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Which house in Britain
L
UTTRELL babies have
has been occupied
longest by
family?
been born in a great old house down in Somerset since 1376.
No more are likely to be born there, for the present owner, 62-year-old Mr Geoffroy F. Luttrell, hns just announced that he has Bold the house.
It is Dunster Castle, one ઘઉં the stately homes of England, which has been bought by a property com- pany for about half a mil lion pounds.
Throughout Britnin parti- cularly in the countryside be-
families yond the towns, the
which have occupled the same lovely homes for centuries aro still holding on to them.
KEPT
ONLY BY
GREAT SACRIFICE
Gerterally it is great wealth that enables them to withstand the pressure of taxation, which has caused the break-up of so many historic estates.
Sometimes it has only been by great sacrifco that the house
Dunvegan
porary eclipses of the Percy for- tunes, the North- umberland family has clung Alnwick Castle.
to
It was batter-
has been kept in the family, od almost to Here is tho story of some of ruins during the
them.
.
wars fought by
Edward IV., but
ESS than a month ago 1,300 the first Percy guests headed by Princess 10 become the
Margaret danced until the carly, Duke of North-
by SIDNEY RODIN
Glimla
hours of the morning in the umberland in 1766 vegan res _great_ballroom nt Arundel toring its former grondeur.
Castle.
Their hosts were the
and Duchess of Norfolk,
He repaired its 14 towers, Duke turned the keep into a mansion
For and ornamented the battlements
more than 000 years former with the figures of great Percy
Dukes of Norfolk have enter
tained there in like manner.
The castle itself is now mostly
warriors
Outwardly
a comparatively modern build mighty bastion.
Ing. but its oldest parts date a palace, back to the time of the Norman Invasion.
It wns still Д Inside it was
Alnwick became known bs
"the Windsor of the North."
Arundel
ome
When his
by
SYDNEY
SMITH
the Kerans touch
We are
which the
hus do.
SHANGHAI. "In spite of the British HREE THOUSAND Navy,
taking, lying Britons at the business British Government down, a blockade. end of Communist fury over clared legal the Amethyst éncape aro "Where is the backing from giving the Kerans touch to home we expected?" their determination to stay
on in captured Shanghai,
Dollar cost
"You
Above the akyscrapers of The American Talpau *- the Bund, which is Shanghai's piles:
British always business waterfront, the house believe in rolling with thin floga of British traders flut punch. That would cost an ter alongside the red flags of American Arm in Shanghai
Communist Military £25,000 a month today, Government.
In 1350 son died
he was said to be possessed ↑ of "Immense
estates. Includ-
ing Ingestre Hall.
the
"So far as we are concern- Whether or not the 3,000 ca Communist is a Com- Britons haul down their fans munist. But out here you and go home depends on two British think he is a Chinese. things: money and prestige. Okay. See what it costs you -and you asking for more dollars from us!”
The British Talpan again: "Go back to 1840. See what we've gone through in China in wars and anti-foreign risinga since then. Thila is just a squall. We'vo weathered worse. We can weather this."
It is costing the Sterling Aren inif a million pounds a month to stay on in Shanghai-to mala-
talu and slaff Idle factories, starved mills, anchored fleets
of tugs and lighters. miles of barren wharves and acres of empty warehouses.
There is little com- fort in blaming nil this on Chiang Kai- shck's alr and sen blockade,
since we Americans
and the
are daily blamed,
warned.
British business in Shanghai is worried by the strong suspl clon that America on
a high level is using that dollar argumen! to pull 119 out of
and treatened for Communist China with them. Instigating and facitly support. And feelings are growing ing the blockade.
little sharp.
There is no comfort in the The question of whether our realisation that
the crushing foga can continue to fly in new Communist
the Ameri- Janet taxes, Shanghal, despite totalling nearly £1 million a cans, is most likely to be set- In June the 34-year-old car alone, could
year on British
interests led by the Communist reac- sold 2,000
but acres,
still be paid
it ton to an indefinite blockade. the part was open. Ingestre Hall.
kept
RMADALE CASTLE, in the A Isle of Skye, is the ancient
stronghold of Macdonald of Macdonald. It is, as for centuries past, the home of the Macdonald
While the British are su willing to wait for the politi cal clouds and the blockade to breaks, the Americans are not.
Ready to go
elan, represented today by 40- The American year-old Lord Macdonald, who general, with ells himself the Mardounid of vision, says there Mucdonald.
out.
consulate Its natural pre- are exactly
not
Those reactions new ore to move factories out of Shang-
ni into North Chinh. by the new Manchurian trade Backed
pact with Russia, they plan to reorient their trade policy and concentrate on the de-
Noribern velopment of
and Central China productive re- sources.
П
1,554 American citizens left in If they can do this-and Shanghai. Armadale played an important { **
All but a handful develop Belf-sufficient inter-
duties
economy-then Shanghal Furt during the
are pre- nal rebellion of un esential
to wind Bonnie
sentenced to Prince Charlle.
pared flere
up and gel is commercially
death If that Is the Com- Flora Macdonald, the Highland
the British,
more munist Intention, then 12 heroine, was made prisoner. than 400 are ready to go, and makes sense of their polley
are mostly
where they are women and in Shanghai,
foreigners and The British and
the American bqueezing
maximum managing directors amount of foreign exchange of major firms in Shanghal- out of them by crippling daily get involved In an in- tuxation. creasing divergence of poliry to be satisfying which must the Communists,
In Skye is Dunvegan Castle, they another remarkable home,
It children.
le one of the oldest inhabited Talpans
houses in the British Isles.
When Sir Reginald Macleod ot MacLeod died in 1935 tho male line of the clan chieftain- ship, which had remained un-
alienating the
The prospect of trying liquidate the vast Brilish in-
to
Saya the British Talpan: terests in Shanghai on such a
Iur
the
broken since the 13th century, we were advised by the Brl basis makes it worth the costly
of waiting "squall" to pass.
came to an end.
His daughter, Flora, Mistress MacLeod of MacLeod, clected chlef.
Was
tish Ambassador
that essen- gamble tial staff should not run away. Now the Foreign Oflee seems
have started to
to hang
And
then-well, nover very good down our flags.
to the cont-tails of the US.
Department
China on
In Dunvegan State Castle hanga the policy. famous falry flag
of the clan.
It Is credited with
magic Dowers, 1 or legend says that when unfurled It magnised the MacLeods seven time: int the night of. their Enemies.
Once the flag was stolen by an English blacksmith. It was This duke planted more than was sentenced with his mother restored, but in the meantimo a million trees round it every to be burned at the stake for the MacLeods had to sell a lot
attempting to kill James V. of of their lands. year,
Scotland by polson or witch-
spent
on
His mother paid the penalty, but the son was pardoned, and his estate was restored to him.
TITLE THAT IS NOT NOW CLAIMED
After Henry I. died in 1135
widow married William The fourth duke, who died craft. D'Albini, a Norman adventurer. In 1803,
£250,000 With his bride went the "Honour beautifying the family home. of Arundel," with Its castle and 57,000 acres.
He Imported
of army Not long afterwards the pro- Italian craftsmen for the job. perty came by marriage to the Fitzalan family, from which the present Duke of Norfolk-the 16th-la descended..
an
FEARED THEY WOULD HAVE TO CLOSE
Both in 1922 and in 1039 two For centuries ownership of Duken of Northumberland, Arundel brought with it
an father and brother of the pre- earldom, but the
title is no
sent 35-year-old holder of the longer claimed.
title, feared they would have to It was once the only house in close the castle because of taxa-
England whose ownership auto- tion. Yet today matically conferred a peeroge.
Towards the сла of last century rentals from the Norfolk
Alnwick re-
annins the family seat.
U.S.
1
we were
at hauling
-(London Express Service)
Occupation Said Bungling Its
Job In Japan
AMONG the landed gentry are
scores of families who have MANY their ancestral ever deserted hearth.
By EARNEST HOBERECHT
!
lending pro- aspects of the Occupation, such as the education programme.ari western Japanese
being sadly neglected. think the Allies are muffing their big chance to bring Sir Hugh Stucley's heir lives about some really impor- OR centuries the family of sull at Affeton Castle, Hunts,
in Hazlerigg have lived in the where Studleys have been lords tant same house in Leicestershire. of the manor for more than 600 Japanese way of thinking.
This is Noseley Hall, which has relica of Cromwell di letters and pletures. ·
FOR
The Hazleriggs espoused the cause of the Parliamentarians during the Civil War and one of them commanded a regiment of culrassiers known as, "The Lobsters."
years.
SL
changes
the
The Japanese Cablact mem ber pointed out the following things na standing in the way of the Allied programme to re- educate Japan:
Tise situation was explained There are less than 200 profes- Edric Wolseley of by a member of the Japanese slonal US, educators in Japan, Wolseley Hail, Stafford, traces Cabinet, whe naturally does not fewer than enough to operato his lineage to 1281 when the want his name used because he the school system in a city the family were given their present likes his job and does not want size of Dallas, Texas, estate by the king for ridding to get in bad with Occupation Staffordshire of wolves.
manor
officials.
If the education people in Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters start- The Dymokes
"The big mistake being mado ed out to check on whether the of Scrivelsby, Lines, hava held the
now," he said, “is that nearly Japanese WETO obeying the alnce the time of the Domesday all the emphasis of the Occups- education directives, it would Some of the bedroomS THE Strathmere family con- Noseley have their own special in the King's Champion
at Book. The head of the family tion is being put on Japan's take 40 years to do the job be-
economic recovery. Too little in cause of the lack of personnel. tinue to reside when In year, and before the First World Scotland at Glamis Castle, ono door latch worked by a cord Standard Bearer.
being done to change the old War the family income
was of our most nuclent fortresses, home of the Strathmores since the 14th century.
ostates, brought in £280,000 a
sold to be £1,000 a day.
ECONOMIES FOR
DEATH DUTIES
beside the bed.
and
the
Japanese way of thinking. Too NOT ENOUGH BUILDINGS few changes have been brought THE CLAIM FOR You pull the cord, the latch
about in the school system, American emphasis on rises. arx, the door can
WINDSOR CASTLE where tomorrow's Japanese are economie programme prevents
being trained."
the construction of the neces- Sir John Lyon, founder of the opened from outside.
Captain Richard Scrope's
sary number of bulidings bo- family, who was Keeper of the The procESS is tovers to family, have held their property.
This member of the Cabinet enuse the materials are "noed- Yet there Wero severe Privy Seal to economies at Arundel In 1925 to Scotland in 1371, was granted of Civil War days, '*
Gen. ed" elsewhere. the King of close it. This was a precation In Danby-upon-Yore, Yorkshire, pointed out that even in tho
since the 14th century..
MacArthur's Headquarters make provision for death duties. the thanage of Glamla in
number of people concerned Japanese teachers are so un- The present owner of Noseley The Shirleys Inve held with they
"re-education" of the derpåld that it is impossible to in the second Baron Hazlerigg Ettington Park, Warwickshire, Japanese is small in comparison gat enough qualified Instructors. and the 14th baronet Most of in direct male line from 1000-solve Japan's economic problems. the same salary
with the number working to A teacher gets approximately his forefathers were M.Ps for 802 years.
a servant working in the home of Occupa- personnel and does not have the chance to eat - "left-
were
Forty of the servants sacked, including the butler, castle
and it was feared, the might have to be closed,
C-
the
What is the oldest great house
following year.
STEEPED IN HISTORY AND
LEGEND.
Leicestershire. But JI never. WIB.
SINCE 1170 the Earls of The The castle itself was begun in Norfolks are stla in residence. 1933, and is steeped in history Shrewsbury or thelr pre- Arundel Castle was once called and legend.
decessors have been in pos- n place "where
Here Macbeth. say the old session wealth
Ingestre of
Hall, cumulates and men die”
chroniclers, lived, and Malcolm Staffordshire, II was alain.
It is reputed to be haunted. ONE OF THE OLDEST BARONIAL FAMILIES
The present carl, who is the The present cari to Lond Henry de Percy in 1309, brother of the Queen, is the 15th twenty-first, and selon of one of of Wykeham for Edward III. From that Percy has spring to occupy Glamis. Here both the very oldest Boronial familles. “ the present Duke of
North the
Queen
and Princess His family were notable in tho It has always been a residence umberland-
Margaret were born,
reign of Edward III. when the of the reigning family. Onco Glamis was nearly lost hand, Sir Glibert Talbot, to the family, A Lont Glamis Lord Chamberlain.
-London Express' Bervice)
LNWICK CASTLE, ono A the great fortresses, guard
of The Old Pretender stayed there
in 1116.
ing Northern England, was sold
)
sleges,
Through 'wars and "through" "bohondings and fem
William I. on
tion AUTHORITIES DIFFER
DUS
"
in the continuous possession of Ho sald оло Bot of Mac- overs"? as sorvants do.
one family? Some claim it is Arthur's experts have ordered Windsor Castle.
the Japanesó to start an educa....
Although old text books were lional programme to "bring new thrown out, paper shortage has rapid replacement Ideas to Japan," but another set, prevented The castle was founddock with more power, will not let with proper toxte,
the site of on the Japaneso Government spend carlier. fortress, and was largely the money necessary to put this
MacArthur's. Headquarters the rebuilt and extended by William education into effect.
was slow to permit the pubilen. > lon of books from outside Some officials of
Mos- Japan. Arthur's Headquarters complain about the same thing. They say There has been insufficient privately that Japan's economia restraining of those teachers.who recovery, das top priority, and were not "purged."! - United
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