czechoslovakia.
Infant Prodigy
Rafael made his first public oppearance at the age of 10, The State Department, Ameri--conducing-with-his-father-es And among the huge forest of on's Foreign Office, has suspended soloist. He was a violinist and Stars and Stripes which broke Earl Peterson. ∙He was an planlet, toä.. "Yes," said Mr Shawcross, out in the spring sunshine there innocent bystander who got shot Whis is being presented to Len 4s a Union Inok
marked in a night club fraesz. by Lord, Mackintosh, president dhe grave in Storrington, Connee-
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Ludmila, whose father was ・・ ggainst her having a musical
of the Society of Yorkshiremen thou of an 18-year-old Britch THE MEN are still. on strike career, was an infant prodigy, in London, at the Leeds, civic dahigaman Thomas Powers, at the big Dodge motor works in giving her Orst concert at the theatre on Wednesday- grest who was killed in 1014 during Detroit. The row is over about age of eight.. occasion.
our second war with America. aft. of fabnit. The men demand
overnils while they work. The At 14 that "The people, subscribed over. Powers came dnom Market company offers: emocion. The apparently over. When she was £800 for 11, In, half-crowns, Hosworth Leics, and merved in amonks only reach the waith only two years old she had bonn kuilings, and stepences, 11, is "the Superb. And, just as he has The man, say they get their dropped from -a, ascona-Lour. I nice gesture. We don't go in for done on every Memorial Day for trousers dirty.
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