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FROM GERMANY COMES REPORT NO, 1 BY REPORTER NO. 1
BRITAIN IS MAKING
A FOOL OF HERSELF
By REBECCA WEST
HAVE spent three weeks travelling in Germany, pleased and proud because I am British, and the achievement of the British and their Allies in Ger many is superb. I have now come to a full stop in the town of Dusseldorf, where, on the contrary, Great Britain is making a fool of herself, and I do not like it at all.
Occupation of
By our country, we and the Americans and, in their own pecuflar but got Inellective way, the French, Jiave worked a
iniracle.
hare raised the dead.
We
I was in Cermony three years ago. It was then inhabited by ghosts who
about
shuffled
among the rubble and had no hope
Now
people,
Germons
ore
nozni living a
normal life. Their cities are still heaps of rubble. This is not due to indolence or Inefficiency. The rubble Is left where it is cause it is crushed and used for buliding purposes and is 'trans. ported directly to the sites where it needed.
be-
doubt the They
But beyond - nil
people are
Sourishing.
of living are
and all
can live their lives now,
the means round
THE WRITER
Rebecca West was named the World's Best Reporter
the United States Women's
National Fress 1947; she recently the
112
WAA
awarded
CBE. Her most outstanding re- ports were the Witam Joyce trial, the Royal wedding, the Nuremberg trials, the Greenville lynching trial.
would be angelic they did sisted the entrance of the dis- not) the value of what is being mantling destroyed,
The Future of England's Old Houses Hangs in the Balanco
What It Costs
To Keep
Keep Up A 'Stately Home'
E
By Bernard
Harris
The charge now is the the same as it was in 1800-18
ACH week brings news
of, one
more of "atately homes of Eng- a head. land" coming into the mur- ket.
'I have been discussing
Seventeen hundred visitors at 18. a head pro-
the problems of maintaining duce £85 a year. these grand old, houses with an owner who
That is only a drop towards concerned to preserve his place..
is deeply the cost of maintaining the home as a home.
Π
He is the Marquess of
"If the house were owned by Exeter, whose family, the probable loss of several thou- company i would show a elder branch of the Cecils, sands a year,” Lord Exoter said. has lived at House, Stamford,
Burghley The owner can keep it in the since it was
Lincs, family only by drawing on the built in the income from la estates. days of Queen Elizabeth,
Goering wanted it. Documenta Germany disclose that Her- captured in mann Goering intended the house for his own use after the war,
It has 145 rooms, and stands in a park seven miles round.
and magnificent avenues of There is a mile-long lake. chestnuts, Ilmes, and oaks.
Now for some of the more
+
its Innorucuness, inst the use of force.
Kings, are threaten
But the rame Military Government gave Gelzenberg Benzin Company) a one of these factorles licence to spend seventeen mil-prosaic details.
(this
lon
marks-yes, one three hundred
million factory which they are now go-fabric would decay, and its
thousand pounds-on buliding up
Burghley has to be kept in to send, dismantling. Rangs treasures would be ruined.
the warm. If it were not, its to pull down.
Warming it cost than £500 last year.
and the amount of unemploy ment which will be caused by the destruction. I also think it Is carried on with an unbecom- ing uppishnets, and no sense at all of benefits receiveti,
Nevertheless, the dismantling of these works is bound to have certain regrettable conse- quencer
The are large nud Beautiful factories and an in- dustrini
population feels
the
same emotion when a good fue-
Raving lunacy
This is raving lunacy. The Military have
Government
no explanation to
The
more
long stone-flagged give corridors and rooms have to
tory is deliberately distroyed as the plous when a church is of this astounding performance he carpeted, and the wear burned by the heathen. hore- except to say that when
aver, whatever unemployment dismantling, a
to
the
dismantl
who
the degree
of firm spent these seventeen mil-and tear by visitors caused by
the on marks it had been warned come in their hundreds to German has only that its works were on the list seg the house is consider to hear the word unemploymen
fall
into a panic.
of those subject to the There are more than a mi Ilon unemployed in the Wes- tern Zone already, and money inad is short.
ity process. wel have
But the Arm mighable. Military Government would ha "We
thought that
по
he
Though Lord Exeter does not Nike the word, Burghley is, in effect, subsidised" by hi the national benent,
for
Owns 27,000 acres
about 27,000 acres-including a Lord Exeter owns altogether considerable part of the town of Stamford-and farms between 4,000 and 5,000 neres himself.
But, of course, the Town and Country Planning Act is mak-
"subsidising" a huge house. taled proprietors to Ing it vastly more difficult for continue Plumbing is another costly such as Burghtcy. item In the upkeep of a house
When I was built there was
dotted round the place. no piped water. Lond Exeter's great-grandfather pat first bathroom.
In the Now there are ten of the
The roof is ef lead. As Lord Exeter says, it would be better if it were copper.
ceiling when the Italian artist
Rain damage
As I numired 'an
Lord Exeter remarked Vernio painted years he worked at
Unl "
slight patch of deterioration.
during the 12 Burghley.
That's the fain," he com mented, "The trouble
with
just can't obtain this sort of roof is to find out
we where it gets in. It may
It
enough, at a time when enough carpet, and, if In dismantling the factories building labour, and
there was an acute shortage of could, the cost would boards and yards away." nt this late date, the Govern- to give a licence for such work Exeter, as she showed mu orainary folk realise to ment are pumping up trouble.
material, prohibitive," said unless their name was to
Unbelievable
But this is not the real factor In the
situation which makes the visitor feel that somebody them. There are plenty harl suffered damage during the ht to be put across the elec of shops open now, full. goods. Their kitchen ware
of war at the hands of the Ger- snacked. Listen now, and try
knee terate's
and soundly and with an eye to security,
llevable, They were to include phnis 1930, which could therefore be founded anxi developed
The after
and
be
be
Lady als money to find out. It costs far more money thun
.
The
and
the Grialing Gibbona carvings, keep leather-bound books, the pictures in good condition.
Two small palelings had just been
returned
Biter ала
deaning
taken off the list. And indeed round the house. that was not a wild bet on sport'or chance. the works on, the original list
One-fifth of Only 1s. charge has been exempted.
In an average year 1,700 Fot over The
consequences of
this visitors come to see Burgh- mistake are not going to beley, though the house is not
quickly or lightly. In a tourist district. trouble in the Ruhr, we should
It has been open on three would remember that the initial mis-days a week for at least 150 many, but in London. take was
Ger-years; now two days only because of the shortage of staff.
their china are far more varied mans, as a form of reparations 10 belleve comothing hardly be- When we read in the papers of
and attractive then ours.
re-
war effort, from which it
not
a
was
The restoration of this popii lation from utter misery to workaday happiness is the counted as part of the special sult of a collaboration between British and American money. British and American and French
fair that the Germans derivo a post-war com- advantage, and plants
uld mercial
substances which would make it to wage
Industrious, and of German-which produced Implements or
Comradeship, but.. casy for Germany
another war.
Government
Military are now enforcing the diamanti ing process, and, becauso workmen of four factories
C.V.R.
the re-
made not in
-London Express Service}
Thompson Reports
The American Scene
Bald.
NEW YORK.
for
When I got to the city of But the Allies Diiseldorf, the administrative mined to be fair. They thor
were deter- centre of the North Rhineland- ford took their Umo in prepar- Westphalia district which con- ing careful lists, which tains the complex of industrial the Germans a chance to sit uPE TROUBLE
CAYC and mining towns known as the forget how lucky they were to Ruhr 1 found some officials be alive, and to develop a sense
with Ameri- HOLLYWOOD HAS received dangerous Icons. who were so much in love with of grievance,
a demand from the Italian threat that
than Any Dr Mildred Actors' Guild that Hollywood against us," said he
foreign Horton, president of Wellesley, must star one their work that their talk of
What was even
could be atrayed had the colour of a ballad.
worse, the Allies revised these America's top women's college, an
It should Italian actor is help his chances of being the 1sts and exempted Arms when
is that, they are living in an age
American-made fim It had been their task to set just cause was shown. This was of fear "fear of
every American star who makes
Republican candidate in 1052. the coal mines
the atain a film of the Ruhr just but not expedient, for it bom, fear of the Russians, fear coal industry is thinking of ap- Irish golf is improving, working again at the end of the introduced an element
In Italy. The U.S. of un-of other groups to which we do pointing a permanent, impartial war, when the
were certainty. Every company whose not belong, fear of Socialism, arbitrator as a means of stop mines anbotaged, there were only
plant was on the list nourished Communism, quarter of the miners needed hope that It would be taken every other ism."
Capitalism,
and ping the annual strike threat and all labour was weak
invention for American los from John L. Lewis, the miners lack of food.
saloons -beer glasses with magallying
ons lender. bottoms through which to watch TV
for off.
The British officials bact brought two things out of this experience, the
sense of hav- ing met.a 1remendous chal lenge, and a deep feeling of comradeship with the Ruhr workers.
Dus-
is
guts-
The petrol story.
江
one off to
says Willie Turnes, Ame-
Thirty-five pounds the two.
revarnishing. The cost? On that basis some of
the larger pictures and there similar treatment.
aro more than 500 in Burghley
cost £200 vach
Elizabeth's room
for
The bedroom-Queen Elizabeth occupied in Burghley in its original state,
romaine
But as you admire the rich velvet hangings of the ancient bed and the elaborately worked fabric on the chairs, you won- der how successivo generations have managed to keep the moth at bay.
That again is a question of money and continual attention.
Before the war Burghley needed an indoor staff of 21.
Today
there is only a mini-
mum of staff, and to save work Lord and Lady Exeter have
the meat kitchens, moved the few rooms they re- serve for their own use teorer
not of
be
rican amateur champion, home heuses like Burghley are from England. What he consi-maintained
As Lady Exeter emphasises. ders
"for reasona -moro important Is, that selfish pride or convenience." British golfers are getting over Their their inferiority complex....nancially much better off it
owners would Cinemas in the US. will soon they moved out,
cost
Aware of danger
on
In the Ruhr, the dismantling rising ore Belgium and Luxem making aircraft. William Dubi- feature-length Alm. To save Only countries whose BRITISH KNOW-HOW may be selling a half-crown. candy dollar cales to the U.S. are soon change U.S. methods of bar guaranteed to last out a prices (which, by the way, te carried out with great gusio by burg. German contractors with all
one of America's German labour) has now laid DREW PEARSON, Washington business-meni-inventors, has re- ment is sending out buy-anv-the struggle will
top- money, the Treasury Depart- Yet the atmosphero in
its finger on some Birms which
How long they can continue commentator, under fire for simple little British-made tool dressed. But the postmen leave polley,
turned from seldorf today is the nastiest I carried on a process which it the attacks he has made on which he calls revolutionary. It bundles of them (which
Britain with ings-certificates appeals unad-largely
depend very have yet encountered. It
would be quite natural to pro-
futuro taxation: looded with resentment,
hibit in Germany, the manufac-
Washington bigwigs, has lost his weids metals without hent and, much more than radio sponsor picion, fear and shame.
ture of synthetic petrol.
A Massa- in Mr Dubiller's opinion, would saves) anywhere they deliver
the Treasury is awake to the danger.
Fortunately the Government chusetts Judge, Joseph Warner, cut plane-building costs by 20 mall. This is due to the latest phase of what is known as the "dis- work on what is known as the recess from 10 am to 4 pm.
Nine plants are involved: six in fature will continue without Washington with his find.
ruled that all cases he tries percent.
It has set up a Treasury Ho has mantling"
committee, with policy,
Sir sound Fischer-Tropsch system, three Sald he: "Eating lunch makes
Ernest enough
Gowers as chairman, to consider Iden which has gone on what is known as the Ber people food addicts. Two meals UDER has been given to Advertising clients
PADIO companies have started what can be done.. wrong.
"t was sellled at Potsdam and I fear, make news.
glus system. These names will, a day are enough..... Guinness's
an economy wave. Reason:pected in three months. It is The committee's report is ex- At 2.30, 5.30.ast as recent as April of this Cermian propaganda which is brew stout for the American tish, if necessary, to force od shops....Latest Loy to sult
by subsequent agreements, the
are falling Now, I do not believe all the outside New York, and will soon ton, to get tough with the Bri- more frequently outside shutter.
have
bought a brewery just plan ambassador, anys Washing way."To Let" signs appea
Averell Harriman, Marshall off and TV is not yet paying its 7.30 & 9.30year, that certain German fac poured out
P.M.
concerning should be dismantled' works. I think that the Ger- just as good as, any browed in General Elsenhowòr ́came out certain altitude, relenses, a cargo can never be replaced.
these market. They promise it will be devaluation of the - £.” -.. countries which mena
One the umesa kite which, at o they Ireland,
against Socialism today. "More of "ying saucers."
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