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WHAT IS THE COUNCIL?
BRITISH
A
:
spende
CERTAIN amount of which was renewed in 1046 for an- hent in generated periodí. „other five years. cally when the finances wartime Adjutant-General to the Its chalen is Sir Ronald Adam, of the British Council are dis- Forees: # has a staff of some 3,000; cussed. People say: "Is it and
some £2,500,000 to worth while wasting our money £3,000,000 of public
money every in this way?" or "Who and year. building bridge of know- what is this British Council ledge and understanding between
Britain and the outside world, anyway?"
Yet its work is known to but a Let us try to discover the minute proportion of the taxpayers" replies to these queries,
who pay for it, and some of these Take the second point first. The few misunderstand it. More offen British Council, strictly speaking, is thôn not, It in confitsed with the not an official Cavernment depart- various official information services ment. Although
It appears na and activities of Press Attaches In the Foreign Omee abroad, and there is an impression major item budget, derives the majority of it
Britain елп
nfford In funds from an Exchequer Grant-in-austerity days. Ald, and its expenditure is subject
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(liese
to criticism by the House of Com- Contrary to the Government's pro- NONS, 11x netivities
carried paganda agencies, the Connell is con- out far the most part by unofficial cerned only with educational, cultural representatives, and the Government and sefertifle work, and no one who the ay, whether Labour or Con- as resided or served abroad would rervative, makes no attempt
to consider to activities elective or impons partisan polities or philoso- luxury. phfeal durfeines on it.
Turals and truingeaience
Divorced From Politics
Pot the Courell can rightly claim
Bled it entirely divored from polatım atat tramitcy theories, and Its representatives are wetensued “au Counters where sur pleron might be aroused because of
LM
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Many scholarships have been granted by the. Council to students from Hongkong and China to study in Bri- Of the Boyd-Neel orchestra, press tain. Just lately ZBW
ecment remarked: Prople whɔ
ught of Britalt as a down received a gift of over ru nation living a deenty poverty- and 500 records from the
stricken life, sat up in some sur- prise on discovering that it could But better an orchestra at the top of
its class in the work." still
In Warsaw, they had 12 curtain- calls on the opening night; in Oalo, 1,000 people
queued all night for the box office 10 open, while Prague Opera House was crowded at every performance,
same source.
many people are unsure of the aims and activities of the Coun- cil. This article answers some of these queries.
By SYDNEY
REDWOOD
Also, ment
hely, at up to World War the Porch held the cultural lead a freeigh opinion, with the consider- le moral and material advantage ring from it.
2
encour-
Add another Australian
paper. dheassing the general netivities of the Counell, remarked: "It is doing more to gain goodwill, to dissipate prejudice, and
spread under- standing of the spirit and genius of a nutan than whole planeloads of weary politicians who flt from con- ference to conference."
that too
To set the criticum
mich
23-135
tich effort is concentrated on the highbrows and on the capitals of foreign countries, the Council
widening the rough
contrarts lucational movements and with study groups in smaller towns. It is is
influence work-
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
BRITAI MUST GO
Van Gogh keeps 'em queueing to the end
BY JOHN MACADAM
We
Tthe past century, Britain has Such official financial backing of rained a wide remutation in the in- sinofilcial enterprise may appear to dustetal and Anancial spheres. Our
London, Jan. 13. yet aufher of those anomalies military prestiste in high. But it 19
NE af tr More remarkable Co offen, found in
public life. And in our
fet that our actions have generally
phenomena of the English sport- JWL. far from liging m Blogcal be
aries to enabl Short-term bur- abroad, misunderstood
giving every
trades unionists. Ing scene will be observable to. foreigners to Jeara artisaus ว compromily, it is this combination, hits esnically misrepresentert, with America; by
apprentices in visit morrow for the art time-the battle it does adequate reulting Inferntional friction.
fellows and of Britain with Culture, ni actam, other nations lably France, have dish, today the chief international Britain to meet their
by granting Manuelal study conditions of work in our By way of being a bit el in Culture which is the serget of the Council's inely oubliere their achieve language:
the branches
And its youth camps in Kat ourselves, we lined up outside and are to Bedich relooks abroad; thetoris, ort ant tin Strength and Litecos
f 1914-17 we attended by over 1,100 the Tate Gallery, Milbank, London. suitable and lerings Copper BUTTON
foreign universities and schools; you people (com 21 different prveisety
oclerk yesterday on ten curities, runnlag courses for instructors, pro-
morning, and fourut ilius
a queue of up or Gaelliffe for
to 1,000 already knocking on the prometur overscus Aidenta
Work In Wartime rates of enlightenment. unversities and industrial
Three of them to whor Brantants coutrem by distributing UEN the war brought to Peltali's addressed ourselves affably: "Di Droits. Blen documentaries, sheet
shores so many Alted eylee-
o Hite Vicent Van Gogh?" said: music and recordings: through the men, peamen and civilians, the Coun-
"Wha and
corrected thheation of cultural and scientile ell ander sportunity, To help
You Go." Pronunciations diflesaures in the respective perfons H
[NTH, the Council was formed, no magazinen; by bedding; exhibitions in Bon to get to
to know and understand
From Van GoЛ. Van Go. bel perament,
read effet had been made to tell many ports of the world, and by us, 23
offices and entres were
Guft. Van Go, and simply
One kaus Alainally established in 1904, The
the world that the British way u pewarising:
distinguished oprited throughout the United King-dolescent Creatale) said "Vinsang." o far Ipath des nebemenet in lecturer. thentre companies Ded dom; and Hiti: Court is run by an excurs
Council The
also co- orehestras.
affectionately. at band bergs in coutages it.. tive committee of 30 numbers, of A
operated with over 300 clubs and Natable sponsored tours of late setches for non-British people. belligerency metane, 14 whean wine are numinated by Go-
an war, or to eng lain the evolution have been the Sadler's Wells Ballet VOGTRICT Peroptipents. Mieler!
of our patem of government and to Sendisvia, Poland, Czechoslova Taip lined to perrons of clis- tactions in there aspects of national de aver the pand 10 centuries, kin and Befisum: an exhibition of Yet al Pondy by removing the modern British art in Scandinavia: the Coupe is ron- with which the
boeriers of cullut isolation that our Bov-Neel Orchestra in Austra adhdition, there art
be better appreciated a (where the Old Vie Compony will Poganit fees,
mintives understood. And soon, be and perindeak. drama, the subay, due largely
to the interest of fate and a collection Gallery palulints It nine sel, muric, the humantess and the qualities which enabled Britain
Zuropean Keene, on which the leading brains
to stand alone in 1940, never has the John
British Way Of Life
puestion cal
26
1 ten-thirty. 18 werp in the middle of what looked like a mile- long queso, ant moving slowly for-
11
Our worl 400,000 visite
at your to
to the Council ward, inch at a time. Ten-thirty- Stove Liverpul aut Cardiff Ave. a Rolts arrived, deparitert alone, many of them being seamen
farge lady who looked at the crowd who in this past had seen little of rough a lernette. She sild, Britain fond the dockside, Well "Oh dah!" got back in and drove
affultureless. Dominion zoldiers Dun 1 for
ottonwlout
leave
STAMPEDE Universities and elsewhere on sub-
POOPAUS H
This promised to turn mit onc
in the dieres give their expert vorbel heen te wager to learn about Actris troll. Athur 1tles, Sr prets tanging from Scattish duration of the big days in Brilish art, and
WH
This nepuntiation, which ofrerally brungurated al Janus's Pabure in July 1933, was incor- porated in a Royal Charter in 1940.
Britain
capitals
Hoult, Sir Madcoln Sargent at St. Andrew's and medical research ned Constant Lambert have been The Connell works chiefly through meant our leading
in Belford to the training of milk- 53 Institutes aurert over the Middle appene abroad.
Devon. anteau and Morfiterraneon enuntries,
The Pallet's four in particular 10 Anglophil Bocantine la Latin was a triumph.
Darinks Immunity Points To
Conductors to
NEW THEORY OF DISEASE
T
172411
By
A. LAWRENCE
to
WO
se drunk. the alber solver, fall Hown- stairs. The drunk is hy, lihtly, bruised, the other has to be taken away in an am- Bagley Two hauled cars cofliste, and the only person Who evenpet serious injury is a
ranken passenger in one of brain, enn als he brought under this theory. They say that the
hem.
Doctors have long been bailled by this phenomenon, which happens to oftes to be ascribed to esineidener. while guardian angels would hardly akte much sprind care of inchrutes?
One theory in that a state muscular relaxation produces partial interunity to injurg, It is pointed ut that children and animals share with drunks the ability to "fall soft" but escape damage.
Epilepsy, a ribere of the contraj nervous system which turks the
וי ננו
by
at a moment we antielunter the arrival of pudded-shouldered gents selling sunflower favours. These Intel The Council also came closely into not unterialised by the time we
were rushed into the Tate touch with La Pules in Scotland, stamvetle of schoolboys just before The Canes in Liverpool, Belgian si- hes holt, m the West, Muist in com
leven. munities in South Wales and New- foundtralers in the Highlands,
The Council Toutes
Tyne. Mersey and Cycles have been maintamed: another has been opened in Bristol: they have become a re- cognized part in the cities' life.
If the outside culturists were an orderly crocodile, thege inside worked on the Twickenham prin- ple Children were in the pro-
•tion of tou for nine adult,
One, playing tag among the crowd. was asked why he had come.
was look." he said, and wove his way off into the game.
Another said: 'Eent in ear off, di'l e?"
Cultural Leadership How was this mane effected" Clastic explanation of disease a DRITAIN today has lost her pre- its cure is that the berly rearts by pondereal postion in the world of about 135,000 people, trad
When the doors 'glorer last night mobil list its protective forces combal the microbes, It was be finances and industry. But she has exhibition: the triat
seen the Hoved that without these reactions.
a unique opportunity of assuming to be 140.000.
total I likely the feare would develop unham-and holding a position of moral and anything that has happened in Lan- This probably beats peredd.
cultural leadership. Though much don since the Great Exhibition. ground remains to be covered before The exhibition Soviet scientists have discarded the
closes tomorrow, sition can be fitted, the British Glinow for
iguraner about her true
next goes to Birmingham...tund,
three weeks cach, Council, by underking our artistic then back to Holland. treasurehouse and enabling thu Many of the strangely vitalisert whole world to share in it, is play-crowd inside didn't care about that. ing an important part towards the They took the majestic colour away e realisation of this aim.
with them.
“control”by" andesthesia.”
Russian researchers
induced body's reaction to microbes is not epilepsy in 20 cals
a defence against disease, but the and bloga be intretinut them with deadly doses of
disease itself. camphor it and bile. Violent te followed, and in all cases the animals died.
Nervous tension. on the other hand, caused bones to break and organs to suffer as a result of neei- 20 dents.
So
If there is no reaction to lisse microbes, the person aliaeket would be well and normal. All the trmable is caused by the body's reaction. | Where there is no reaction, there is no lisense.
In other words the reaction is not a protection against the disease, but the disease itself!
Then similar infections were given to a number of animals unter an aseethetic. They showed not the slightest signs of the disease. that the train
At the same time it, way observe! cells of the dead animals were noticeably damaged.
the endlats stopped the epileptir process in a cat, after the These reactions are produced and eighteenth ft. by administering in directed by the central nervous anaesthelle.
Cat was unconscious system, the benin, And when the for three and
balt hours, then brain is asleep, the reaction fails to awakened showing no signs of the occur and disease is prevented. disease. It was killed and not the IT'S Just
the liferetice between slightest trace of brain cell destrue- dropping an electric light globe tion by epilepsy could be found. aut a piece of elastic, One happens
So the scientists enbeluded that anaesthesia not only prevented ls, but also enabled the brain cells to return to normal after partial des truction.
to be relaxed.
Soviet scientists are now expense menting with this theory, taken to its logical conclusion: If the partial relaxation of alcohol produren partial immunity to injury; they say, what
"
BY THE WAY
by Beachcomber
Woxeter Pulle
WHEN I was Manager of the following passage of a letter to Dr. Baths. Smart-Allick of Narkover throws
Jigbl mind.
The Captain's state of which. I may say, we ran at # loss by changing the water twice
So keep your fingers crossed, day except on Sundays, and the bird ta ahost in the net, and by having expensive sham rocks um being the sun of discretion and made for the deep end-when retretubility. Black market butter COVIET zientists are now explor-I was in this enviable position
cheese ether simply knock me out, but I a Philatelie is of mites. Beanty and wealth to- can honestly say that I would marry her if she were the ugliest woman on earth, Pey told her that I don't tour her for her beauty alone-
in further possities of their wa used discovery. In future, a ma nearing Rally in the Theatre Royal, to
to hold death from paisming will, the re-raise funds. searchers prediet. be put to sleep with ether. When he awakes he The
alemory of all
this came will be cured, for the poison will back to me while I was reading have abandoned his body and the boul the great Stamp Jamboree,
will be the effect of the total reksa TS anaesthesia equally effective on usual reaction will have been pre-Gala and Tombola at present gone
tion of annesthesia?
hagital
vented.
she is a full of money na a well only at melt in my mouth.
"That will fade.
on with trur Islington fervour and Her. point of view total disregard of the improprieties. Those hitherto unknown aspects of] As that fat collector, Mr.
Vita's state of mind may be seen Aunt Sybil.
His condities anaesthesia lead to another possibi- Spence, said to one in the Fourpenny in this passage from a letter to her
humans? Experiments now going The test the idea they conthicted on indicate that the answer is yes. a number of experiments on ents of A sailor was brought the Leningrad Naval Medical Aca- with serious burns deman
Shock of cleaning and its which at first sight seems fan-Turkish pavillion at Crinzing in critical. was A lethal dose of potassium cyanide, freating the raw flesh might easily tastic.
I'm sure that he will not 1934. When a man and a woman continue to lead a wild life when he one of the deadliest of poisons, werd have proved fatal.
Say if the central nervous system meet at a Philatelie Congress. sex has a derent home, and I notice given to two oops of cats, one" A naval doctor put the patient to could be relaxed suflelenity to pre-hides its ugly head." normal and awake, the other asleep sleep and successfully
already algus that he can be normal completed vent the body from producing શ with anaesthesia.
and sensible when he wants to. His point of view. treatment, Then, to prevent shock, dieense reaction, but not to the point) The normal group' died instantly, he kept him under anaesthesia for of
What people take for cult in him is rendering the person Uneon-
WORKING on the modern prinesibly only irresponsible but those under the anesthelle suf- several days. Result: a satisfactory reious?
ciple that the best way to get spirits. fered no ill effects!
recovery,
It seems that such a person would rid of a persistent admirer is to When I told him that he said: "Cali ile has never grown up. Their nervous systems had been An eight-year-old. stir] had the be totally immone to illness and marry him, Vita Brevis does really me: Peter Pan." He certainly seems "dendened" so that the body was beginning of tetanus--an almost in many kinds of accidents-probably seen to be contemplating this step. to have a good deal of money, and unable to react, the poison was neu- curable and usually fatal disease. at some cust to his powers of The couple are seen together every if we could get Mvadlalt back into tratised and had been exuded fron. She was treated for eight days rational thought.
where. and Foulenough the body by the time the animals, under partial anaesthesla--with com-.
hot toned the family, it would be marvellous. Would YOU think the price too himself down a bit, and carbed his Naturally, I let him go on thinking came out of their artificial sleep.. plete success.
High?
outrageous sease of humour. The that I am wealthy.
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