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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1947. I

BLUEPRINT FOR THE NEW BRITAIN

The Town Planning Measure

Britain's reconstruction plans hinge on Industrial develop ment. Until the national economy-first the busfc inches- tries such as coal and steel and then the finishing industrien is

fully reconstituted And streamlined, the full national UNION OF EUROPE reconstruction plan cannot be completed. At the same time. Mr. Churchill pursues with the great principle of Britain's characteristic tenacity the concep- planning an she enters the sec- ond half of the twentieth cen- of the United States of

tury is that the pinns are mule Europe which he launched, r

ather revived (for it has an-into serve the people. However his casential it is to restore and mensely long pedigree) in

expand industring wealth, this sprech at Zurich last September will be in vain if it stops there, Kreently he gathered represents- If it is simply a mens to a tives of all parties and professions end, and the end Is to create

tion

at the Albeit Hall to join in ad richer and more dignifest vocating a British organisations to life for the great muss of the It is further de conception. In theory, people in these islands, but least, it is an logical and at this fact, and the corollary that tractive that the most weptical the goal must be achieved with- could not wish to be deprived of freedom, which gives the pre

I framework of democratie any chaner of learning exactly

aent phase of the development what it means and how it could of Britain its peculiar and his

toric importance.

earried into practice There is moreover, a grandeur in the fact that a great war leader should

devote

so much of his energy after victory to planning a tem ule of peace and there is con- idetable practical therit in tind ing a cause which transcends parti san comiderations.

its

it

Untiring Scrutiny

GRETTON

market

effect of raising the By DR. GEORGE

value of hottaen with immediate possession to an Inflated extent. The publle is being protected against having to pay inflated prices of this kind.

arising out of changeft utilisa tion of the land-the so-called

This clause is only one of compensation and betterment, The proportion of land which 400 ainendments giving the Bill is to be requisitioned or com- its fut shapes. Its import- Į pulsurily required by pubtle nuance lies in the balanced fair- ucas to the individual on one thorities will be quite small,

atnic on the other, Main problems in this respret side, the

from the

reveala. mise

compulsory which it

It typifies change of the use to which the the qualities which make this or in a ban on blueprint for the new Britain and is put,

That is to say, only one of the historie exam- change of use. if land is being farmed the ples of democratie planning. authorities may decide that it must fo on being farmed which would incrense its value. in this case, the owner may be

Gasperi

compenanteil for loss or poten- Success

In Sight

tia loss. At the same time. another owner may flad that his land can be developed in

value. some way which increases ils An obvious example is

where a whole new satellite town may be built on agricul- Attrat land of fairly low value. In this case, the plan provides for "betterment" being levied on the fortunate owner-

the

the

Rume, May 24. Premier Alckle de Gosperi Tenday moved cautiously toward formation of his fourth govern- ment and won the support of! The Communists and Italy's figure proposed is 80 per cent. three grand old men of politics While the basic industries are

To non his programme for a union being reorganised, the British of the increased voltë.

certain extent these fwa ap of all parties to replace Government la presising for

porile developments will cancel tri-party coalition. ward with a no leser fundament -

De Gamperi's conference with at aspect of planning. During each other out and the authori-I

them will be able to meet rom- party leaders centred on the last week the Town and Caun-

Habilities ut1 of camutry's economic and finan- try Planning Bill was being pensation

Since, how} einl crisis and his insistence on hammered on the tough anvil betterment ussela, carmittags

the government including of parliamentary into its final legislative form.

parties willing to cooperate. This BB has behind it a long history of hard thinking and untiring scrutiny. It began to

present shape beyond take its

It may well be that the eng mon miseries of Europeser pro- bound and so menacing--will act as an urge towards union between

component States.

may well be that the British Common wealth and also other States with interests extending Egnage will prove a bridge be Iween the existing Continents! unisins and the new one now pro-

who

ult

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

COPE, 1947 9:ŁA

скалка

/-18

"I think the labour situation may be tooklag up. J. G.-08 I came in this morning, one of the employees sutu hello!"

The

Of

Luxury The Ancients

from J. L. Hays.

Jericho, Saturday

hat, like most Arab buildings. it was never completed-for in A complete picture of then corner of one room, complete At the end of nine meetings civilised luxury enjoyed by the except for the roof, lies a heap he still had met no opposition, Omayyad princes, the Arab of tiles still waiting for the

from conquerors of Syria and Pales. builders. but carefully refrained even hinting that he expected tine

The original name of the a quick succes.

A.D., has been laid bare after house in unknown bat · it lả

ever, the balance cannot possi- by be exact for the country as a whole, and since a certain amount of land wilt in any case! be acquired by the authorities,

in the Eighth Century after a special fund of $300,000,000 enrmarked to finance the

publication of the brilliant U- is watt report on the control of operation. the use of land as long ago as 1912. The time has not been

too long. for the creation of a comprehensive framework for the rebuilding of Britain is put only ʼn vast and complex task in itself, but raises intricate legal problems closely affecting)

De Gasperi won declarations ten seasons' digging in the known locally as Khirbet Mof- of support from the elder Jordan Valley by the Palestine jer, the Ruin of the Spring. Its Market Values

Atatcamer. Victor Emmanuel

water supply comes by age- Department of Antiquities. Orlando and Francesco Nitti.

For months a great country duct from a spring nearly two Previously. It was proposel In addition. Invance Bonomi house of twelve centuries ago miles away,

basis of compensa- gave, his full to take go

on the 1939 value of the pfpnew de Gasperi Cabinet.

has been gradually emerging perty, with certain exceptions. The Communist chief, since the value of real estate mire Togliatti, said aftor

support to

situation

any

from heaps of debris, a palace

Pal- complete with water and drain- The site is one mile north of hage systems, hot and cold Jericho and attention was first

and "me- even a "game preserve.

posed. Grave indeed would the responsibility of any sought to deny s beneficent possibility or to denounce its ad- Coney as a selfish move-though, Mr. Churchill observed with studious moderation, Soviet Russia the. rights of innumerable in has risen greatly owing to the meeting with de Gasperi that baths, a fountain, two mosques, called to Ita possibilities when general rise in prices and in- they exchanged views on the a monumental gateway, and local builders began houtin curiously carved, stones from creased building costs, this reonomic

to settle the pro- The latest and most import- the debris. Guvernment, therefore,umend- blems," undoubtedly including ant excavation is a magnificent provision has been criticised. thods eft the plan to make

The Omayyad Caliphs and current the Christian Democrat leader's market values the basis of com- plans for a government with a swimming-pool. It

zymnasium complete with their viceroys ruling in Dom- has elu; ascus and Jerusalem ware Be- pensation. At the same time) wider bane.-United Preas.

borate mosaic floors-the finest douin and, like true sons of the in the public interest the new:

and best preserved yet clause is qualified by the condi-

dia desert, disliked living in crowd- covered tion that the theais will not

in Palestine and ed disease-ridden cities. So London. May 24. painted plaster statues. One they lived as much as possible well-informed apply

is in that doing both ose things..dividuals. Perhaps if the organison now to be formed succeeds in defining the conception more charly, na- the tional suspicions, of which Russian attitude is only our exam- ple, might in time be hilled.

say

Some day somhgune mult what posers the United Europe [entity would possess, what sur

renders of national sovereignty Fare involved, and how the idea would work in practice. No stones should be cast at it in ad- vance. It is intended-to make the United States of Europe one of the constituent elements of the United Nations. There is no rivalry here, but only a desire to nuk the task of the greater or- ganisation, easier. The more the United Nations organisation dis. appoints, the more necessary it breumes to search for something which, even on a regional basis, will keep alive that idea of brotherhood and co-operation which the United Nations was intended to secure. The good wishes of all who refuse to con template a relapse into national antagonist must go out to Mr. Churchill in these earliest stages of a gallant venture.

British

It would be simple for the state to expropriate the while national land--as has no occa sion been done, lesa demo cratic governments. But this is foreign to the whole British political and social purpose. It would mean abandonment of one of the two essential plilārs

A to property which has of British reconstruction-free-}

undue scarcity value. Owing source said today that Britain of the floors la an alcove ad- in surrounding deserts, first in dom and organisation. There to the cessation of building dur- had spent nearly £2,500,000 joining the gymnasium and de- black goat-hair tents but later fore,

ing the war, and to the im- since March 31 on the Greek Pieta in masterly style two in permanent buildings. A

gazelles grazing beneath a there were few, if any, crafts- troversial sides of the Town mense war damage by enemy armed foreta while waiting for

is

tree. and Country Planning Bill

pomegranate

Another men among the Arab con- action estimated at some the United States to appro-

600,000,000-there is an acute printe funds to take over the shows a lion attacking a gazelle, querors they employed the local The workmanship generally architects and workmen who housing shortage which has the burden.-United Press.

Postcnser realism and a sugges had bullt the churches of tion of landscape painting re. Byzantine Syria. Thus a typi miniscent of the wall mosaics | cal Byzantino character attaches in the Omayyad Mosque at' to all Omayyad buildings. Damascus.

one of the more e-

assessment of compensation for values lost by individuals in the process of redrawing the map; of Britain. It may seem restricted objective compared with the wider scope of the Bill-the design of great towns, the re-aiting of whole Industries, distribution of ind between farming, housing, pob- lie amenities and factories, and

new

RO on. But it is of grent

psychological and political im-

portance.

Financial Burden Technical dificulties revolve round the allocation of the nnncial burden of reconstruc- tion and assessment of com- pensation for changes in value

100 Years Americans Meet Ago Today English Music

(From the flex of the China Mail, May 26, 1847).

New York, May 25. The little-known musle of two famed English composers, lienry Purcell and Fredrick Delius, fins been made available in America

series of

There is growing conviction here and also in England that though the tariff with China negotiated by Sir Henry Pottinger is nominally moderate, still Government managea to exact heavy contributions from foreign trade through the inland customs house. In point of fact, an excise

s laid upon imports going into velation of its first appearancej consumption and exports

here on Columbia recorda," The farmed through certain parties recordings were made by Albert in contravention of the treaty of Sammons, the violinist, with Mul. Pekin,

...It is hoped that the mat-colm Sergeant

with the production of new gramophone records.

"Why do movie people, bother the to have mood music written for their new films," writes frving Kolodin in the New York Sun, "when the Della violin concerto is avaliable in the principal re-

ar

conducting the

ter will engage the attention of Liverpool Philharmonic.

H.M. Plenipotentiary. The people

The New York Sun.article sald

of England are disappointed with "there la Iniţial attraction in the result of opening the trade of China-and not without cause are they disappointed, as for the last three years the losses have been

enormous.................

C. MARKWICK will sell by Publie auction this day at 11 .m. at his Bale Rooms. Queen's Road aquantity of White Blankets,

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By Shepard Barclay

"The Authority on Authorities"

The Hves led by this firat line of Arab rulers (one of whom, Abd al Malik, built the The statues, of men wearing Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem garments resembling modern in 691 AD on the site of the bathing-trunks, and women, Jewish Temple) are now being nude to the waist, clad in flaw reconstructed at Khirbet Mefjer ing skirts, represent a highly and in the Jerusalem Muscum. which a long series

of slight unorthodox phase of Islamic The century during which they gains means the difference be

art. They are, by no menna flourished was the heyday of tween- a winning and

losing formal or stylized, but vividly Arab rule and civilisation in Some of the most successful player.

This South's reason for not reallatie.

The women dancers Syria and Palestine.--Special. rubber, bridge players have de- veloped important phases of their doubling was that he was vulner- are shown performing with im well-rounded game through fes-able. In this case, though, that menar gusto a sort of "rumba" sons learned in duplicate tourna fact should have been an extra suggesting the dancing, giria in ments, One of the most funda- reason for doubling. It increased modern oriental cabarets mental 3s that it seldom pays to the chance that North had fairly Egypt.

LEARN FROM DUPLICATE

West if he went to 2-Spades.

In

BRITISH CLAIMS

Belgrade, May 30

to the other fellows play a con- substantial cards, since a vulner- From a letter, written in tract of one in a suit, especially able North would have require! Cufle script in ink when a single suit has been bid more to overcali at the range of sherd, addressed to Caliph delegation arrived in Belgrade

on a pot- Three members of a British... by alle opponent and then passed two than a not-vulnerable one. Hisham (724-743 by his partner. If the next player. If South had doubled, you can

A.D.), reyesterday to negotiate with Yogo. whose Bass would close the bid-see that he would have profited, covered from the debris the slav authorities on the settlement, ding, has a hand of close, in aver- either through Nerth bidding and house is thought to belong to of British property claims. age strength, with fair length in making 2-Clubs or, by setting his reign. One of his predeces Chief of tho delegation me or two other salts, it isdaily will pay film to keep it open wilk a double. This gives his partner A businows the option between pass and a minimum call of No Trumps or any other sult.

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that Vulnerable). Delius wrote Into the first section, "Both, Sammons and Sargeant do their work well and the or chestra in excellent.Asscciated Press

A BRIGADIER'S FAREWELL

New York, May 23.

Pana 23

Under No. 1 sequence is the bidding that actually occurred on more or less damaged by BCA The following "personal" ad. this rubber deal. West made his water; second hand Wearing vertisement appeared recently in contract on the head, lasing thre Apparol; Patant fover Hunting the Statesman, New

tricks in diamonds and ono, each Delhi: the other suite. South's pass of Watches by Just & Co., London; "Brigadier Cane leaving for the the 1-Epade was very bad bridge. suspenders, injecting apparatus United Kindom, desires to thank No duplicate player of acumen pontardi; Now Black: Bilk

his, British and Indian friends for would ever have done that, we ha Jinnderchiefs in jhfaena;' Spy-gluas Walking Sticks Dark Brandy: any kindnesses. To further de knows the value of chiseling for Blacking in Tini; Crookery and sires that his enemies should not possible margins. The same prin Glass-wszap Gonlay and variety indulge install thinking Deciples appir, with dil variations,

Born, Caliph Walid, is known Patrick. D. Mulholland, former to have built a similar palace chief representative of the United of which there are fragment- Kingdom Commercial Corporation ary remains on the shores of | fn' the Middle East. What should a player have in Lake Tiberfasse

The other members are Charles his own hand, in addition to its

Little imagination is requir- Fletcher Cooke, legal adviser and aces and kings, to Justify hi making a Blackwood or Culbert-ed to visualise the palace as it Reginald C. Dunn, financial and convention" bid of 4-No was during its heyday. The accounting efflcer. Associated

walls are still ten feet in height, Press.

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