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SEEN BY SIR MARTIN CONWAY, M.P.
The Russian Crown jewels, which `have been the subjent of many rumours, are not Mr. Wheatley, the Socialist Minister only safe in State keeping but have been j of Health, posed as the champion of displayed before an English M.F. private enterprise in submitting bis He is Sir Martin Conway, the art House Bill for second reading in the authority and Conservative member for House of Commons last month, but Lord the English Universities, who returned Eustace Percy (C. Hastings) expressed to the House of Commons recently after the opinion that he had taken that line to several weeks in Russin, finding out how provise himself with a way of vacape in Art is prospering under the new régime. case of the failure of his scheme.
He told a reporter that he had visited The essential of his Bill Mr. Wheatley Moscow and Petrograd agd had been said, were the treaty with the building given every facility to sandy art. industry, the treaty with the local
When authorised to see the Crown authorities, and the charter for the jewels, officials brought them and put! terant. Without resorting to national-them on the table before him,
They sation the Government had taken every are well guided," he said, and while step to assure an abundance of the acces I was examining them the' room was sary materials. He had a written under-full of people who were unmistakably taking from the brick manufacturers officials. Their purpose in keeping them 1 that, whatever the deriaad, they would Well, the Russian, sense of autional not charge mare for their bricks than property seems to have increased in the they were, charging on January 1st, 1994.
proportion that their respect for privata and behind that he had the drastic property has decrsand, and I may say powers in his further Bill dealing with that the people there really think that
Le peices of building materials. There this property belongs to them. never was a scheme so protected," he de clared.
Art has probably never been thongat more of in Russid than to-day, and not Claiming that he was assisting private only have they 250 museums, as against enterpriss, Mr. Wheatley pointed out 52 before the war, but they are being that he had cot interfered with the sub taken, great eare of, and are extraordi aidy of £6 a house for houses built forarily well visited. sale under the 1923 Act. That scare The royal painees and the big homes producing houses, although not for of well-knoya people in Russia are pre- the section of the community he thought served as museums and are to-day just! most in need of them.
as they were left. There is, in fact, what you would call a craze for museums.
THE LITTLE BUILDERS..
On the walla, among other pictures,
I saw pictures of our King and Queen Czar in the Winter Palace. in the private apartments of the late
"At a matter of fact, it was private enterprise that was killing private enter- prise. The little builders, almost with tears in their eyes, were asking him to
Everything is in the hands of experts, protect them, not against Socialism, but
who are always re-arranging and im against others engaged in private enterproving the galleries. The Hermitage prise. (Laughter.)
I am the defender of private enter prise and one of its best friends," he said with what the House thought was a touch of epulcian; but when members laughed, Mr. Wheatley turned on the with the remark: This country has accepted private enterprise as the means of carrying on its business. 1.deplore thất, but I have accepted.it, and I have gone in to act as an honest man among these competing people.”
in Petrograd must now be the biggest museum in the world. There are, they say, 10 miles of galleries.
As to Russia itself, there are every- where traces of her former magnificences, There are scenes of stately ceremonial in Petrograd, and also there are big burnt- out houses. Russia to-day in like a frame without the picture.
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Lord Eustace Percy, a former Parlia C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD. mentary Secretary of the Ministry of Health, who moved the Opposition amend- ment to reject the Bill, predicted that Mr: Wheatley would" bave to bring for ward other measures to bolster up this misconceived scheme katil at last the
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ost admiring of his supporters and the OFFICES )31D, WENDHAM STREET, most patient of his opponents would be obliged to stop him. I think we ought
to stop him now," he added.
Lord Eustace urged the Government to Lake steps to encourage the building of concrete houses. which would help to
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overcome the difficulty over materials CHEAVINS FILTERS
The Bill was an absolute and heartless sham, an empty palice of rapitics,' Lord Eustace warned, the Government that the more pretentious was the make- believe the more bitter would be the dis-- illusion But Mr. Wheatley had seen to it that his reputation was safe. If the scheme failed he would go to the country and say, Private enterprise has failed;].
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only Socialism can possibly provide the PRICES ON APPLICATION. houses." If he could not have houses
he would have an election. Opposition cheers.)
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Mr. Masterman (L., "Rusholine) stated that he should vote for the second, read-
ing of the Bill, but that Liberals would
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want amendments to various matters in HE WHO DOES Committee. They did not want the coun- try committed to "these brick boxes" for the next 15 years.
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the Liberals provoked Mr. Maxton (8 do 100 things We live in an age Bridgeton) to declare: Fight the thing straight; drop this damned sübterfuge."
Another thing Mr. Masterman said he could not understand was the bitter hostility of Mr. Wheatley to the idea that people might like to live in their own houses.
Mr. Sexton (Soc., St. Helens), declar ing that the present house problem show- ed" that private enterprise had failed, said, “In Liverpool I used to live in one room below the pavement, with a swer in the corner and six in a bed We paid 78. Du, a week as the"
rent of that room."
Mr. James Stewart, Parliamentary Secretary of the Scottish Board of Health, said the Chamberlain chemo had completely failed in Scotland.
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Mr. Wragg (C, Belper) asserted that it cost more to lay bricks in London than it did to manufacture them in Fletton, Petersborough, and bring them to Lon-
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SECOND READING CARRIED, Sir
William Jnynson-Hicks! (. C., Twickenham) said he did not believe tha Bill would produce the houses, and pro- dicted the scheme would have to be scrap ped in the course of the next year or two, and scrapped possibly by a Conser vative Government. Then Mr. Wheatley would any. "You have murdered the Bill." though the Bill would really have died from inherent rickets at its birth. (Laughter and cheers.)
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