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unca hewa which is strictly copyright cauum Grainance, 1938. Buch news a
Sweden Between Giants
consequence of the German
an agreement to
war.
power
July 3,
1940.
IF you attend a service in Westminster Abbey
these days, you will find this notice on the Beat:
Air Raid Warnings
Should an Air Raid warning be sounded during Service, the procedure to be adopted is as follows: 1. All Abbey doors (except the East Cloister door) will
bu open.
2.
The Service will at once be closed with the Blessing. or the Grace.
3. In view of their special A.R.P. duties, the Choir will leave the Abbey with all reverent speed and proceed to their ports of duty.
4.
The congregation are urged also to leave the Abbey the Shelters provided in the base- and take cover ment of the Methodist Central Hall, or in the base- ment of the new Church House at the south side of Dean's Yard.
5. The Clergy and Vergers on duty will remain in the Abbey until the congregation have had an oppor- tunity to leave, do
N.D. The Public are advised that the Abboy is not a enfe place during an Air Raid—and are strongly, ad- vised to taite shelter as recommended above at any time when an Air Rair warning is given,
Behind that notice is a story of great interest. to the whole English-speaking world: the story of the defence of Westminster Abbey against air attack.
No national shrine in Eng- land, and few in the world, can' be compared with the Abbey. Jeremy Taylor called it an “aere sown with royal seed"; but it is not only a cemetery of kings, it is the pince where statesmen, poets, writers, artists and inven. tors have been given national burial.
To be buried in the Abbey is the last tribute the nation can offer to a great man.
THE Abbey is also the cradle of Parliamentary Government. The House of Commons struggled in infancy, and grew up, in the Chapter House of the Abbey. In that place it met until 1647, when it crossed the road to St. Stephen's Chapel in the Palace of West- minster.
OUR
"No matter how adequately sandbagged our monarchs may be, the fact remains that the Abbey is 'not a safe place during an air raid.""
SANDBAGGED QUEENS
by H. V. Morton
A more incongruous juxtaposition has surely never before been seen, even in Westminster Abbey.
Next, we entered the Chapel of the Pyx, where in ancient times the pyx, or box, containing the standard coin measures of gold and silver were kept. To-day the kits of thirty-five Aremen hang there.
"Did you know that Westminster Abbey now has a hospital of its awn?" asked my guide.
In the Almonry of West- The Coronation Chair used to "Do you know where you are?" keman Undercroft and revenied enc of
He unlocked the door to the Nor-
the most surprising of all the Abbey's "I'm high up." I said, "and there transformations. In that solemn,
minster, pear St. Anne's Chapel, stand a few yards away, with usked. Caxton set up his printing press; the Stone of Scone beneath it. an association with the church Chair and stone have been sent is empty space in front of us; but I fortress-like room now stand rows of neat beds, ready for air-raid casual- that printers have perpetuated to the country and will not be can see nothing."
"You are in Abbot Islip's 'pew, tles. in the word "chapel", which they seen again until the war is over. use to describe any printing
overlooking the South aisle of the In the north aisle of Henry nave," he replied. Then he raised works or meeting of printers. VII's Chapel, a mighty rampart his volee and called down into the
about it.
qulei."
BEHIND a screen is a table set
out with surgical instruments
war Ume.
Those
So great and varied are the of sundbags conceals the tomb darkness, "Hallo, theret Firement and first aid appliances. memories clustering about the of Queen Elizabeth. Mary, Just shine your torches on the Un. chicly responsible for this strange known Warrior's Grave, will you?" revival of what appears to be a noble building, and so many are Queen of Scots, lies beneath a
monk's dormitory are Mrs. Barry, There was a movement in the dark wife of Canon Barry, and Mrs. Bul- the men buried there who belong similar pile in the south aisle, not to England alone, but to the and the splendid tomb of Henry and suddenly two thin benins of light lock, the wife of Dr. Bullock, the Arrangement or in part, without previous world, that any disaster to West- VII and Elizabeth of York is wavered a moment, lighting up a few Abbey's organist.
gaunt columns before coming to rest minster Abbey would cause a completely submerged by sand- upon a blaze of red, popples,
With tender thoughtfulness, the feeling of rage and sorrow to
Indies have expelled from the Under- bags.
In the year 1020 I had seen the croft a singularly hideous gargoyle- pass over the civilised earth. But nothing can be done to Unknown Soldier burled with pomp and a huge stone comin; two objects safeguard the roof of the Henry and ceremony. have sten the which they rightly feel alr rald success in Norway, is the virtual day, I heard a fascinating story most exquisite things in Eng- night-time during the second War,
When I went there the other VII Chapel; which is one of the Brave many times since, but never casualties should not be asked to Isolation of Sweden from the West of war-time London. About a
shall I forget it as I saw it then: at contemplats. The Swedes now are hemmed in with
A visit to an air rald shelter, a Germany at one elbow and Russia ut hundred people live in or about land, a roof of stone carved with with the silent Abbey rising in dark building of reinforced concrete th the other, Cosition. It is dangerous: yet not so their lives in attendance on the seems to hang robbed of all Abbey. It was strange to flask be turned into a garage!). completed
That not a comfortable the Abbey precincts, and spend such audacious certainty that it ness
Torches in hand, we entered the so that at the end of the war it can Its own gas filter plant (and designed dangerous as some observers suppose. church: Dean Chapter, weight, like festoons of intricate light that expired before it touched my tour of Westminster Abbey in The Third Reich and the Soviet
the roof or died out halfway up the Union ure reported to have reached choir, vergers, the Registrar and creamy lace.
columns of the nave. How block it But no matter how adequately was, how ceric. keep Sweden neutral his staff, the Clerk of Works in the present war. If this la so, and his staff.
As I groped my way home through sandbagged our monarchs mays-the-chair-that--make-you-the-black-out,-1-thought-that-nine- Sweden" is not entirely at the mercy All these people, some of them be, the fact remains that, as the jump," sald one of the fremen, centuries of life have shown the old of Germany, even though Russian hardly known to each other by notice states, "the Abbey is not "They go off like pistois; at least, it church many strange things. mlingor tuner may seen relatively sight in peace-time, have been a safe place during an Air sounds like that when everything's It has seen dend kings lying
drawn into a close community Raid."
stripped to the waist in the glow of Russia does not have to command by the danger of war, as if the
Two firemen go up to the triforium.unbleached tapers; it has seen a overwhelming military force to make Abbey were once again a self- provided, the thought of the phone down to the nave to report ville, sitting "alone on the rushes alt As I looked at the protection on patrol together, and then tele- Queen of England, Elizabeth Wood- tis wishes respected in the Baltic area. For the Kremlin has already shown
contained walled monastery possible effect of a bomb upon that all is well.
desolate and how determined it is to secure its ruled by its abbot.
an old building, honeycombed
tuary from hered," sucking sanc- enemies; it has seen position
there. For
For example, one of And for war purposes, this is with tombs, was present in my earliest de
IN order that they can encircle pomp and pride and plety zo march- the
defeats for Relchsfuhrer Hitler's policy of
of protecting all Ger- precisely what has happened. mind. Even during burials in bullt high over the west door, join- with greed and envy and treachery: the church, a bridge has been ing down the centuries in company.
mans was sustained in the
Baltic If any danger threatened the the Abbey, during the moving ing the north side of the triforlum It has even known one murder.. regions at Russla's hands. Just after Abbey, the church would be de. of heavy monuments, the in- to the south. the Berlin-Moscow pact was signed fonded by the clergy and laymen stallation of heating, or in the
Now at last something entirely new The men then ascend to the root has happened to it; something that thousands of Germanic people were who work there.
course of ordinary renovations, their long and knee-aching descent have imagined. We call it A.R.P., and, after telephoning again, begin netther king, abbot nor baron could. called "home" to the Reich from
dreds of years.
it is a self-contained unit, un- ment has now and then broken, all night long. Russian influence to-day is condl-connected with Westminster's affording a gruesome glimpse We climbed through a spiral tubs tloned by the approximately equal A.R.P., and the Abbey com- into the royal vaults below. of stone to the triforlum, and en- balance of power as between the munity has only one object-to The con of Queen Elizabeth has
circled the
that high place, sometimes the Third Reich. A and threat to choose sides in the war at preserve the Abbey. It has its been seen lying, as it has lain since advancing carefully to the arches. tracts respectful attention even in the own sub-station of the A.F.S., 103, on top of that of her sister, like people on the edge of a precipice. most arrogant belligerent circles. in Dean's Yard.
Mary. The coffin of Mary Queen to shine our torches down into the Had the Soviet leaders assumed Every verger member of the Dean Stanley called a startling form with black eye-sockets.
of Scots, lies in the middle of what inky cool of the nave. A convincing that German
ghost presented itself; a tall, spectral success in Norway choir, and workman, is trained an awful scene, surrouns, some intervals along the triforium hang would threaten their position in the
as it is. Baltic, they would have moved when either in A.R.P. or fire-fighting. of full size, some the size of small mits of white asbestos clothing, with Putting my light on, I saw that at Germany did to invade Scandinavia. The Abbey's head warden is Mr.
children, all confusedly heaped to- Indels everywhere was dat Scan the chief: fire-fighter is Mr. urns of various shapes ile tossed soles are not fond of ghost stories held by a Jehovah's Witness was
one of the tears among T. Hebron, the Registrar, and gether, one upon the outer, while headpieces fitted with skull-Uke dinavia
might be crushed German military pincer. The Rus- Bishop, the Clerk of Works, about here and there. slans did not move. Whether they The wardens number 27, the counted on a better showing by the fire-fighters 36, and the first-ald Allied forces, or on the potency of party 14. their own diplomatic position is not clear. But in the absence of the former they have been able to fall back on the latter to protect their interests.
་་
areas they had inhabited for hun- So far as A.R.P. is concerned, the thin crust of marble pave to earth. This continues at intervals or 1940's miserable gift to history.
Allies
of
in a Russo-
by a vast pile of leaden
JAMES
com
Jehovah's Witness Is A Pedlar
"MINISTER'S
CARD"
In Westminster Abbey, but a persis- described as a pedlar's licence-
"IT was obvious that we incredible carton a startling this last seen upon the eve of the mar
I believe the Abbey ghost" was
ing
as he
I was discovered, not tent inquirer can generally learn with his wife, Anne of Den- something of the Inexplicable things by Judge Stewart, the chairman, mark, but lying side by side with occasionally seen by levelhended en- at the Conscientious Objectors Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, gineers and plumbers.
Tribunal, at Leeds..
The card was produced, by Thomas had to organise our own another occasion a startling glimpse defence," said the head warden, was seen of the last royal burial ine of the present King and Queen. Davies, aged 21, of Laisterdyke,
It was kneeling in a brown habit at Bradford. In view of the present situation in "because no outside person could the Abbey, the tomb of George II. Norway,
of much use to the Abbey. a huge black sarcophagus, the sides pared for the wedding next morn week as a potato washer, but was
He Bes with his queen Caroline, in the high altar, which was already
He said he formerly, carned 38s. a Agreement over Sweden, I
No one who does not know it of their coffins removed, sequire particular interest. Russian intimately could find his way directed just before his death, so parition, that the closed church was
He was such a solid-looking an now an ordained minister of Jeho-
ap vah's Witncases. advances into Bessarabla are inter- about; no fireman could find the
that their remains
ains might. be mingled
The Judge examined the card. preted widely in the Balkans as part hydrants, or make his way up
searched in the belief that some together,
· stranger might have been locked in.
"All that it means," he said, "is | mave to check Rome-Berlin Axis
Such dark, grim secrets of the But no one was discovered.
that the holder la a full-time ec- pressures in that region. While to the triforium, unless he was vaults of Westminster, so different Returning to ground level, we credited salesman of the International- Soviet leaders may have almed these familiar with the intricacies of from the splendid marble monuments found our way by torch flashes to Bible Students' Association, which is manoeuvres chiefy at Italy, they also the building.
In the church above, are always pre- the Crypt, where I saw an astonish Fun from London, served to build up a Russian bargain- "We know this wonderful seat in the mind of the Abbey au- ing sight.
"Legally the card takes the place. position vis-a-vis Germany,
thorities, who pray that, whatever. This mall stone chamber has -day
church inside out, and we are may happen to the Abbey, the dead single squat pillar of red sandstone, not ministers.
of & pedlar's licence: but pedlars are at any rate, the guarantee of Swedish neutrality: evidently does therefore, the right and proper may not be desecrated, not the solely with Berlin. Russia is people to defend it from air at Six firemen are on duty all night," sixteen ribs that support the floor of took, Davies replied, "You take the from the centre of which springs thé Asked what form the ordination reported a party to
to It and
party tack, that can become troublesome in many
I was told, "constantly patrolling the the Chapter House above. Vestments quarters should German interests in
As I walked round the Abbey, Abbey. Vergers, cholimen and others and altar frontals are kept here, stand and proacis the Gospel. You are ordained by Almighty God, not Ianw signs of war everywhere work a wardens' rola and are on MHE Vestments for the next: Davies was removed from the re- Sweden show signs
by man. There is no formality." Into com developing 1 "proiectorale
Most of the Important tombs I said that I should like to visit
duly round the clock."
day's services were carefully gister without qualification. sions have complained that Ger- have been sandbagged,
the Abbey after dark; so in the depth laid out, beautiful shimmering bro many's Norwegian thrust was taken The tomb of Edward the Con- of the black-out that night, I return- cades sown with threads of gold and Meelings, of members of Walsall without regard for Russian suscep- ubilties Apparently, Soviet diplo- fessor, erected, saya legend, on ed and was admitted. I was taken aliver, and next to them, on four Co-operative: Society have decided macy has decided to put a padlock a mound of earth brought from through the Jerusalem Chamber by kitchen chairs, were lold out with that conscientious objectors employed. on Baltic doors before another horse the Holy Land, is now invisible oak door, he led the way towards a belts, gum bools, gas-proof clothing, a guarantee, of reinstatement after a guidé with torch; opening a little military precision four fremen's kits: by the Society shall be dismissed with beneath its covering.
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