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PEACE IN OUR TIME

Important changes seem to be taking place in the Fleet Street zone. Dinner is withdrawing it- self from that once fairly festive part, not because of the lack of pence "that vexes men of letters” but because of its increased pros- perity and shorter hours, which drive its "executives" west.

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That cavernous railway taurant `under Ludgate Hill Sta- tion, near to the "Times" office, with a rather bleak intimidating look which its monumental Ger- man terra-cotta grill that loomed up at the end of the room like a cathedral altar did not dispel, closed its doors on its few but faithful diners after three-quar- ters of a century's service. Dic

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Hong Kong, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 1939. kens was said to have been

early patron and to have written a paper on it. Stupendous news- paper proprietors in their humble days had there learnt their first steps in culinary culture. That Little as Signor Gayda and did not save it. Now it is only his superiors may care for the a memory of rather good fish thought, no country has done salads and semi-scholarly talk. more than France to explore the Sahara and inquire into its pos- sible resources. Once it was by Heroes of the Table no means so arid as it is to-day (Herodotus and even the Rom

Then the Falstaff Restaurant. ..1 in Fleet Street, that elderly jóur- ans knew it as a much more nalists remember as "Sweetings," hospitable expanse than it has shut up its restaurant floors. In since become), and, though the its rooms editor after editor had eaten and drunk through the Vic- dream of restored fertility on torian era. George Augustus any vast scale not likely to be Sala was one of its oyster pat- occasion did fulfilled, for many years French rons. People on

themselves very well there. The engineers have been working manager fells of one party of six minor miracles of reconditioning concerned with the "religious by the systematic sinking of press" (as the Sunday newspapers are called in the "Street") that artesian wells. And where the used to lunch once a week on a well succeeds, palm grove and "carpet-bag", which orchard flourish and the popula-gantuan steak slit from the side tion increases. But even aridity with two dozen oysters inserted, and seldom did this merry six has its opportunities, and it is foot a bill for less than £10. another type of French expert, Such men could keep a place Dr. Malachowsky in the Presse going. They had died out and Medicale," who now proposes to their sons preferred® other

travagances. Then the run a scheme of "soundless rest trade began to vanish. Moneyed cures" in the Sahara. He himself, men went west for dinner and it appears, spent a month there smaller men took to milk bars. with much silence and success;nch alone.

Big restaurants cannot live by "As 1938 closed the sand itself is sterile and asep-there came the devastating news tic, and there is a high magnesium to Fleet Street that Anderson's content in the water of certain Hotel, the last and oldest and most local of all its hostels, is Saharan wells.

complete doomed. peace and quiet (for those who will accept that boon) is the great thing about the Saharan prescrip- tion; the rest is silence. And so charmed is Dr. Malachowsky by

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rest that he is organising special try some time this year. Did not Lord Baldwin in 1935 lay it medical' tours comprising "a down almost as axiomatic that a month in the desert" for an all-in Government must not wait for its charge of 12,500 francs. Tired of fifth year? He even quoted Mac- Alexandria and the temptations aulay in support of the doctrine, Macaulay having said that “a of town life, into somewhat simi- wise Minister will always resign lar deserts did the early Christian a year before the end of the anchorites retreat; their succes-legal term." Macaulay; as far as sors, are promised still more sand one remembers, did not give any reasons for thinking so. I. 'in- but the same old

ame old silence and its teresting too is the fact that Mr. healing absence of hubbub. The Chamberlain has never accepted the Macaulay Baldwin theory and storm rolls over Abyssinia on one would not hesitate to carry on side and Tunisia on the other until 1940''If he thought it but, as with the tempests of na- would sult him better.