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UST 15, 1939.

NS OF AMERICA

waiting outside Thite House while bg the President.

¿cess as a movie is agreed that his rnational Press should not be thus an oppor- frankly, I heard present at the isted of the san his public speech Eden owes his ited States to the of the foremost hamberlain's po t to the United begun to doubt

fess, a little dis- ps I had expect- has been told so auty, the charm, w Orleans that pect too much. It city that I most I am glad that 1 here is much in

seeing; but I esire to go there buld always }

thern California. v Orleans as the absurd. New Or- ast like Paris in ike any

French

. The famous

Vieux Carre, is mt of Spain than is nothing else

baptised New an Paris" identi-

figment of the hall imagination compared New ause it has the place in which merry, because "night life," and

revelling

O.T.C. cadets at Calshot Inspected high speed launches and the pl- geon lofts. They heard a talk on training and use of the pigeons, and are shown watching while a pigeon is released during a demonstration.

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assures me that New Orleans ranks

only fourth of the

The Vieux Carre is the American cities the "night life" of New

home of

Orleans.

King's Theatre Bldg.

that

ins (so at least I

carnival season

that have any night life to speak of. Here, too, are all the famous The order of merit, according to him, restaurants of New Orleans is (1) New York, (2) Chicago, (3) Orleans cooking,

New ave long since San Francisco, (4) New Orleans.

But the carnival

and the "night

is is not in the

same

of which I had heard so much, is, in my opinion,

in nauseating special creole dishes, such as soft shelled crab, the less said the better. One exts much better in any Bur- gundy country town than in New

Orleans.

It is natural, that the architecture greatly overrated. It may have been of the Vieux Carre should

French in its origin, but it is so no aris. Moreover, has been said, more Spanish than be, as

longer. Like American Southern in such matters French in character, for it was rebuilt cooking in general, it is much too after the great fire of 1788, when New Greasy and complicated and abounds Orleans was under Spanish domilna-

mixtures. Of the tion. It is not great architecture, and nuch finer examples of the period are to be found in Paris and many other French towns. The dis- tinctive characteristic is given by the wrought-iron or cast-iron balconies In New Orleans I came up for the with their lace-work of vines, flowers, first time against the racial prejudice and fruits. These, above all, give the of the Southern States. Like all the old French Quarter its peculiar States on the south of the Mason- charm, but it is a melancholy charm. Dixon Line, Louisiana forbids by law The Vieux Carre is a dilapidated intermarriage wreck

between whites and greatness, now coloured people, but does not forbid inhabited principally by Italians and extramarital relations, with the in- coloured people. Royal Street, once evitable results. I saw some lovely lit- the most fashionable street in New tle coloured children, probably mes- Orleans, is now a street of shops, tizes or quadroons, during my strolls many of them kept y dealers in in the Vieux Carre and wished that 1 genuine, or much more often had a camera spurious, "antiques." I have rarely Coloured people are not allow even to photograph them. seen a larger collection of hideous to go into the railway stations by the ornaments than is to be seen in Royal same entrance. as the whites and the Street, New Orleans. The general segregated in railway trains impression that one gets

and from the other public conveyances. They may Vieux Carre is one not far removed not enter, a white restaurant or hotel. from squalor.

Reserviste

ed to house

been built.

of past

By George McManns

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The prejudice is almost universal I had a long discussion on the matter with the cabman who drove me' round the lake front incidentally, the Works Progress Administration is doing a wonderful piece of work in laying out a new district in the out- skirts of the city near Lake Font- chartrain. My cabman was a strong supporter of. President Roosevelt and distinctly Left in his tendencies, but

he declared that the Negroes were an inferior race who must be kept in their place, but at the same time kindly treated. He said that they were kindly -treated in Louisiana, and it is true, for instance, that lynching is unknown, in that State. He was, violently anti-Nazi, like most people in the United States, and I pointed out to him that the anti-Negro prejudice was as much a form of Hitler's “racism" as the anti-Semitic prejudice

that "Hitler had actually used it against the. United States in a recent speech. · He was not convinced.

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