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Defence
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Charity
Communism Versus United Nations
A
By HUGH SUTHERLAND
Na- and the
'But It now appears that tho NOVIET tactics in the which were set up to further
is do- United Nations have human prosperity by interna- "World Peace Council"
itonal action in such spheres sh stinod to take over many of the undergone
the marked
of functions oconomics, trade and currency, important change recently. Instead of and food and health.
Cominter, and, by so doing, to Co-ordinating their
work become the Moscow-controlled continuing to pursue her six-year-old policy
of and that of three regional econo- opposition to the United obstruction and boycott the mic commissions the Economic tions. For under its wind Commission for Europe, the under the ery for "peace Soviet Union is now engag- Economic Commission for Asia new Soviet plan of opposition and the Far East and the to the United Nations in taking ing in open opposition.
Economic Commission for Latin shape. Her plan seems to be to create America-le the Economic and For example, at the Berlin meeting of the "World Peace Council and all the Congress," in February 1951, It conference,
a permanent body of Communist Sustai Council.
or Communist-controlled agon- eles, designed to weaken support for the United Nations, to under-sed agencies, being non- was decided to call an inter-
work, political and concerned with the national economic mine the confidence in its work, welfare of millions of ordinary This duly met at Moscow in April
1952. and eventually to usurp its place, both in the minds and emotions people, have the
support of the
Many of the avowed objects of
of millions of people throughout vast majority of nations ex the conference could easily have
the world who now look to the primarily, the Soviet Union, United Nations for
protection
been achieved by making use of existing national trade delega- tlens. Nevertheless, the Moscow same conference resolved to.set up an "International Trade Promotion Committee," ostensibly to facil!- tate world trade.
and for help in bottering their. The Soviet Union deliberately living standards and cultural stands aloof. But at the activities.
tima (Incredible as it may seem) The development of this she complains of being "isolated" change in Soviet polley is ap- by the non-Communist world.
This committee is now working She refuses to participate in vent in the history of the
in conjunction with "national" Soviet attitude to the United the following agencies:
pon- Nations specialised agencies
and is The International Labour Or- committees formed by the ganisation; the United Nations sors of the conference Educational, Scientifle and Cul- the United Nations Economic and attempting to assume the role of (UNESCO); Social Council and its three
begins
at
the Stately Home
TATELY as dowagers
long past their prime, stately as Elizabethan
83
Re-
by JOHN WATERMAN
painter
ural Organisation the Food and
&griculture
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regional commissions. An am- International bitious project to say the least.
ganison Organisation, the
But
fernational Monetary Fund: the International Bank for Re-
though, I attempts to construction
and Development; assume the role of the Economic the International Maritime and Social Council the Soviet Consultative Organisation; the Union has apparently no desire tasks of the International Refugee Organisa- to undertake the tlon; the International Trado Council. The proposal by the Organisation; and the World Pakistan! delegate to the Moscow Health Organisation.
conference that a "Stalin Plan" Clearly, the Soviet Union Is should be initiated has been
tonored
by the Soviet leaders. "Isolated" from the West only
in
game
the
12-
Organisation
ia the
an
ΤΟ far as Stalin has decided Under the plan the Soviet Union would help with the industrial- that it shall be.
Asia and with the This theme of Soviet "isola isation of pictures of Bernard Shaw, photo- have yielded 70,000 sixpences
and after surtax has been paid. The tion" was elaborated by Andrei co-ordination of trade in the For graphs of Lloyd George,
would have certainly Zhdanov, addressing
There are other examples of members of the family the income gulde le almost off-hand about been quite insuficient to main-augural meeting of the Comin-
form, in September 1947. At Soviet opposition to the United the quality of the surroundings: tain Cilveden.
the
he revived Nations. A Communist-controlled time courtiers, stately
"The panelling is of a rare wood,
Cilve- Lenin's idea of a world divided due to meet in Italy in October, International Medical Congress What will happen to gency bucks quizzing the
the green National Trust armlet, sabicti.. the re-place is
Com- surrounding country- Inside, a guide explains about Adum.. the chino Dresden... den when Lord Astor dies? He into two hostile canys,unist even though the World Health
has expressed a wish that the munist and non-Communist
of the United side stand the Stately the second baronet, Sir Francis the desk Louis XVI. . ."
house should continue to be used and claimed that the foreign
Nations is extremely active Homes of England in the Dashwood, a notable eccentric,
as a meeting place for men and policy of the Soviet Union re this field. In addition to spend-
Room with
women in the public servicetected "the hopes of all pro Cultural Commission set up by quiet valleys and parks of patron of the arts and
thrift. He did most of the build-
MP3, educationists, trade gresive mankind, which strives the "World Peace Council," the land.
a view ing of West Wycombe House in
unionists and the like-and for for a lasting peace."
International Congress of Cul- be-
at understanding Even in this 1952 age of the Adam style, was responsible
tural Workers is to be called ŢNDOUBTEDLY, Clivedens furthering
tween the English-speaking high death-duties and sur- for the spacious landscape gar-
is greatest attraction the world and other peoples. But if Here was the origin of the some date as yet unknown. No doubt this body, together with tax they
their dening, and engaged a Milanese preservo
World from the house called Borgnis to de- fine view of the Tham's
continues as the Kremlin's "perco" campaign - stateliness. In this work of corate the house,
the library windows, winding private residence of Lord Astor's the attempt to exploit aversion the Moscow-controlled
Chiltern beach-
will work In opposition to preservation the National The effect of this is that West through the
heirs which is possible under to war, to build up the Stalinist Federation of Selent!de Workers, p the National Trust scheme-a dictatorship a champion' of UNESCO.
to Trust plays an appreciable Wycombe is one Stately Home to woods below. This draws
An International Conference in which the words of Noel prociative "Ooh's from tourists great benent will accrue to the peace and democracy, and
Jrustrate Western resistance to part.
Defence of Children, sponsored Cowards's song do not apply There is nothing comparable Astor family.
Communist-dominated It helps to maintain some "Rows and rows and rowe of at West Wycombe Park. Yet the The whole of the near quarter- Soviet designs. Here too was by the of these fragments of Eng- Gainsboroughs and Lawrences, two Stately Homes have much million-pound endowment fund the origin of the Kremlin, plan WFTU and WIDE, was held at.
to the
Yet the "United Vienna In April 1952, of opposition Nations.
United Nations
International lish history for all to see. some sporting prints of Aunt in common. Both have magnif; will escape death duties, and co
...are replaced by cent grounds. The interiors
Fund By 1949 a permanent ar Children's Emergency At the same time, it also rows and rows of Raphaels and both houses are, from the point will the house.
ganisation,
World Peace (UNICEF) is supported by the helps to maintain some of other old masters carefully copied of view of art treasures,
Committee, had been set up. majority of nations. the landed gentry who by Borgnis.
spectacular. They do not com- As a fal
It had, of course, the support familiar-looking master-
pare
with, say, Blenheim or might otherwise have had
of local Communist
tunist parties and
Despite the fact that Russia is Communist-con- Various to surrender their inheri- plece is reached the guide ex- Hatfield House. The one great
plains: "There's one I think you difference between the two
THE reason for the tax-free the THE
a member of the International Internationa bodies Telecommunications Union, one fance entirely.
will recognise
status of the Stately Homes trolled Nell Gwyn." that Woot Wycombe Park runs
is explained in the Gowers Re-such as the World Federation How does this come "Who is by?" asks someone. at a loss, Cliveden at a profit.
Since 1943, the first full year port: "The Trust is a charty Trade Unions (WFTU) and the of the United Nations specialised International De agencies, she is also a member of the International Broadcasting about? By an ingenious "I'm afraid it's a copy."
guide.replies.
in which Cliveden was National in the legat sense, and the cz- Women's
(WIDE)..
Organisation,----v which,ke the scheme. The owner of a
Trust property, up to the latest emption of charities from tard-mocratis Federation
cn- long-established Later, the committee was country house of sufficient
year for which figures are pub- tion is a
Iarged and became the "World WFTU, has become an instru lished-
1950 Cliveden, has principle."
ment of Soviet foreign policy. Peace Council (WPC). historical value may trans-
Such is the new development shown a revenue surplus of This is an admirable principle fer it to the National Trust,
Many people thought that the in the Communist attitude to- £1,081. Its income, mainly from for the gentry. It is less admir-
Cominform was intended to be
wards the constructive work of if the Trust agree, with an URING the tour, lasting about tax-free dividends drom nable for the Exchequer, which is
the direct
of the the United Nations. It is a successor 15 minutes, visitors may see
vesiments af endowment yielding an in-
of much-needed
OT" Third Inter- revealing aspect of cold war and deprived gate-money and revenue, both in income-tax and Coralatern,
at ono time strategy on the widest scale. It come to maintain it, on the Sir John Dashwood walking on funds plus
national, which And not at all the lawns. On a recent afternoon some minor sourers has been death duties.
directed and co-ordinated the is also a plain indication of understanding that he and the guide pointed him out with a 70,780. Invested by a million admirable for the general pubile.
activities his heirs will be permitted to rather reverent: "There's the alre in any other way £222,757 It is a topsy-turvy world where revolutionary live there rent-free. The present baronet."
over the years mould
the world. Sir John paused for a moment, ylalded' £70,000-odd: 2 have chairty begins at the Stately Communist parties throughout same token, a grave warning to
would Home,
owner then undertakes to open the house to the public at stated times.
How they escape death duties THIS brings substantial ad-
Florence's
Sir John takes a walk
the
called to his spaniel. His gaze took in the East Portico, where, within the Doric pillars, modern scaffolding could be seen, bear- ing witness to the work of main. icmance and preservation the Nallonat Trust is carrying out at Wycombe Park.
of
is shown as
1 WATK
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un
is
the endowment
Topsy-turvy world
the
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of Soviet intentions, and, by that
the people of the free world.
THE CINEMA SHUTS...AND CAMPERS
ARE MOVING IN FROM THE COUNTRY
Monte Carlo.
ROM Monte Carlo, with South-of-France
its
carefree Summer
either wholly or in part by ment fund is £3,701 in the red. Provence where Sir Jack
their former owners.
West Wycombe Park, the Buckinghamshire home of Sir
John Dashwood, premier barenct
Cliveden-and the Astors
Newsletter
from Evelyn Irons
produce figures to show that 1048 Britons stayed in Monte Carlo hotels last month against 919 in July last year.
Total number of tourists here In the same month has increased from about 0,000 to more then 7,000,
CROUPIERS' SCHOOL
Craps croupiers have develop ed a Franco-American fargon of their own, in which they address the dico and encourage. the players.
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"Little Joe" becomes "Petit Joseph." But they haven't found a French word for Box ·Car. the Double Six.
MISSING JEWELS MME, LILIANE MODIANO,
The Income from the endow- vantages. Both the house ment given by Sir John, plus and the endowment fund sate-money and rent from pro- escape death duties, and in-perty on the estate has not been sumclent to meet the cost of such come from the endowment
work.
In the later published fund will also be exempted report of the National Trust the West financial from income-tax and surtax. Wycombe Park
Upkeep It is not surprising there. £8.170, Income totalled £1,051. Sporting Club beach and foro that some of the houses Deficit £3,310, In the previous night club, I drove over tho listed among the Trust's year there deficit of precipitous Alps to Forcal £2,077. The latest published properties are still inhabited figure shows that the
endow-quier, the quiet corner of
T the Monte Carlo Casino children A Drummond, his wife and
Romanesque church daughter were murdered.
still trundled round on hired and the Summer Sporting They had travelled the same wooden home cars,
woalthy hostess from Paris, but the Club, are 240 croupiers working way up from the seaside resort mothers grouped on benches a six-hour day. All had a six of England, is an example
£15,000-worth of jewels which Ho ESS than eight miles away of Villefranche, dose by Monte
croupiers school. whispered anodously together.
Studen's at the school are she left on the beach at Saint In those deep The cinema, normally opened
from men who Jian Cap Ferrat one Saturday: (8th
hand-picked century house to the other house which is preserved happetrings
have worked at least two years in a grey nylon bag. National Trust nine years ago. under the game National Trust mountain gorges we crossed four nigh's a week, was closed.
Several campers pitched their for the
But there With it went an endowment, scheme. This is Cliveden, home Eut not here at Forcalquier,
100 company,
Police theory is that a scale for upkeep, of £3,000, plus rents) of Lord and Lady Astor. Clive in the sunny, open landscape, tents on open spaces in the town has not been a course, at the thief plekid up the little nylon
the hills are a gealle because they were afraid to from some of the 300 acres on den was made over to the Trust where
croupiers' school for three years.
Mme. do Croninel Reason; no new croupiers have bag when the estate, and some additional in 1042 with a record endow blue frieze and the broad river spend a night in the country,
the sun
had her eyes shut. There will be no peace in been needed. land which can be sold if neces- ment of £222,757 for upkeep. Durance gleams in
Creuplers for the crap tables What the French call "Lea cary.
The house is open one day a among the vineyards and olive Forcalquier mul the murderer
has been caught.
(the game was introduced three rats de plage" (beach rats) are Posters have this summer been week from April to October, gruven.
in residence.
THE QUIET SPOT
months ago) are sent to America active on the Riviera. inviting Londoners to visit Wert The Astors continue
'POOR SEASON'
to be "eduented” In the gam
At Cannes the other day two Not many English tourists and Visitors Wycombe Park, About 1,500 have
pay 28, for entrance
American sisters, Caroline, ard On-a made the journey since the to gardens and house. their way here but French
Albert Jauffret, the head crops
from New York Emily Smith coast the natives complain erouples, loarned Joupe and park opened early in wooden bench ouleide the 10th families like to come to the dis- JP and down the Riviera and her dates,
the game in went swimming and left $700 in July. They close again at the end century front bulit by Barry, the trict for a quiet country holiday
two gold architect of the Houses of I
Seventeen years ago there was that this is a poor season for Nevada. Sald 30-year-okt nemi traveller cheques
tourts's they wait
Chiabout, five yours a croupler, rings and a pearl necklace in a M. Techunn, president of the of was different. I learned in raffia bag on the sands. When plaque, carved with House. 25.,
they. gavouring
back, the bag was aura which surrounds.the
the dalo. 1235, was
was unveiled to Chamber of Commerce at Nice, Haiti."
a gono. to Chinbout, park 1s.
the memory of the Clivenden commemorate the 7th centen- gives three reasons: the British
Repeated warnings Aro set--who mot Clivenden
plaque
the brifont summer had this inscription in 25; VISITORS pay la, to go into week-end parties before the worry of an English queen. The austerity currency allowance of croupier must be quick-witted, V the park and a further 20 and were often sttacked for their Push the memory of weather all over France, giving at-handed, and entirety im to po round the house which alleged pro-Nazi and pro-Fascist Eleanor of Provence, wife of leas Inducement to go South for periurbable.
the sun; and high prices on, the PETIT JOSEPH stands on a hill, overlooking & views the inscription by Glad Henry III of England
nanied
afler Canning and This Httle town, with its tivier compared with Spain
Calme is the casatial quilty, weed-grown, omamental lake. stone Under a colonnade, with a riot Garibaldi,
picturesque houses climbing to and Austria of pink, painted cherubs looking In the small library, where its a pointed hill, was. But there are few complaints says he. He is a bachelor,
to conocniralo. of my down from the celling, Uckets there are unmistakable traces of stunned by the triple murder. in Monte Caric, where Income- hava
#quare beate the tax does not exist. They even work” he explains. ** are sold by a warden wearing the Astors. babijation three In tho
gave his 300-acre park and fine 1 from West Wycombe is anarlo, One can imagine sinister under the shady plane irees month's training at the Casino aged 42, is st without her
of this month.
mit the strong influx of Brish here, 210k
was when O
According
cams
Jewellery on the beach. But tho by the police against leaving women go on doing It.
Film producer Jack Warner q did not leave tils £8,000-ring"
when he winket on the rocks farwimming at Cap d'Antibes, t He wore it and it slipper" fromPPE
Is Anger in deep water.
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