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Finest Capital Of All Will Rise From Ruins
London, like Topsy, just "growed." Is she too big? Should she be replanned and rebuilt in the golden, though tragic, opportunity created by the vandalism of the Huns? These questions were posed lately in an *admirable paper road before the Royal Society of Arts by Mr William
Honry Ansell, president of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
He is against butchering our By now you will have gained, some| sprawling London. The bomb-iden of the bomb damage
ing desceration, he finds, hus awakened public conscience to the shame of the blots and accretions of the pastdreary residential districts and slum areas and created a new sen- sitiveness to the beauty and great historical traditions of the Empire's capital.
Mr Ansell wants a vastly Improved old London, the finest London of them u in which there shall be reisined the finest architecturat treasures our fathers had left us, tinproved and passed on to posterity in the present unexampled oppor- tunity to do something.
Few of us have perhaps ever thought of the truism he underlines, that the bargee gazlag downstream on the Thames tide from Hammer-
square
mile around
In the St Paul's
Cathedral, Mr Ansell wants advan- tuge taken of the clearance effected. and restored to the proportions of the days before the 1006 fire, when
could have wide colonnaded pave- was a gay scene of fairs and marts.
ments along which matrons could shop in comfort and citizens prom- enade free of the rain.
He would have Cheapside widened
It
Improving "The City"
INVASION
REHEARSAL BROKEN
It is now disclosed that R.A.F. scouts discovered on From it, Londoners could watch September 16 last that the Ger- the Lord Mayor pass in state. from the Mansion House to the Guildhall, mans were holding a full-dress instead of the narrow alley connect-reliearsal of the invasion of ing Cheapside and the Guildhall, England." there should be a fine open plazza, and around St Paul's a clearance of wreckage
"Bombers and fighters and
to free the Cathedral from units of the British Navy," it its jostling neighbours and provide is stated in a review of the Close worthy of Wren's masterpiece.
He envisages the time when, south war, "caught the rehearsing smith to The Pool on a sunny sum of the churchyard, terraced gordens fleet some five miles from the mer day has the finest view of Lon- will drop down to an embankment, French coast, and dealt faith- don's matchless, changing panorama, extended beyond Blackfriars Bridge, fully with it.
Age Old Growing Pains so that a view of London's
glory, her Queen Elizabeth, in her day, de- creed a limit to new building in London. Then Mr Ansell records that George III. Axed Euston Rond and Park Lane as the boundary limits of the capital. In day the Town Planning Conference of 1910 advocate ed a great ring road going in and out of the nine mile radius from Charing Cross on an almost complete
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Looking At Realitics
To complain of the excessive growth of London, in his view, is akin
anes.
be obtained "According to unofficial reports from the transeptal steps of St Paul's, the fleet consisted mostly of barges, with the improvement of Cheapside, both automobile and towed. he sees a first step to the creation of
great boulevard continuing through a
"Penclicully all were destroyed,
Newgote-Street, Holborn and Ox-and many German troops were kill- ford Street, all of which have suffered or drowned.
some bomb damage to justify some rebuilding.
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R. A. F. Drops Bags Of Tea Over Holland
"By A Dutch. Correspondent
"WE dropped our bombs right on the target and then,
on the home, laid a "stick' of ten bags across Amsterdam."
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Behind that comment, made by a boyish, fair-haired pilot of a Welling ton bomber. Iles the story of one of the war's most unusual episodes, story is tickling the
that the oppressed but unconquerable Dutch, as much as it is infuriating their humourless German masters.
A short time ago the tea growers of the Netherlands East Indies hit
of
American Greetings
To R.A.F.
Writing from Chattanooga,
on a scheme for keeping up the spirits their compatriots in occupied Holland. They made up 75,000 muslin bags, put about an ounce of the finest East Indies tea into cach, Tennessee, before the passing attached Inbel to every bag and of the Lease-Lond Act, an handed the whole consignment over American woman sent the fol- to the Royal Air Force "for delivery."
"Delivery" has taken placef
"Will Rise Again"
lowing message to "The Bom- bers of the RAF." With the letter was a batch of U.S. news-
The label alone was calculated to arouse Nazi fury. Liberally splash-Paper cartoons with a marked ed with the forbidden orange colours, anti-Axis flavour.
"Greetings! I hope you will and it carried the slogan: "Holland will! rise again. Greetings from the Free these cartoons entertaining. I wish Netherlands East Indies. Keep your that Il Duce and der Fuchrer might
In the centre appeared glance at them. the orange-coloured flower emblem, "We in America hope for a British rest of Prince Bernhard's family, victory in the near future; the ma- the crest
Ten can still only reach Holland
After
"This affair was probably the basis band of very open country, beyondtions made by Mr Anseil for over- troops had tried to land in England This is only one of many sugges- of rumeurs at the time that German which a green belt five mlies wide coming the capital's traffic conges-and had been driven back from our could be permanently retained.
Beyond this,
tion problem. His policy, broadly, is, shores." satellite ten
towns, not! dormitory towns, each seven miles to have by-passes and ring roads to in diameter, set for ever
exclude traffic which bas no business in open
September 15 was the day when
The importance of the Suez Canal and Singapore for the country, would be possible. Alns for in the centre of the city.
our fighters smashed German air defence of Australia, and the fact that the war is the workers' the
dream!
Those who consider Londen heavily attacks and shot down 188 enemy Straggling building "over-churched"
war and one in which there are no non-combatants, were to the machines. development has so far over-run the
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stressed by the Australian Navy Minister, Mr W. M. Hughes, vision that a large, amount of the bomb damage of many historie edl
fices
The review in which the passages in a recent Australia-wide broadcast. as an opportunity to remove green belt acquired in more recent them to suburban sites will find no quoted are contained is written by
with Britain's consent, and the Batory of us want 'All Aid For Bri- car deliver l at will. The Dutch
my graduation in 1937, I upport from Mr Ansell. For the Mr. C. G. Grey, in the 1940 edition: "The opposing hosts are massirig; others, but for themselves, their were great tea-drinkers before their was fortunate enough to spend
homes, their liberties. country was invaded. Now, with the week in London. I think London is Mr Ansell would have immedinte most part, he says the towers and of "Jane's All the World's Aircraft." for the battle for Egypt and the lives, their legislation to set-up-a-Planning steeples are not seriously injured and The book remains the best stan- Suez Canal, without which Britain's The workers in Australian war in- coming of the Nazi "New Order," a wonderful old city, and it is hor-
can be Board for London, drawn from the can.
repaired.
dard reference on aircraft in the control of the Mediterranean would dustries, realising the extreme gravi--there is not an ounce of tea to be had rible that so much damage has been.
be gravely impaired," he cream of all the Individual
They are an essential part of the world.
sald.ty of our present situation, are in any shop. So the Dutch house-done to its beautiful buildings. To town
witc "Austraila is vitally concerned, for Next Attempt
out
and
Pauls, Buckingham Palace. cheerfully, London scene, whose skyline would
working magnificently, turning
gratefully, me St planning authorities; for, as he
points
the canal
awaited her ration is the gateway through ever-increasing quantities of equip-
from the skies! out, there can be no nibbling at quite be
Parliament buildings, Westminster dull thing without them. Taken
the Tower of London Anzac "The possibility of a German in which
Many on RAF 'plane which set Abbey and estimable local ameliorations or with way and set singly in
reinforcements for ment of all kinds. The switch over schemes dealing only withi traffe, uburbs, they would be lonely and vasion of England has by no means Egypt must pass, and through which from peace-time production to the put on a trip involving a flight over were fascinating.
needed for the defence of General Sir Alan Brooke the ships of the British Navy can things
Dutch territory carried a consignment forlorn. Their effect is dependent gone,"
"I would be very grateful to have regardless of the deeper roots of the only on their individual beauty (who directs the defence of the United most swiftly come to our aid it Aus-Australia has effectuste life of this Among the pilots were Canadians, ing and worthy adventures, if it is of tea bags In addition to bombs., some first hand news of your exelt- volution in the industrial life of this Australians, New Zealanders and men possible. but also on their grouping, each Kingdom) told Canadian staff officers tralia is attacked. deriving aesthetle, value from its in England recently.
"Suez on the one hard, and Singa- country,
trom most other parts of the Empire. "Best of luck-and God Bless neighbour.
pore on the other, are the outer battlements of Australia. As long as
Australian Arsenal
Waved Their Thanks
You." "Australia has become an arsenal. Most of this "tea-bombing" has Some first hand news of recent they stand the enemy will not ven-The capacity and energy of our in- been done at night but bags were R.A.F. successes has been sent to the ture to attack us.
dustrialists, the resourcefulness of
also dropped during daylight, and writer, also an assurance that, dos- "Everything we value, spiritual our technicians, the skill of our
one young
pliot
told me that on pite the fury of "der Frehrer" London and material, all that we have, all workmen, have worked wonders. that we hope to achieve in the future Australin is producing to-day equip several occasions he had seen Dutch- still stands, scarred but unbroken.
ave what were obvious thanks will be for ever lost unless we win ment of all kinds that, a year or two for the unexpected gift. this war.
ago, was regarded as far beyond her
The delivery of these bags of tea Judge Omitted “May A Mechanised War
became such a regular feature at "As Mr Ernest Bevin, leader of The worker In the factory is not some bomber stations that the men British labour, has said, "the war only necessary to the fighting man; of the R.A.F. coined their own wise- will be won in the workshop, factory he is himself a Oghting mon, an in- crack on the subject. Before leaving feld," This is o mechanised tegral part of the fighting forces, on a raid they first asked whether war; without adequate equipment we The man who makes the gun or the their machine was "bombed-up," then cannot hope for victory. Germany ammunition; the transport driver added with a grin, "Is she tea'd-up as has been able to conquer or cow the who carries it to the shipside; the well?" greater part of Europe only because wharf labourer who puts it in the Blo had more
that car- aeroplanes, tanks, hold; the saltor in the ship
cars and otherries it-all these are fighters. meclianised
sed equipment than had the They are. soldiers of Australia, doing their bit to defend their coun- "The Germans, like the gangsters try, and they must carry on just like of American have got the drop on the soldier in the front line. In this the civilised world. Nation after ne-war there are no non-combatants. and would hand back to the workers of artificial insemination-im- They claim an outstanding success tlon, crushed or terrorised by the Every man, and every woman, too.
his two-year-old step- who would KO 10
new planned re-pregnation of the mother with for what they term a new triumph (rent of overwhelming forces, has bas to do his or her slinre in defend allegedly electrified the high- Freschi told them sternly that their sidential blocks near the factories, out intimacy-is revealed in n of modern medicine."
tamely submitted.
opened its gates ing the country. This is the people's daughter and applied shocks to her Eccentric actions "didn't fool any-
body." and surrendered its stronghokla to war, six to nixty 10-hour days now lost recent issue of the New York
The one chubby little body, recently was
Espositos kliled Alfred J. Doctors are careful to select donors the German hordes as they press on, or another arm of the services. And sentenced to six months in the House Klausmars when he resisted a holdup, each year in travel between home Stato Journal of Medicine by from the stock to see it spanch with vast numbers of tanka and air-upon the spirit that animates those of Correction for assault and battery and in the ensuing clase killed a and factory in Londɗn.
Access To Thames
engaged in producing equipment, on the child. Wenzler's comment on policemar, and wounded three, by- two New York physicians, Dr For instance, if the husband is Latin, craft, to further conquests,
"This is the workers war. They food and other essentials, the armed the testimony was: "I did it for fun standers. They were sentenced to be But it was in his plans for "open-Frances Seymour and Dr Alfred then a Latin donor is chosen:
and not for torture."!
executed in Sing Sing prison Ing out" London that Mr Ansell was Koerner,
Anglo-Saxon, the donor selected is are called upon to fight, not "for forces are absolutely dependent." most interesting. He fastened upon
{'Anglo-Saxon.
"I don't believe.Ilitler had planned to scolding his youthful garments retain Wren's steepics, demands Mr (or 1040," he added, instead of providing him with new Ansell. He would make the chur- "The next attempt will probably
It may be that London is not
hes and warehouses of the future be by sea-borne and air-borne troops. big enough in Go far as its super-all steel and concrete, with stone or It is known that he has large num- Acial area is concerned. He beg brick facing: They must be reflection
it will menn resistant,
fire-bers of the latter, and that he has on what it in tribute to the spirit of democracy
been working on gliders." for which we are affirmedly fighting. we tackle the complete abolition of conditians and the creation of slum
Interesting dwellings for the
hekers.
America Now Has 10,000 "Test Tube" Babies.
and
Here he raises the question of in- dustrial and commercial evacuation from London prompted, for reasons of safety and continuity, in the early days of the war and suggests the Nearly 10,000 test tube or synthetic children, each with possibility of their permanent reten- out a father in the accepted sense, have been born in the tion in the country with the addition United States recently, it was revealed recently. of many more which would be nearer their sources of raw
This
production of are only used in procedure as con-nations she had subdued. Their removal would leave space laboratory
children, totalling tainers. for the better planning to come,
Medical Triumph would take traffic from the streets, 9,238 boys and girls, the result
materials,
mass
About one third of these children,
a blemish potent to all Colonials with who are now bringing happiness into - memories "of their own free-front
rivers, that the interest and romance previously childless homes, are the
of the Port of London are hidden sons and daughters of men not their from the view of its citizens,
Not only is access to the Thomes Impossible in Central London, but
her 20 miles of overbend railways
mothers' husbands,
Transfers
This method makes it possible for
bachelor girl to have a baby with out physical contact with a
man, but no ethical doctor would be party to such a practice.
The method used is quite simpla.].
'to the south have strangled South-It involves the transfer of mala life wark Cathedral and 'doomed Indus- cells from the actual father to the trial building to most uninspired prospective mother by artificial opportunism).
means. Landon, he says, must decido The baby is then conceived and whether the riverside industry of this born like any other child. ared along the south bank shall, with Speelal donors, men of perfect
News Observer
Lost On Hood
Lt Bernard Stubbs,, R.N.V.R., # its wharves and barges, be sent physical health and outstanding in- former news observer on the stair downstream to make room for lord-tellectual attainment, were chosen of the B.B.C., was among the officers fer Government, elvic and
cammer-
the doctors. One man, who is
посила wed to none of the mothers, is the who went down in HMS. Hood.
cial
by ad
He was 32.
The great mud bank visiblb at low father of 13 children in 13 separate itide could be reclaimed to make a homes. Each of the women wanted to joined the B.D.C. In 1835 after great" embankment road inconspicua boby, but none could get it in the a short journalistic career, Brit” as aus behind which could be lagoons conventional way because of her special correspondert in East Africa for barges so that there would be no husband's sterility.
for the "Statesman”, of Calcutta, and room for the complate that the con-| Doctora stress the point, that the afterwards on the staff of the "York- veniences of commerce had been bables are not of course" really hire Post.” He joined the RN.VI. neglected.
syntheile, and test tubes or bottles when war broke out,
Runs,
annoured
range.
All
Are Aghters in
mer wave
God Have Mercy"
NEW YORK, July 11 (UP)—Judge John J. Freschi omitted the customary "May God Have Mercy on Your Soul in sentencing the "Mad-Dog" Esposito brothers—Anthony and William-to die in the electric chair for the mur der of a victim in a Fifth Avecuo haiduo
last -January. The brothers, accused by
the state of felgding Insanity during their trial, drooled, rocked on their heels and spat on BOSTON, Francis Wenzler, 27, the floor as sentence was pronounced.
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