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A New House Rises. From The Ruins
0
By EDWIN ROTH
LONDON, plans were made to build a new, unique intimate character of N the morning of May House of Commons on the site the House of Commbra,
On a platform supported by 11, 1940 while London of the one destroyed by the
Luftwaffe.
scaffolding high above the 1 watched wood. Maybe it was his vow of de- chamber was smouldering after
Baishing its fiercest air raid of the fiance taken on that May morn- workers.
but the 'war, Winston Churchill Ing nine years are, which made touches to the magnificent old
Winston Churchill insist that roof. stood in the blasted and the new House of Commons More than 75 tons of nak burnt-out shell of the House should be rebuilt in its original were used for the celling, with
hundreds of | Intricate - of Commons. Ho looked Gothic style. There was much. Its
carvings and cornices. Most of: around the smoking ruins controversy on this point.
Most members agreed that the ceiling is taken up by 100 of what had been the Dabat-
oak-framed lighting_ only Gothie architecture would separate
19 ing-Chamber for more than at into the frame-work of the pancle, each measuring 18 by
100. years.
Gothie Palace of Westminster light will shine into the Cham- inches, through which ulfused” Yet many would have favoured Ho stood there for many an ultra-modern functionalist ber minutes, grinding his stick into bullding with seats for all memed colour used in the old Cham Instead of the dark varnish the charred wreckage, gazing at bers, plain streamlined architee ber the new roof is a natural
the scene where so much his fure and no frills.... .tary had been made. Then he turned to an official standing behind him.
grey: The wood was first spray. - ed with preserving.
and then lightly.
then given a light, cont of clear:
"This chamber must be ro Ur Winston Churchill had his sheline and finally brushed bullt here just as it was he way and Sir Giles Scott, the down with wirewool to give a said. "Meanwhile, we shall not world's leading exponent of dull grey effect. All this was lose a single day's debute Gothic architecture, was com done in workshops before the Through this."
new sections were missioned to design the
re taken to the chamber. Britain's House of Commons House.
Putting the roof on the House nover lost a day's work "First we shape our buildings
Is 60-year-old Francis Fetcher, shopo through the destruction of its and then our bulldings home. But even during Uie war us," said Mr Churchill in 1943 the joinery foreman. He has when plans for the new House been a joiner all his life, and were debated.
regards this job as the climax The foundation stone for the of his career. Near the pile of. now house was laid in 1947. huge maps on bis work bench. Every Today, after more than two les a thick notebook.
day he writes into it about his
They Call It Hush-Hush
Railway
UFFING their way along 850 miles of single-line track, out in Portuguese West Africa ar British-owned” rail-
CONCO
The profits
of copper, and the world-wide demand for it, traffics have sonred In the last few year
years of concentrated work,
two thirds of the new flouse work.
has been built and when the.
King opens Parliament in 1950
the members take possession of their new home.
"T a special log I keep for I have just spent a day my grandson," he told me, the £1,250,000 building, which, cld John, take a lot of interest shape "Colla who's 13 and nine-year- watching 230 workers according to Mr Churchill, will in the new House. So every
ot British are huge...y 1947 600,000 Last Parlamentarians. Climbing over doing, who curica up here to
By Benguela's profits shape generations
down what are
and look around, and what £840,000, partly finished staircases
they year they reached
ducking under scaffolding. And Tanganyika Concessions rental' over the new building sny. When the work is over
went got: £300,000 in dividends..
bring my grandsons in to which covers 1,700 square yards show them the finished job be
is taken
the load is
way trains. They are carrying the most Military Power hush-hush freight, in the world.
They link the small township of Dilolo, by ALEXANDER THOMSON just inside the Belgian Congo, with the West African port of Lobito..
the log."
the now
T].
Dividends, however, are likely right in the centre of the eight- fore the Scaffolding to stay small. The railway has acre Palace and by Big Ben, down and then I'll give them. a lot to spend on new rolling the world-famous clock tower. stock, And in 82 years' time it
In the basement below the Chamber where large offices for must be handed over tree to the
Cabinet Ministers and MP's are Portuguese Government,
TN the large square-débating being built, found notices Today its 050 miles of British chamber pneumatic drills Polish. Though most of But on the Brussels Stock owned track-running across make an
nolso workers car-spuiturug
building the Exchange that share holding has Portugueso territory, and doing, where Honourable Members will House are Britons, 48 Poles are
the sita working on worth of more than £14,000,000. must be earning more money, multiplied in valuo to today's a carrying job for the Belgland debats in a year's time.
Though still a forest of steel labourers. They are men who
with Britala in fought is for size, than any other
the scaffolding,
Chamber Uraniura
the When
rallway Wod
cactically
sht Polish army during the completed Light Anished in 1929 Robert Williamsallway in the world.
largo and streams in through. 00
they have chequered and baret kada big disappointment. Yu,
adventurous historice. How much of its present-day | Gothic: plain glass windows there WRE Beldom
Gida
Take Jan, for example. His Hood fortune is dus to carrying above the two
galleries. at first,
urauium? AGA ‚ ' :
On either side of the Chamber full name cannot be given, for enough traffic to keep it busy.
In 1930 the profit was only That hush-hush job makes tour high steps run along its his family are still in Poland, On them will though he has not heard from £14,000. Between 1938 and this a secret, too. All its entire lenguackbenches of Gus them for four yours. 1946 profts averaged little mare officials will tell you is: "Just than £140,000
tiny cocktail along with a nice, Chamber will have seats for nly 346 out of the 640 mem- Then, suddenly, prosperity long drink,"
the bera and thum: -preserva With the high price
size
They bring down to the sea That left the field clear for the the uranium ores dug up in eiginne, who got to Katang the Congo's Katanga coun-rst and found the copper they try, where half the world's were looking for.
tams long afterwards. supply now comes from.
Under a wartime pact But Britain had a part in the which will end next year, Belgian discovery. Working all the uraniumi ore the with the Belgians was a 37ycat
old mining ploneer from Aber- Congo now produces goes to the giant atomic plants in After the copper find in
rnment and Opposition. The deen named Robert WILLERTS. the US. Recently, high-level talks have been going on in Katanga, he helped the Belgians Washing on to settle what to form their Union Miniere, In 1008. In return, his own will happen then..
Tanganyika Concessions, Lich," still an active City company,
?
got a 40 percent stake in the new venture, putting £1,500,000 into it.
Britain. It is said, has been.claiming a half-share under an old agreement et aside in the
when war, uranium became the key to atom power.
Dividends
2
ODAY Union Minlere is A Belgian copper cont. money-spinner, with riches pany, Union Miniero du coming mainly from its copper Haut-Katanga, Owns the mines. Last year it paid out more than 23,000,000 in die Congo mine producing these vidends. all-important uranium ores.
worth more than £14,000, Q00.
Trom the Williama believed Union Minieśw
came,
C.V.R.
(London, Express Service),
stand the
Thompson Reports The American Scene
NEW YORK.
the
war,
TE is fair-haired, good-looking.
H and only 25 years old.
In
ho
and
the
1030, when the Germans occu- pled his home town of Rovne, he was at school. Four years later the Russiana came, Joined, the Russian army was taken prisoner by Germans. From his prison-camp. de- he was taken to French fences for forced labour.
After D-Day-ho escapert across the American lines and joined the Polish army then
With an election coming up FOR HER first homecoming in fighting under General Anders three years, million-dollar in Italy. Now he helps build THE Senator from Maine she has resigned her job.. She T
homas Princess Igor Troubet Britain's House of Commons.
(the has set out to become is going to have a baby.
skay
former
Though the actual building Barbara America's President. ·ONLY
NLY sure defence, against the futton) did not trouble to put of the House is almost finished the cream-coloured walls are What makes that unustal. atom bomb, warned Sumner on new clothes.
still-
bare and the floors un- Atomus of America's first, Robert is that the Senator from Piko,
โท a fow weeks THE ALHAMBRA In it British investors have
She was too ill to buy a new covered.
to At the a 16 percent stake, now would be a great company, SoMaine is a woman, Mrs Energy Commission, is to be
on a visit to some place else.. wardrobe or
even to find a workers will begin
furnishings. They will cover he looked ahead, and planned Margaret Chano Smith. when it goes off.".
home. To inquiries about the floors with Australian wal u railway.
health, she replied: "I feel very nut wood, panel the walls In the best political tradition:
*J12 of returning dollar badly, thank you."
the Chamber and the offices, Two Cily men sit on Its board The shortest route to the son Mrs Smith started the boom for tourists to and out what im
the green cas of directors-02-year-old Mr from the new Katanga mincs, he heraf by disclaiming her per-
Request to newsmen-Please put in pressed them
abroad most Maurice Hely-Hutchinson, Irishaw, was to cut a railway line sonal ambitions Mod
brought this reply from student refute the myth that, my bad benches for the Members
it in the furniture presented by my dieting. | M Guardsman of World War L. uerors Portuguese West Africa.
Sald che: "I am definitely not Virginia Strong, of Florida: health 's due to
monwealth) Others will lay on I haven't dieted the electric light, furnish
tho the world, and But she made it clear that she
and kitchens, dining rooms bars and install a telephone ex- But it was 21 years before the is in a fighting mood to get the all they have suffered,
don't gripe. I was also
change with 127 lines and 900 Sometimes
line was finished. And the cust Job for a woman,
pressed by the comeback
extensions. of those 850 miles of single-lino Elisabethville, out in the Bel-track worked out at £8,000,0L woman in 1952," she said, "will
"The party which nominates a Winston Churchili.” glan Congo. But wherever they get together, there is one thing
win the election."
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and silver-haired. Mr. Godfrey Hy got Portugal to agree, and in a fighting mood for myself." "The choerfulness of the British That has followed me all over many parts of the British Com
Hutchinson. Ten other board started work in 1908. men are Belgiana."
Sometimes they.
Brussela.
meetin in
+
im-
people. Despite austerity they since I was 20,"
critics
gave of BROADWAY'S
mixed reviews to "Under Capricorn the first Britisif Alm
Williams formed a company to they
#oldom talk about: do the job. Though the Britisi
And, In spite of herURRIERS In New York are to have its world crush Bin trying to suppress imitation New York's Radio City musie uranium.
ut up the money, he made it claimer, she has already begun mink-rabbit treated by chemi hall How much uranium ore is a Portuguese company.
Good The New York Dally Ho a nation-wide campaign to get cals under a new process which turned out by their mine, and called it ine Benguela Hallway. herself considered. She has wears better than the real thing Mirror calls it "a distinguished what the US pays for it, are City Investors pro
provided between
daily newspaper and is hardly distinguishable picture, loaded with entertain secrets known only to a few. £5,000,000 and 20,000,000. started
published columin
ali over Imitation mink coats would cost ment and thrillingly suspense
around £100.". America The accident
Willams
Targanyiko Concessions found the rest.ja
a
Tribune
recon- Gothic cathedral, pel
THE most nearly completed. part of the, building. Is the beautifu Members lobby, Just outs de the Chamber. With its arched windows, Innumerable stone-carvings and Gothic-Latin Inscriptions
around the walls it, She accepts every possible DUBLICITY expert William FairThe Herald.
looks like the
In a In all the building years, the speaking engagement, In Wash- P. Goodwin announced re-sal itchcock has BUT for a hunting accident, 50 now rallway was a heavy drainington she is soulding every op- cently that he had se structed the conventioncenters There I found 68-year-old years ago, Union Miniere's on Tanganyika - Concessions portunity to prove herself a £7,500-a-year contract to "sell" manners of early 19th century Ted Forrester carving Tudor mines might have been wholly bank account.
stateswoman.
America on, Nationalist China Australia. to great effect.
dow Asareses, thistles and other British. Two exploring partice
But the men in American How he is doing it--buying past master of melodramas he signs into the cream stane. A politics insisted that America is dinners for Congressmen and has stumbled. He may be re few feet away from him pocu- not ready yet for a woman pending them bunches of roses membered for this piece of matic drills roared away, but At 2.30, 5.20, hended by a young explores. RADUALLY its stake in the President
fully in 'much the same way ur соррет company,>"N To belittle her boom they GOLD instead of paper dollars on, but only for snatches Ted worked slowly and care- stone-carvers did conturies ago. case of Mrs would be used in America of it Rhodes man. The other w
was later to become so vital 28 a pointed to the
Poor The New York: Sun Heaped by his sida were inorn n Belgian
'uraniumi; producer woll, lobert McCatley, the Republi- under
to, can's most promising woman nounced by the National Asso- comments: "Nearly two hours of than 200 chisels and gaures of Grey was killed by a lion and dwindled from 40 per cent
cole" tedious conversatiorí."
(Continued on Pago, 5), strategist.
clation of Manufacturers, his friends called off the trip. the present 10 percent
went out esarching for copper- 40% to 16% (Katnije to le richly in the
country,"
MAJESTIC 7.20 -9.30: George Crey, who was a Cecil Life Congo
pa
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