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WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1953.
Business is brisk at the palace
where Sir Winston was born
Woord stock (Oxfordshire). +for
USINESS is brisk at
B Blenheim Paince, home
of the 10th Duke of Murl- borough at Woodstock, Ox- fordshire.
Visitors crowd in at the rate of nearly 2,000 a day- in ears and buses, on bi- cycles and on foot.
firl.
Every visitor pays 28. (children Is. (i). Ôn Mondays the price goes up to 5s. And last year 158,000 pesiple paid to view the polner.
Brass bedstead
Que room that everyone wants to see is the place where Sir Winston Churchill
born.
was
His father was the brother, of the eighth Duke.
for a
It is stantl palace, on the ground Noor and furnished in Victorian style with a brass bedstead. Dut the furniture I not the same" as, when Winston was born there.
"The family were not to kŁOW what a distinguished son had arrived,” said Me John Golden, the Palace Achministrator. But as for us possible the original relies have been brought back to the room."
Three red curls
Among the relics are three red curls cut from young Winston's hend when he was dive
years old and a baby vest-both presented! by Lady Churchill. There is n copy of the notice offering £25 reward for Churchill dead or nlive after he escaped as a prí- soner In the South African War. and some of his paintings.
BLENHEIM PALACE
All
About One Of The Stately Homes
Mr John Golden locks the main doors, which are fitted with locks copied from one on the gates of Warsaw.
in 1704.
by VIVIEN BATCHELOR
public. Eleven gulden tell visitors about the treasures,
Most striking rooms are the Cutrance hall and the long library, used as a ballroom.
at the hall, which is 07 fect high, Mr A. Selby, one of the gizides. tells the story of the ceiling. This was paintext bay James Thornhill, who
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decerated the Painted Hall at Greenwich Palace. It took him 81⁄2 years to complete, and ho wius
paid 269, a yard. Alter that he was sacked by Sarah, the first Duchess, for being too expensive.
The main door is locked by an ingenious lock copied from une on the gates of Warsaw,
Fine organ
183 Icet
The Long Library, long, has 10,000 books. "And" every book is removed for cleaning and polishing every year," says Mr Guy de Rohan,
the gulde in the library.
At one end of the library is a statue of Queen Anne, who gave the land and £240,000 for Blenheim to the Arst Duke of Marlborough. At the other end is one of the finest pipe organs In the world. Tho' **** "Capability", Brown
pipes are He dammed the streams which silver and never needs clean- made of tin which gleams like ran under the bridge built 50 Ing. It was installed by Lilian, years carlier by John Van- brugh, architect of the Palace, the second wife of the eighth
Duke. in
Arthur 1801, Sir The bridge originally contained Sullivan was the The grounds are as fascinat- 16 rooms, but most of these
first to play ing the Palace. The lake, are now under water.
en it.
The Blenheim tapestries covering 150 acres, was intro- duced by the famous land- In the Palace 11 rooms and were woven in Brussels by gardener. Lancelot the chapel are on view to the Judiens Du Ves and show the
It was in the gardens of the Palace that Sir Winston proposed to Clementine, the daughter of Sir Henry Montagu Hozier.
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military triumphs of the first Duke of Muriborough. They aru so correct in detall that students from Sandhurst go to Blenheim to study the battle formations.
Althout Although gift.c
Blenheim Was
the Marlborough family from Queen Anne, they pay a token rent to the Crown..
Every year a miniature fog
A copy of the Blenheim StanTM dard-ls sont to Windsor on August 13, the date of the Battle of Blenhelm. This minta- ture is specially rande and costs £0.
Flag borrowed
It is said that failure to send the Bng would mean returning the estate to the Queen. But no Marlborough has failed 10
one. send
The standard un show at Blenheim has bern borrowed from Windsor for the benefit of visitors.
Baby relies seem to fascinate the Marlborough family. As well as Sir Winston's curls, the present Duke's silver bath' and ¿laborate cradle are on show- completed by a model of the Duke himselt us a baby,"
Visitors walk through the library at Blenheim, examining bookcases and other objects. At the far end can be seen the organ.
Sheaffers SNORKEL
in the room where Sir Winston Churchill was born. It
is a small room for a palace. Visitors pat the counter-
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UN COMMAND. IGNORES
.
PROPAGANDA BLAST
Tokyo, June 30. The UN Command ignored a Communist pro paganda blast at its truce offer today amid increasing indications of South Korean dissatisfaction with the American mission attempting to swing President Syngman Rhee behind an armistice.
Neither Gen. Mark Clark's headquarters in Tokyo nor the armistice delegates nt Munsan would comment on a Pyongyang radio broadcast that attacked as "Insincere" Gen, Clark's call for an immediate truce without President Rhee's support,
The United Nations does not consider the Pyongyang radio on official rejection of Gen. Clark's note handed to Red liaison officers at Panmunjom Monday.
on
Peking Radio, closer to the Red high command than the Korean station, still has nol commented on the UN proposal.
With the United States and South Korea apparently dead- locked on the tons of a little fruce" that would mean Ме Thee's acceptance of the unmis
Lice
awalling" signature at Panmunjom, some South Korean quarters turned cool toward the mission headed by United States assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Waker Robertson.
In many high places in Seoul, there were "hints" and "sug- gestions" that Mr Robertson bas not been given sufficient author- ity or freedom of action by President Eisenhower-United Press,
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Miss W. Zimmer, from Petersfield, Huntą, stretches out to rock the cradle which was used for the present Duke of Marlborough. With her is Mr O, Whitney, from Oxford,
The ornamental ponds and gardens of the palace,
Archie In Defence
John Clarke's Casebook
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THE
SOZZLED
case was found proved,
and Sir Laurence was told
elegant young couple in evening 1 speak. But Alfred slowly shook dress appeared, unlocked the car his bead, wincing at the pain the got into it, and drove away. gentle movement caused, and OR the best part of the have...."
your.
friends scem to said: "I was drunk, don't re
member anything." half-hour that follows "Dunne what you're talking midnight, the policeman had about," said Archic.
"Me and watched Archie and Alfred me mate was just walking along
here. fiddling with the door-
that against Archle there were Next morning, at Bow. handles of cark parked in Archie and Alfred both pleaded Alfred none. Alfred indeed, lad
Street
six previous convictions, against. Hide-streets around a West not guilty to being suspected bean on his way from a job la End hotel where a big dance persons loitering with Intent to Southend to his home in the
steal from was being held..
from parked cars, and the West country, when he had met policeman told his story on oath Archle and fallen under the spell to Sir Laurence Dunne, the chief of the little man's loquacity. magistrate.
Archie was remanded 'for an
lagged after him, an unenthusi-
corner..
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Archie, o small, dishevelled, explosive mun, seemed to be leader of the expedition. Alfred, the learned clerk.
"What is your trade?" asked carlier conviction under the taller and ten years younger, "Chef of allied," said Archie Vagrancy Act to be proved that ho might smartly, last employed East- against him, so astic accompiles in the enter bourne, temp'ry selling news be sent to Sessions for sentence prise, who already war beginning
and rogue vagabond. I was pursuing | *** papers which to wish he had never met Archio when this officer come up. I'd The Chief Magistrate turned in the public-house round the been in the pub and I was prob- to Alfred. "You got yourself
When Archie was busy with with my friend there."
partly under the influence into trouble through drink and ably
bad company," he said. "I shall the dear-handle of one car, the "I observed quite a number of assume you got yourself stupidly policeman came from his hiding vehicles
I shall discharge you about Inst night" sozzled. you doing with that
Archie went on, "but not being conditionally. Have you enough car?" ho nakod.
a rogue and vagabond under the money to get you home, or did "Got four pound ten,” sald' said, composedly. "S matter of nachurally didn't
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no Alfred. fact, some friends of our kindly handles. Mind you, they booked offered us a lift home. They me on this charge orice before, It was enough; It was more, ain't turned up yet, so we was done six weeks in Brixton for It, Indeed, than many leave London Boeing WALKING
think it's time they altered that with after a visit. But what Act"
the'num' would have been had PEECH suddenly, died on him, He stood
Bir Alfred not met Archie, wo were
to not told.
What
"Oh, evening, officer," Archic Act of eighteen-whatever it is, I It all go on bear?!
forot, that · moment
.
an Laurence.
down, and Invited Alfred
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"Nothing that expensive! I'm buying this gift for a friend of mine that I can't stand?"
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